Helen Mirren Plays Kendrick Lamar’s Therapist in His New ‘Count Me Out’ Music Video
Kendrick Lamar is up for eight Grammys next month, giving him second most nominations this year. He’ll compete for record of the year, song of the year, album of the year, and best rap album, among others.
He teams up with an Oscar winner for his latest video for “Count Me Out,” the fourth video from his fifth studio album
On Friday, singer-rapper K. Dot portrayed Helen Mirren as a therapist who sits across from him and talks to him about his inner thoughts. The portion of the video showing Helen Mirren in a black and white clip.
The opening scene shows Lamar and Mirren sitting in the black-and-white room as Lamar plays the piano and Mirren asks him about an altercation he had with a woman over a parking spot. Lamar explains to Mirren that he did not take the woman’s parking spot. “I did take her parking spot,” he says, eliciting both of their amusement.
After a short pause, Mirren asks Lamar, “You texted me at 2 o’clock in the morning, ‘I feel like I’m fallen,'” then “Why’d you feel that way?”
“Life,” Lamar responds to Mirren. Then the song then begins with the lines: “One of these lives, I’m going to right the wrongs I’ve committed by becoming one of you now.”
This is Dave Free’s fourth visual off Mr. Morale and Kendrick’s fourth visual release this year. It’s Lamar’s fifth album. His “N95,” “We Cry Together,” and “Rich Spirit” visuals are the remaining three.
In an interview with W Magazine, Lamar discussed the impact his children had on his most recent Grammy-nominated album. Lamar and Whitney Alford, his fiancée, have a daughter who was born in July 2019.
Lamar said he hopes his children will learn to accept who they are and let their personalities shine through by allowing them to be themselves.
When it came to doubting his new double album, it was Lamar’s little ones who pushed him to go through with his vision. “When I finished it and said, ‘It may or may not be released; I’m not going to release it; it’s too much,’ I thought about my children,” he explained. “I imagined when they reach age 21, or if they’re older, when I might have grandchildren, or if I’m long gone — these may be the only ways to deal with it.” The beauty of it for him is what he says.
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