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

[Master Teacher]

Why does the first question matter and why are you asking the second question when I already laid the answer out for you?


And here is where you show your inability to comprehend analogies. Life is life. Maybe Trayvon didn't need to die the same way nikkas who gang bang don't need to systematically kill each other off.

And I'm trying to figure out why you feel the need to continuously bring up a perspective about "how people feel" when the discussion and explanation originates in how Kendrick feels. It makes no sense, and it's clear that his line makes no sense to you because you're reaching for topics to explain that weren't meant to be there.


Are you the gang member spokesperson? There some sort of gang union I don't know about? Let's keep the rhetoric out of the discussion. It doesn't help your case.



That's hypocrisy. You can't be sad about random loss of life when you engage in life loss on a regular basis. It doesn't matter if a person is engaged in your lifestyle or not.


Who outside of you is bringing up "the people outraged and protesting?"

If anyone is irresponsible, it's actually you

You call yourself Jmurder, you are the ultimate hypocrite

Why not, Gang banger has nothing to do with how Trayvon died

and also WHAT GANG BANGERS HAVE COME OUT RIDING FOR TRAYVON

Being in a gang is like joining army

so I guess soldier can't mourn injustice deaths because they killed people senseless on the battlefield

shut the fukk up

 

[Master Teacher]

Pretty bad interpretation for someone with a username like yours

nah you're just a fukking moron

The subject of the last par was a gang banger
you see in English sentences have subject and predicate

Kendrick was speaking ass if he was gang banger being a hypocrite for weeping for Trayvon

which is moronic, because gang bangers are hypocrites when they mourn the death of other gang members, not a person who had nothing to do with that lifestyle

it's a dumb comparison

 

[jaydolf spitler]

Where did I say Kendrick said Trayvon was a gangbang

I said a GANGBANGER WOULD NOT BE A HYPOCRITE feeling Trayvon's death was unjust because Trayvon Martin WAS NOT A GANGBANGER

WHAT CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND

Gang Violence and what happened to Trayvon have nothing to do with each other

Nobody cried over Trayvon accept is fukking parents, people were outraged at the handling of the case which is a failure of justice

him saying this line is a DEFLECTION FROM THAT FACT

Everything else you stated has nothing to do with anything said, because you can't confront the truth, so you deflect as well

A gangbanger would be a hypocrite if he is condemning a man who killed another black male after he did the same I think you need to review what the word hypocrite means.

 

[Ski Mask]

Like said before, It wouldn't necessarily be hypocritical for a gang banger to mourn over trayvon, considering the main thing people mourned about him was that his image was tarnished and that his killer got away with it with praise and fortune.

 

[Master Teacher]

A gangbanger would be a hypocrite if he is condemning a man who killed another black male I think you need to review what the word hypocrite means.

The two parties that make the situation hypocritical are stricly the gangbanger and Zimmerman, not the gang banger and trayvon

The gang banger lives a lifestyle where it's killed or be killed

Trayvon doesn't

for them to feel sorry for Trayvon isn't hypocritical because he doesn't live that life

you fukking moron

If I smoke weed and then tell someone weed is bad for you, that's hypocritical, but doesn't change the fact that is true

Gang Bangers know what the do is wrong, but they accept the consequences

Also where are all these gang bangers rallying for Travyon, WHAT REALITY IS THIS

it's not real, that why its the "what about black on black crime" element

What Kendrick did was the same thing Obama did at the NAACP image words when he told a crowd of successful people who aren't entertainers
"We need more Doctor less rappers"

 

[Rapmastermind]

THEY'RE NOT CONNECTED AND THERE IS NO INTENTION OF CONNECTING THEM IN THE SONG, ONLY AN INDICATION OF HYPOCRISY OF A MAN PERFORMING THE SAME ACT HE CONDEMNS

and it's a talking point some conservative whites (there are white people who do not agree with how other white people use the phrase) and people with a media agenda to generate more viewers use to diminish our struggle. If you look closely you will find that Kendrick is not white and not using it with the same intentions

"So why did I weep when Travyon Died on the streets, When gang banger makes me killer a nikka blacker than Me"


He may be trying to talk from the "Gangbangers" perspective but the connection doesn't fly. Most of the people outraged about Trayvon Death aren't killing Black People in Gang Violence. So why even bring up Gangbangers like they are the ones LEADING the protest against Trayvon or Mike Brown's death? I understand people point that Kendrick isn't Bill O'relly or Fox News using "Talking Points", but he still used the same agruements they use all the time.

