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

[AAKing23]

Let cacs on Youtube tell you what rap is about like he's the artist brehs

 

[Matt504]

Let cacs on Youtube tell you what rap is about like he's the artist brehs

Those cacs are doing the same thing we're in here doing, having a discussion about what the lyrics might mean.

 

[AAKing23]

Those cacs are doing the same thing we're in here doing, having a discussion about what the lyrics might mean.

Why do you care about their opinons?? We still listening to white people in 2015

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Tupac-white man'z world



Remember that, in this white man's world, they can't stop us
We've been here all this time they ain't took us out
They can never take us out
No matter what they say, about us bein extinct
About us being endangered species, we ain't NEVER gon' leave this
We ain't never gon' walk off this planet, unless Y'ALL choose to
Use your brain, use your brain
It ain't them that's killin us it's US that's killin us
It ain't them that's knockin us off, it's US that's knockin us off
I'm tellin you better watch it, or be a victim
Be a victim, in this white man's world.. born black, in this white man's world, no doubt
And it's dedicated to my motherfukkin teachers
Mutulu Shakur, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu Jamal
Sekou Odinga, all the real O.G.'s, we out

Well,I guess PAC is a c00n now too

 

[TheGregReaper]

All the different WOAT posters from all the different rooms is in here just WOAT'n away

Y'all deserve them titles :mjtubby:

 

[DaChampIsHere]

Why would this strike fear into white people?

He calls himself a monkey and says black are hypocrites for complaining about our children being killed.

Sounds like white people should love this shyt.

Am I missing something?

I have not run across one white person mad about this song. I saw a lot of my white associates actually liked the song alot and many have been re-posting that last line as their claim to fame or something.

If anything a lot of them start off mad at first and then get their recompensed victory at the end.

This is what great music is supposed to do. It sparks up debates. Even though everyone is not on the same page with each other on how they feel about some of the lyrics on this song, at least this song has got people thinking.

Kendrick

Edit: And this guy Boi-1da is an exceptional producer. The jazzy bridge at the end of this song is simply phenomenal!

Can't front. The discussion has me excited to hear how he forms the story of the album around this even if I do disagree. The perspective is interesting.

 

[DaChampIsHere]

Tupac-white man'z world



Remember that, in this white man's world, they can't stop us
We've been here all this time they ain't took us out
They can never take us out
No matter what they say, about us bein extinct
About us being endangered species, we ain't NEVER gon' leave this
We ain't never gon' walk off this planet, unless Y'ALL choose to
Use your brain, use your brain
It ain't them that's killin us it's US that's killin us
It ain't them that's knockin us off, it's US that's knockin us off
I'm tellin you better watch it, or be a victim
Be a victim, in this white man's world.. born black, in this white man's world, no doubt
And it's dedicated to my motherfukkin teachers
Mutulu Shakur, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu Jamal
Sekou Odinga, all the real O.G.'s, we out

You are referencing this whole part wrong and out of context. Post the whole song!

Pac is speaking about a system the whole song. He explicitly states how he feels about the gangsters and acknowledges that they are only a product of their environment and are otherwise good people who are driven by circumstance, not hate or lack of love.

"Hoping they bury me with ammunitions, weed, and shells
Just in case they trip in heaven - ain't no G's in hell"

"Only thing they ever did wrong
Was bein' born black, in this white man's world"

"Proud to be black but why we act like we don't love ourselves
Don't look around busta (you sucka) check yourselves"

The whole song acknowledges circumstance's role in affecting otherwise good people.

 

[Kitsch]

The lengths people will go to defend their favourite rapper.

 

[Hood Critic]

No matter how you feel about it or analyze it, it's thought provoking....and that's the point!

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

No matter how you feel about it or analyze it, it's thought provoking....and that's the point!

it's not

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

You are referencing this whole part wrong and out of context. Post the whole song!

Pac is speaking about a system the whole song. He explicitly states how he feels about the gangsters and acknowledges that they are only a product of their environment and are otherwise good people who are driven by circumstance, not hate or lack of love.

"Hoping they bury me with ammunitions, weed, and shells
Just in case they trip in heaven - ain't no G's in hell"

"Only thing they ever did wrong
Was bein' born black, in this white man's world"

"Proud to be black but why we act like we don't love ourselves
Don't look around busta (you sucka) check yourselves"

The whole song acknowledges circumstance's role in affecting otherwise good people.

Kendrick is talking about "the system" in the first two verses........

 

[Hood Critic]

You can't say that black lives matter but only be mad when the taker of those lives isn't black. That's called being a hypocrite.

 

[AAKing23]

Finally some music cacs can't bump Some powerful dark shyt for my soul

 

[Adidacs]

it's not

57 pages says otherwise.

 

[Adam3000]

Finally some music cacs can't bump Some powerful dark shyt for my soul

Yeah man, CACs are running scared

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17322-kendrick-lamar-the-blacker-the-berry/

“You hate me don’t you? I know you hate me as much as you hate yourself.” Kendrick Lamar’s first major statement since he released “i” in September is as fierce and discordant as that song was naïve and sweet. But both are flip sides of the same coin—the issue of self-love. It is clearer than ever, as his follow-up to good kid, m.A.A.d city takes shape in public, that Kendrick considers self-love—it’s absence, its persistence even in the face of overwhelming societal discouragement—his great subject, the reason he’s rapping. “i” was the song that gazed at the clouds, that looked deep within for reasons to love oneself. “The Blacker the Berry” balefully surveys world around him.
It begins with a loop, dark and bleary, more Enter The Wu-Tang than Aquemini. His recitation of “blacker the berry, sweeter the juice” instantly brings to mind 2Pac’s “Keep Ya Head Up”, but just as in 2Pac’s song, the line has a wistful, even wishful ring. His voice is angry, ragged, his delivery pitched between near-scream and near-sob, but his words are clear and diamond-cut: “Gangbanging got me killing a nikka blacker than me, hypocrite.”
It’s a performance of abandonment, and part of how it flattens you is with control and discipline: His cadence runs roughshod over the beat, hitting it the way a sprinting foot hits pavement—at angles, irregularly, and with a painful muscle-twisting sense of urgency. His lines cut through everything, abandoning his occasional tendency to fill up lines with melodious filler syllables: “I mean, it’s evident that I’m irrelevant to society/ That’s what you’re telling me, penitentiary would only hire me.” It might be his most focused and upsetting performance, evoking not just the Pac of “Keep Ya Head Up” but the righteous firebreather of “Holler If Ya Hear Me”. We’re listening.