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

[Cladyclad]

Because it would've been about that one line and not the whole performance.
Also these artists making a stand at award shows is just for publicity at this point.

Then why perform that song? Just do another one

 

[brother walt]

White devils show yourself yall love hiding behind a keyboard and kendrick is a hoe for not saying that line thats why the damn song so powerful but watever cant exspect rhese c00n ass rppers to do shyt good performance tho

 

[Capitol]

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 too

PLENTY of people have asked him

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

People really defending K Dot leaving one of the most powerful and important lines of the song out of the most important performance of his career

Ya'll gotta stop it. You can love Kendrick and tell the truth at the same time brehs. We grown men and women here.

trying too hard breh..CBS censored that part out

 

[samtalksradio]

I knew Koondrick was on that fake black powers shyt I knew this nikka didn't have the heart to be preaching that black power shyt in this nikka want to be like Pac? Weak ass nikka mane. I guess Koondrick has choose his side.

 

[Insensitive]

In this thread all I see is a bunch of never been's and psuedo intellects who aren't
and never will be with the shyts. Posting from their cubicles talking about
"The Revolution" while they clock in beside their white coworkers and work
for a white boss., fukk outta here.

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

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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.

I see what people are talking about now, I don't know if he self censored, I think he flubbed a line to be honest.
And repeated the bar twice.

I might be off, I've only watched the performance once.

 

[Kaypain]

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

When will you corny ass cacs masquerading as nikkas gonna realized that your how irrelevant your 19 page of faux outrage don't mean shyt outside this sub forum?

The real world got the fukking message he was displaying. shyt is corny as fukk

 

[mr.africa]

thank god i didn't watch that award show or give a fukk about it!!!

 

[KwamePiesie]

the grammy award show or any other award show was never intented for black folk.
in that light kendrick shouldve kept the lyrics.
BUT to slander the bredren after a "mike jackson motown 25 type performance" is sad bredren.
it wasnt even about the performance alone. the images that he presented were strong and powerful.
its sad that this will go to waste.

edit:

i see you cac agents. and im putting cases on all you bytches

 

[The God Poster]

Like I said, what's your point?

Drake stays in his lane.

Nice try trying to obfuscate the real issue though -- which is Kendrick's hypocrisy and insincerity.

My point was this is a hip hop message board & I asked a simply question. You don't wanna answer because you would have to criticize your hero. You a Canadian female who will never know a black man in America's plight. Probally one of these nikkas alias So take that divisive "divide & conquer" tactic somewhere else

 

[Ukbrotha]

It looked like it was censored. He didnt take the line out.

 

[SirBiatch]

Like I said, what's your point?

Drake stays in his lane.

Nice try trying to obfuscate the real issue though -- which is Kendrick's hypocrisy and insincerity.

Don't use the word 'obfuscate'. You'll lose these duckworths.

 

[BOXINGGEMS]

I got love for this forum. I got respect for some of y'all criticisms and perspective on most things. But I highly doubt the majority of y'all actually socialize in black society. And lets keep it a hunnid, most of y'all lack the courage to speak how you truly feel in front of white people. So lets stop the fake outrage and criticism.

The message was of Black empowerment and pride. If you want to nitpick at a line about a cop in a verse shytting on white society then you don't even understand white supremacy and you missed the entire point.

 

[onelastdeath]

This is why I hate y'all nikkas. I love being black more than anything in the world, but this divisiveness is the shyt that I hate.

The nikka got nominated for SOTY for that song. So clearly, fukking clearly everyone already knows the lyric.

Second of all. I can't even remember the last time something so black and so powerful was performed on the Grammys infront of a international television audience on the biggest night in music.

After all that, you nikkas are in here bickering like women because he left out one line out of dozens and dozens of lines and a visual that surely gives weight to the term "action speaks louder than words"


And y'all nikkas in here complaining about a line? When he talked about Trayvon and everything else? Shameful

Truth is. Y'all don't want a nikka speaking that shyt. Truth is it makes y'all as uncomfortable as it makes whites. They got y'all nikkas so programmed to hate anything and everything that nikkas do

Y'all think it's a coincidence that there's a 20 page thread here, not talking about his performance, but a fukking line he left out? That y'all nitpick that one line instead of appreciating the performance as a whole? 6 minutes of that black shyt. nikka went up there infront of a nation of racist ass white people and did us a service and y'all in here bytching.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. "Koondrick" and all this other fukk shyt. This is a kid from Compton who at the very least is trying to make a change, and once again in this thread like in the world we see that white people aren't the only people in the way of blacks. It's the truth.

nikkas in here complaining about that and have done little to zero work for the community.

Hate some of you nikkas. And I mean that

 

[Wild self]

shyt On Kendrick because he didn't say a line. Yet rep an artist that promotes drug addiction, violence, and the feminization of young blk males.... troll on

B b bu but Kendrick doesn't have the streets. That drug shyt is what real nikkas do to get hoes in the club. You don't socialize enough.