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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is a person from the US, active since 1987.

Person US since 1987 hip hop conscious hip hop jazz rap
TOTAL PLAYS
12,627
SONGS PLAYED
358
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2011-09-28 01:44 · Radio 1 — "HiiiPower"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · 1Xtra — "King Kunta"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2011 — 2026
2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0
'11 '13 '15 '17 '19 '21 '23 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

1Xtra 7,854 62%
Radio 1 3,494 28%
6 Music 1,207 10%
Radio 2 72 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 13:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Swimming Pools (Drank) 1,260 2026-08-26
2 HUMBLE. 1,019 2026-08-18
3 King Kunta 916 2026-08-26
4 Alright 872 2026-08-21
5 Not Like Us 871 2026-08-24
6 i 823 2026-08-06
7 LOYALTY. (feat. Rihanna) 587 2026-08-19
8 Die Hard (feat. Blxst & Amanda Reifer) 564 2026-03-23
9 Backseat Freestyle 431 2026-08-26
10 All the Stars 387 2026-05-21
11 N95 321 2025-02-13
12 Big Shot (feat. Travis Scott) 261 2026-08-26
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-26 07:53 King Kunta 1Xtra
2026-08-26 05:13 Backseat Freestyle 1Xtra
2026-08-26 05:12 Humble 1Xtra
2026-08-26 05:11 Swimming Pools (Drank) 1Xtra
2026-08-26 05:09 Poetic Justice 1Xtra
2026-08-26 05:08 Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix) (Feat. Jay-Z) 1Xtra
2026-08-26 05:07 Big Shot (feat. Travis Scott) 1Xtra
2026-08-24 09:35 Not Like Us 1Xtra
2026-08-23 11:26 Poetic Justice 1Xtra
2026-08-22 08:52 Don't Kill My Vibe 1Xtra
2026-08-21 18:59 Rigamortis 6 Music
2026-08-21 09:41 Alright Radio 1
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

358 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
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(1X POWER) Die Hard (feat. Blxst & Amanda Reifer) — 1 ▶
1Xtra Live 2012 - Swimming Pools — 4 ▶
6:16 in LA 2024 2 ▶
A.D.H.D 2013 1 ▶
A.D.H.D. 2013 4 ▶
All the Stars — 387 ▶
Alright 2015 872 ▶
Alright (Bastian Bell Edit) — 2 ▶
Alright (Glastonbury 2022) — 3 ▶
Alright (Jaël Instrumental Edit) — 1 ▶
Alright (Livin' Proof Crowd Mix) — 1 ▶
Art of Peer Pressure 2012 9 ▶
Art Of Peer Pressure (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Auntie Diaries 2022 5 ▶
B***h Dont Kill My Vibe — 2 ▶
Backseat Freestyle 2022 431 ▶
Backseat Freestyle (1Xtra Live 2012) — 1 ▶
Backseat Freestyle (Buku Edit) — 4 ▶
Backseat Freestyle (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Backseat Freestyle (Instrumental) — 4 ▶
Backseat Freestyle (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
Backseat Freestyle (Strip Steve Edit) — 3 ▶
backseat freestyle (swindail quick edit) — 3 ▶
Backseat Freestyle <Worldwide Exclusive> <Embargoed> — 2 ▶
Be Humble — 1 ▶
Big Shot (feat. Travis Scott) — 261 ▶
Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe 2013 5 ▶
Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe (Star Slinger en route to London Edit) — 1 ▶
Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe (Star Slinger En-route To London Edit) — 6 ▶
Black Boy Fly 2012 2 ▶
Black Friday 2015 6 ▶
Black Panther 2018 10 ▶
Black Panther (Black Panther OST) — 1 ▶
