Kendrick Lamar's much-hyped To Pimp A Butterfly track "King Kunta" will reportedly be his next radio single. Now it appears a video is on the way as well. Footage has surfaced online of Lamar and a large crowd gathered at the Compton Swap Meet for a video shoot. Lamar is shown performing on top of the building and in the parking lot as a mob of fans dance around to the g-funk anthem.

One local fan posted a clip of the shoot to Instagram with the caption, "K dot filmed the #KingKunta video last night at the Compton Swap Meet. As a black man born to a woman who was raised on the Westside of #Compton, #Fruittown to be exact, this makes me proud.#rap #hiphop #LA #tpab."

"King Kunta" is the third track on To Pimp A Butterfly. The song references Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century slave in Virginia whose story is the basis for the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Black Family. Kinte was a rebellious slave who ultimately lost his foot as punishment after four attempts to escape the plantation. He has since become a symbol of black resistance against oppression.

"B*tch, where you when I was walkin'? / Now I run the game, got the whole world talkin'/ King Kunta / Everybody wanna cut the legs off him / Kunta / Black man taking no losses," Lamar sings on the hook.

"King Kunta" is TPAB's second single following "i," which was extended on the album version.

To Pimp A Butterfly debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 363,000 units (including streams). This marks Lamar's first No. 1 album and the third rap album of 2015 to top the charts, following Drake's and Big Sean's most recent efforts.

No word yet on when the video will drop, but you can check out more footage here:

 #KingKunta x Westside #ToPimpAButterfly x King Kendrick Lamar VideoShoot

A video posted by Captain (@johnboythecool) on Mar 25, 2015 at 7:50pm PDT

[h/t Complex]

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