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

[thatrapsfan]

I saw articles saying that CBS edited it out? Is this true?

False, watch the performance.

 

[GoldenGlove]

False, watch the performance.

I saw it live.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

People don't like Kendrick cause he faking. Plies is more conscious than Kendrick

 

[SirBiatch]

People don't like Kendrick cause he faking. Plies is more conscious than Kendrick

actually, it's because his music is trash. Trash voice, trash flow, weak beats and weak rhymes. Add 'fraud' on top of that and it's a crazy mixture.

 

[Ski Mask]

Some of you really need to learn to quit putting people on pedestals cause they occasionally say/rap something pro-black.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Beacuse he needs to tow the line between being militant enough to garner support from "conscious"'types, while also being safe enough to win Grammys.

It's been his MO since jump. Dude isn't authentic at all, or at least his career comes first before all the activism.

 

[DPresidential]

I might have to do a separate thread but I wrote on why we need to chill a little on demanding perfection from our artists TRYING to move the ball even a little.

The Malcolm in the Middle: What My Ultra Pro Black People Need to Know

Kendrick is trying, yall. What do yall want in these artists right now? To sacrifice a baby named "institutional racism" on stage? I love yall but we need more leeway.

 

[y que]

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

how is it more black and more powerful than anything else ever done at the grammys?

how is this more black than erykah badu or common or d'angelo or any other black performer ever in the history of awards shows

just because kendrick show black people in a weak state? dead, in jail, in chains, etc? and throws in some africa imagery when none of these people were born in africa?

that is not powerful or empowering whatsoever. thats depressing.

empowering is saying what you want and what needs to be said. and clearly he is afraid of the establishment. that is not empowering.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I might have to do a separate thread but I wrote on why we need to chill a little on demanding perfection from our artists TRYING to move the ball even a little.

The Malcolm in the Middle: What My Ultra Pro Black People Need to Know

Kendrick is trying, yall. What do yall want in these artists right now? To sacrifice a baby named "institutional racism" on stage? I love yall but we need more leeway.

Nah man. Real activism is unapologetic.

Kendricks activism is just savy marketing

 

[IWunD3r]

Beacuse he needs to tow the line between being militant enough to garner support from "conscious"'types, while also being safe enough to win Grammys.

It's been his MO since jump. Dude isn't authentic at all, or at least his career comes first before all the activism.

Dude is a fukking rapper, not an activist.
Id rather have him rap about what he raps about, then some senseless young thug future shyt.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Dude is a fukking rapper, not an activist.
Id rather have him rap about what he raps about, then some senseless young thug future shyt.

Thats fine, but the we have to acknowledge who/what he really is.

All this activism shyt is just a marketing plan, and it's working.

 

[Shadow King]

Honestly I rewatched the performance and as someone who's performed and forgotten lyrics it instinctually felt he flubbed his own shyt

 

[DPresidential]

Nah man. Real activism is unapologetic.

Kendricks activism is just savy marketing

"Real" activism?

Activism is defined as a vigorous campaign to bring about political or social change. Extrinsic points are irrelevant.

Sam Cooke, in making a Change is Going to Come, wanted to bring a level of consciousness to his audience and to his music...however, he also wanted to sell albums. make money and fukk groupies. What I'm saying is... Moving the "socially conscious ball" is of paramount importance.

The fact that "We hate po-po" was modified from the performance makes it that much harder for "institutonal racism" sympathizers to find an easy intellectual out to critique the performance. The performance was still powerful and at the end of the day...Kendrick isn't Shabazz... Kendrick has his lane and has his position... drawing even one more person closer to a higher social intellect is "real activism."

Thats fine, but the we have to acknowledge who/what he really is.

All this activism shyt is just a marketing plan, and it's working.

That's all it is breh? Really?

I wonder where you'd be on the political spectrum in the 70's when Marvin Gaye released his first conscious album "What's Goin' On".

 

[BK The Great]

He signed with Deathrow cause Suge bailed him outta jail...

yea and he basically sold himself out cause of that. Suge wasn't in his best interests.

 

[IWunD3r]

Thats fine, but the we have to acknowledge who/what he really is.

All this activism shyt is just a marketing plan, and it's working.

1. What marketing plan? Dude sold less. Got less radio play this time around.
He made white folks uncomfortable, and alotta blks are picking him apart.
Some marketing plan....

2. All those lyrics he spat on his new album, that the kids are reciting. Worked as well.
I Rather have my lil bruh recite king kunta. Than future's "i got the kkk with me"...