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Mirror time crodi…

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MIRROR TIME CRODI…

Scott is looking at this interaction and smiling methinks

oh s*** you know me

blessed to run into someone from back then, who this is?

Read that post again, you're a generation before me

Damn…I just want to be part of the convo

Crodi it's mirror time

I'm so excited and worried I won't figure it out

I was the baby of the bunch, who could be a gen after me

Recently, a pro-Palestinian activist named Khaled Beydoun has posted on Instagram about his pro-Gaza comments allegedly being removed from Kendrick Lamar’s most recent post. This prompted thousands of his followers to comment Palestine flags on said post. OVO 40, a pro-Palestinian producer that works with Drake, joined the onslaught as well.

There are two issues with this. First, Kendrick Lamar’s official Instagram account is not managed by Kendrick Lamar himself. He does not check it at all, and his only activity since 2022 was a link to euphoria on Tuesday on his story. Kendrick is more active on jojoruski, but even then, he regularly disappears for months at a time for mental health breaks. His company pgLang has made advertisements for Light Phone, further emphasizing his distaste for social media and the mental energy that social media consumes. He prefers, as he alluded to in his latest song, to spend quality time with his kids and raise his family. This also explains Kendrick Lamar’s alleged “silence” on the recent escalation of the Gaza genocide — it’s not that Kendrick isn’t doing anything, but just that he prefers to keep his philanthropic efforts separate from his public persona and only come into the limelight when he has music. Remember, he did the exact same thing when George Floyd was murdered.

Secondly, Beydoun’s comments were most likely removed not by Kendrick Lamar or his team, but rather by Meta themselves. There have been numerous examples of pro-Palestinian comments being removed from an Instagram post, even in cases when the author of the Instagram post wishes for them to stay. Here are a few investigations/studies into the phenomenon:

hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and

aje.io/6rpdpm

middleeasteye.net/news/we-will-not-be-silenced-meta-removes-pro-palestine-instagram-accounts

More can be found easily.

Meta has a huge alliance with Israel and is currently waging a huge censorship campaign against pro-Palestinians. It is not surprising in the slightest that their algorithm picked up what they perceived to be “spam” on an otherwise unrelated post, and removed it as part of this censorship campaign. It does not help whatsoever that the comment that was removed was Khaled Beydoun’s first comment on any IG:KendrickLamar post, and Khaled Beydoun is a well-known Palestinian activist who has been taken down on Instagram time and time again; in fact, he was probably targeted specifically and taken down immediately upon his first comment on the account. It’s a shame that Beydoun directed his frustration at Lamar directly, rather than the actual issue, Meta’s mass systemic censorship routine.

But thirdly and most importantly, Kendrick Lamar is not a Zionist. And this isn’t “speculation,” or “wishful thinking” or “cope” (I know Drake stans frequent this subreddit). It’s just common sense. Is there any reason to believe he is? Kendrick Lamar isn’t Jewish, so it’s not as though the Zionist idea is encouraged within his community (props to Drake for exiting that mindset). Kendrick Lamar, on the contrary, has expressed time and time again that he stands for social justice, against systemic racism, against apartheid (TPAB anyone?), against discrimination of any kind, even on the basis of gender identity. These issues are directly adjacent and connected to the Palestinian plight, and virtually everyone who stands with one of those issues will stand with the Palestinians. Even without all that, do you really believe that Kendrick Lamar, witnessing the mass destruction and murder of Palestinian children; children who committed no crime and yet have to face life every day not knowing if their own family members will live by the end of it — a nonstop hell — do you really believe that Kendrick Lamar of all people would look at that and say “deserved.”?
What if he’s a sellout?

Sellout to who? He OWNS his own company.
What about the lines on YAH. and other DAMN. songs?
Kendrick Lamar isn’t a Black Israelite; those lines were from the perspective of a man influenced by Kendrick’s cousin (or his cousin himself), who is a Black Israelite, but even if he was, Black Israelite ideology has nothing to do whatsoever with Zionism; in fact, the two ideologies often clash. If they are Zionists, they are Zionists in the Lauryn Hill sense, where Zion represents equality and justice for Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, and not Zionism in the “let’s raid Palestine and establish a Jewish state” sense. This confusion comes from looking at the lines at face value and not considering that he’s saying anything other than what he appears to be. By that logic, every single one of Tyler Joseph’s friends are “heathens, take it slow.”

And now, to finally begin speculating, it seems as though the master manipulator Drake is using this conflict to drive a wedge between Kendrick Lamar and his fans, using Drake’s (only mild, to be genuinely fair) public support for Palestine as a point of moral superiority.

So, to conclude, don’t fall for the tricks. Kendrick Lamar stands with Palestine. And he is, and always will be, far ahead of Drake.

THE SEROTONIN JUST FIRED HARD

KTT2 birthed a few new mods

Sache is that you it'd be like 3 am, that can't be

I wanna know so bad LOL ktt fam is like real family to me

SCOTT IF U SEE THIS, TEXT ME BACK SO I CAN SEND YOU SQUISHMALLOWS

you hermit

He did it to himself

no way y’all riding with this narrative

J Cole probably had real secrets

Ak mocking euphoria with the sunglasses on is going to live rent free in my head for a while I can feel it

He was wild for that post lol