“Swimming Pools (Drank)” by Kendrick Lamar

song info

    “Swimming Pools (Drank)” by Kendrick Lamar (official video - clean version) is a rap song.

    
    U.S. Billboard Hot 100: #20 with a bullet, up from last week #21, down from previous week #19 with a bullet, down from previous week #17, up from previous week #20 with a bullet, down from #19 with a bullet, 19 weeks on chart, peak #17
    R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #4 (four), last week #4 (four), down from previous week #3 (three), previous week #3 (three), up from previous week #4 (four), previous week #4 (four), 20 weeks on chart, peak #3 (three)
    Rap: #4 (four), last week #4 (four), previous week #3 (three), previous week #3 (three), 17 weeks on chart, peak #3 (three)
    Radio Songs: #19, up from last week #25, down from previous week #21, up from previous week #22, up from previous week #26, up from previous week #33, 11 weeks on chart, peak #19
    Digital Songs: #31, up from last week #34, previous week #34, down from previous week #31, up from previous week #42, down from previous week #37, 16 weeks on chart, peak #31
    On-Demand Songs: #7 (seven), last week #7 (seven), previous week #7 (seven), previous week #7 (seven), 10 weeks on chart, peak #7 (seven)
    Ringtones: #24, last week #24, up from previous week #25, down from previous week #24, 10 weeks on chart, peak #20
    Heatseakers: peak #1 (one)
    R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Songs: #2 (two), last week #2 (two), previous week #2 (two), previous week #2 (two), up from previous week #3 (three), previous week #3 (three), 19 weeks on chart, peak #2 (two)
    R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs: #7 (seven), up from last weekk #8 (eight), previous week #8 (eight), down from previous week #7 (seven), down from previous week #5 (five), previous week #5 (five), 21 weeks on chart, peak #5 (five)
    MySpace: #9 (nine), down from last week #8 (eight), up from previous week #9 (nine), up from previous week #10 (ten), 7 weeks on chart, peak #8 (eight)
     Billboard information for the week of Jan 5, 2013
     Billboard chart listings courtesy of Billboard Magazine

link to the static song information page for this song:
http://www.thissideofsanity.com/music/songs/sw/swimmingpool.php

    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    “Swimming Pools (Drank)” is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kendrick Lamar, released on July 31, 2012 as the second single and lead single from his debut studio album good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012). The song, produced by T-Minus, was mixed by Dr. Dre and TDE’s Ali.

A remix featuring his Black Hippy cohorts - Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q - was included as a bonus track on the Spotify Deluxe edition of the album.

Music video

The music video premiered August 3, 2012 on 106 & Park. A review by the magazine Rolling Stone shared a summary of the video stating: “In his new video for “Swimming Pools (Drank),” Kendrick Lamar defies gravity, floating and tumbling in suspended space as liquor bottles fly upwards and smash into the ceiling. The rapper gets introspective on a woozy beat, considering the highs and lows of alcohol consumption and the sense of confidence it bestows the drinker. Lamar spends most of the video rapping alone, but color-filtered shots of a booze-soaked rager poke through the more contemplative scenes.”

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