Reject the truth because you don't like it. Its time for change and it has to come from us as well as them"Why did I weep when Trayon Martin was in the street when gang bangin made me kill a nikka blacker than me, hypocrite!"
Gtfoh with that shyt
Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry (Prod. by Boi-1da)
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OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
nice
Bay Area
Raiders/Warriors/A's
I find it ironic that Kendrick drops a pro black song and the only people hating on the song are non black people and the extremist coli militants.
Stop being difficult. I'm not gonna keep explaining the same point to all you simple nikkas. You don't know him or the nikkas he used to run with. You don't know what he and his friends was doing back in Compton. What he says is straight forward nikka.....we can't be pro-black fukk police one day then back to killing each other over Jordans the next. I ain't that scared of George Zimmerman, I'm more scared of nikkas that look like me....reading about 16 year old kids dying everyday in my city but y'all wanna argue til y'all blue in the face that it's not a problem in the safety of your house in the suburbs. Tell that to the moms and fathers.
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The two issues are in no way comparable. In no conversation about racist discrimination, should we be talking about black on black crime.
That has been the deflection/justification for centuries. That's what y'all don't get. Regardless of how you feel on each individual issue. They are separate.
That's the fix. They have you idiots repeating centuries old justification for your own mistreatment.
Kendrick Lamar's last lyrics annoted by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Michael Chabon on Genius
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/0...+02+2015&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and screenwriter Michael Chabon headed over to Genius.com today to annotate part of Kendrick Lamar’s new song, “The Blacker The Berry." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay author used his deep understanding of metaphors to peel back the layers of the last few lines of the song
The lyrics read, "So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street?/When gang banging make me kill a nikka blacker than me/Hypocrite!" You can read the whole annotation here but an excerpt is below:
In this final couplet, Kendrick Lamar employs a rhetorical move akin to—and in its way even more devastating than—Common’s move in the last line of “I Used to Love H.E.R.”: snapping an entire lyric into place with a surprise revelation of something hitherto left unspoken. In “H.E.R.”, Common reveals the identity of the song’s “her”—hip hop itself—forcing the listener to re-evaluate the entire meaning and intent of the song. Here, Kendrick Lamar reveals the nature of the enigmatic hypocrisy that the speaker has previously confessed to three times in the song without elaborating: that he grieved over the murder of Trayvon Martin when he himself has been responsible for the death of a young black man. Common’s “her” is not a woman but hip hop itself; Lamar’s “I” is not (or not only) Kendrick Lamar but his community as a whole.
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/0...+02+2015&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and screenwriter Michael Chabon headed over to Genius.com today to annotate part of Kendrick Lamar’s new song, “The Blacker The Berry." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay author used his deep understanding of metaphors to peel back the layers of the last few lines of the song
The lyrics read, "So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street?/When gang banging make me kill a nikka blacker than me/Hypocrite!" You can read the whole annotation here but an excerpt is below:
In this final couplet, Kendrick Lamar employs a rhetorical move akin to—and in its way even more devastating than—Common’s move in the last line of “I Used to Love H.E.R.”: snapping an entire lyric into place with a surprise revelation of something hitherto left unspoken. In “H.E.R.”, Common reveals the identity of the song’s “her”—hip hop itself—forcing the listener to re-evaluate the entire meaning and intent of the song. Here, Kendrick Lamar reveals the nature of the enigmatic hypocrisy that the speaker has previously confessed to three times in the song without elaborating: that he grieved over the murder of Trayvon Martin when he himself has been responsible for the death of a young black man. Common’s “her” is not a woman but hip hop itself; Lamar’s “I” is not (or not only) Kendrick Lamar but his community as a whole.
Xtraz2
Superstar
tha hell you talkin about?hip hop been using reggae in tha music since tha early days
how did you make Kanye responsible for that?
Rell84shots
Veteran
I said the line was not clever so i'm obviously aware if what he's doing, you Kendrick fans just want everyone to fall in love with this track even though there are some missteps.
Ski Mask
Friendzone: Collection 1
Who's saying that?
Xtraz2
Superstar
Tha song ain't representing all black people, that's where you squares got it wrong
Kendrick talking to his peers in Compton and other hoods across tha world, that grow up contemplating joining a gang and having to kill another black man or already in a gang/slangin etc, this message is for them
this song ain't for white people, kendrick having a convo with his peers, if you not from tha hood you not gon get it, kendrick tellin them put tha guns down, or you just as bad as "them" (oppressors) because your taking tha life of another black man
now tell me how you have a problem with that message once you consider tha context
smARTmouf
Ascended Member
a lot of people are exposing their confusion within this movement....Where you all can't comprehend...we have to fill in those gaps... This track is damn near flawless
we'll only reach where we need to go together and not tearing each other down...
we'll only reach where we need to go together and not tearing each other down...
TezMilli
All Star
This thread is the main reason I feel the way I do about our people making changes. As a breh who's out here tryna make change I build with other like-minded brothas, so I was talking with one of my dudes a few weeks ago and we was saying why our only hope is the young kids and young minds because the majority of our people already have their minds made up on certain issues (power structure, empowerment, leaders, black on black crime, poverty, etc) anyway.
We got only a few dudes who tryna spark certain minds in the music industry and nikkas here arguing over a line. I just hope the young dudes listen to this and get the message.
We got only a few dudes who tryna spark certain minds in the music industry and nikkas here arguing over a line. I just hope the young dudes listen to this and get the message.
What's the message that these "young dudes should get?