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

[DrX]

kendrick is trying to walk the line....same with j cole.....u cant really be rebellious and corporate......it just doesn't work like that

 

[loyola llothta]

King of New York, why you ain't say you the king of LA? You from Compton, scared to death from them ese's cac's.

 

[DANJ!]

Know what's comedic as a muhfukka?

How does the militant contingent manage to be so critical of somethin' like KL saying 'what about black-on-black crime?' and also very in favor of 'anti-CAC' shyt...

BUT...

Y'all are basically doin' what 'CACs' love to see us do to each other, which is downtalk another black person who's makin' a major move on such a stage? The type of artist that woulda never even touched that stage 20-25 years ago, especially with the imagery that was depicted tonight... and now, y'all got a 15 page thread goin' over ONE LINE in a song. A lot of nikkas be the first to cut each other down even while claiming to be 'pro Black' at the SAME DAMN TIME.

 

[YakSpiller]

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

Says a guy online who never met or spoke to the nikka.

Credible MC?

Random ass nikka online says he is no credible MC, ok

 

[TheRtist]

call yourself a monkey on stage brehs

yet censor that you hate police

the plot thickens.

 

[Trey0'5Blue2Gz]

Send a message to who?

white people don’t see that unless you tell them whats going on. A bunch of black people breaking out of jail and dancing around a campfire comes off savage behavior to white people. Alright the song really has little to do with politics, it became that over time. He stripped way its political core. Without that, its just a song about the moment before suicide.

So to a white person, they saw a black man break out of jail and dance around a fire talking about re-thinking suicide....thats only IF they understood the meaning of the song.

Man stfu
If something so simple as a musical performance, with strong vivid visuals to capture even the smallest brain's attention. With strong lyrics, while speaking on a touchy subject on whitey's sacred musical stage. That to add to all that, everyone all over is speaking of how powerful of a performance Kendrick had, has to be explained?

Then you need to get your shyt together fool

 

[y que]

if anything he should have edited the line about him being the biggest hypocrite in 2015 to include 2016 as well

 

[YakSpiller]

Know what's comedic as a muhfukka?

How does the militant contingent manage to be so critical of somethin' like KL saying 'what about black-on-black crime?' and also very in favor of 'anti-CAC' shyt...

BUT...

Y'all are basically doin' what 'CACs' love to see us do to each other, which is downtalk another black person who's makin' a major move on such a stage? The type of artist that woulda never even touched that stage 20-25 years ago, especially with the imagery that was depicted tonight... and now, y'all got a 15 page thread goin' over ONE LINE in a song. A lot of nikkas be the first to cut each other down even while claiming to be 'pro Black' at the SAME DAMN TIME.

nikkas stay exposing they ass on here, shyt is hilarious.

 

[YakSpiller]

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

Just stop man.

 

[coupercoli]

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

He's always been about that peace, love and harmony, more than any rapper I can remember.

 

[YakSpiller]

How do you guys come to these conclusions about people and what they want w/o ever speaking or meeting that person.

 

[Kitsune]

yet censor that you hate police

the plot thickens.

police thing isn't even a issue for me, dude calling himself a proud monkey on live television in front of a majority white audience is where he fukked up

 

[TheRtist]

police thing isn't even a issue for me, dude calling himself a proud monkey on live television is where he fukked up

very true, I understand the context of it but the fact he is willing to say that yet omit "we hate po-po" smh has become smdfh

 

[DANJ!]

nikkas stay exposing they ass on here, shyt is hilarious.

Right... but they pro-Black tho'...

Whole time, not even realizing racist bigot ass white people like seein' us shyt on each other even more than they like fukkin' us up themselves.

Be mad at a nikka for not bein' "black enough" for your standards while thinkin' it's just 'CACs' against us, brehs.

 

[Izanami]

Kendrick had an opportunity to spread that message but dropped the ball censoring himself on a global stage.