Cyrus Langhorne
Television personality Geraldo Rivera is once again rubbing hip-hop fans the wrong way after singling out Top Dawg Entertainment’s Kendrick Lamar over his BET Awards 2015 “Alright” performance.
Rivera called out K. Dot for sending mixed messages during his live set.
“Not helpful at all, this is why I say hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years. This is exactly the wrong message and then to conflate what happened in the church in Charleston, South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops, to equate that racist killer with cops, it is so wrong, it is so counterproductive, it gives exactly the wrong message. It doesn’t recognize that a city like Baltimore where remember Freddie Gray, they’ve had a homicide since Freddie Gray, no one’s protesting that. Baltimore, a tiny city, seven percent the size of New York, has just as many murders as New York. We have to wake up at some point and understand what’s going on.” (Fox News)
During his live set, Kendrick performed on top of a vandalized police car at the BET Awards show.
Kendrick Lamar opened the BET Awards Sunday night rapping about police brutality while on top of a vandalized police car with a ripped American flag waving behind him. Performing his song “Alright,” the 28-year-old rapped about overcoming his struggles. (Daily Caller)
Speaking to fellow TV personality Tavis Smiley last February, Rivera clarified controversial remarks he made about hip-hop.
“When the culture of guns and violence and drugs becomes an ideal that you need to wallow to have credibility to be successful and the only people that would be successful are the one tenth of one tenth of one percent, I was right about that, then I don’t – although I understand the wonderful, informational and entertainment value of hip-hop, a lot of people have been happy about a lot of lyrics and a lot of performers, there is this aspect of it that I think is very, use the words I used there, and I’m sorry I picked this fight. I needed this fight like I needed a hole in the head. I had so much going on, I’m telling you.” (“The Tavis Smiley Show”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIkB_ihBNQw
A week prior, Rivera said hip-hop had been very destructive over the past decade.
“Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years. When you find the youngster, a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx or a black kid from Harlem, who has succeeded in life other than being the one-tenth of one-tenth of one percent that make it in the music business, that’s been a success in life walking around with his pants around his a** or with visible tattoos.” (“Huffington Post Live”)
This muthafucka stupid, really hiphop did more damage to black communities then racism. We as a whole have been oppressed, black balled, stereotyped and profiled for decades. Violence may not be the answer, but white people used violence on us during the days ofslavery and during the civil rights movement. When the shoes are on the other foot we’re wrong, fuck outta here!
They still use violence on us.
And blacks use violence on each other. Constantly. Death is death. It’s color blind.
And whites shoot up theaters, schools & their parents while on their parents prescription drugs…Hispanics kill each other also everyday in drug cartels & more…Asians in the U.S. also… sorry your point wassssss
point being blacks one make excuses and whine and bitch. you dont hear hispanics and whites and asians bitch. all that shit black lives matter… yet when niggaz shoot each other its quiet as a church mouse. black lives only matter if it involves cops. other than that blacks can kill each other by 1000’s every week. great logic….
Yep or we will mention what other races are doing to deflect.
EXACTLY WHY WOULD YOU WHINE THAT LIFES MATTER WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE CONTROL….WHEN WHITE KILL IT THOUGHT TO BE OK CAUSE ITS THE GOV. IM NOT SAYING BLACKS ARE WITHOUT FAULT BUT TO PUNISH ONE FOR BLEED WHEN YOU CAUSE THE WOUND IS UNFAIR….BLACK PEOPLE BUILT THE WORLD BUT YET WE NEVER GET CREDIT…..WE VOTE AND PAY TAX’X YET WE ARE KILLED BY OFFICER….FYI WHITES WHINE ALL THE TIME AND THEY GET RESULTS…HISPANICS ON HISPANIC CRIME IS SERIOUS BUT THEY ARE GIVEN FAVOR CAUSE THEY ARE NEED BY AMERICA ECONOMY BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL BUT ASAINS AND WHITES CONTRIBUTE TO MORE CRIME THAN BLACKS BUT THEY ARE OWNERS SO THEY ARE HIGHER LEVEL CROOKS…WHITE COLLAR CROOK…..IN NO WAY AM I TRYING TO DOWN YOU ARE YOUR PEOPLE IN I OFFEND I APOLOGIZE FROM AN HONEST PLACE….TERMS LIKE WHITE PEOPLE AND BLACK PEOPLE CAN BE READ AS OFFENSIVE AND THAT WAS NOT THE GOAL…I SIMPLY WOULD LIKE YOU TO CHALLENGE YOUR THOUGHTS ASK QUESTION WE ARE APART OF A GENERATION THAT CAN CHANGE AND WHOS TO SAY IT CANT START HERE BY SIMPLY TALKING OVER ISSUES AND HEARING OTHERS THOUGHT
DEATH IS DEATH BUT TO POINT OUT BLACK ON BLACK CRIME AND NOT POINT WHITE ON WHITE WHICH HAS BEEN AROUND LONGER…ITS NOT FARE TO JUDGE BOTH THE SAME WHEN ONE KILLS AS A CROOK AND THE OTHER KILLS TO SURVIVE….WHILE I UNDERSTAND THAT TENSION IN BLACK COMMUNITY IS SO HIGH YOU CAN DAY FOR A EYE LOOK BEING MISUNDERSTOOD…PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU DAY IN A WHITE COMMUNITY FOR BEING THERE….SO AGAIN WE ARE BOTH BAD CAUSE AS YOU SAID MURDER IS COLOR BLIND….BUT OUTSIDE RELIGION THE FATHER AND SON CAN NOT BE EQUAL IN TIME LINE ONE HAS TO COME FIRST WHITE ON WHITE AND WHITE ON EVERYBODY MURDER HAS BEEN AROUND LONGER AND HURT EVERY ONE IN THE WORLD….GUN MAKERS AND WEAPON MAKERS ARE WHITE AND SELL TO KILLERS WITH NO REMORSE….
