Kendrick Lamar’s latest song “i” is more than a feel-good record with a catchy chorus.
It promotes self love and touches on social issues, as well. Although the Compton-bred rapper hasn’t been overly active in conversations surrounding the recent police brutality cases, Kendrick is frustrated by the incidents.
In a recent interview with MTV News, Kendrick spoke on the unrest that has occurred across the country –mainly due to the non-indictment of officers in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, New York.
“It’s definitely frustrating 100 percent,” he said. “It’s something that’s been around since the beginning of time. I remember me coming up in the city of Compton and having these same type of ordeals, not as dramatic but in the same situation.”
“i” he says, is a track that is bigger than just a good tune. It’s about real life.
“When I make a record like ‘i,’ it’s not just about me,” he says. “It’s not about a single. It’s not about how many songs can be sold on a media base. It’s about what actually going on in real life actual-factual. When you strip down the jewelry and you strip down the chains, what are you talking about?”
During the interview, Kendrick also recalls the important lessons — about being a black man and dealing with cops — his father taught him when he was young.
“He knew the moment that I was born the color of my skin was going to be put to the test and that’s just how it is,” Kendrick said. “We have legacy and people who died for it, but at the same time its still that type of negativity out there…He told me everyday, ‘Carry yourself with some type of integrity and don’t let them see you sweat.’ So, I have to put that same type of influence on my little brother, on the little homies that’s in the neighborhood.”
Kendrick is a real nigga, but y’all prefer to comment on Gucci and Macklemore. smh
yeah. a real fake nigga.
dont u dare disrespect the realest nigga to ever hold a mic gucci mane by making such a ludicrous statement. How in the hell is kendrick realer than Big Gucci. Do you even know the definition of a real nigga?
How is Kendrick fake? He ain’t putting on a fake persona and lying about his past like Officer Ricky. Dude is oneof the most honest rappers out there.
mr duckworth goes around telling stories about how he saw tupac in a dream in the studio and he said to him “keep my music alive”. if you cant see this is a fake nigga who just overacts extra conscious instead of extra gangsta then youre another fooled victim.
Really, that’s your reason for thinking he’s fake? Because of a dream? You can’t prove no one didn’t have a dream, so that’s not a good reason. You’re a fool
im a white man and i love cumming into black chicks. but hey. we’ve been raping black females for centuries if not milennia. now seeing a black man with a white woman. that really makes me mad. they were off limits for so long and now you’re breednig with them! get your paws off monkey!
Fuck ur whole bloddline u fucking cracker,redhead,son of a bitch!and fuck u and everybody else down wth ur punk ass,u were born cz smebody raped ur mama and cummed hard in her rotten fanny…
^^ are you mad because i fuck your black sistahs and they love it because they feel included in white society, or are you mad because i said get your hands off my white women?
lol who are u tryin to fool, u know damn well black chicks don’t get your recessive dick hard, plus sistas don’t even fuck with white men like that
U r a stupid son of a bitch,ur slut-ass mother shld hav aborted u…
fuck this garbage single get on drakes level
He’s already above Drake’s level, stanley.
does he have a jewish mom? no. then he is never on drakes level.
^ you’re right. He’s above Drake’s level.
He makes white ppl music, no black ppl buy his stuff
You can’t prove none of that shit.
even if black people bought his music they would be corny black people. dont assume that being black means anything in 2014 anymore. that goes especially for black females.
^ And you can’t prove any of that, either.
Its funny how kenny try to play it off, like he didnt make the questions that the interviewer is
Askin him. Hes getting endorsed by reebok.lol He knows he can say anything to political becuz he a corporate puppet. That why his songs are so general and be interpreted alot of ways. If anything its killer mike that had a song on his r.a.p. album that addressed this issue two years ago.
Damn, you’re stupid.
Nobodys even playing this song anymore. Weak single.
Because the new generation ear for good music is weak.
“I remember me coming up in the city of Compton and having these same type of ordeals, not as dramatic but in the same situation” wasn’t this nigga a stay in the house kind of kid growing up?
You’re still exposed to that stuff. He still went to school etc. Closed mindednes is bad. I tell you hwat.
He grew up in West Side Piru gang neighborhood. He never got jumped in but still kicked it with the Pirus. He was a WSP affiliate. Thats why hes always sporting red and saying Piru or West Side Bompton in his music.
This guy acts like hes the second coming of tupac, making millions off blsck angst and then takes a week to say anything at all. No protesting, no nothing. Phony bastard!
He literally made an entire album about it years ago
He did and he made millions exploiting the plight of his people. Do you seem him actually doing anything about it. Is he out protesting. Is he rallying his people. No. Hes just doing an interview a week later. Should he then be a spokesperson for this cause, or should he be deemed a phony
why the fuck is old article been recycled?