2021 single by Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar
"Family Ties " (stylized inall lowercase ) is a song by American rappersBaby Keem andKendrick Lamar . The song was released on August 27, 2021, byColumbia Records andpgLang . The song serves as the fourth single from Keem's debut album,The Melodic Blue [ 1]
"Family Ties" marked Lamar's first single and new music since "Pray for Me " with Canadian singerThe Weeknd , released in 2018. The song also marks the first official collaboration between Keem and Lamar, who are cousins. The single’scover art depicts them in a family portrait, which pays homage to the album cover of Lamar's breakout 2012 albumGood Kid, M.A.A.D City Normani and won the2022 BET Award for Video of the Year . It spent 19 weeks on theBillboard Hot 100 , peaking at number 18.[ 2]
The song received two nominations at the2022 Grammy Awards forBest Rap Song andBest Rap Performance , winning the latter award. It also received two nominations for Song of the Year and Video of the Year at the 2022XXL Awards .[ 3]
The accompanyingmusic video was directed byDave Free , and features a cameo from singerNormani , alongside Baby Keem, and Lamar who is billed mid-video as Oklama.[ 4]
In the first scene, the music video begins with a moshpit of black men, who are wearing black bombers and sunglasses surrounding Keem and Lamar, with the two artists wearing orange attire. Black ballerinas are also featured. In the second scene, Lamar raps about still being relevant in hip-hop despite taking a hiatus. Near the end of the music video, Normani appears in a stretch limo SUV alongside the two rappers, before the rappers make their last proclamations. Throughout the video, clips of different sizes and themes are placed on top of the video, overlapping the ones below them. The video is divided into two "scenes", with scene 1 representing Keem's section, and scene 2 representing Lamar's section.[ 5] [ 6]
In a review for the track,Pitchfork [ 7]
Awards and nominations [ edit ] 2021 year-end chart performance for "Family Ties" Chart (2021) Position US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard )[ 25] 66
2022 year-end chart performance for "Family Ties" Chart (2022) Position US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard )[ 26] 79
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Awards for "Family Ties"
2000s 2010s "Empire State of Mind " –Shawn Carter ,Angela Hunte ,Alicia Keys , Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic &Alexander Shuckburgh (songwriters) (2010) "All of the Lights " –Jeff Bhasker ,Stacy Ferguson ,Malik Jones , Warren Trotter &Kanye West (songwriters) (2011) "Niggas in Paris " –Shawn Carter ,Mike Dean ,Chauncey Hollis &Kanye West (songwriters) (2012) "Thrift Shop " –Ben Haggerty &Ryan Lewis (songwriters) (2013) "i " –Kendrick Duckworth ,Columbus Smith &Ronald Isley (songwriters) (2014) "Alright " –Kendrick Duckworth ,Kawan Prather ,Mark Spears &Pharrell Williams (songwriters) (2015) "Hotline Bling " –Aubrey Graham &Paul Jefferies (songwriters) (2016) "Humble " –Kendrick Duckworth ,Asheton Hogan &Michael Williams II (songwriters) (2017) "God's Plan " –Aubrey Graham ,Ronald LaTour , Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan,Matthew Samuels &Noah Shebib (songwriters) (2018) "A Lot " –Jermaine Cole ,Dacoury Natche ,21 Savage &Anthony White (songwriters) (2019) 2020s "Savage " –Beyoncé ,Shawn Carter ,Brittany Hazzard ,Derrick Milano ,Terius Nash ,Megan Pete ,Bobby Sessions Jr. ,Jordan Kyle Lanier Thorpe &Anthony White (songwriters) (2020) "Jail " –Dwayne Abernathy, Jr. ,Shawn Carter ,Raul Cubina ,Michael Dean ,Charles M. Njapa , Sean Solymar,Kanye West &Mark Williams (songwriters) (2021) "The Heart Part 5 " – Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich,Kendrick Duckworth & Matt Schaeffer (songwriters) (2022) "Scientists & Engineers " –Andre Benjamin ,Paul Beauregard ,James Blake ,Michael Render , Tim Moore &Dion Wilson (songwriters) (2023) "Not Like Us " –Kendrick Duckworth (songwriter) (2024)
