Swimming Pools (Drank)

"Swimming Pools (Drank)"
In this single cover, an empty room with a man sitting on a chair with a bottle of liquor on the floor. A sign on the bottom left reads "PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT" in a two bars of black and a bar of white in one rectangle.
Single by Kendrick Lamar
from the album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
B-side"Remixes" (12")
ReleasedJuly 31, 2012 (2012-07-31)
Recorded2012
GenreHip hop
Length
  • 4:07 (single version)
  • 5:13 (extended version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)T-Minus
Kendrick Lamar singles chronology
"The Recipe"
(2012) 		"Swimming Pools (Drank)"
(2012) 		"Fuckin' Problems"
(2012)
Music video
"Swimming Pools (Drank)" on YouTube
Audio sample
A sample of the song, the line before the chorus says Kendrick takes a few sips then a very inebriated man says he needs to "Get a swimming pool full of liquor and dive in it".

"Swimming Pools (Drank)" is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on July 31, 2012, as the lead single (second overall) from his major-label debut studio album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012), by Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), Aftermath and Interscope. The song was written by Lamar and Tyler "T-Minus" Williams, the latter of whom also produced the song. The song, mixed by Dr. Dre and Top Dawg's engineer Derek "MixedByAli" Ali, propelled Lamar to mainstream popularity. The song peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, in its thirteenth week of charting, after gradually climbing up the chart. It debuted on the Hot 100 at number 100 and progressed from number 55 and 32 to its peak. "Swimming Pools (Drank)" also serves as Lamar's first entry on the UK Singles Chart, where it debuted at number 63.

A music video was released to accompany the song in August 2012. It was featured in the 2013 game Saints Row IV, the 2014 re-release of the game Grand Theft Auto V, and on a 2013 episode of Grey's Anatomy. On January 26, 2013, Lamar performed the song along with the third single "Poetic Justice" on Saturday Night Live.[1] The music video was nominated for Best Male Video and Best Hip-Hop Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The song was later nominated for Best Rap Performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

  1. ^ "Kendrick Lamar Performs On Saturday Night Live (Video)". 2DopeBoyz. Retrieved January 27, 2013.