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

[Deafheaven]

This site is the fukking twilight zone for rap man. Simple nikkas man...

 

[Loose]

its a ok song, message is whatever especially after that c00n talk he was talking just recently

 

[Adam3000]

Not sure Im digging the voice and flow

Gonna have to hear this within the flow of the album. If he brings this raspy shyt more than a couple times its gonna be a turnoff, but if its only a couple tracks thats cool I guess

 

[CHILLL]

kendrick only pro black on the weekends

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

J Cole my dude but this makes me cringe at that mixed race, white mother raised niqqa trying to talk on some extra black shyt

 

[Not Crodie]

Kendrick has another classic coming brehs

at this point its too easy for him

 

[Kitsch]

The mental gymnastics I'm seeing in this thread and I'm a fan of dudes music.*

*He's under review.

 

[eXodus]

All we need to do is stop killing each other so the white supremacists can finally see that we respect ourselves

My hair is NAPPY , My nose is broad!!! my DyCK is big!!
i love the sound of a riot! we gonna burn this shyt down if yall CRaKKKas keep killin us!
but wait......
we kill each other too..... soooo I'm such a hypocrite for being in any way critical of the societal structure that has been killing us for at least 396 fukking YEARS!!!

He is not trying to say black people shouldn't complain about injustice.

And you must be stupid as fukk if you actually think he is convinced he will change a gang bangers mind with that line or that he thinks you shouldnt be allowed call out injustice. He used that line to spark a conversation.

Its not only the gang bangers that are hypocritical. Its every one that is ignoring the problems in the black community.

That line also applies to the white protesters that protest Trayvons death but dont give a fukk about the ghettos.

The song works just for the reasons you pointed out. Its a concept song. Man it would've been wack if Kendrick had rapped as a white protester walking with a sign for 2 hours just to go home to his suburban home on the third verse instead.
He chose to make a pro black song with this message instead. Cant we be happy about that? What would the alternative of doing a concept song about the hypocrisy of the treatment of blacks looked like?

Once again, its a song not a 45 minute speech at a rally where you can go in depth on topics.

im not ignoring shyt and neither does anyone i know. You'd have to be a nitwit to think that black on black violence isnt an issue. I understand that
i never said he's trying to convince gangbangers to do anything! You can be happy with whatver you want bruh, i dont have to like the record, aesthetically its dope, BUT the message is flawed imo
thats my opinion, as you have yours. again i dont have to like this shyt bruh, i'm just voicing my opinion of it.

AND Theres no conversation to be sparked, there's black people working to clean up the community every day, i dont need kendrick to remind me that we have internal issues while simultaneously
suggesting that me being critical of RAMPANT SOCIAL INJUSTICE is hypocritical becuz those internal problems still exist. thats corny becuz internal problems will always exist..

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

so you gonna hate this song for one bar?

and i don't even like kendrick like that

 

[Not Crodie]

kdot, you're officially in my top 5 as well

 

[wire28]

coli nikkas dont know what they want. kendrick gave them the epitome of the shyt they talk on the daily then get mad when he calls out black people killin other black people for 5 seconds

almost choked on that one

 

[Not Crodie]

so you gonna hate this song for one bar?

i don't even like kendrick like that

COli broh.... the song is getting the perrect score on most sites "Kendrick Shakur" was even trending

 

[eXodus]

All we need to do is stop killing each other so the white supremacists can finally see that we respect ourselves

My hair is NAPPY , My nose is broad!!! my DyCK is big!!
i love the sound of a riot! we gonna burn this shyt down if yall CRaKKKas keep killin us!
but wait......
we kill each other too..... soooo I'm such a hypocrite for being in any wall critical of the societal structure that has been KILLING us for at least 396 fukking YEARS!!! way b4 nikkas was banging in little ROCK and LA!

Fukkouuttahhhheeeaaaa

 

[MostHatedBox]

at this point its too easy for him

Album has to be out soon. I heard Taraji P Henson has the album and this was her favorite song so he released it.

 

[NahFam]

yes both need to be dealt with but what does the existence of one(gangbanging) have to do with the other (unjust SLAYING of black persons by police)?
the line just irks me becuz for decades the existence of internal black issues have been to used invalidate criticisms of systemic violence towards black people. As if we are so ugly and vile as a people that (becuz some very small minority of us kill one another) we dont have any moral grounds to criticize what others do to harm us or how systemic violence affects us..
that shyt is so tired and irks me to no end, and thats the entire premise of this record essentially, he starts every verse with that "hyprocrite" line so he can man that bs point...

I feel u.

But maybe the point on black on black violence still needs to made? Especially for someone like Kendrick, whose whole mission is to get rid of the ills that poision neighbourhoods like the one he comes from. I jus wanna be careful we dont not bring up and invalidate the issue just cause of how its been twisted to defend our mistreatment in the past.