Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry (Prod. by Boi-1da)

[JCalli]

The more I think about it, the sentiment of this song is really the dumbest most disgusting shyt I've heard. He's basically saying we shouldn't get mad about being racial discriminated against, being murdered without cause because there's Black on Black violence too.

Kendrick is a fukking moron. Can we have a race draft? You whites can have him. I'd rather have Iggy than this goof.

What

Where does he suggest WE shouldn't get mad about being racially discriminated because of black on black crime?

If YOU killed a black person, how YOU gonna be upset about a another black person being killed, even in such tragic circumstances. That shyt is hypercritical.


He is valuing the life of black people, period.

 

[g-ice]

at the low IQ of a lot of people on this site. One person has some fukked up interpretation in a thread and it always turns out a shyt ton of people echo the same shyt and more times than not, it's a dumbass post.

Should be ashamed of yourselves. So far this year I've seen people call Common a c00n for one line in a very humanistic and inspiring speech, people saying they weren't feeling Cole's Letterman performance cuz they 'didn't like the singing', now y'all twisting this line and making it whatever you want it to be to call him a c00n and write off the song.

all of y'all contributing to this dumb shyt can

I swear motherfukkers on this site are the epitome of the movie Idiocracy.

Dumb as rocks!!

@JMurder summed up that line perfectly and the responses to his post have been so inadequate that it's

 

[BasketCase]

I was rockin with Koondrick up until that part

I wasn't rockin with him at any point because I remember this:

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.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

Notice. People only talk about "Black on Black Violence' but I never hear about "White on White', "Asian on Asian", "Latino/Spanish on Spanish" etc. They always focus on us yet there are Blacks falling for this lame talking point. Stats shows murders happen due to proximity. White people mostly live amongst white people, blacks amongst blacks. Of course the same race would be in those stats. It's not about "Black on Black" it's about "Crime" period, stop putting a race on it. Especially when the numbers prove due to high population, Whites commit most of the crimes in America.

Now what does all this have to do with the line in the song that specifically describes a gangbanger killing another black man and hypocritically calling for justice for another slain black man? Just cuz you live in close proximity to someone doesn't mean you get a pass for that shyt cuz it's 'normal' to you based on crime statistics.

 

[StretfordRed]

He stated that he wept for Trayvon as a senseless loss of black life. He didn't know him personally, he wasn't family, but because he was a young black man who lost his life possibly because of the darkness of his skin, it made Kendrick emotional to cry.

With that though comes the reflection Kendrick has of his own hypocrisy. He's caused the senseless loss of black life through his own involvement in gang affiliation. And when he did so he didn't care about the persons skin color even though they were darker than him. So what gives him the gall to cry over black life when he's committed the same sin?

THAT is the hypocrisy he's speaking of. You can't as a black man celebrate and mourn black life when you've spent time executing black men on your own for no reason.

Questions?

If I could rep, I could.

Someone print this and keep it somewhere so Coli idiots can read this time after time to try to understand people's arguments about black deaths.

 

[Dark Knyght]

Just vulgar.

 

[Rapmastermind]

Now what does all this have to do with the line in the song that specifically describes a gangbanger killing another black man and hypocritically calling for justice for another slain black man? Just cuz you live in close proximity to someone doesn't mean you get a pass for that shyt cuz it's 'normal' to you based on crime statistics.

LOL, who said anything about given it a "Pass" it's about context. He' going in on Criminals in the Black Community as if Black People don't, as if Black people love Black criminals murdering their families and shooting stray bullets through there houses. It's ridiculous to say Black people don't care about crime in their communities as ITS AFFECTS THEM.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

LOL, who said anything about given it a "Pass" it's about context. He' going in on Criminals in the Black Community as if Black People don't, as if Black people love Black criminals murdering their families and shooting stray bullets through there houses. It's ridiculous to say Black people don't care about crime in their communities as ITS AFFECTS THEM.

He's not saying "black people don't care about crime in their communities as it affects them" y'all keep putting words in dude's mouth. He is speaking from the perspective of one person.

Swear some of y'all are slow

That last line doesn't diminish anything he said in the song and he was absolutely right. It is hypocritical for those in the streets to cause an uproar about white supremacy when they themselves are part of the problem. The problem I have and most blacks have is when white people bring up Black on Black crime to DEFLECT the issues of white on black crime which obvious Kendrick isn't since he addressed those same white on black crimes in the 1st verse . If white people choose to use that line to justify their deflection of white supremacy than you should already know they didn't have any love for blacks to begin with, Kendrick ain't bring that out of them, it was ingrained. By now in 2015 y'all should be disregarding white people's thoughts on race relations anyways.

