Why did Kendrick play it safe with " We hate Po Po" line in Grammy performance?

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You can but why do you have to? Especially on an album that is specifically exploring the duality of Kendrick himself and his experience as a black man. I Just don't see how addressing his own hypocrisy = I threw this out there for the Taylor Swift crowd.
This is going nowhere....
 

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Not a fan of his and this was the first time I'm hearing this song :manny: Watched it on worldstar and said it was nice...I heard an edit but I'm not sure which line is supposed to be which. Maybe ya'll can have a look...

 

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the part that cbs cut is not even the line about the popo

he censored that himself and the line doesn't even have curse words, so it was completely unnecessary move on his part

frauuuudulent

exactly.smh

& like I said, he had no problem saying it on BET.
 

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as a kendrick fan for about 7 years
my respect for the nikka keeps fading away
gotta separate the music from the man, he aint really about that life unapologetically like NWA, Pac, Public enemy

like another poster said he wanna be pac without the stigma, playin it safe

the brutal honesty passion and no fukks given attitude pac had Kendrick doesn't and never will posses

he's scared, he wants to please both sides but it dont work that way like he halfway pro black or sum shyt

i been seen the light for a while now, dude aint a revolutionary or a rebel in any sense

and neither is j snore lame ass

they both are sub par artists in an era where there is literally no competition for them in that lane

sadly most in my age group think their the saviors or some shyt

GKMC and OD still two of my favorite albums of all time but i cant respect breh the same way now, i cant respect a coward
 

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All you Kendrick haters in here, maaan...if not Kendrick, who? :smh:

Who will please y'all?

"He's a fraud"

What do you want from him? Would you rather see Future and Young Thug up there looking like buffoons?

At least he is repping hip-hop respectfully, but I guess y'all want clowns up there dancing for your enjoyment.

:mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls:
 

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All you Kendrick haters in here, maaan...if not Kendrick, who? :smh:

Who will please y'all?

"He's a fraud"

What do you want from him? Would you rather see Future and Young Thug up there looking like buffoons?

At least he is repping hip-hop respectfully, but I guess y'all want clowns up there dancing for your enjoyment.

:mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls::mjpls:

we just want to see an artist perform the lyrics he wrote.

is that too much to ask?
 

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hes not a credible as a militant/conscious artist

and on top of that he aint even a credible MC with dudes dissing him left/right and no answer

this dude is soft and cowardly as shyt
 

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as a kendrick fan for about 7 years
my respect for the nikka keeps fading away
gotta separate the music from the man, he aint really about that life unapologetically like NWA, Pac, Public enemy

like another poster said he wanna be pac without the stigma, playin it safe

the brutal honesty passion and no fukks given attitude pac had Kendrick doesn't and never will posses

he's scared, he wants to please both sides but it dont work that way like he halfway pro black or sum shyt

i been seen the light for a while now, dude aint a revolutionary or a rebel in any sense

and neither is j snore lame ass

they both are sub par artists in an era where there is literally no competition for them in that lane

sadly most in my age group think their the saviors or some shyt

GKMC and OD still two of my favorite albums of all time but i cant respect breh the same way now, i cant respect a coward
I fukk with Kendrick but man it hurts seeing this dude tow that middle line between self preservation and minority representation. Pick a side cause it looks like you're just pimping the people that don't have shyt
 

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d'angelo, all the actual real conscious artists that came before him, etc.

there are plenty of legit conscious artists out there. they just dont matter cuz there is no machine behind them.
 
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