What if the messenger acknowledges that he's a hypocrite?
This is why the Kendrick Lamar hate is stupid but predictable. Because most people are fukking morons and can't really deal with something that's more complex than good/bad, gangsta/conscious.
I'm not even

for him on some die hard fan shyt because I didn't even really like his most recent album like that. But the real reason for a lot of the hatred is that he throws people who can't put him in
their box for a loop.
I feel like he is consciously trying to bring balance to the extreme expression of the young black american manhood that was 2pac Shakur. And to do that you can't be anything less than HUMAN, he's telling you up front about his humanity. About this dimension of his experience that conflicts with that one.
He's white peoples favorite rapper because
he has the stage (The affiliations, the "machine") and
he's actually using it to touch people/speak for people. You can feel like he's overhyped, or a plant, or a leaf or whatever the fukk...bottom line is, aftermath gave him the ball and he put work in. And he's related to a wide base because he's
honest.