Barack Obama’s favourite song of 2015 was a Kendrick Lamar album track

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Damn, the POTUS has taste.

Asked by People what song he’s been listening to most over the past year, he not only didn’t say “’Hello’ by Adele” like every other sucker on this planet, but named once-in-a-generation talent Kendrick Lamar and his track ‘How Much a Dollar Cost’.

You’d have thought the president might have gone for ‘Alright’, it being the main single from K-Dot's new album and something of a rallying cry for the US, but I like the idea that Obama sat there soaking up the whole of To Pimp A Butterfly.

‘How Much a Dollar Cost’ sees Kendrick tell the story of a with meeting a homeless man begging him for change who turns out to be Jesus Christ reincarnated.

I just wonder what Obama made of the previous track, ‘Hood Politics’, which pivots on the line “Obama say, ‘what it do?’”, an apparent assertion that despite being black, the president could and should have done more for the black community.

Obama told the magazine for their Campaign 2016 special that his favourite film of the year was Ridley Scott’s The Martian, his favourite book Fates and Furies by Lauren Goff.

The FLOTUS’s favourite track meanwhile was Bruno Mars’ 'Uptown Funk'.