Has Kendrick Lamar become a complete Uncle Tom sellout?

[TRY GOD]

Millennials Top 3's worth listening to

1.Drake
2.Koondrick
3.J. Cole

 

[Theodoresolderbreh]

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

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

fukk what you talking about but your name is fukking bad ass daps just because of that

 

[Larry]

he starting to make surburban music?


evident by what, all 1 of the songs that he's released in the last 10 months..


if my point wasn't clear, he hasn't put out shyt. that statement was based on absolutely nothing. We've got 1 solo record and a couple of features from dude in a years time..

 

[Kitsch]

 

[TheSickness]

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. 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" . 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?
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. 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. 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.

Kendrick got love for white folk and vice versa so

 

[LunaticVillage415]

Koondrick is to whom yall placed your Hip-Hop faith?

Come collect yall L's

fukk no. I think K. Dot hella overrated. He cool, but cacs make it seem like he's Rap Jesus or some bullshyt. I don't fukk with too much mainstream shyt, period. I'm from the Bay and hella slaps come out every week. The mainstream completely copied the Bay sound but we continue to prevail. Y'all were saying Hip Hop is dead but completely copied our whole shyt.

 

[Matt504]

you can't be too militant in the entertainment industry without burning bridges you can't afford to burn, you have to make concessions, you have to bite your tongue a lot, you have to laugh when the powerful white guy in the room makes bigoted jokes, you have to fake smiles. It's easy for us to call him and others out, and we should, but we also have to put our feet in their shoes to have a better understanding of the behavior.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

Malcom X once said something about the newspapers
I doubt that he ever even DREAMED that it would be black people themselves doing this and not the whiteman's news!

 

[Blackout]

He is most likely entwined with racist whites somewhere so he cant go all out.

The days where even mainstream rappers can be fully conscious is gone and wont be back until we black people assert our dominance in hip hop like the old days.

 

[Master Teacher]

Malcom X once said something about the newspapers
I doubt that he ever even DREAMED that it would be black people themselves doing this and not the whiteman's news!

they sad thing is, if you hear many of malcom's words you will think he was talking about today

 

[GoldenGlove]

Well... I'm willing to bet that the 'cacs' that are Kendrick fans are those pro-black/struggle types of hipsters who wouldn't turn their back on dude for some comments on these recent events. Like... you really think a white Kendrick fan would care if he shytted on Iggy Azalea(sp)?


I don't think so.

I just don't get how he performed that Untitled song talking about how the white man wants a piece of everything, then turn around and give Rolling Stones an interview basically generalizing his people for them



I still think the album will be dope though

 

[Elevated ATLien]

you can't be too militant in the entertainment industry without burning bridges you can't afford to burn, you have to make concessions, you have to bite your tongue a lot, you have to laugh when the powerful white guy in the room makes bigoted jokes, you have to fake smiles. It's easy for us to call him and others out, and we should, but we also have to put our feet in their shoes to have a better understanding of the behavior.

Kinda sounds like an excuse. It's not like Kendrick has to choose between "we have to respect ourselves first" and "fukk ALL CACS AND COPS".

J Cole is signed to a major label also, but he was very active ("Be Free", going to actual protests in NY and Ferguson, being very outspoken, etc). And he has sold 650K copies as of a few days ago

 

[TRY GOD]

Are we gonna act like Koondrck wasn't an industry plant from the beginning? he was a SIGNED unsigned hype rapper getting his buzz up when he got the ok from Dre to fast track his budget and marketing.


Once he got a decent base he was pushed as the mainstreams new young lyrical conscious rapper, for lack of any sellable candidates.


Lets not forget that much of his popularity in the mainstream still came a couple of singles after the album dropped.

The radio practically forced kendricks songs down our throat. His songs are not Strong radio friendly songs, His strongest radio joint was poetic justice.

And he was HURT he aint get that grammy from them crackers

 

[LunaticVillage415]

Well... I'm willing to bet that the 'cacs' that are Kendrick fans are those pro-black/struggle types of hipsters who wouldn't turn their back on dude for some comments on these recent events. Like... you really think a white Kendrick fan would care if he shytted on Iggy Azalea(sp)?


I don't think so.

I just don't get how he performed that Untitled song talking about how the white man wants a piece of everything, then turn around and give Rolling Stones an interview basically generalizing his people for them



I still think the album will be dope though

Nah, where I live, it's regular Starbucks sandal wearing cacs who always bring up Kendrick. These cacs have both Macklemore and K Dot on their ipods. When we get into a discussion about Hip Hop, the first name they drop is K. Dot. I try to conceal my contempt for a sheltered cac born in raised affluent suburbia saying their favorite rapper is a black dude from the hood in Cali. Something I know about from life experience.

But it's interesting that erybody interviews Kendrick about what he thinks about this type of shyt. It's because people expect a real raw honest response. Dude is Compton. That is real segregation from cacs. That real invisible oppressor shyt. It ain't like that where I'm from in the Bay where hella hoods are integrated with all different races. You don't hear folks interviewing E-40 or Too $hort about what they think about these heavy political issues because that's not their M.O. But CPT has that known legacy of nikkas telling it how it is unedited in the mainstream so it seems off for him to be so PC.

 

[hustlemania]

True. But what's ironic is that the most unapologetically black militant artists like Dead Prez have the most disproportionately white fanbases. 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?

Where the hell Dead Prez selling out shows at..?

and, I know both them cats.. they don't fukk with White girls.. at all.. they both got main chicks, who are Black..