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

[Matt504]

 

[hatechall]

meh

 

[Flight]

Alright song. In regards to the last line..maybe I'm viewing things different but a kid from Compton who's likely seen gangs do damage to his friends and etc saying what he said is different than respectability politics.

 

[hatechall]

Nother reason I can't jump on the bandwagon. nikka c00ns for his white fan base

 

[Redwing80]

Yeah this shyt fire

 

[Kitsch]

Knew it would happen.

 

[DaChampIsHere]

I said senseless loss of life when you cause senseless loss of life.

Actually, no you didn't. This is what you said:

"You can't be sad about random loss of life when you engage in life loss on a regular basis. ."

You even made sure to qualify the first instance as random and not the 2nd one. You qualified it yourself.

I have my feelings about it too breh. Doesn't make what you're saying logical or even humanly and emotionally possible/credible. Just some good internet rhetoric for daps and such.

I see war as senseless, but I also recognize life for what it is. The military in itself is a trap for people who don't feel their life if worth much or because they are in a hard place. No one goes to war for glory or requirement anymore. Those people killing in Iraq have the same root of hopelessness that people in the hood have (which is no surprise when you see how the military preys on lower income black communities). They are just willing to sacrifice their life for money while others may chose other activities/jobs for money.

Fortunately, a lot of those same veterans are given ample amounts of support when they come home after they have sold their mind, body, and soul to the government. Amounts of support not given in the poorer areas where they draw these same men from. This shyt is a psychology and a SYSTEM. When we start placing emphasis on the people (ie. gang members, black on black crime) and not on the system in which they live in, we get away from the problems of why these "senseless" killings happen in the first place, in Compton or in Iraq.

 

[MostHatedBox]

Uh oh Kendrick got the haters typing dozens of messages off of one line.

 

[MostHatedBox]

Nother reason I can't jump on the bandwagon. nikka c00ns for his white fan base

Explain how this song is for a white fan base.

 

[King Biko]

The more I think about it, the sentiment of this song is really the dumbest most disgusting shyt I've heard. He's basically saying we shouldn't get mad about being racial discriminated against, being murdered without cause because there's Black on Black violence too.

Kendrick is a fukking moron. Can we have a race draft? You whites can have him. I'd rather have Iggy than this goof.

That's not what he's saying at all. What song did you listen to my nikka??

 

[FrederickDouglas]

Damn.

Got me looking at the whole song differently.

"I'm a proud monkey"

 

[Kaypain]

Damn.

Got me looking at the whole song differently.

"I'm a proud monkey"

What do white people call us?

 

[hatechall]

Explain how this song is for a white fan base.

The line about Trayvon. White people love to bring up black on black crime to avoid talking about systematic racism against blacks. That line there was for his white fans, similar to his comments in that billboard interview or whatever it was.

 

[Kaypain]

The line about Trayvon. White people love to bring up black on black crime to avoid talking about systematic racism against blacks. That line there was for his white fans, similar to his comments in that billboard interview or whatever it was.

can't sanction this buffonery anymore brehs

 

[FrederickDouglas]

What do white people call us?

There's no need to validate what white people call us or try to give it a positive connotation, my nikka