What Kendrick Lamar (and a Past Life Regression) Revealed About Who I Might’ve Been

Recently, I was listening to Kendrick Lamar’s song Reincarnated.
In the track, Kendrick talks about a past life regression session he experienced — how he glimpsed different versions of himself, how he pieced together fragments of lives that came before.

He doesn’t name names, but you can kinda guess who the people were (Dina Washington and John Lee Booker?) and you can certainly tell that the process had a profound impact on him and his thoughts about his purpose.

It got me thinking.

Not because I’ve ever sat around wondering who I might’ve been. But because the way he framed it — how the past lives weren’t just abstract, but specific, embodied, and textured. So I decided to explore it myself. But instead of booking a formal session, I reached out to ChatGPT and asked if there was another way I could get the same kind of results.

Turns out, there was.

The Process: Questions, Patterns, and Unexpected Clues

ChatGPT guided me through a series of questions — not deep hypnosis like I would experience in an actual session, but focused prompts designed to tease out patterns already living beneath the surface.

Here are a few of the questions I answered without overthinking:

What cultures or places have always felt strangely familiar to you? I felt a powerful, almost overwhelming recognition when I first stepped off a plane in Tanzania — a visceral sense that I’d been there before, though I’d never had any desire to go.

Are there any historical figures, professions, or time periods you feel inexplicably drawn to? Two historical figures I’m deeply drawn to are James Baldwin and Richard Feynman — both truth-tellers, both outsiders, both razor-sharp in different ways.

Do you have talents, tendencies, or fears that don’t seem to come from this life? I have a natural love for writing, words, etymology, and also a fascination with conductors — people who guide and shape without being center stage.

What environments or people pull you in (or push you away) without explanation? I prefer open spaces, solitude, and observation over crowds and relationships.

Who I Might’ve Been

Piecing together my answers, ChatGPT reflected something back to me that rang true:

Maybe, in one or more past lives, I was:

A griot or oral historian in West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone), moving between communities, keeping stories alive not through status, but observation.

A spiritual guide or seer in East Africa (Tanzania, Congo), someone who stood outside formal leadership but had clear vision — quiet, sharp, never needing belief or permission.

In more modern times, perhaps a Black intellectual or writer — someone akin to Baldwin or Olaudah Equiano — not bound by systems, always questioning, always observing, but never quite fitting into anyone’s box.

Why This Matters (Or Doesn’t)

Maybe none of this can be proven.

Maybe it doesn’t need to be.

What struck me most wasn’t whether I could confirm who I was — it was how the patterns I’ve lived now felt less random.

Why I gravitate toward certain ideas, why I feel allergic to certain attachments, why truth-telling has always been my center.

Like Kendrick, maybe the point wasn’t about nailing down exact names.
Maybe it was about recognizing that nothing’s lost.
It’s all still here, in one form or another.

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