Heart Pt. 6

Not to be confused with The Heart Part 6.

"Heart Pt. 6"
Song by Kendrick Lamar
from the album GNX
Released	November 22, 2024 (2024-11-22)
Genre	Conscious hip hop progressive rap
Length	4:52
Label	pgLang Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Kendrick Duckworth
Producer(s)	Sounwave Jack Antonoff Juju (add.) M-Tech (add.)
Audio video
"heart pt. 6" on YouTube

"Heart Pt. 6" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song recorded by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was surprise-released under PGLang and Interscope Records as the tenth track from his sixth studio album, GNX, on November 22, 2024. It serves as the sixth installment in the "The Heart" song series, and the first to not be a promotional single released prior to a project. The song was produced by Sounwave and Jack Antonoff, with additional production by M-Tech and Juju. The song also features uncredited vocals from R&B trio SWV, sampled from their track "Use Your Heart", written and produced by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, as the Neptunes. The track also features additional background vocals from American singer Sam Dew.

Composition

The song begins with a 12-second soft guitar solo, before later progesssing into slow R&B-styled production. The lyrics contain Kendrick Lamar reminiscing on his experiences with his initial label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), and creating music along with. In the second verse, he then expands on the idea called "TDE", and mentioning peers such as Dave Free, the founder of Top Dawg Entertainment Top Dawg, and Schoolboy Q, later explaining in the third verse, as to why the supergroup Black Hippy didn't work out, rapping

“Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a black exec/I jog my memory, knowing Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me/Creatively, I moved on, with new concepts in reach”

whilst also explaining why his departure from TDE altogether. He ends the song off by giving advice to people younger than him.