Blacker The Berry 2015 1 ▶
Blood (Edit) — 1 ▶
BLOOD. 2017 6 ▶
Blow My High 2011 2 ▶
Blow My High (Members Only) 2011 3 ▶
Cartoon & Cereal 2013 3 ▶
Cartoon & Cereal Ft. Gunplay (feat. Gunplay) — 1 ▶
Cartoons & Cereal 2012 2 ▶
Cartoons and Cereal (feat. Gunplay) — 2 ▶
Complexion 2022 3 ▶
Complexion (A Zulu Love) 2015 8 ▶
Complexion (A Zulu Love) (feat. Rapsody) — 6 ▶
Complexion (feat. Rapsody) — 1 ▶
Complextion (A Zulu Love) — 1 ▶
Compton 2013 18 ▶
Compton (feat. Dr Dre) — 22 ▶
Compton (feat. Dr. Dre) — 37 ▶
Compton feat Dr Dre — 3 ▶
Count Me Out 2022 242 ▶
Count Me Out (El Train Edit) — 1 ▶
Count Me Out (Glastonbury 2022) — 6 ▶
Crown 2022 8 ▶
Die Hard 2022 73 ▶
Die Hard (feat. Blxst & Amanda Reifer) — 564 ▶
DNA 2025 14 ▶
DNA (Benzi Edit) — 3 ▶
DNA (Dotty Clean) — 8 ▶
DNA (Glastonbury 2022) — 3 ▶
DNA (Mr. Carmack Remix) (Rage Logic Edit) — 3 ▶
DNA (post 9pm) — 18 ▶
DNA. 2023 136 ▶
DNA. (Glastonbury 2022) — 7 ▶
DNA. (Mr. Carmack Remix) — 6 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe 2013 184 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (1Xtra ReF1X) (feat. Emeli Sande & Jay Z) — 20 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (1Xtra ReF1X) (feat. Emeli Sande & Jay-Z) — 90 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (1Xtra ReF1X) (feat. Emeli Sandé & Jay Z) — 4 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (1Xtra ReF1X) (feat. Emeli Sandé & Jay-Z) — 1 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (1Xtra Remix) (feat. Emeli Sandé & JAY Z) — 11 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (1Xtra Remix) (feat. Emeli Sandé & JAY-Z) — 189 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Acapella) — 1 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Bootleg) — 2 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (feat. Emeli Sandé & JAY Z) — 4 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (feat. Jay Z) — 11 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (feat. Jay-Z) — 20 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (feat. JAY-Z, Emeli Sandé & Jay-Z & Emeli Sandé) — 1 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 4 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 7 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix) (feat. Emeli Sande) — 9 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix) (feat. Emeli Sandé) — 2 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix) (Feat. Jay Z) — 2 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix) (Feat. Jay-Z) — 6 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe (Smoothie from Nick Bright 27/01/24) — 1 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe Remix 2012 1 ▶
Don't Kill My Vibe Remix (feat. Jay-Z) — 2 ▶
Dont Kill My Vibe — 3 ▶
DUCKWORTH. 2017 5 ▶
Element 2024 3 ▶
ELEMENT (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
ELEMENT. 2023 245 ▶
ELEMENT. (Hot Shot Tagged) — 4 ▶
euphoria 2024 21 ▶
Euphoria (Mighty Mark BMore Remix) — 1 ▶
Euphoria (Tolo Marvelous edit) — 1 ▶
F**k Ur Ethnicity — 4 ▶
F**kin' Problems — 8 ▶
Father Time 2022 5 ▶
Father Time (feat. Sampha) — 31 ▶
Feel 2025 1 ▶
FEEL. 2025 42 ▶
For Free? (interlude) 2015 15 ▶
For Sale (Interlude) 2022 3 ▶
For Sale - Interlude — 18 ▶
gloria (feat. SZA) — 2 ▶
gnx 2024 1 ▶
GOD. 2017 2 ▶
