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

[Kitsch]

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

When was the last you were at a funeral?

 

[Still Benefited]

Yeah that Rolling Stones interview gonna have people extra critical of Dot so I feel you on that part. Had the interview never happened I don't think people would focus on the last line as tough as they are, aint shyt c00nish about that particular line though, its been said a lot throughout hip hops history.

Folks is on high alert...He made the line the main focus though which most songs dont do,I hate the fact he went so hard then negated it all by highlighting how he's a hypocrite....But at the end of the day its just one song from the album....this could be one song where he wants people to reflect on they own hypocrisys while he reflects on his own, that's cool....Before folks get outraged we need to here more and see what the album is about.

 

[Master Teacher]

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.

Shut the fukk up place, he states he's a hypocrite before every verse he's not rapping from the perspective of a white person on the first verse, he's basically saying he's a hypocrite for having these feelings about white people and as well as the other things he says

the 2nd verse is just blah, he makes zero points or any statements in that verse

the third verse is ridiculous

also what is an ignorant hood nikka, I mean who uses this term

If I get arrested for stealing, I knew what I did was wrong, and got caught, so I can't be critical of the system when another gets to go free, doesn't make any sense

also black people don't get away from killing each other, that's why the line is fukking stupid

 

[Matt504]

By now in 2015 y'all should be disregarding white people's thoughts on race relations anyways.

This is ignorant and dangerous.

White people's thoughts on race relations can mean the difference between life and death for non-white people, suggesting that we shouldn't care that we might be seen as savages is utter stupidity.

 

[TezMilli]

@ the CACS, haters, and remedial reading comprehension skills exposures from one line.

It's pathetic breh. Do nikkas actually listen to the words or the beat? Kendrick even put the message in the cover art. Black mother (Eve) in her queen motherhood and royalty, breastfeeding her sons (Cain & Abel) like how it was supposed to be before sin tore us apart and now its brother vs brother.

 

[B. Pumpaveli]

cac music

 

[Master Teacher]

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

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

The verse basically says he's a hypocrite because a gang banger kills another black person, yet he weeps for Trayvon

ONE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER

if Trayvon was gang banging he would have a point, but HE WAS NOT

so it's not hypocritical for a gang banger to outraged about trayon martin

gang bangers choose their lifestyle at the end of the day, and they ANSWER FOR THEIR CRIMES

you ignore the same shyt I said

 

[DeuceZ]

big up Kendrick

big up Sasco


that album gonna be

 

[Bawon Samedi]

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.

This post basically highlights many about Kdot haters. I doubt they even care much about the last verse(since they complain about rappers who rap about killing other blacks), they're trying to find any little thing to hate on him no matter how small or ridiculous it makes them. They just DESPERATELY need something to hate on him.

 

[wild100sboy]

wow, this is amazing...king kendrick

 

[Big Boss]

"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?

 

[eXodus]

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

lets agree to disagree becuz to every black person i kno.. ignorant nikkas killing each other is an issue..
but maybe ppl different where u at..

 

[Matt504]

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.

Your presumption would be false, gang culture is here and it's a reality, it's a war zone in these streets and the attitude is its either me or them, I'm not in a gang and I love black people, but I'm not about to die if I can kill you first, that doesn't make it right but these gang bangers DID NOT create the conditions that have them banging in the first place, which is the ROOT of the problem, Black on Black violence is a symptom, and addressing symptoms will never cure diseases.

 

[Kitsch]

This post basically highlights many about Kdot haters. I doubt they even care much about the last verse(since they complain about rappers who rap about killing other blacks), they're trying to find any little thing to hate on him no matter how small or ridiculous it makes them. They just DESPERATELY need something to hate on him.

I'm a fan.

 

[wire28]

"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?

thats why i never fukked with O'shea like that