it all goes back to what pac said on mortal man fr

I don't even know if it's a rejection of religion as much as Kendrick's personal reframing of his relationship with religion. I think him being put in a lot of people's views as a a messiah type figure kinda disillusioned him because he realizes the weight people put on God and how a lot of people don't really love God they just want someone to save them. I think both in his personal life as the one in the hood who "made it" and his relationship with the world as the "pro-black rapper" it can become apparent that a lot of people are only concerned with being surface level followers to benefit themselves. lots of these woke niggas aren't rly down for any cause at all

Thanks brother

I was drunk last night but i wasnt capping

you think he's just gotten too old to fight?

Is it funny to you to tear down a black man with different views than you? Call him crazy. Tell him his experience and what he should think?

man i never said all that I just said chill

you pretend to be both a man and a woman on here

either way you still a b****

I think this is taking the message to a binary that I am not hearing in the text. But I understand the sentiment.

what does "pretending to be a man and woman" mean

damn it took me like 45 mins to read half of that

Taking a lil break then read the rest

I don’t pretend anything y’all call me whatever gender you feel at the moment because of my thoughts (which is sexist but ok) I don’t have to clarify anything to you.

i think its partially that and how much the world has changed in the last few years

just listening to this album a couple times and even his prior albums kendricks been dropping hints of how all this pressure has been weighing on him and i think him gaining a family also adds to that as well.

"shits on my mind and its heavy"

i think thats why FEEL is one of my favorite kendrick songs he really lays all the s*** out on that one

desegregation didn't lead to social change? allowing Black people to vote didnt lead to social change? I agree that visibility is overrated and a lot of people are satisfied with surface level s*** like a protest or seeing a photoshoot of the Obamas but I don't know how much can change if our only strategy is to start getting politicians clapped

that user has said with their own words they were a woman in one thread and a man in another

if theyre bigender cool but most likely its an asocial teenager with nothing better to do with their worthless life

Lol all French said was that when it came to hit records he’d be able to take him because that’s not the kind of artist Kendrick is. He didn’t even disrespect him and said it wasn’t his intention

Kendrick is able to read beyond headlines and knew what’s up

Good post and i like how music can really create these types of think pieces. Music is an art of communication and discussion.

Also agree with everything you said. He suffers from his own expectations of what he feels like his role is. I hope he realises he doesn’t have to completely abandon messages he’s trying to put across, but i also get it

Dont get me wrong, he did accept his role as some saviour of rap and compare himself to Pac, but fans put him on that pedestal in the first place, and like he said, celebrity dont always mean integrity. We shouldn’t idolise artists to an expectation beyond thought provoking music

the fact that we're asking "what can kendrick do" is the problem
he's an artist, he can make art about whatever he wants

that being said, he positioned himself in the culture as having a voice for certain systemic issues, he gets called out on it in a critical time for US politics and tense racial climate
what does kendrick do? retreat and gets anrgy with us for considering his opinion in the first place

kendrick can start a yodeling career, idgaf lol he acts like we can't critique his stance
which to me indicates a strong narcissism and an interest in being perceived as "the savior" being more important than actually contributing to conversation or solutions to systemic racism in a meaningful way

he seems angry he looked like he "fell short" during the 2020 BLM protests not that he misunderstood why respecting eachother isn't gonna make police respect us

naturally, he'd divert attention from responding to any criticism to talk about himself and all the personal reasons why he can't deal with us right now, why noname should have just sat there and eat her food

and yes alot of artists are narcissists, some with savior complexes cough cough YE cough cough and alot of other insecurities/issues, Im not reducing kendrick to only that, I just wanted to point out how I view it from that lense

yeah I don't think kdot is doing this on purpose, with an agenda in mind

he stopped trying/caring tho and here we are