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I Remember You Was Conflicted
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I Remember You Was Conflicted is a quote from a poem that repeats often during Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp A Butterfly. The quote has been the subject of numerous image macros and video memes in which the quote begins to play unexpectedly.
Origin
In Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, Lamar repeatedly reads a portion of a poem, adding another line each time the poem reappears. The poem begins, "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence…" The full poem reads:
I remember you was conflicted
Misusing your influence
Sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power, full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screaming in the hotel room
I didn’t wanna self destruct
The evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went running for answers
Until I came home
But that didn’t stop survivor’s guilt
Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned
Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was
But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city, I was entering a new one
A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination
Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned
The word was respect
Just because you wore a different gang color than mine's
Doesn’t mean I can’t respect you as a black man
Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets
If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us
But I don’t know, I’m no mortal man, maybe I’m just another nigga
While it's unclear when the quote began seeing use in humorous ways, one early example, an Inhaling Seagull meme was posted on Reddit's /r/kendricklamar[2] by a deleted user on March 18th, 2019, gaining over 2,100 points in five years (shown below).
![Screaming Bird I REMEMBER U WAS CONFLICTED, MISUSING YOUR INFLUENCE, SOMETIMES I DID THE SAME, ABUSING MY POWER FULL OF RESENTMENT, RESENTMENT THAT TURNED INTO A DEEP DEPRESSION FOUND MYSELF SCREAMING IN THE HOTEL ROOM... imgflip.com AAAAAHHHHHHH](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/032/69b.jpg)
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Over the following years, the quote began seeing more use in various memes. On October 11th, 2019 Twitter user @Louaista[1] included it in a Nobody meme, gaining over 20 retweets and 100 likes in five years (shown below, left). On October 27th, /r/KendrickLamar[3] Redditor HSheets72 posted an image macro putting the quote over a picture of a cat wearing Timbs, gaining over 860 points in five years (shown below, right).
![Nobody Louaista @Louaista Nobody: Kendrick Lamar: I remember you was conflicted... PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/026/aa3.png)
![Timbs Cat O REMEMBER YOU WAS CONFLICTED 2. MISUSING YOUR INFLUENCE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/040/26c.png)
In the 2020s, the quote began seeing use in video memes on platforms like TikTok. On January 17th, 2023, TikToker doozycomics[4] posted an animation imagining Lamar haunting Greg Heffley of Diary of a Wimpy Kid with the quote, gaining over 183,000 likes in roughly 15 months (shown below, left). On April 8th, 2024, TikToker zayydante[5] used it in a sketch joking about J. Cole's Apology to Kendrick Lamar, gaining over 443,000 likes in one month (shown below, right).
@doozycomics Kendrick lamar remembers you was conflicted #kendricklamar #drawing #fyp #diaryofawimpykid #kendrick #art #fypage #xyzbca ♬ Creepy and simple horror background music(1070744) – howlingindicator
@zayydante #relatable #jcole #kendrick ♬ original sound – zay dante
Various Examples
![Small Brain yelling at big brain "Rap isn't Real music" I REMEMBER YOU WAS CONFLICTED. MISUSING YOUR INFLUENCE. SOMETIMESI DID THE SAME. ABUSING MY POWER FULL OF RESENTMENT. RESENTMENT THAT TURNED INTO A DEEP DEPRESSION. FOUND MYSELF SCREAMING IN A HOTEL ROOM. I DIDN'T WANT TO SELF DESTRUCT. THE EVILS OF LUCY WAS ALL AROUND ME. SOIWENT RUNNING FOR ANSWERS. successpictures @successpictures](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/051/b93.jpg)
![Tiger Woods I REMEMBER YOU WAS CONFLICTED MISUSING YOUR INFLUENCE ifunny.co](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/054/33e.jpg)
![Peter writing I Remember You Was Conflicted (3) Gosa on the beat Misusing Your Influence](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/058/915.jpg)
![Super Mega REMEMBER YOU WAS CONFLICTED (P) MISUSING YOUR INFLUENCE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/060/736.jpeg)
![White Guy I REMEMBER YOU WAS WAS CONFLICTED](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/065/2d1.jpg)
![Hollow Knight I REMEMBER YOU WAS CONFLICTED imgflip.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/811/068/3da.jpg)
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