HiiiPower

"HiiiPoWeR" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kendrick Lamar. It was released on April 12, 2011 as the lead single from his independent digital album Section.80 (2011). The conscious hip hop song was released as the first promotional single for the album. While the album itself garnered positive reviews (achieving a Metacritic score of 80 and an XL rating from XXL), "HiiiPoWeR" also drew significant acclaim for its lyricism and depth. HipHopDX gave it the Verse of the Year award and XXL called it "one of the finest tracks of the year".[4] The song, produced by fellow American rapper J. Cole, contains samples from Pharoahe Monch’s "Simon Says", Kanye West’s "So Appalled" and Sixtoo’s "Duration Project Part 9". Kendrick Lamar mentions that when he and J. Cole were creating "HiiiPoWeR", which was their first collaboration, he sat in for about 25 mixes of the song. Speaking on J. Cole's work on the song, Lamar says, "His production is crazy, man. The first time we locked in, he played about 10 beats. I wanted 11 of ‘em." The song features additional vocals from late singer-songwriter, Alori Joh. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.