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

[MartyMcFly]

"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?

 

[JXNZ]

Lord knows a nikka need this album rite about now. Kendrick is one of the only few nikkas that can capture that pain and anger that a nikka be feelin.

 

[eXodus]

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

but how am i not upset with Gang Violence wtf
how are blacks not outraged by community violence! where is that sentiment even substantiated??

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

I see why Drake didn't drop the tape yet

what do u c?

 

[Kenny West]

Is Kendrick not preaching to the choir, or does he have an audience made up of people who think Black on Black violence is okay?

He's a rapper. So it depends on how you define 'okay". But either way Kendrick has never had an audience as big, and as mainstream as the one he does now, so no he isn't preaching to the choir. He's been railing against co-signing of the ignant shyt for years before he had the listeners he does now



"Yall mistake a street nikka for real nikka" explains his stance so well

side stepped what, you weren't saying anything relevant

I addressed when I said street violence has nothing to do with what happened to Trayvon

Trayvon was let down by the JUDICIAL SYSTEM

it's different rules in the court of law when it comes to black people, THAT'S WHAT THE OUTRAGE IS

it's not about trayvon dikkhead

Kendrick addressed those different rules in the court of law in the first two verses tho, so to see yall lost mf still "outraged" like he didn't say it is hilarious. Ridiculous how sensitive some people can get when the spotlight even gets near them.

3/4 of the song going at white racists and 1/4 going at black people that more than likely DON'T EVEN REPRESENT YOU got your panties in a bunch. Crazy you got ordinary nikkas behind they keyboards gettin offended on the behalf of gangstas foh

 

[eXodus]

"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?

its the same message as kendricks but 25 years EARLIER! how profound of kendrick and in either case its corny becuz i've never killed or fought another African for smudging my shoe..
i would probably actually say.. its all good my BROTHER no biggie...

 

[gluvnast]

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

One more time, he ADDRESSES in the 1ST VERSE about all the things you are bytchING about. The 1st verse was directed towards white people. The 2nd verse to the black elitist, and the final to the ignorant hood nikka! Yet you are so caught up on the last line of the 3rd verse that you keep taking out of context. Not ANYWHERE in the sound did he stated the judicial system is equal and fair. In fact, the contrary. Not ONE point did he said, if a black drug dealer or dope dealer gets shot "charge it to the fact". He was speaking through the PERSPECTIVE of someone who live their lives in ignorance, but claim to suddenly be socially conscious. You taking that last line way TOO literally.

 

[kaldurahm]

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.

This is a fair post.

 

[Champ_KW]

Sound like the Kendrick haters are nervous. In their haste to sound like they're turned off by Kendrick "c00n" statement, they're proving themselves to be dumb. You can't help but look around and see the self hate in the black community, but since it's all the rave to be socially conscious about white vs black crime, it's cool to ignore our very reality. Our women injecting themselves with poison, hair weave is considered normal, black men tattooing their faces chasing a style or emulating another grow man that recite words to a beat, etc......I'm from St. Louis.....the "fight the power" wave here has died down considerably. So at what point will these internet revolutionaries stop chasing the next fade and it's ok to finally get back to a serious question....what about "us"? I'm not into hero worshipping. If Kendrick make dope music, then cool. If he says something I don't agree with in an interview, then cool. But y'all hip-hop fans are funny hanging y'all hats on that one line. I can't imagine cats claiming MLK "Dream" speech wasn't uplifting to blacks because he had that one line about Jews and Gentiles.

 

[RiffRaff]

Swear some of y'all are slow

That last line doesn't diminish anything he said in the song and he was absolutely right. It is hypocritical for those in the streets to cause an uproar about white supremacy when they themselves are part of the problem. The problem I have and most blacks have is when white people bring up Black on Black crime to DEFLECT the issues of white on black crime which obvious Kendrick isn't since he addressed those same white on black crimes in the 1st verse . If white people choose to use that line to justify their deflection of white supremacy than you should already know they didn't have any love for blacks to begin with, Kendrick ain't bring that out of them, it was ingrained. By now in 2015 y'all should be disregarding white people's thoughts on race relations anyways.

It really doesn't take a PhD to figure that one out, I swear y'all skim through music and find something to complain about.

 

[doublenegative]

I approve.

 

[smARTmouf]

Kendrick is doing some important shyt..

That " I Love Myself" track makes a lot more sense......He's not trying to change the game...He's trying to change the world...

 

[Matt504]

He was speaking through the PERSPECTIVE of someone who live their lives in ignorance, but claim to suddenly be socially conscious. You taking that last line way TOO literally.

An ignorant person who sees Trayvon's murder as a travesty and speaks out on it is claiming to be "suddenly socially conscious"?




An ignorant person can't agree that an innocent child being killed is wrong unless they're a hypocrite?

 

[Digga38]

but how am i not upset with Gang Violence wtf
how are blacks not outraged by community violence! where is that sentiment even substantiated??

im gonna let you keep lying to yourself and to the board bruh...do you

 

[gluvnast]

An ignorant person who sees Trayvon's murder as a travesty and speaks out on it is claiming to be "suddenly socially conscious"?




An ignorant person can't agree that an innocent child being killed is wrong unless they're a hypocrite?

It's hypocritical if you continue to murder an innocent life in return... just because they're from the wrong set. I presume you DO NOT know the gang culture at all.