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

[Poitier]

Cacs about to be

 

[SpacelySprockets]

What a retarded line

Let me or anyone else have said that bullshyt on the coli and I wouldve gotten negged to oblivion but Kendrick said it in a song so it must be genius and thought provoking

 

[T-K-G]

had to do something to make up for the bullshyt he been sayin in interviews

 

[WhoShotCha]

King Kendrick

I can already tell this album gon ruffle some feathers, but its gonna be so beautiful they gon be forced to fukk with it

 

[M. Delorean]

Fire!!!!

 

[ikbm]

BUMBA CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

 

[Versa]

Logic in October

KRIT in October

Cole in December

Lupe in January

Joey Bada$$ in January

Wale this March

Kendrick coming soon.

Hip Hop been real good to me. Don't anticipate that changing

 

[Still FloW]

KING KENDRICK SEASON !!!!

 

[Piff Perkins]

anyone else think that last verse is about gang culture?

 

[bigmac]

Yall really rocking with this?

Dude coulda dropped four minutes of the wind blowing and Yall woulda eaten it up. Keep it a buck, this ain't as hot as Yall making out.

 

[FrederickDouglas]

I'm blacker than the heart of an Aryan

It's a damn shame the nikka spit some shyt like this and then reverted to "what about black on black crime?"

 

[GilSho]

Shoutout to my real Africans.

 

[Dwight Howard]

5/5

 

[iliketurtles]

Racc00n is a class A c00n and will never be better than his daddy Drake

 

[The Real]

"Why did I weep when Trayon Martin was in the street when gang bangin made me kill a nikka blacker than me, hypocrite!"

Gtfoh with that shyt

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. I think people are missing that doing two contradictory things that make you a hypocrite does NOT mean those two things have moral or any other kind of complete equivalence.

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.