Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry (Prod. by Boi-1da)
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Piff Perkins
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nikkas really don't fukk with "i" tho?
It's aite. But not what most people wanted or expected. Honestly I wish they took the track to someone else and asked to funk it up more. Yea it's an Isley Brothers track and thus funky but they remade the track and made it sound so...clean. Whereas the live version of it sounds dope as hell...
sounds WAY better. The back up vocals, the Marvin Gaye style conversational adlibs from the musicians...just dope.
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
I know kanye is performing at the snl event Sunday is kendrick as well 
Adam3000
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Its sounds better on SNL because he doesn't use a ridiculous voice filter that makes him sound stupid
That seriously is my only problem with the song. But it is an unforgivable problem. It makes the song annoying and unlistenable.
And I loved most of the voice filters on GKMC. Can't fukk with this one though.
Hmm. Who knows what they have in mind for Kendrick. He IS on a major now. They play a lot of mental gymnastics.
We have to quit turning to t/v, radio, grammys
to justify what's popping.Why is a small percentage of people allowed to tell us what's popular and successful. That comes from us. We're the power, we're the people.
HipHop was/is always about revolution, it's backwards to be praising these establishments in a sense.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Another great article on the song
Being Real Black for You: Who Kendrick Lamar Is Rapping to on ‘The Blacker the Berry’
http://grantland.com/hollywood-pros...lamar-is-rapping-to-on-the-blacker-the-berry/
also
I don't think actual militants post here. We just have a bunch of reactionaries who don't seem like they've read a lot of black literature. Kendrick expressing anger with portions of his community does not equal responsibility politics.
Being Real Black for You: Who Kendrick Lamar Is Rapping to on ‘The Blacker the Berry’
http://grantland.com/hollywood-pros...lamar-is-rapping-to-on-the-blacker-the-berry/
also
I don't think actual militants post here. We just have a bunch of reactionaries who don't seem like they've read a lot of black literature. Kendrick expressing anger with portions of his community does not equal responsibility politics.
JMurder
SOHH Member since 01...
I might be crazy...but I sometimes think some of our own choose to remain ignorant under the guise of being black militant so we can't move forward.
Its funny the only articles y'all deem as "great" are those that agree with you.
The point y'all keep missing is that yes there's nothing wrong with expressing anger with our community and trying to inspire change. Its when you conflate that idea with racial violence/oppression that it becomes responsibility politics.
And you can miss me with your little rant about miltants. Its obvious y'all are just super fans of Kendrick and will defend him at every turn.
I already posted the tweets in context, Coates doesn't agree with those last 4 bars (he chalked it up to him being an artist).
Not Crodie
All Star
a lot of authors commenting this song saying kednrick is king (we already know that though)
Could these two babies
end up being
on the album?
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Pretty sure he didn't say he "disagreed" with the lines, he said he understood the anger and also argued as long as such views don't enter the policy realm they're fine.
You are correct, he didn't explicitly say he disagreed. My bad, he said the following:
Haven't read through the whole thread but those last few bars really aren't a stance that hasn't been mentioned by rappers before.
Cube was making the same sentiments on "Us" back in 91.
[Verse 2]
And all y'all dope-dealers...
You're as bad as the po-lice- cause ya kill us
You got rich when you started slangin' dope
But you ain't built us a supermarket
So when can spend our money with the blacks
Too busy buyin' gold an' Cadillacs
That's what ya doin' with the money that ya raisin'
Exploitin' us like the Caucasians did
For 400 years -I got 400 tears- for 400 peers
Died last year from gang-related crimes
That's why I got gang-related rhymes
But when I do a show ta kick some facts
Us Blacks don't know how ta act
Sometimes I believe the hype, man
We mess it up ourselves and blame the white man
But don't point the finger you jiggaboo
Take a look at yourself ya dumb nikka you
Pretty soon hip-hop won't be so nice
No Ice Cube, just Vanilla Ice
And yall sit and scream and cuss
But there's no one ta blame- but US
Cube was making the same sentiments on "Us" back in 91.
[Verse 2]
And all y'all dope-dealers...
You're as bad as the po-lice- cause ya kill us
You got rich when you started slangin' dope
But you ain't built us a supermarket
So when can spend our money with the blacks
Too busy buyin' gold an' Cadillacs
That's what ya doin' with the money that ya raisin'
Exploitin' us like the Caucasians did
For 400 years -I got 400 tears- for 400 peers
Died last year from gang-related crimes
That's why I got gang-related rhymes
But when I do a show ta kick some facts
Us Blacks don't know how ta act
Sometimes I believe the hype, man
We mess it up ourselves and blame the white man
But don't point the finger you jiggaboo
Take a look at yourself ya dumb nikka you
Pretty soon hip-hop won't be so nice
No Ice Cube, just Vanilla Ice
And yall sit and scream and cuss
But there's no one ta blame- but US
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