Kendrick Lamar has been imitated by a talent show contestant in Poland who wore blackface and rapped racial slurs.
Your Face Sounds Familiar is a game show with eight contestants portraying celebrities, and Polish singer Kuba Szmajkowski delivered his best Kendrick impression when performing the rap icon’s 2017 hit “HUMBLE.”
Szmajkowski went too far with his performance as he hit the stage wearing blackface makeup and fake braids while also opting not to censor the use of the n-word in the song.
His ill-conceived performance ended up winning Season 19 of Your Face Sounds Familiar and the singer donated the prize money to the Przystań Nadziei Foundation to benefit children with cancer.
As news of the performance spread beyond the European country, Kuba Szmajkowski and the Your Face Sounds Familiar producers came under fire for the racially-insensitive stunt.
“Kendrick needs to file the nastiest copyright suit of all time. I’m talking not even able to say his name no more on some Voldemort sht,” one outraged fan wrote in Twitter.
“This man painted himself BROWN to perform as Kendrick Lamar. It’s literally a minstrel show,” another wrote.
K. Dot wasn’t the only Black celebrity to have been impersonated on the show as other contestants have previously dressed up and performed as Beyoncé and Kanye West.
In other Kendrick Lamar news, the Compton native recently paid tribute to 2Pac on the 27th anniversary of his fatal shooting.
K. Dot posted a slideshow to his personal Instagram account last week, which included a photo of him rocking a vintage ‘Pac shirt during a trip to Tokyo, where he also linked up with BAPE designer Nigo.
While Kendrick’s post didn’t come with a caption, its timing felt significant since it marked 27 years to the day that the late rap icon was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Less than a week later, the Death Row Records signee died from his injuries in hospital, cutting short the life and career of one of Hip Hop’s most influential figures.
Hahahah this is hilarious
Leave it to people on Twitter/reddit to bug out over someone doing that. Who cares. I think its funny. It wasn’t done to be hateful.
Of course the white commenters see nothing wrong with blackface. No surprise there.
Go cry. I’m black, idc. There are much bigger problems out there, I’m really not gonna complain on the internet about a foreigner putting on makeup and reciting rap songs. So no, not all black people waste their time being upset about someone wearing makeup in a country over 5,000 miles away.
Dude, you are just Transphobic! People can be any race they want to be! Race isn’t assigned at birth! Same with gender!
Poland never had black slaves or colonies in Africa and doesn’t have the same historical context of using black face as America. That dude is kinda corny, but It’s simply comedy, they’ll make fun of anyone and everyone equally.. they just don’t give a fuck.
Oh, and while I do know the history behind blackface, I also know that generally speaking in 2023, most people would not do it with those same intentions. It’s a different world. But go ahead and cancel Justin Trudeu, Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, the former (3 years ago) Democrat governor of Virginia, and so on. It’s actually funny to me how it’s mostly leftists who can be identified as doing black face in the modern Era haha. The ones who call everyone else racist are the ones with blackface pasts.
No one is crying, Jay. We’re just making comments. You seem to be more emotional though since you claim to be black but found the need to defend blackface. It’s good to know you accept it.
Are you though? You may be black but you likely wish you weren’t.
@ Gem Lord, yep Black and proud just like you’re proud to be white. And I’m sure you have no problem with blackface. Next question?
this is the corniest discussion ever – all opinions don’t matter shit anyway! FTW!!!!
In bad taste probably but nothing to get your weave in a bunch ese! Vato wasn’t mocking K-Dot or African culture. Change the channel and move on holmes.
In bad taste probably but nothing to get your weave in a bunch ese! Vato wasn’t mocking K-Dot or African culture. Change the channel and move on holmes.
In bad taste probably but nothing to get your weave in a bunch ese! Vato wasn’t mocking K-Dot or African culture. Change the channel and move on holmes!
Imagine being “offended” by this. Cry me a River 🤡
bruh who the hell cares, its 2023, we dgaf anymore about some polish dude.
This is so freaking insensitive, how could someone portray someone else for monetary uses. Especially the Great Kendrick Lamar aka Kung Fu Kenny, who doesn’t hack a lick of Chinese and is only using the Shaolin look for monetary reason. Let’s all rise up my brother’s and stand for this injustice that plagues ONLY us and do what we do best, complain that we aren’t the only ones allowed to do things.
America doing the world police thing again I see. Also funny reading those hysterical Twitter comments knowing these are the same people that also claim cancel culture doesn’t exist whenever it’s brought up.