It really doesn't take a PhD to figure that one out, I swear y'all skim through music and find something to complain about.

was about to say something just like this. Bringing up black on black crime is important and it should be brought up when having discussions with members of our own community. Most people are outraged at the way Fox News and a Bill O'reilly would use it to ruffle feathers and deflect as you said but believe it or not there ARE positive and necessary contexts of speaking about it

 

[HendriX]

Reading some of these comments in here

Some of yall need to stick to trap beats & dumb ass club songs..

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

perfect breakdown

how people still find it hard to understand

nikkas dumb as shyt

 

[Rapmastermind]

He's not saying "black people don't care about crime in their communities as it affects them" y'all keep putting words in dude's mouth. He is speaking from the perspective of one person.

If Black on Black Crime Ended Tomorrow The Projects would still be the Projects, the Hoods would still be the Hoods, Blacks would still have the Lowest Income in America, None of that would change and White Cops would STILL be killing Black Folks and getting off. They aren't even connected at all and IMO I don't feel the need to add it to a song that's focus is on White Racism and Black Empowerment. It's a "Talking Point" Whites continue to use to try and diminish our struggle. I already said in this very post Kendrick's heart is in the right place but I felt there was no need to bring up "Black on Black" crime in the song. It's his song and his choice but that's just my opinion so I understand people's beef with the last line.

 

[HARLEM AL]

Song is dope...


fukk what you nikkas talking about..

 

[AV Dicey]

What are you talking about? The only interest this track will generate is the same amount of interest it would have generated if he was talking about anything else. He has an anticipated album coming out. Duuh...

meh...am just glad that there are still mainstream rappers that spit angry black man bars, as far as the equivocating I blame that on the Obama era it is what it is. Hey at least the ghost of pac must be up there smiling MATW.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

If Black on Black Crime Ended Tomorrow The Projects would still be the Projects, the Hoods would still be the Hoods, Blacks would still have the Lowest Income in America, None of that would change and White Cops would STILL be killing Black Folks and getting off. They aren't even connected at all and IMO I don't feel the need to add it to a song that's focus is on White Racism and Black Empowerment. It's a "Talking Point" Whites continue to use to try and diminish our struggle. I already said in this very post Kendrick's heart is in the right place but I felt there was no need to bring up "Black on Black" crime in the song. It's his song and his choice but that's just my opinion so I understand people's beef with the last line.

THEY'RE NOT CONNECTED AND THERE IS NO INTENTION OF CONNECTING THEM IN THE SONG, ONLY AN INDICATION OF HYPOCRISY OF A MAN PERFORMING THE SAME ACT HE CONDEMNS

and it's a talking point some conservative whites (there are white people who do not agree with how other white people use the phrase) and people with a media agenda to generate more viewers use to diminish our struggle. If you look closely you will find that Kendrick is not white and not using it with the same intentions

 

[Master Teacher]

yo why do you keep acting like Kendrick is saying Trayvon was a gangbanger or that EVERYONE who was pissed at his death was one? He didn't fukking say that. The whole point was the He (either IRL or as that verse's POV) killed a nikka like it was nothing but is now mourning Trayvon's death, when he (either IRL or as the POV) killed a nikka. That makes him a hypocrite breh. That is all the line was about. nikkas out here doin fukkboy shyt are hypocrites if they start getting upity about others doing the same fukkboy shyt. I don't see the problem is pointing that out. It isn't exactly a novel concept. That line does not come at the necks of everyone who is mad at the killings but rather those who are mad and yet turn around do the same foul shyt or worse. If that isn't you then wtf are you mad for?

I'm sitting here confused as fukk right now because I don't get how you got "Oh Kendrick is calling out all blacks" from that line. Yall nikkas are just super quick to ride the Call someone a c00n train yo.

Where did I say Kendrick said Trayvon was a gangbang

I said a GANGBANGER WOULD NOT BE A HYPOCRITE feeling Trayvon's death was unjust because Trayvon Martin WAS NOT A GANGBANGER

WHAT CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND

Gang Violence and what happened to Trayvon have nothing to do with each other

Nobody cried over Trayvon accept is fukking parents, people were outraged at the handling of the case which is a failure of justice

him saying this line is a DEFLECTION FROM THAT FACT

Everything else you stated has nothing to do with anything said, because you can't confront the truth, so you deflect as well