Geroldo Rivera said "Trayvon's Hoody is just as responsible for his death than George Zimmerman cause of Gang Culture". I understand that at the core he's trying to attack gang violence but the sametime he's trying to suck in the "Gang Culture" debate into a Black Empowerment song. Whenever blacks complain about Police Brutality, White Conservatives love to bring up the "Gang Culture" into the debate.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

Like said before, It wouldn't necessarily be hypocritical for a gang banger to mourn over trayvon, considering the main thing people mourned about him was that his image was tarnished and that his killer got away with it with praise and fortune.

 

[smARTmouf]

"Hating is the latest past time...If you're not feeling this? And wanna front like that's fine....
I'm not sure where you want hip hop to head, because THIS is the rapid peeks of an EKG after a flatline..."

-me

it's alive....

 

[Ski Mask]

So what is the main reason why people mourned trayvon? why all the protests?

 

[AkilinaArina]

So what he said about ferguson all makes sense now, I guess his own experiences being the one who perpetuates black on black crime is what propelled him to say the things that he said even though it was problematic. He needs to refrain from conflating what he does/did with all of black people when making statements though, however I do get and agree with the point that he's making about himself.

 

[Kaypain]

The gang banger lives a lifestyle where it's killed or be killed

Trayvon doesn't

for them to feel sorry for Trayvon isn't hypocritical because he doesn't live that life

you fukking moron

If I smoke weed and then tell someone weed is bad for you, that's hypocritical, but doesn't change the fact that is true

Gang Bangers know what the do is wrong, but they accept the consequences

Also where are all these gang bangers rallying for Travyon, WHAT REALITY IS THIS

it's not real, that why its the "what about black on black crime" element

What Kendrick did was the same thing Obama did at the NAACP image words when he told a crowd of successful people who aren't entertainers
"We need more Doctor less rappers"

Song isn't about the fukking "lifestyle" it's a bout black skin you simple ass nikka but you know what, carry on I'm done with you nikkas in The Booth

 

[Not Crodie]

my man elijah wood anticipating that new kednrick

 

[Not Crodie]

only on thecoli this line is a deal, thats the proof that the coli have a lot of IQ members

 

[neph27]

The system that necessitates gangs and bangers, the system that encourages black people to kill Black people, and he's pointing at the criminals, victims/creations of said system, and calling them hypocritics for fulfulling the role the system cast them as.

What solutions does he have for the hypocritical gang bangers besides "yall need to stop killing each other"?

Nothing can or will change until the system itself changes, the system is the diseases and the crime is a symptom, condemning the symptoms of a disease does NOTHING to cure the disease.

much of kendricks music focuses on this very subject....he's well aware that the system is the root of the problem. he's aware that they're fufilling the role the system cast them as. But you gotta think of the whole picture he's been painting here....hiiipower. being your own god. making your own pyramids/heirogypics...being in charge of your own history and destiny. being a good kid in a maad city, having the strength of character to overcome the barriers set in front of you. he's not saying it's easy or difficult but he's also talking about his personal struggle with it and how HE made it out, and getting people talking and maybe being inspired by him

this is music with so many levels....the depth of his discography is crafting a narrative and that narrative is resonating with people and it is divisive and conflicted just as all humans are....this is someone who said he killed someone at 16.

the solution he's been proposing his entire career is "turn inward" self actualization is a powerful tool and no it cannot always overcome there are so many things wrong with the system but it seemed to help guide him to this higher purpose and now he's looking to inspire others

im just glad music like this is made to get people talking. that's all.

 

[DaChampIsHere]

Song isn't about the fukking "lifestyle" it's a bout black skin

So why do all of you keep qualifying/justifying the last line by saying Kendrick is talking only about him and people of a certain lifestyle? Saying that if you aren't a gang member (a lifestyle), you shouldn't be mad? Saying that he's only talking about himself, not all blacks?

Is the song about all black people/skin or is about gangs and such? And if the song is about black skin, how does the last line relate besides Kendrick injecting his/whoever's sins into the story of ALL those with black skin?

I have never killed a black man so I personally don't appreciate Kendrick making a song about "black skin" (your words) and then injecting his degenerate activity as proxy of all black actions and morality and speaking about his/whoever's gang activity. You say it's a song about "black skin", but probably not even more than a 1% of black people have done the things Kendrick is talking about. It's not a fair line. That song does not represent me, most people on this board, or most black people.

The mental gymnastics people are doing to un-explain something that Kendrick explained to us about a month ago is giving "smart dumb nikka" vibes off.