Golden Boy Freestyle — 1 ▶
good kid 2012 21 ▶
Heart Part 3 — 3 ▶
Heart pt.6 — 1 ▶
Hiii Power 2012 2 ▶
HiiiPoWeR 2011 1 ▶
HiiiPower 2013 1 ▶
Hol' Up 2011 2 ▶
Hol' Up (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 2 ▶
Hol' Up (R1 Big Weekend 2013) — 7 ▶
Hood Politics 2025 8 ▶
How Much a Dollar Cost 2020 9 ▶
How Much a Dollar Cost (feat. James Fauntleroy & Ronald Isley) — 15 ▶
How Much A Dollar Cost [Clean] — 1 ▶
Humble 2023 184 ▶
Humble (Flowidus Bootleg) — 2 ▶
HUMBLE (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Humble (Skrillex Remix) 2017 8 ▶
Humble (Skrillex Remix) [Whipped Cream Flip] — 3 ▶
HUMBLE. 2024 1,019 ▶
HUMBLE. (Live from Reading Festival 2018) — 2 ▶
HUMBLE. (Skrillex Remix) 2017 17 ▶
HUMBLE. (WELLS Remix) — 3 ▶
i 2015 823 ▶
I (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
i (Looped Bed At End) — 2 ▶
I Want You — 1 ▶
Ignorance Is Bliss 2013 16 ▶
Institutionalised — 4 ▶
Institutionalized — 1 ▶
Institutionalized (feat. Anna Wise, Bilal & Snoop Dogg) — 1 ▶
Institutionalized (feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg) — 5 ▶
Institutionalized (feat. Snoop Dogg & Bilal) — 1 ▶
Institutionalized (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
King Kunta 2020 916 ▶
King Kunta (Edit) — 1 ▶
King Kunta (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
King Kunta (Reading Festival, 25th May 2018) — 2 ▶
King Kunta (Roska Edit) (feat. Roska) — 1 ▶
King Kunta (Roska Remix) — 3 ▶
King Kunta (S!RENE Edit) — 2 ▶
King Kunta (Summerjam 2015 Live) — 2 ▶
King Kunte — 8 ▶
Kings Dead [CHUWE Edit] — 3 ▶
Kung FU Kenny (Joy Anonymous Edit) — 1 ▶
Love 2013 8 ▶
Love (Casamena Basement Edit) — 11 ▶
Love (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Love. (feat. Zacari Pacaldo) — 22 ▶
LOVE. (feat. Zacari) — 228 ▶
Loyalty (feat. Rihanna) — 12 ▶
LOYALTY (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Loyalty (Live At Glastonbury 2022) — 2 ▶
Loyalty (Uproot Andy Remix) 2018 1 ▶
LOYALTY. (feat. Rihanna) — 587 ▶
Loyalty. (miles Medina Edit) (feat. Rihanna) — 3 ▶
LOYALTY. (Uproot Andy Remix) (feat. Rihanna) — 3 ▶
Lust 2017 2 ▶
LUST (Annie N edit) — 3 ▶
LUST. 2017 9 ▶
luther 2025 6 ▶
luther (1X 20 SECOND RAMP) (feat. SZA) — 10 ▶
luther (1X POWER INTRO) (feat. SZA) — 14 ▶
luther (feat. SZA) — 114 ▶
m.A.A.d city 2013 1 ▶
m.A.A.d city (Eprom Remix) 2013 7 ▶
m.A.A.d city (feat. MC Eiht) — 58 ▶
m.A.A.d city (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
M.A.A.D CITY (JSTJR Cumbia Mix) — 3 ▶
m.A.A.d City(Target Specialist Clean) — 4 ▶
M.A.A.D. City 2013 5 ▶
M.A.A.D. City (Eprom Remix) 2013 1 ▶
M.A.A.D. City (feat. MC Eight) — 5 ▶
m.A.A.d. City (Harmonimix) — 1 ▶
M.A.A.D. City (Quix Cool Drums VIP) — 3 ▶
mAAd City 2013 2 ▶
MAAD City (feat. MC Eiht) — 4 ▶
MAAD Supernatural City [WiDE AWAKE EDiT] — 1 ▶
man at the garden 2024 17 ▶
Meany Miney Mo (feat. Forca & Seaview) — 1 ▶
meet the grahams 2024 3 ▶
Mirror 2022 16 ▶
Momma 2022 16 ▶
Money Trees 2013 25 ▶
Money Trees (1Xtra Live 2012) — 2 ▶
Money Trees (1Xtra Live London 2012 ) — 8 ▶
Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock) — 77 ▶
Money Trees (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Money Trees (Live At 1Xtra Live In Brixton) (feat. Jay Rock) — 10 ▶
Money Trees (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
