On Kendrick's revolutionary performativity

Can i please interject to remind everyone that 100+ homeless people who live on the streets in the French Quarter were forced by armed LA State police into a concentration camp run by the Dept of Homeland Security, 15 miles away from downtown NoLa, where they are near the port…

this track sounds like a journey

they're acting like tupac was fred hampton lol

So telling of the state of black radical politics that this take is not the general consensus. Lots of bm believe they are radical but like him they just glorified hoteps. I want more for us

Y’all putting too much on this guy. I’ve never looked to Kendrick when thinking about politics

Kendrick is to Tupac what Will Smith is to Muhammad Ali. A hallowed commercial imitation.

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This sounds smart until you dive deeper into Kendrick Lamar’s discography and see that across the arc of GKMC, TPAB, DAMN, and Mr. Morale, he comes to the realization that he is “not your savior” and that focusing on the world’s problems before you solve your own is futile.

Kendrick’s Liberal Black Nationalism

He was performing at one of the biggest events in the world, more mainstream is not possible, nothing revolutionary about this

What a joke. He’s a commercial performer. Too cowardly for anything else.