Kendrick Lamar's "How Much a Dollar Cost" screams the fundamental transcendentalist idea of humanity, with the Kendrick telling the story of him running into a homeless man asking for one dollar which Kendrick refuses and soon is revealed that the homeless man was God, and that he had lost his place in heaven because of his lack of humanity. "The nerve of Nazareth, and i'll tell you just how much a dollar cost, the price of having a spot in heaven, embrace your loss, I am God" along with the quote from Ralph Emerson's Self Reliance "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace". Lamar's tale of selfishness gives Emerson's essay of humanity credibility.
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