Mortal Man 2015 4 ▶
Mother I Sober (feat. Beth Gibbons & Beth Gibbons of Portishead) — 7 ▶
Mother I Sober (feat. Beth Gibbons) — 1 ▶
Mother, I Sober 2022 1 ▶
Mr. Morale 2022 1 ▶
N95 2022 321 ▶
N95 (Glastonbury 2022) — 11 ▶
N95 (Mount Palomar Remix) — 1 ▶
N95 (Never Dull Remix) 2026 3 ▶
N95 - Live from Glastonbury — 11 ▶
Not Like Us 2024 871 ▶
Not Like Us (Amapiano Remix) — 1 ▶
Not Like Us (JustGio Edit) — 1 ▶
Not Like Us (Larria Edit) — 1 ▶
NOT LIKE US (MOSIMANN REMIX) — 1 ▶
Not Like Us (Preditah Remix) — 14 ▶
Not Like Us (Sub Killaz & Profile Bootleg) — 1 ▶
Now or Never (feat. Mary J Blige) — 3 ▶
Now or Never (feat. Mary J. Blige) — 2 ▶
P&P (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 2 ▶
peekaboo 2025 17 ▶
peekaboo (feat. azchike & dody6) — 1 ▶
Poetic Justice 2013 178 ▶
Poetic Justice (Dennis Blaze Edit) (feat. Drake) — 1 ▶
Poetic Justice (feat. Drake) — 16 ▶
Poetic Justice (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Poetic Justice (JayCeeOh Edit) — 1 ▶
Poetic Justice (Live at Glastonbury 2022) — 2 ▶
Poetic Justice (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 8 ▶
Poetic Justice (Produced by Scoop Deville) (feat. Drake) — 1 ▶
Poetic Justice (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 7 ▶
Pride 2017 3 ▶
Pride (Louis Futon Flip) — 2 ▶
PRIDE. 2017 2 ▶
Purple Hearts (feat. Summer Walker & Ghostface Killah) — 2 ▶
Purple Hearts (feat. Summer Walker) — 25 ▶
R.I.P. (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
Rare Breed — 1 ▶
Real 2025 3 ▶
Real (feat. Anna Wise of Sonnymoon) — 3 ▶
Real (feat. Anna Wise) — 2 ▶
reincarnated 2024 25 ▶
Rich Spirit 2025 15 ▶
Rigamortis 2011 4 ▶
Rigamortus 2012 1 ▶
RIP (Remix) (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
Savior (Glastonbury 2022) — 3 ▶
SAVIOUR 2022 2 ▶
She Loves Me — 1 ▶
Sherane 2012 1 ▶
Sherane (aka. Master Splinter's Daughter) 2022 4 ▶
Silent Hill (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Silent Hill (Patrick Zurn Scratch In Edit) — 1 ▶
Sing About Me 2012 2 ▶
Sing About Me I Am Dying Of Thirst — 4 ▶
Sing About Me, I&#x2019;m Dying Of Thirst — 1 ▶
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst 2012 7 ▶
Sing About Me, I’m Dying Of Thirst — 3 ▶
Sing That (20 Syl Juicy Remix) — 3 ▶
Sing That Shit (20sly Remix) — 1 ▶
Spiteful Chant 2011 4 ▶
Spiteful Chant (feat. ScHoolboy Q) — 1 ▶
squabble up 2025 102 ▶
Swimming Pool (Drank) — 3 ▶
Swimming Pools 2012 8 ▶
Swimming Pools (Acapella) [Snavs Edit] — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Dennis Blaze Come Around Boot) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Dennis Blaze Come Around Bootleg) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank DJ Assault Remix) — 2 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) 2012 1,260 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (1Xtra Live London 2012) — 14 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (Bird Peterson Remix) 2012 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (Black Hippy Remix) 2022 2 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (extended version) 2022 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (Karma Kid Edit) — 3 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (Live From T In The Park 2013) — 3 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (Radio 1's Big Weekend Derry-Londonderry, 25 May 2013) — 2 ▶
