“tv off” by Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay

"tv off" is the knife-edge centerpiece of GNX, Kendrick Lamar's sixth studio album, which dropped in November 2024, and PGLang and Interscope sent it out early as a single. Lefty Gunplay rides along as the guest, and the production crowd is a wild mix: Sounwave, Jack Antonoff, Mustard, Kamasi Washington, Sean Momberger and Larry "Larry Jayy" Sanders.

Mustard admitted the family resemblance to "Not Like Us" was entirely on purpose; he said it was cut around the same time that May, but across two separate sittings, which is where its beat switch comes from. The hinge is Lamar bellowing Mustard's name as the track flips, a moment the internet promptly turned into a meme. Billboard's 2025 year-end rap chart put it at number two, held off only by Lamar's own "Luther".

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