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

[y que]

all i know is we were promised a controversial performance earlier in the day and the only controversy is kendrick censoring himself


where are all the fake militants that were all hyped up in that other thread earlier

 

[DerrtySouthpaw]

nobody outside the coli gives a single fukk about this out of that whole performance

 

[Cadillac]

Cant even critize this guy without being called a crab

Kendrick fans r like lebron fans

 

[bouncy]

all i know is we were promised a controversial performance earlier in the day and the only controversy is kendrick censoring himself


where are all the fake militants that were all hyped up in that other thread earlier

Are you serious?

His performance was pure blackness, which angers a lot of people. Why do you think Beyonce's performance was criticized? It was because she expressed her love for being black, and black panthers. That is not liked within this society in general. It's intertwined in this society to downplay who you are, and praise white, in some sort of way. To be black is to be total opposite of that. That's why they got crazy about Beyonce, she said she loved who she is, and where she comes from. Kendrick basically did the same thing, he just went straight to Africa, and not just in America like Beyonce did.

Why do you think when he ended his performance it had Compton written over the African continent? It was to say I'm proud of being black, and where I come from. Why do you think he started with "blacker the berry"?

shyt went over Your heads

 

[Airtrack360]

I'm not big in current hip hop and I don't pretend to be but if your trying to get a message across to an audience that would otherwise not be exposed to you, is it really that blasphemous to keep the focus on the message at the cost of a lyric?
That performance wasnt aimed at us. But now we are here talking about him cutting the lyric out and not about the actual song. Which I'm sure is fine with him because it beats the alternative of them talking about a lyric and not the message in the actual song.

An individual with a message doesn't mean shyt to an audience that won't listen.
And a "we hate popo" line would of turned people's ears off right then and there.

There's more to the song than that one line. But don't kid yourself into thinking that they wouldn't have made it into anything but that one line if he had said it.

Anyway that's my 2 cents on it.

 

[Blessings]

We're talking bout 'what about black on black crime'....'Taylor can I get a feature'...'Adele please shout me out'
Kendrick is just another vulture trying to play it safe

 

[Black Ball]

I'm not big in current hip hop and I don't pretend to be but if your trying to get a message across to an audience that would otherwise not be exposed to you, is it really that blasphemous to keep the focus on the message at the cost of a lyric?
That performance wasnt aimed at us. But now we are here talking about him cutting the lyric out and not about the actual song. Which I'm sure is fine with him because it beats the alternative of them talking about a lyric and not the message in the actual song.

An individual with a message doesn't mean shyt to an audience that won't listen.
And a "we hate popo" line would of turned people's ears off right then and there.

There's more to the song than that one line. But don't kid yourself into thinking that they wouldn't have made it into anything but that one line if he had said it.

Anyway that's my 2 cents on it.

The line has context though. "and we hate popo, wanna kill us dead in the street fa sho"

Given the climate in this country, the liberal whites would've ate that shyt up. Covering the line up, just draws attention to it's omission.

shyt would not have been that big of a deal at all.

 

[y que]

Are you serious?

His performance was pure blackness, which angers a lot of people. Why do you think Beyonce's performance was criticized? It was because she expressed her love for being black, and black panthers. That is not liked within this society in general. It's intertwined in this society to downplay who you are, and praise white, in some sort of way. To be black is to be total opposite of that. That's why they got crazy about Beyonce, she said she loved who she is, and where she comes from. Kendrick basically did the same thing, he just went straight to Africa, and not just in America like Beyonce did.

Why do you think when he ended his performance it had Compton written over the African continent? It was to say I'm proud of being black, and where I come from. Why do you think he started with "blacker the berry"?

shyt went over Your heads

lol beyonce huh

you really expect me to take you serious mentioning beyonce

another one jumping on blacks are nothing but victims bandwagon

stop being a victim

nothing empowering about censoring your own art to pander for an award they just ended up giving to a white girl lol

 

[Uncle Kendrick]

Yup this site has been infiltrated by cacs hello agents

 

[Nomad1]

All i see is Pac this and Pac that... yet pac was a contradictory ass nikka, that died trying to be a 25 year old gang banger.

Kendrick is way more consistent than Tupac ever was. And Pac is my Goat.

duckworth was afraid of saying death to po po

"fukk all you crackaz"

 

[luckyse7enz]

For the folks that seem confused and are thinking like people in the earlier posts were, let me help a little:

Instead of:

nikka, and we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho
nikka, I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon' be alright

Kendrick (during the performance) said:
I'm at the preacher's door
Wannakillemdead at the preacher's door
We said give em' some more, this one time....for sure
We gon' be alright.

The line that CBS blanked in the 2nd verse was just the part where he says:

Diggin' in my pocket, ain't a profit big enough to feed you

Which might have been a slip if we look at award shows & their history of being quick on the censor, but he definitely self-censored the "Po-Po" and "Gun might blow" lines out.

So there you go.

Sidenote, but the Migos flow works well with the chick that was rapping in that Hamilton Musical. They went in.

 

[BasketCase]

Real nikkas knew he was a fraud from the get-go.

 

[NoMayo15]

I'm not big in current hip hop and I don't pretend to be but if your trying to get a message across to an audience that would otherwise not be exposed to you, is it really that blasphemous to keep the focus on the message at the cost of a lyric?
That performance wasnt aimed at us. But now we are here talking about him cutting the lyric out and not about the actual song. Which I'm sure is fine with him because it beats the alternative of them talking about a lyric and not the message in the actual song.

An individual with a message doesn't mean shyt to an audience that won't listen.
And a "we hate popo" line would of turned people's ears off right then and there.

There's more to the song than that one line. But don't kid yourself into thinking that they wouldn't have made it into anything but that one line if he had said it.

Anyway that's my 2 cents on it.

But he performed The Blacker the Berry before hand. With lyrics like:

You never liked us anyway, fukk your friendship, I meant it
I'm African-American, I'm African......

My hair is nappy, my dikk is big, my nose is round and wide
You hate me don't you? You hate my people
Your plan is to terminate my culture, you're fukkin' evil....

This wouldn't turn off the audience's ears?? To be told directly to their face they hate black people and are evil? Well you said you don't listen to hip-hop, but there's a lot he could have censored if he didn't want to offend the sensibilities of that audience.

It's sort of hard to tell if he truly self-censored here, though it's very hard to believe he just happened to butcher a particularly controversial line. People will interpret a piece of art in different ways, and if he did purposely alter the line, he changed the initial message he meant to convey when he wrote the song. They might have been spared being uncomfortable about hearing the line, but now here we are talking about his omission anyway, so dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. But although it does irk me that he chose to self-censor, I wouldn't take it so far to say he's less of a man for doing so. I don't think he needed to, but I understand why he did it.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Dude approaching 30 and he doesn't even have the backbone to stand behind words that he wrote. Same shyt with those wimpy interviews about not wanting to get political questions about a politically charged album


Don't write it or perform it if you're a punk about saying it


And his stans are in here acting like he would've been doing us a favor for speaking up, as if he's not black too

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

All i see is Pac this and Pac that... yet pac was a contradictory ass nikka, that died trying to be a 25 year old gang banger.

Kendrick is way more consistent than Tupac ever was. And Pac is my Goat.

TPAB was basically a Pac shrine on wax, but you're trying to throw shots to shield criticism of a stan who annoited himself and jumped up on that pedestal when no one asked him to