Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar | Artist Essentials
First released: 2024 (year verified)
Original 2024 studio single recording
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 2024 (year verified)
The original single was released in 2024. Its retained 2025 appearance is an annual carryover, not a new recording release.
Recording: Original 2024 studio single recording
Credit: Kendrick Lamar
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: Not Like Us
Apple Music: Not Like Us, original single
One-track original single dated May 2024, issued by Kendrick Lamar under exclusive license to Interscope. Supports the recording year before the 2025 annual carryover. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
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These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
The retained 2024 and 2025 annual entries and the focused rap entry share the same original single reference. The distributor documents that original solo single in 2024; subsequent performances are outside this selection.
Apple Music: Not Like Us, original single
One-track original single dated May 2024, issued by Kendrick Lamar under exclusive license to Interscope. Supports the recording year before the 2025 annual carryover. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
Other catalog appearances
About Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton whose 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d city brought his work to a broad audience. His recordings place detailed vocal storytelling within changing musical settings. To Pimp a Butterfly drew on jazz, funk, soul and spoken-word traditions as well as hip-hop, with collaborators including Terrace Martin and Thundercat contributing to its sound. His solo album identity remains distinct from jointly credited recordings and from the individual work of the musicians around him.
Artist background sources
Kendrick Lamar - Recording Academy artist biography
Compton origin and 2012 good kid, m.A.A.d city breakthrough. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
To Pimp a Butterfly - Recording Academy oral history
Firsthand artist and collaborator accounts of jazz, funk, soul, spoken word and hip-hop in the album's production; Terrace Martin and Thundercat contributions. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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