Be prepared for Kendrick to disappoint you…

This aged poorly I think. FD is brilliant but anyone can miss on a prediction. Dot’s Halftime was definitely not any version of all lives matter. Also, As I remember it, Black panther ended in Oakland. I get the scene he’s referencing but it wasn’t the end and not the scene that sticks with me. It ended on a playground in an East Bay hood, right?

Smart people can disagree but I think in criticism of most public figures, there will always be a “Nope! Not left enough.” take available to anyone who sees the world through a Marxist lens. And maybe the disappointment of so many Black stars not riding with this perspective makes for the anticipation more disappointment. Kendrick is not a Marxist and he will not be what a Marxist wants politically. I do wish FD would pump the brakes on some of the labeling of folks. Feels reductive to call Kendrick a Hotep and then parse whether he’s the good kind or the bad kind. Anyway, FD is brilliant and I’ll agree with his takes more than not I’m sure.

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You were so wrong 😅

Thanks for the reminder to double check my voter registeration. I live in California but I did just change my name so I could see that resulting in it being fucked with

It's been a bit, but I think the theme was the line you have to walk as a black entertainer on the biggest stage possible, with "Uncle Sam" encouraging him to "tighten up" and just play the hits. It worked, the fans loved it, and Kendrick's art has always been "the world through the eye of the individual". Like I'm fairly certain that YOU have unrealistic political expectations about Kendrick Lamar: your take (iirc) that TPAB was an attempt to make a piece of art that was so perfectly revolutionary that it would reify into an actual revolution was not supported by the source material at ALL. I mean, the last song is i.

But if I'm misstating you, then I apologize ahead of time.

I didn’t watch this because I knew u didn’t know anything about Kendrick

Rewatching waiting for the follow up Unc 😂

well. here we are

Unfortunately your streak of predictions is at an end

No hard feelings but I'm so glad you were wrong 🙏

won't age well at all

"storytelling" he says.

Superbowl's coming up…Trump's in office… crazy shit has ensued (some real scary fascist shit) and I am choosing to believe that Kendrick won't be a complete sellout. I don't want to be disappointed 🙁

Regarding the editing of Kendrick’s song, if the other side can have dog whistles then so can we.

brooo life is already hard enough as it is, why you gotta be a bears fan too??

Lil Wayne's "How to Love" is far from raunchy, more heartbreaking, but that subject matter also isn't meant for the Super Bowl either.

It’s crazy, you couldn’t stop watching football in protest, and to support Colin. But, you expect Kendrick to put his career on life support, by offending the NFL audience….to appease you. The hypocrisy is astounding! You continuing to watch football, said “ All Lives Matter”! Shame on you for expecting him to carry such a burden, when you yourself couldn’t do something so simple as turning your tv off!

Kendrick Lamar will disappoint me because he has clearly entered a self centered period in life, which is fine if he hadn’t used people and a message to get there, regardless of intention, and now that he has the biggest platform you can really picture him in (Tupac ain’t even get a Super Bowl) he’s calming it down. Now that he’s reaping the benefits of peoples support (and his work obviously) and been put in the highest stage for it he’ll forget abt the message. I remember u said u think he believed he’d change the world with tpab, this COULD be an actual opportunity for something like that to happen but he’s given up. The Super Bowl is THE largest event in American culture next to like the election and Christmas, and he ain’t gon try to send a message. It’s my, your, white man, white woman, and his fault. He is not my savior, but he is a man with extreme power and influence that could perform as one would, similar to us.

Please make the Dead Prez video!

Who’s back here after k dot disappointed them 😭😭😭

I would love to see some video essays celebrating the most radical and creative elements within hip hop culture. FD I love and agree with your analysis of charting rap but there is a lot more to the culture than 'who's the king?' and what is charting or banging in the clubs. As a white person who came up in the nineties outside the US I experienced the Beastie Boys to Tribe Called Quest to underground rap pipeline that led me to Freestyle Fellowship, Busdriver, Blackalicious, Company Flow, and early 2000s UK stuff. When Kendrick started I heard a bunch of that earlier more experimental West Coast stuff in some of his tracks. I would love to celebrate those connections because that aspect of how the underground and grass roots of the culture is connected to the rest is crucial to the culture as a whole and can get lost if we just focus on what is in the charts.

Jay Z dosent care avout Black People's. I wish Ye was here

If you’re disappointed it’s a you problem