About “Untitled 3 (Grammy Performance)”

This song is a variation of Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” which he performed at the 58th Grammy Awards in 2016. The song deals with injustice in America and references the death of Trayvon Martin. Like his performances on late night TV, Kendrick added an additional verse to the end of the song.

Prior to the Grammys airing, Kendrick revealed he has a “chamber of unreleased music”:

You see all these performances on these late night shows, I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album. But I think probably close to ten songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut.

Less than a month later, Kendrick released an album of this unreleased music, simply titled untitled unmastered. This track wasn’t included as a full song; however, parts of it were included on “untitled 5 | 09.21.2014.”