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

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White folks can blow our brains out because we kill ourselves , fukk this c00n and whoever loves him :mjlol:.
no he is calling you a hypocrite for not getting mad at gang violence but mad at police killing.....


who is the c00n? the one who wants blacks to stop dying:francis:
 

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After listening to the song I agree with some that maybe the last line kinda takes the sting away. There's nothing wrong with self reflection but what he was talking about has nothing to really do with "Black on Black" violence which is systematic o the conditions of White Supremacy to begin with. Reguardless of the last line I feel Kendrick heart was in the right place with the message and content. I mean he named the song "The Blacker the Berry". I just think cause of Kendrick's Fergerson coments he has a microscope on his every word when it comes to race issues. But he didn't have to come out with a track like this so props to him. But those being criticial I can see your point. To many times Black Americans in the public love to put the blame back on us for the systematic racism we've endured for centuries. As if the fight and war is over.
 

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Homie...Kendrick is from Compton. He's been talking about gang violence since day one. It impacts his community on a daily basis. Even "i" was aimed at gang bangers and people locked in prison. It oozes through all his music, so why are a small group of people getting mad now?

My mom used to say I had to walk and chew bubblegum. I can talk about racial injustice/institutional racism while also talking about the crime I see every day in my community. That's what Kendrick is doing. Taking aim at the hatred of institutional racism, showing it's impact on the community, and then questioning the homie's actions. What's wrong with that?

Kendrick wants to stop ALL the violence.

No, he wants all violence to stop, when you want to stop something, you do something to stop it, pointing and saying "but what about Black on Black violence" does nothing to fix the problem, if it did, Bill O'Reilly would have single handedly fixed the Black community years ago.
 

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"US... will always sing the blues/ 'cause all we talk about is hairstyle and tennis shoes/ and if you step on mines you pushed a button/ because I'll beat you down like it ain't nothing/....just like a beast/ but I'm the first nikka to holler out, "Peace, my black man".

~Ice Cube in 1991.

How is what REMOTELY anything different from what Kendrick was talking about in the last verse?
 
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I swear your skull is thick. Not only did he called OUT white supremacy and the system in the 1ST verse making your entire argument irrelevant, he clearly talking about US not valuing our own lives to the point we kill each other over trivial reasons. It IS hypocritical to be angry over a black life's death by the hands of the white man and NOT have care for black life by the murder of our own people.

He called out white supremacy after DECLARING HIMSELF A HYPOCRITE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VERSE

YOUR SKULL IS THICK DUMB ASS

and what the fukk do you mean US not valuing our lives, speak for yourself peon

White kids kill their parents for trival reasons, shoot up schools for trival reasons,

violence in the Hood DOES NOT REFLECT on the entire black community, people kill each other over trivial reasons ALL THE TIME

Trayvon was killed over a trivial matter

THE DIFFERENCE IS

Black people go to JAIL AND GET PUNISHED

The outrage is not from the violence it FROM THE VERDICT YOU fukkING MORON

If a black drop dealer gets shot, oh well, charge it to the game
if a gang banger gets popped, oh well, charge it to the game

that's the life THEY CHOSE

If you ain't about that life get the fukk out the hood, there's cheap housing all over
 

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Just listened. The bar that has everyone up in arms isn't really the worst thing in the world, though I can see how it touched a nerve with some. I mean, fukk, Ice Cube's "Us" does the same thing that bar does for an entire song and no one ever said a peep about it.

People are scared shytless of the truth.
 

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I like the song. Lets start there.

I understand the message. It not quite "If we want to be respected, we need to respect ourselves," but its basically that Billboard quote.

If this song is directed at Game--cries for every police shooting, but, is an unrepentant Blood and makes a mockery out of black men he beats up--then, I get it.

I'm sure money grew up seein more black on black death than anything. So, I understand the perspective.

But, here where maturity kicks in; the majority of the ppl upset about the deaths of Mr. Martin (Crawford, Garner, etc [RIP to them all]) aren't scourges on the black community.

And that's why the "we need to respect ourselves first..." dies a quick death.

We already do...
 

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"US... will always sing the blues/ 'cause all we talk about is hairstyle and tennis shoes/ and if you step on mines you pushed a button/ because I'll beat you down like it ain't nothing/....just like a beast/ but I'm the first nikka to holler out, "Peace, my black man".

~Ice Cube in 1991.

How is what REMOTELY anything different from what Kendrick was talking about in the last verse?

Where's the part where Cube brings up the slaying of an unarmed teenager?
 

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Notice. People only talk about "Black on Black Violence' but I never hear about "White on White', "Asian on Asian", "Latino/Spanish on Spanish" etc. They always focus on us yet there are Blacks falling for this lame talking point. Stats shows murders happen due to proximity. White people mostly live amongst white people, blacks amongst blacks. Of course the same race would be in those stats. It's not about "Black on Black" it's about "Crime" period, stop putting a race on it. Especially when the numbers prove due to high population, Whites commit most of the crimes in America.
 
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