Has Kendrick Lamar become a complete Uncle Tom sellout?

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K. Dot's commentary on everything from Iggy Azaelia to Ferguson seems like he's trying to be PC as possible not to offend his huge cac fanbase. :patrice: It seems like at this point cacs own him or something. That song "I" makes Pharrell's "Happy" sound like Mobb Deep "Give Up the Goods" :scust:. Suburban Starbucks drinking cacs seem to love K. Dot. For what reason, I do not know. I, mean, how the hell could a little suburban peckerwood Timmy or Becky relate to lyrics about witnessing drive-by's and murders before they were ten years old and fighting to stay positive and neutral in an environment torn apart by generational gang violence?:ld:
It may have to do with the fact he is from Compton. To white people, Compton is some mythical ghetto of all ghettos to which they reference for all of their anonymous online racist rants to their racist blackface college parties. :pacspit: Suburban cacs nationwide were responsible for the commercial success of N.W.A.

But Kendrick seems like he is more willing to offend black people than white people at this point and not even in a constructive manner. Kendrick has become what formerly unapologetic East Coast thug rappers like Wu-Tang and Wu-Tang became in the 2000's in just a few years. That is, back in the 90's, Wu-Tang would call white people devils to their face. But now since Wu's fanbase is almost entirely white, they chilled out on all that shyt.

K. Dot could have used his success to continually push the envelope and put out more raw music but instead, he's starting to make music for suburban cacs to jog to and play on adult contemporary radio while cacs drive places in minivans with they kids. :snoop: He has some time to turn himself around, but K. Dot is proving himself to be the Nas of this generation. He takes forever coming out with music between albums and tries to gain mass appeal through watered down radio singles. The only difference is that a watered down radio single from the 90's seems potent and hard hitting compared to a pandering watered down radio single from a crossover artist today. It would be refreshing to hear some controversial subject matter to make cacs feel uncomfortable on the next album. After all, that's what West Coast Rap was based on. :birdman:
 
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First off, cacs make the majority of almost all rapper fan bases. It's inevitable, they're a 64% majority in the US right now. Black Americans are only 13% of the population. This rule holds true in Europe too. And this "white consumption of 'black culture" has been here forever in various forms. Fats Waller was touring not just the US, but also UK and Ireland before World War 2!

that said, I do think Kendrick is pandering way too much with his comments. The Iggy thing is partly cause she's dating his cousin. But his Ferguson comments have no excuse :pacspit:

The thing is, he DOESNT have to pander. He should know that. Cole sold more than 300K with 0 big singles WHILE BEING OUTSPOKEN AND PROTESTING IN FERGUSON AND NYC
 

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I dunno, just wish he would shut the fukk up and make more music. nikka drops a classic album and now thinks he needs to be the social barometer for how all black people are supposed to act and think. Like we NEED to hear from him anytime something happens to a black person :comeon:

nikka dropped more interviews than songs in the last 6 months
 

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Nah, Im just tired of him now to be honest. First and foremost, he should have an album BY NOW. Period. I'm all for waiting for music, and that "Toyota's take a couple of hours, and Maybach's take months--blahh blahh blahh" but at the same time, its been damn near 3 years since GKMC. He's been slacking, and it seems like the life and praise is catching up to dude. The longer he waits the less it seems like he'll deliver because the expectation will go up. You need to be consistent, and that's what seperates a Ye' from a lot of these new nikkas. I'm not saying GKMC was a fluke, because I don't believe it was. But at the same time, I wondering if he's questioning whether or not he can make classic music on the regular. Im wondering if GKMC did my harm than good on his artistic psyche, but Im tired of waiting. At some point you gotta drop something B. You have to.
 
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First off, cacs make the majority of almost all rapper fan bases. It's inevitable, they're a 64% majority in the US right now. Black Americans are only 13% of the population. This rule holds true in Europe too. And this "white consumption of 'black culture" has been here forever in various forms. Fats Waller was touring not just the US, but also UK and Ireland before World War 2!

that said, I do think Kendrick is pandering way too much with his comments. The Iggy thing is partly cause she's dating his cousin. But his Ferguson comments have no excuse :pacspit:

The thing is, he DOESNT have to pander. He should know that. Cole sold more than 300K with 0 big singles WHILE BEING OUTSPOKEN AND PROTESTING IN FERGUSON AND NYC

True. But what's ironic is that the most unapologetically black militant artists like Dead Prez have the most disproportionately white fanbases. :mjlol: So if Dead Prez can call cacs crackers to their face and still sellout shows with nothing but cacs and fukk hella groupie cac bytches, what is stopping K. Dot from pandering so much? :upsetfavre:
 
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True. But what's ironic is that the most unapologetically black militant artists like Dead Prez have the most disproportionately white fanbases. :mjlol: So if Dead Prez can call cacs crackers to their face and still sellout shows with nothing but cacs and fukk hella groupie cac bytches, what is stopping K. Dot from pandering so much? :upsetfavre:

:yeshrug:pressure to conform to mainstream Middle America I assume. I dont know WHY HE CAVED TO THE PRESSURE though. J Cole didnt pander at all, he went full activist mode: protesting in Ferguson, protesting in NYC, making a song about Michael Brown and performing it on National TV, and then selling 300K+ records. He still has his massive majority-cac fanbase. So why does Kendrick feel like he has to be "politically correct" :patrice:

He should've dropped another song like this! This was militant as hell

 

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The Iggy situation isn't a surprise because she's dating his cousin, so I doubt he would've said something negative about her
 
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Damn. This nikka makes one or two unpopular comments and now he's a c00n?

Y'all would be calling Dr Dre and Ice Cube c00ns with the quickness. :laff: And probably other rappers too.

Don't bring Cube into this. :whoa: When Cube was a rapper at his peak, he said what needed be said about L.A. in the early 90's. That Death Certificate made elderly cacs stomachs turn. :ahh:And that is what West Coast Rap is about.
 
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