For Free off TPAB his most misogynistic track ever and white fans aint hear what he was saying over them jazzy piano chords and bebop background so #consicious RT @ShintaroKago

White hip hop fans the woooooorst

Kendrick isnt a concious rapper that his fans make him out to be , the media, awards or any of that. That is the issue. They conflate him to be in conversations he shouldnt be in.

He hasnt painted himself as a conscious rapper simply because he puts more vulnerability and care in his lyrics than many.

Vince Staples isnt a conscious rapper to me he talented but its a different lane than conscious rap but again it depends how you define conscious rap

some again want to conflate it or "alright was a protest anthem he is our conscious rapper that all the pro black people listen to instantly. "

his fans and media did not him.

"He’s painted himself as this conscious rapper guy who speaks on issues."

No the f*** he hasn't

The salad been sitting in the fridge dressed too long, it’s soggy af

I dont even love TPAB as much as most lol. I enjoy parts of it but as an entire album it didn't move me to the point of others.

See a lot of y'all don't understand Kendrick Lamar
Because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history
All in the same sentence
You know what all them things have in common?
Only half of the truth if you tell it
See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers
Till one day I realised I had to come up with my own
I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on inside looking out
I'm in the dead f***ing centre looking around
You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?
That's an a***ogy for the way the world make me react
My innocence been dead
So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history
All in the same sentence
Just know I meant it, and you felt it
Cause you too are searching for answers
I'm not the next pop star, I'm not the next socially aware rapper
I am a human motherfucking being over dope ass instrumentation

I feel like I’m losing my mind if people don’t think Kendrick tries to come off as an intellectual or a conscious rapper

the two arent mutually exclusive. but the former isnt even applicable bc again, no one knows for certain wat his genuine outlook wud even be on this. and 2nd, from an artist that proclaims to Love Hip-Hop, i just cant fully respect someone who ostensibly doesnt feel compelled to say and do anything. whatever he wants is up to him - not me - but the critique will rightfully follow no matter the choice

X was right when he suggested we have to stop looking to artists to be leaders, let alone political ones. but ive never seen that as a reason to let the biggest ones off the hook for not leveraging their art and reach to support grassroots efforts/materially improve conditions for people. especially when they so readily exploit said platform for personal gain.

what if niggas just wanna spit bars lol like what is wrong with that

nothing Kendrick Lamar says is gonna put a dent in a thing so who gives a f*** lol

if this is where ur thought begins and ends, ull never get it

get what?

Macklemore was the biggest topic of the last couple weeks and guess what will come of it? nothing

"nothing he says will effect any change" oh wow yal niggas gotta shut the f*** up w that one

tell us how it would effect change then

If Kendrick Lamar also got banned from stadiums and venues that would be a good thing. Let’s get more artist banned. It exposes the powers that be

Or who knows maybe you’re right maybe nothing does anything and we just shouldn’t care

im just saying there are literal armed soldiers that can't get this s*** under control what the f*** is kendrick Lamar saying something gonna do lol

just another piece of data on the internet

Doesn’t make any sense fr

• on Heart Pt 4 he said that Trump and Russia colluded in 2016 election

• spoke out on Russia invading Ukraine invaded on Mr. Morale and even name dropped Putin

• called out roe v wade being overturned at the end of his 2022 glastonbury set

But now people would have you believe he was never political and that he’s “not your savior”. Even though the latter two examples happened during Mr morale era

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He changed his name he’s a conscious rapper
Naw mutha'fucka I'm just Compton's rapper
I might spit some intricate s*** for s not to get
But really I'm just as rude as Marshall Mathers
Is that a contradiction? He contradicting himself again?
Of course that's a contradiction, the f*** you think life is?
We not like Christ is
We all want ice's and devices to make the b****es say, "I like this"

He been telling yall who he is since 2011. Sorry you positively missed the memo.

Asked chinese spy the same thing tell me when the words of an artist alone changed regime and he told me “Bob Marley stopped a war on stage”

amplifying attention to the issue for the last couple weeks is nothing
$1 million dollars in aid is nothing
inspiring other fans to donate is nothing
snowballing fans to pressure other big artists into doing the same is nothing
elucidating for audiences just how entrenched zionism is in the power structure of these venues is nothing

this conversation, nothing

like wat reality are yal living in where anything someone does just suddenly doesnt matter in the slightest? every little thing in this world is consequential. bootlick ready ass mentality

and then u callously scrolled down the wiki page and used death statistics as a gotchya. yea i was there

y’all think any rapper who is slightly “artsy” or raps about anything remotely substantial at all is “intellectual” or “conscious” like kendrick isn’t from the streets lmao

there’s a very obvious racial component here but whatever because even this observation is beaten to death, it won’t stop you from separating rappers as ignorant street rappers and the more intellectual artsy ones

Yes the political structures that be don’t change overnight, and Kendrick Lamar has no direct power to change any of it

That does not discount the effects of advocacy. It’s easy to give into nihilism and say nothing matters, but people’s voices are important. Especially someone as big as Kendrick

I think people are just disappointed because Kendrick is seen as someone who’s aware and intellectual. And finding out he’s not someone who cares is a let down