Selling well over 111,000 copies in its first week, "Humble" became Kendrick Lamar's second number one on the Digital Songs chart, following "Bad Blood". It is also his fourth top 10 single, and marked the highest debut for a hip hop song since " Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem featuring Rihanna. It is his second number one single overall after " Bad Blood", by Taylor Swift featuring Lamar. "Humble" debuted at number two and later peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lamar's first number one and highest-charting single as a lead artist, surpassing " Swimming Pools (Drank)", which peaked at number 17 in 2012. Rolling Stone considered it the third-best, and Billboard the sixth. It is a showcase for his authoritative lyricism and preacher-like message, while the instrumentation is far from the complex jazz and funk sounds of To Pimp a Butterfly. In fact, Humble has more in common with grime's minimalism than it does the vintage stylings of his recent output." Įntertainment Weekly labelled it the best song of the year. NPR's Andrew Flanagan thought, "the song, less exploration of contrition on the part of Lamar than an instruction to his peers, picks up a thread NPR Music first examined following that album teaser: how the 'best rapper alive' might explore the theme of God, religion and personal growth." For Alex Young of Consequence of Sound, "it's got all the ingredients of a proper lead single: a Mike WiLL Made It-produced beat built on piano and 808 bass, a chorus you can spit along to ('Sit down/ Be humble'), and shoutouts to Grey Poupon and the former president." Writing for The Guardian, Harriet Gibson explained how the song is, "sparse and rigid, beginning with the crunching swipes of an electric guitar, and is led by beats and sinister stabs of piano. On the day of its release Pitchfork named it Best New Track, noting that, " is a hard-nosed G check of his lessers, that pivots into imperfect critiques of beauty standards". After recording, it was initially agreed upon that it would be released on Mike Will Made It's debut album Ransom 2, but others convinced Lamar to keep it for his upcoming album.
However, the song was later shown to Lamar. The beat for "Humble" was developed by Mike Will Made It, with the intention of recording the song with Gucci Mane.
"Humble" was the first song to be recorded for Damn.
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