Kendrick Lamar on Ferguson: "how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within"

[Turk]

As someone who grew up in Compton, Kendrick Lamar knows about tense exchanges with police officers. By his own reckoning, he was treated unjustly by the LAPD "plenty of times. All the time."

But in Billboard's latest cover story, Kendrick isn't going into details of any past trouble he may or may not have gotten into. "Oh, man, I won't be able to say that on record," Lamar tells Gavin Edwards. "I got into some things, but God willing, he had favoritism over me and my spirit."

But he sees those who haven't been so fortunate. Speaking to the tragic deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, Lamar points to the historical baggage between cops and African-American communities.


"I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it's already a situation, mentally, where it's f--ked up. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting -- it starts from within."


http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6436333/kendrick-lamar-on-ferguson-police-michael-brown

Of all the artists to disappoint me...I wasn't expecting you

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Koondrick Lamar

 

[Premeditated]

woah oh. I don't like this direction he's is doing.

All I ask is for him to not piss me off before the album drops.

didn't say anything is wrong with cop killing though

 

[KingTut]

Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting -- it starts from within."

Why even bring up the looting?

 

[HoloGraphic]

There was something I didn't like about dude from the get. But I think anyone in his position would be careful of making a mistake in saying the wrong thing.

All that heat on topics like this shouldn't be thrown back at one person. And who's going to help him when they are holding a metaphorical publicity gun to his head, us or them?

You think he respected himself saying what he said, knowing what he knows, and knowing why he said it?

Careful brehs, the reason why they parade "c00ns" in front of us is to further confuse us. Really think about what trauma it caused them to turn. It's not their fault.

 

[Premeditated]

looks like Cole might be our last mainstream real nikka

 

[swimmingpools]

How do I change my screename?

 

[HoloGraphic]

looks like Cole might be our last mainstream real nikka

Oxymoron.

 

[Turk]

How do I change my screename?

 

[Premeditated]

Oxymoron.

explain

is it because he's a mutt or "mainstream"?

 

[???]

Why do black people want to be accepted by america so bad? forget this fake place, it's a joke. fukk all this shyt, smh @ nikkas begging white people to like them, fukk all that.

 

[HoloGraphic]

explain

is it because he's a mutt or "mainstream"?

"Mainstream" and "real nikka" go together like saying "jumbo shrimp".

The mainstream doesn't make or do " real nikkas" and if they do their albums tend to flop, OR the artist is good enough to sell and appease the record companies, while still being real to the people of the streets. A fine line to walk.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

See...

I'm glad I never paid $ for one of his albums and now I never will

He is making it seem like if we "all respect each other" then cops and cacs will leave us alone.

I'm pretty sure when black people joined together to protect their communities from outside violence they were meant with violence from cops. What about black wall street? Hell look at how black people joined together to march for voting rights in Selma....

 

[Will Ross]

He is 100% right

 

[???]

See...

I'm glad I never paid $ for one of his albums and now I never will

He is making it seem like if we "all respect each other" then cops and cacs will leave us alone.

I'm pretty sure when black people joined together to protect their communities from outside violence they were meant with violence from cops. What about black wall street? Hell look at how black people joined together to march for voting rights in Selma....

dude shut the fukk up, white fakkits are never going to love black people, deal with it, you loser.