cracker cracker cracker didnt know any better

was Kendrick Lamar in that room with 3 guys first time he was tossed

this new gimmick is f***ing abysmal bro

People will do everything they can to wriggle out of this contradiction. I love the song regardless, but come on, people gotta be honest.

Yeah, he knowingly used a slur he acknowledged was inappropriate in order to make a point in an artistic context. You don't change minds and get people talking about issues by muting their impact (but at least you'll have moral high ground, I guess).

I challenge someone to write a more impactful and ear catching version of the song with no problematic content. That would be a more meaningful contribution to the discourse around the song than simply passing judgment.

What no MixedByAli does to a mf

Sad, I wonder why Ali isn’t as involved, Kendrick must see how important he is to his vocal style. His vocals could cut through and hit harder on a lot of these tracks tbh compared to gkmc and TPAB. There was a big decline in Kendrick’s vocal mixing with DAMN

Don’t get me started on whoever is quantizing his vocals to the beat which gives them that robotic glitchy feel on some moments

Idk what's goin on we don't have clear info it seems

I was gonna say album sounds AI at moments but I don't wanna be called a hater

Father time intro especially

Couldn't bro hit the reverse beat on time

it really doesn’t lmao

It does have a nice drive to it doesn’t it. The accents on the kick gives off a lil militant flair, too.

would it even change something? do you automatically feel ok with the word being said if it's not kendrick saying it but another voice?

Ysl sackchaser?

No white person in america freely said nigga, especially with the -er, without knowing how that would be received outside of their group of edgy white friends, not the same with the f word, that's why it's different bc it's about actual growth from learning a different perspective that they werent aware of that just was never the case with nigga

No because he's talking about how it was condemned by society at large, and that was not the same for both words, has nothing to do with one particular perspective

Definitely it was never okay, the difference is just when people realized it wasn't okay. I think that makes a difference in how Kendrick used the word in context of the song.

Ofc it's understandable and not something to belittle if some people still feel uncomfortable listening to the song or anything, especially if they're the people who the slur was directed at

Like if some white person made that same song but with the n word in the 60s orbwhatever obviously that would be different from doing it now, idk why people are acting like prevailing attitudes at the time don't matter here

"Cracker cracker cracker we can say it together, but only if you let a white girl say nigga" - Tom Macdonald

The question you really gotta ask yourself is what is more important, conveying an effective message to the target audience or your own performative purity

"I put on the radio and hear kendrick say whatever he wants in a song
But somehow when a straight white guy like me says it it’s wrong??"

Whitey diaries - tom mcdonald

In 2 years kendrick gonna explain how this song was written in the perspective of his distant cousin in an alternate reality where top dawg killed his dad

Kenny not the type of person who feels like he gotta explain his art . Especially to satisfy a few mad people . Album was provocative all the way through in different ways

People ultimately gonna take it the way they want to

Here come the white people. It was never okay for white people to say the n word so this comparison doesn’t even make sense.

He could have found a more elegant way to talk about the f word without directly saying it

I don’t like the f word and nigga comparisons I think y’all need to stop it’s annoying