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

[Pinyapplesuckas]

King Back.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Track is fire of course. I almost feel like Kendrick had New Slaves on repeat before recording this.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

The message of the song is the definition of c00nish behavior.

How so? Elaborate?

 

[Not Crodie]

classic

 

[TheGregReaper]

:eddiecry:

 

[FreshAIG]

How so? Elaborate?

I appreciate the Black Love he's giving throughout the song. That part is dope

But the overall theme is basically "We're hypocrites because we do fukked up shyt so how can we be upset about white people killing us" which has so many holes in that theory that it's laughable that he thought such an elementary concept was worthy of spewing. The beat is dope the aggression is dope, the black love shyt is dope. But that overall concept irks me and basically tells me he can't differentiate between gang violence and getting killed by a cop or a Cac. Both are sad, but there's main differences. One being, for the former, the perp is usually always arrested, convicted and spends the rest of their lives in prison. The latter are arrested, acquitted and supported and financially backed to the point they can retire.

 

[DerrtySouthpaw]

this is dope. the fukk are yall bytching for?

 

[dontreadthis]

honestly I don't think Kendrick is directly linking black on black crime/gang violence as a cause of why a Trayvon situation happens but just pointing out the irony in a gangbangers mentality

 

[Mowgli]

Hip hawwwwwwwwwwwwwpppppp



fukk drake

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Why, though? The whole context of the song is resisting anti-Blackness. People should be willing to address the complexities of anti-Blackness as it appears in our community, too. It's not like he made an entire song out of that one line, which would have been too much, but we can't pretend it's not part of the larger picture, either.

Too many people give rappers a pass for talking about shooting other Black folks and enslaving them with drugs, but then turning around and doing songs about Trayvon or Eric Garner as if they're social activists for us at the same time. That behavior is hypocritical at the end of the day, no matter how you look at it. A Black man getting shot by gangbangers and by police might have different causes, but at the end of the day a murdered Black man is a murdered Black man, and there are too many murdered Black men. Systemic racism of the police might be worse, but both problems will need to be addressed before our communities can thrive.

Listen to Willie Hutch's Brothers Gonna Work It Out for another example of a classic that calls out pimps, drug dealers, and police at the same time. And that's from The Mack- no c00ning involved there.

This 100x!

It seems people are just misinterpreting what he meant on purpose.

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Boolean]

shyt was cool until the 4:30 mark and he into reverted to a smart dumb nikka

 

[Wepa Man]

Shyt is tragic bro. Maybe my expectations are too high of these kids nowadays. This is how my rap heroes used to give it up, raw undiluted pro-Blackness.

Damn this is beat is RAW

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Man we waking up on these fukking Devils breh I feel it more and more. God damn I needed to hear this

 

[T-K-G]

all bullshyt aside i LOVE when rappers put out songs that other races can't play without lookin stupid as hell

you aint gon catch NO cacs bumping this shyt out the whip without lookin like complete fukkboys

all those "did you hear that new kendrick" ass mahfukkas gon be quiet as hell this week