Hood Politics (track)
by Kendrick Lamar
Year: 2015
From the album To Pimp A Butterfly (track #10)
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Hood Politics appears on the following album(s) by Kendrick Lamar:
- To Pimp A Butterfly (track #10) (this album) (2015)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/17/2026 18:10 | Robert_fripp | 474 | 87/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 11:51 | Exist-en-ciel | 74,521 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 03:23 | vindivast | 73 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 16:28 |  Tamthebam | 44,558 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2025 19:23 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,206 | 80/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 86.7/100, a mean average of 85.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.1.
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JulianR 01/08/2018 03:44 | #204972
I wish that intro beat was used for a whole song, its a really cool beat. Its awesome that he samples Age of Adz (sooo underappreciated) but I don't think it was used too well. And the Boo Boo is kinda annoying
corenfro 04/21/2017 04:09 | #189615
This is my least favorite track on TPAB but I have warmed up to him a bit. I actually am not too against the Sufjan sample, but I think it could have been less repetitive. This is just one of the kendrick voices I don't care for, and the "boo boo" upsets me. The Obama say, "What it do?" moment is worth a laugh the first few times listening to it. Love the Killer Mike shoutout!
FlorianJones 09/13/2015 07:52 | #149683
My least favorite track, but it samples Age of Adz which just gives me joy.
Anti 04/13/2015 16:28 | #139445
Damn this track is growing on me.
BOO BOO! Love the thematic stuff in the lyrics
sulmagnificent 04/04/2015 16:27 | #138807
I love the intro, the rest of the song is really dark though, in a good way though.
9999 03/26/2015 13:44 | #137851
Since I heard this song I can't stop yelling "BOO BOO" at everything I don't like.
BOO BOO
poppmusic 03/21/2015 17:12 | #137456
This is probably my least favorite track on the album. It's too much of a caricature.
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