This was a great read @op and I feel there's a lot to take from his journey as an artist, where he probably felt the pressure thrust onto him about the savior stuff so he felt the need to run with it, eventually taking those expectations and adopting them as his.

Makes sense that this reaction of an extreme opposite happened. He couldn't live up to his own high expectations.

kendrick can’t say s*** when the promo for this era is all about evoking jesus imagery

just comes off as corny

that's why it's hilarious EVERYONE is coming/came at Noname when she's been like...the only rapper that has been doing things that you can actually see and feel as far as working towards societal change.

HER getting the smoke from all these rappers does nothing more than prove her original point right in the goddamn first place.

I love Mr. Morale but also Noname wasn't wrong about a damn thing.

Everybody put 3 fingers in the air.. the sky is falling the wind is calling stand for something or die in the morning..... Section 80, hiiipower

this nigga literally called himself a PROPHET ON FAMILY TIES!!!! No wonder people are looking up to you for answers

Like fam you was saying Martin Luther King was staring at you bro lol.

I'm sure at a time young thinkers like Noname was hearing that and felt something these niggas really be so unaware

Definitely, his character arc in his discography is super interesting fr, i wonder where his head will be at w the next album

wouldnt be suprised if this the last one we getting for a while.

He also said God speaks through him

He still has that savior complex though on the album

Kendrick is second guessing himself as a saviour. He wanted to provide his social commentary and because of how real it was, he was placed in a position of being a leader and expect to provide for the subjects. Now I think he simply doesn’t want the pressure of it, but also still trying to maintain and uphold it, while wanting to also just do his own thing entirely.

my nigga you can't have it THREE WAYS though dog!

He managed to make it work on the album

eh, if it did it wouldn't be as divisive imo.

I appreciate the album but man it's funny just to think about it.

word

i wish a nigga like joey or some other wanna be conscious nigga stood up for noname

even if there was profit motive behind it, could have at least been a good luck for them and make niggas question themselves coming for noname

but there wasn’t no solidarity for shawty, she was just met with the hostility for no reason when all of her points were valid idgaf how she said it

these hip hop niggas don’t say s***

i wrote more but i’ll pm you it or something lol i’m not tryna have this convo in the thread just for niggas to troll

"something about the queen tone that's been bothering me"

Not enough “this mid” or “this scares the hoes” in your a***ysis

You can post here, it's not a troll thread

bro F*** this nigga for making The Heart Part V then sayin " I chose me, I'm sorry" on the new s***.

i remember how important TPAB was for me growing up, that was real

alright being used in protests globally, that was real

what artists need to do is recognize how capitalism is destroying the important of art. and if it’s destroying art, then like kendrick said in the prayer, earth is just a rock

you already know the reason why.

@op replace noname with talib or any of these male conscious do you think they would've gotten this same energy?

bro i felt something

But nah fr tho the way niggas went at Noname was wild

She’s still wrong, because all this social change don’t mean s*** when the system is designed to counteract all of it. These rappers were all bright eye and bushy tailed like her until the discover the real. That no matter what you’re a cog in a system designed to fail and no amount of social change is going to do anything as long as the 1% can do whatever. People thinking that celebrities, politicians and all of these artists are going to be the savior are ignorant. At the end of the day a lot of people should sit back and go relisten to Kanye’s interview on breakfast club in 2013 when Charlemagne blasted him for talking about money and wanting to create a product to pursue real change. Because like he said, once you’re a billionaire nobody can fire you. You have product and you have power. At the end of the day, these billionaires have more social change in this world than any March, any politician, and any system because at the end of the day they Use their power to lobby from whatever laws they want. You ain’t find it funny we having all of these pro life laws getting passed immediately after a pandemic that killed millions? Can’t let that capitalistic system die, especially since a lot of people woke up and chose not to be people working a s*** end job for chump change. But if there’s continued overpopulation, these companies won’t have to worry about looking for employees in the future.