WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]

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  • That guy is defending the practice of making a million billion sequels and spin offs of 3 or 4 IPs also, by the way. The only inclusion he wants is making sure every toy from the 90s gets its own movie.

    Because God forbid we ever got the healing presence of justice where we could talk about poverty in America as a fascinating backdrop without it being charged with politics. It’s something Kendrick documents in his music with the masterful touch one might compare to Monet or Picasso in their efforts to preserve the feeling or emotional resonance of their place and time. I don’t mean charged with politics how they mean that, but in the vein of the Palestinian poet, Marwan Makhou: In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent. You want something fresh and original? Star Wars allegory for Black Wall Street burning down and a gray Jedi is born from it. The Jedi and their pal Glorp the green cat with antennae for ears seek to defeat the sith responsible for it but for some reason the jedi side with the sith over them, calling it a moral failure to be upset by his people’s setback.

    Wizard from underprivileged neighborhood goes to magic community college and has challenging interactions with students from Hogwarts and is slow on the pickup of their celebrated culture. Only to find when they get a chance to sample it, he finds it emptier and bereft of the soul he is used to in his upbringing




  • Humble has a billion views on YouTube. That’s like a tip of the iceberg in terms of his popularity before it comes to industry accolades of which both are plentiful. Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics are touted as some of the most complex and layered that hip hop has to offer. For the uninitiated I would point to Euphoria where he goes “I love em to death and in 8 bars I’ll explain” and 8 bars later he says “If not I’m YMW Melly.” YMW Melly (in)famously rapped Murder on My Mind where he recounts murdering his friend with gun violence before turning himself in for alleged double homicide the next year. Kendrick’s lyrics are famously filled with moments that make you grin if you get the reference and impress the careful listener with plays on words and thoughtful math.

    Mumble rap is criticized for its lack of depth (and lack of “talent”) which is exemplified with songs like Desiigner’s Panda. The comparison of Kendrick to mumble rap is like comparing Ice Ice Baby to Under Pressure because the first couple seconds are the same. Maybe you could make a tasteful joke, but if you really doubled down on it you’d rightfully be called a weirdo.

    Talentless, of course, is an absurd insult when not only the rap community but countless other community celebrates his music sun up to sun down. You could fill a garbage dump with all the bandwidth dedicated to people lip syncing his songs in every garbage dump that hosts videos. Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe, Humble, Swimming Pools, Money Trees, m.a.a.d City all found mass appeal. Special mention to Duckworth whose ending can be interpolated into the sickest fancam for any rivalry: “you take two strangers and put them in random predicaments. Give them a soul so they can make their own choices and live with it…”.

    This is all, of course (with the exception of Euphoria), at least 5 years ago. Kendrick has truly taken over the airwaves with his feud with Drake. Not Like Us broke Spotify records, hit US Billboard Hot 100’s #1 spot, and one time got a speech impaired infant to finally say the phrase “they not like us.” His latest album, GNX, was US Billboard 200’s #1 spot which was his fifth time releasing an album that hit #1. And, once again, people love shouting “MUSTAAAAARD!”

    I can’t speak to his paganism, satanism, or his cult (all the same thing or is he practicing multiple religions?) which he does not seem to ever mention. But he is sober. “He was raised secular, although he occasionally attended church services and was taught the Bible by his grandmother.[13] He felt “spiritually unsatisfied” as a child due to the “empty” and “one-sided” nature of the sermons.[14]”

    So, in conclusion, the idea that people don’t like Kendrick’s music, his music lacks depth, his music lacks meaning, his music lacks cultural impact, his music is somehow not memorable, or that his music is not the result of immense talent suggest an ignorance not just of hip hop, but even a cursory understanding of how pop culture has developed in the last decade (who am I kidding? It’s probably racism).

    P.S. In 2009 Jay-Z joked about how his songs are so cool that he could “Get this to a blood, let a crip walk on it.” Last summer Kendrick actually got members of the two gangs on stage together.



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