Swimming Pools (Drank) (Summerjam 2015 Live) — 2 ▶
Swimming Pools (Flaxo Remix) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Live At 1Xtra Live In Brixton) — 3 ▶
Swimming Pools (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 19 ▶
Swimming Pools (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend) — 3 ▶
Swimming pools (Mano 93 Nostalgia Remix) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Remix) — 7 ▶
Swimming Pools (Rose Rework) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Swifta Beata Remix) — 1 ▶
Swimming Pools (Ta-ku Remix) 2012 3 ▶
Swimming Pools vs Forgot About Dre — 1 ▶
The Art of Peer Pressure 2014 8 ▶
The Blacker the Berry 2015 83 ▶
The Blacker The Berry (feat. Agent Sasco) — 4 ▶
The Blacker the Berry (feat. Assassin) — 33 ▶
The Blacker The Berry (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
The Heart (Part 3) — 1 ▶
The Heart Part 4 — 3 ▶
The Heart Part 5 2022 90 ▶
The Heart part 5 (Cookin Soul remix) — 1 ▶
The Heart Pt. 4 — 14 ▶
The Heart V — 71 ▶
The Jig Is Up 2014 1 ▶
The Recipe (feat. Dr Dre) — 46 ▶
The Recipe (feat. Dr. Dre) — 27 ▶
The Recipe (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
These Walls 2015 51 ▶
These Walls (feat. Anna Wise, Thundercat, Robert Glasper & Bilal) — 1 ▶
These Walls (feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat) — 92 ▶
These Walls (feat. Thundercat, Anna Wise & Bilal) — 6 ▶
These Walls (Moss Kena Rework) — 2 ▶
They Not Like Us (Phibes Flip) — 2 ▶
Trials and Tribulations (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Trick Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix) (feat. Jay - Z) — 2 ▶
tv off — 43 ▶
TV Off (Ethan Tomas Gqom Remix) — 7 ▶
tv off (feat. Lefty Gunplay) — 3 ▶
tv off (Jersey Club Runnin Mix) — 1 ▶
u 2022 3 ▶
u (feat. Kamasi Washington) — 1 ▶
United in Grief 2022 36 ▶
United In Grief (Glastonbury 2022) — 2 ▶
untitled 01 08.19.2014 — 1 ▶
untitled 02 2016 13 ▶
Untitled 03 (05.28.2013) — 1 ▶
untitled 03 05.28.2013 — 1 ▶
untitled 04 2016 2 ▶
untitled 05 2016 2 ▶
untitled 05 09.21.2014 — 8 ▶
untitled 05 09.21.2014. — 12 ▶
untitled 06 06.30.2014 — 2 ▶
untitled 06 06.30.2014 (feat. CeeLo Green) — 1 ▶
untitled 06 06.30.2014. — 6 ▶
untitled 07 2016 4 ▶
untitled 07 - 2014 - 2016 — 1 ▶
Untitled 07 / Levitate — 4 ▶
untitled 07 2014 - 2016 — 6 ▶
untitled 08 2016 45 ▶
Untitled 08 09.06.2014 — 1 ▶
Untitled 2 — 6 ▶
Untitled 2 06.23.2014 — 3 ▶
Untitled 3 — 11 ▶
Untitled 6 — 51 ▶
Untitled 8 — 14 ▶
wacced out murals 2024 5 ▶
Wesley's Theory 2015 5 ▶
Wesley's Theory (feat. George Clinton & Thundercat) — 1 ▶
Wesleys Theory (feat. George Clinton & Thundercat) — 1 ▶
Wesleys Theory (feat. Thundercat & George Clinton) — 1 ▶
Westside (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
Where I'm From (feat. P. Money) — 2 ▶
Where I'm From (Remix) (feat. P. Money) — 2 ▶
Women W*** and Weather (Live at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013) — 1 ▶
X (feat. ScHoolboy Q, 2 Chainz & Saudi) — 16 ▶
Xe3 x Backseat Freestyle (RL Grime Edit) — 3 ▶
XXX. (feat. U2) — 8 ▶
YAH. 2017 19 ▶
YAH. (JD. Reid Edit) — 2 ▶
You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said) 2015 2 ▶
​Untitled 05 09.21.2014 — 1 ▶