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

[JayGatsby]

He stated that he wept for Trayvon as a senseless loss of black life. He didn't know him personally, he wasn't family, but because he was a young black man who lost his life possibly because of the darkness of his skin, it made Kendrick emotional to cry.

With that though comes the reflection Kendrick has of his own hypocrisy. He's caused the senseless loss of black life through his own involvement in gang affiliation. And when he did so he didn't care about the persons skin color even though they were darker than him. So what gives him the gall to cry over black life when he's committed the same sin?

THAT is the hypocrisy he's speaking of. You can't as a black man celebrate and mourn black life when you've spent time executing black men on your own for no reason.

Questions?

perfect breakdown

how people still find it hard to understand

 

[UserNameless]

those drums tho...


...the fukk my African using to get that crispy fullness?


... sounds like he timed warped back into the early 90s and stole Pete Rock's drum kit, and put that shyt in HD


Well crafted track, and I don't even fukk with K Dot like that. One of the few tracks he's made that has some replay value for me.

 

[Digga38]

He stated that he wept for Trayvon as a senseless loss of black life. He didn't know him personally, he wasn't family, but because he was a young black man who lost his life possibly because of the darkness of his skin, it made Kendrick emotional to cry.

With that though comes the reflection Kendrick has of his own hypocrisy. He's caused the senseless loss of black life through his own involvement in gang affiliation. And when he did so he didn't care about the persons skin color even though they were darker than him. So what gives him the gall to cry over black life when he's committed the same sin?

THAT is the hypocrisy he's speaking of. You can't as a black man celebrate and mourn black life when you've spent time executing black men on your own for no reason.

Questions?

 

[Digga38]

this guy gets it. The Coli calls so many people c00ns that they've forgotten what c00n behavior actually is.

yup i call them c00ns for it 2...they just get the mods on me and blocked from threads.....the man got the negro mind so distorted its unbelievable

 

[AV Dicey]

don't know how to feel about this song. I like K Dot but is song is soft c00nin. He said alot of Black stereotypes, and deflected the Trayvon Martin issue with the Black on Black crime shyt.
First off if you are a black man and they believe you killed someone it's not going to take them months just to arrest you. Black people talk about violence in our communities all the time, so people need to stop with this narrative that we don't. I'm disappointed that Kendrick is coming with these White Supremacist talking points in his music.
I must be in a alternate universe or something because Kendrick is spittin c00n shyt and Waka Flocka is spittin real shyt

At least he got you thinking, what other mainstream rapper is doing that nowadays? You can bet this is gonna be the talk of the day, both for and against will be argued vehemently, what other mainstream rapper is doing that nowadays? You can call it the socratic method of spitting hot 16's

 

[Insensitive]

Wrote a whole verse with a similar idea.
Kendrick on the same page as the young god.

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

don't know how to feel about this song. I like K Dot but is song is soft c00nin. He said alot of Black stereotypes, and deflected the Trayvon Martin issue with the Black on Black crime shyt.
First off if you are a black man and they believe you killed someone it's not going to take them months just to arrest you. Black people talk about violence in our communities all the time, so people need to stop with this narrative that we don't. I'm disappointed that Kendrick is coming with these White Supremacist talking points in his music.
I must be in a alternate universe or something because Kendrick is spittin c00n shyt and Waka Flocka is spittin real shyt

Great post. This guy gets it. Kendrick Lamar showing to be WAY over his head as a voice of a generation. Almost amateurish in what he's doing.

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

At least he got you thinking, what other mainstream rapper is doing that nowadays? You can bet this is gonna be the talk of the day, both for and against will be argued vehemently, what other mainstream rapper is doing that nowadays? You can call it the socratic method of spitting hot 16's

What are you talking about? The only interest this track will generate is the same amount of interest it would have generated if he was talking about anything else. He has an anticipated album coming out. Duuh...

 

[MartyMcFly]

perfect breakdown

how people still find it hard to understand

Shyt is really confusing

 

[just4purpose]

FIRE!!! Can't wait to bump this in the whip!

 

[ATLien]

3rd verse is ..."hypocrite"

 

[jaydolf spitler]

at the low IQ of a lot of people on this site. One person has some fukked up interpretation in a thread and it always turns out a shyt ton of people echo the same shyt and more times than not, it's a dumbass post.

Should be ashamed of yourselves. So far this year I've seen people call Common a c00n for one line in a very humanistic and inspiring speech, people saying they weren't feeling Cole's Letterman performance cuz they 'didn't like the singing', now y'all twisting this line and making it whatever you want it to be to call him a c00n and write off the song.

all of y'all contributing to this dumb shyt can

 

[IVS]

Meh! Beat is dope tho.

 

[Atlboss]

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.

Perfectly said

 

[head shots101]

This is hard.... Don't really fukk with young boy shyt....this tuff tho

Reading the comments in here song went over y'all dudes heads .....shyt is not hard to understand