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people actually don't like the track?
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Kendrick and jcole both made fans of me with their respective songs on the issues our people face...I love it and will support every time...
I thought he was referring to gangbangers in that line. I don't believe he was talking about all black folks in general.How can you control what we can control?
How exactly are you going to have 40 million black people act and be as one?
Are all white people good and not criminals?
I thought he was referring to gangbangers in that line. I don't believe he was talking about all black folks in general.
Song is real bar for bar. Maybe warm up street single for the sophomore effort.
Who's posting under this account?
It is NOT, for you to stop killing us, we have to stop killing ourselves, it is NOT that.
- The song is NOT about ALL black people, just the hypocrites and those who contradict their words and actions, like he mentions.
- Like i said, it's as if a priest is preaching the word of God, but touches children behind close doors, simple as that.
It is NOT, for you to stop killing us, we have to stop killing ourselves, it is NOT that.
- The song is NOT about ALL black people, just the hypocrites and those who contradict their words and actions, like he mentions.
- Like i said, it's as if a priest is preaching the word of God, but touches children behind close doors, simple as that.
Out of everything i mentioned in the last post, all you picked out was that i said he's from Compton he may have a knowledge in what hes speaking about? But it seems like you arent trying to understand.
- We should focus on the treatment of African Americans AS WELL AS the treatment of African Americans to their own people.
But hey, don't the truth hurt?
That's a whole other issue that I didn't agree with him on, basically because of what you said. However, as far as the song goes, in the last verse, it just sounds like he was just talm bout dudes who bang. When Michael Brown was all on the news, there was this picture of two dudes from different hoods standing next to each other protecting a building from being looted, and people were in amazement and acting as if that was such a glorious site. Forgetting that those dudes bang. Not saying they killed anybody or sell dope and all that, but for what they represent, I can't respect them. When after the fact, they just gon go back to doing the dumb **** they've been doing before. That's how I see what Kendrick was saying, or maybe I'm just interpreting wrong.No, he believes it
http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...album-iggy-azalea-police-violence-the-rapture
Asked about the high-profile killings of African-Americans by police in 2014, from Ferguson, Mo., to Staten Island, he says, "I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it's already a situation, mentally, where it's f---ked up. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting -- it starts from within."
He's saying black people as a whole shouldn't be respected, because of a few bad apples.
The black people who say this aren't talking about themselves though, they're talking about OTHER people. Because if Kendrick Lamar was mistreated by the police tomorrow, do you think he would say, well **** it, it's because some of us don't respect ourselves. No, he would be complaining about it. Because too many of us don't see that it could happen to us.
If respect isn't given, it needs to be taken. The bully picks on the person who doesn't stand up for themselves. They don't stop until it happens.
Starting from within is also caring that police are mistreating us, not making excuses for them.
If you share the same views on this as Bill O'Reilly, I don't care where you grew up, you need to look in the ****** mirror, because you need to re-evaluate some things. It's telling you something about yourself, because they aren't out for your best interest.
Exactly. I don't get why people are getting all emotional about his point. He is addressing hypocrisy within the black community. It does exist...there are hyporcites in every community. I don't get why anyone is bothered by him addressing this. Those that are bothered are clearly missing the point.
White people do get killed by police tho.He should write a verse about the millions of poor white people who kill each other.It is NOT, for you to stop killing us, we have to stop killing ourselves, it is NOT that.
- The song is NOT about ALL black people, just the hypocrites and those who contradict their words and actions, like he mentions.
- Like i said, it's as if a priest is preaching the word of God, but touches children behind close doors, simple as that.
Out of everything i mentioned in the last post, all you picked out was that i said he's from Compton he may have a knowledge in what hes speaking about? But it seems like you arent trying to understand.
- We should focus on the treatment of African Americans AS WELL AS the treatment of African Americans to their own people.
But hey, don't the truth hurt?
except wait they aren't hypcrites because they don't have to deal with police killing them, putting them in jail for non violent crimes.
It's dumb stop trying to defend it.
Poor people commit violent crimes against other poor people and Kendrick is essentially implying that it's blackness that causes them to do that and not poverty.
A song isn't going to help those people and it insults there struggle to suggest that it will.
They aren't hypocrites.
For them to be hypcrites it would mean that
The killing of unarmed black people as once part of a greater system of discrimination = poor people killing other poor people.
they aren't the same they are not hypocrites.
White people do get killed by police tho.
I Dig the song good message it's basically saying what alot of BLACK FOLKS been saying for years including DAVID BANNER, KILLER MIKE etc ...."COPS KILL BLACK MALES THE SAME REASON WE KILL EACH OTHER & THATS NO VALUE" no matter how you flip it us BROTHERS kill each other over dumb ishhh....2 weeks ago a 19 yr old killed a 17 yr old over a PS4 controller down here theirs no reason for that in 2015 man real talk
View media item 1398322BANNER said exactly what I just told you on Twitter....David Banner has never said that
and KIller Mike has never defended the cops actions with that excuse.
Everyone needs to stop killing each other.
And cops need to stop killing us.
View media item 1398322BANNER said exactly what I just told you on Twitter....
Maybe you missed my last sentence.
White supremacy is NEVER GOING TO RESPECT you regardless of what you do.
Yes...black genocide and the new jim crow absolutely needs to end...but not to get "their" respect. Do you not understand how bat **** crazy it is to be asking for respect that they've never given you and never will give you?
And hell...gang violence is a byproduct of the same system you're "asking" for respect from. That's bizarre.
Who is this We?
So do you consider it respect when you make broad generalizations about ALL black people?
some black people don't respect themselves
some white people don't respect themselves
some women don't respect themselves
some men don't respect themselves
some Asian people don't respect themselves
and so on and so forth
We are not a monolith, and we should not talk like we are one. We get treated as one, but that doesn't mean we should refer to ourselves as one.
Exactly, back in the 50's and 60's we had all of that.
and did they respect us?
The bar will continue to get moved.
Chicago just had it's lowest murder rate in 40 years last year, but somehow it became a talking point of how bad black people are. Why? Did anyone even look at the numbers? Black people didn't even look in to the bull they were being fed and started spreading the same.