Yeah it is always a touchy topic. 6 churches burned my ? is what are black folks gone do about it? I myself believe that if they burn 6 of ours we burn 6 of theirs.
Enjoy prison and being someone’s bitch. Because by your logic… That’s right where you headed. There or the graveyard. Or you could wise up and be smart and not be a ignorant fuck like those people you mentioned. That last choice sure seems to be the winner of the 3. By a long shot….
And by your logic nothing should occur. Right yeah that’s right. But if you think they are going to catch the people that did this you are as stupid as your comment.
you sound stupid as shit. move on.
I FEEL YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN REVEAL….I AM EVIL BY NATURE I HAVE WORKED VERY HARD NON STOP TO RIGHT THIS WRONG BUT YES WITH ALL THESE EXECUTIONS OF INNOCENT I TO FEEL LIKE MAYBE IT TIME TO FIGHT ACCIDENTAL SHOT WITH ACCIDENTAL SHOT….ITS A WAR THEY WE WOULD RIDE TO BUT NOT RETURN FROM….HOW DO YOU FIGHT WHEN THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING FROM THE BULLET WE MAY FIRE TO THE JUDGE THAT WILL PUT US AWAY IN A JAIL OWNED BY HIS COUSIN WHO GETS PROFIT FROM MICRO SOFT FOR BEHIND THE DOOR SLAVERY….PEACE TO YOU HAVE A SAFE WEEKEND
So if one dumb ass jumps off a bridge you gonna do the same? Why in the hell would you wanna be like the ignorant fucks that are racist? And violence is NEVER the answer. It lands you in one of 2 places eventually. Prison or 6 feet deep. Sorry, but I don’t like either of those options.
ITS NOT THE THOUGHT THAT DID IT SO CAN I BUT RATHER THEY DID AND ARE DOING IT RIGHT NOW IN FRONT OF YOU BUT YOU LOCK ME AND LET THEM GO…..ONE MAN HAD A GUN THE OTHER HAD SKITTLE NEITHER ONE WAS A COP ….HOW DOES THE ONE ARMED GET PUBLIC FUNDS FOR FREEDOM…..HOW CAN I GRAB MY GUN AND LOAD IT WITH INTENTION TO USE AND STILL BE VIEWED AS A VICTIM…SO UNDERSTAND NOT ONLY DID A KID GET SHOT BUT A KID GOT SHOT BY SOMEONE THAT WANTED TO KILL HENCE THEY HAD A GUN….OUR SYSTEM FAILED US AND PEOPLE SHOWED US THAT WERE STILL RACIST THIS MAN KILLED A KID AND PEOPLE PAID HIM TO GET FREEDOM…THE COURT SAW HIM AS DOING NO WRONG…HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF ONLY YOUR FLAWS WERE VIEWED…..BLACK ON BLACK IS AROUND BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE TO SCARED TO KILL WHITE FOLK…BEEN THAT WAY SINCE SLAVERY….NOW IF ONE WERE TO QUESTION ANGER IT MIGHT SHOW THAT A DIFFERENT TARGET IS MORE FITTING…BUT THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT BLACK ON BLACK CRIMES COMES FROM LACK OF LAND OWNERSHIP AND FUNDS…..BECAUSE WE DONT OWN OUR COMMUNITY WE DONT TAKE PRIDE IN IT…AND BECAUSE THERE ARE NO JOBS WE MAKE WAYS….NOT RIGHT BUT BEFORE YOU BLAME US SK WHO ARE OUR LAND LORDS AND SUPPLIERS….
WE HAVE HAD ONE PRESIDENT THAT WAS BLACK ALL THE REST WERE WHITE…SO WITH ALL THE WARS AMERICA HAS BEEN IN OR TOOK PART IN TO HELP THE REAL KILLERS IN AMERICA TAKE OFFICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND SENATE…..DRUG LORDS CAN SEND A SHOOTER US CAN SEND A PLANE FULL OF SOLDIERS….THUGS SOMETIME KILL ONE OR INNOCENT PEOPLE IN TURF WARS OUR ARMY BY ORDER OF OUR GOV. CAN MAKE A WHOLE VILLAGE DISAPPEAR IN SECONDS…WHEN WE DO IT ITS BLACK ON BLACK CRIME….WHEN THE GOV. DOES IT ITS CONSIDER TO BE THEM PROTECTING THE INNOCENT FROM INSURGENTS(LOCAL FARMER THAT WAS MADE TO FIGHT) LET ME ADD SOME OF THE REASONS FOR AMERICA COMING TO THE RESCUE HAS TO DO WITH THE WAY PEOPLE ARE TREATED SO THEY SAY OK THEN IF TRUE WHY ARE COPS PAID BY BLACK AND WHITE TAX DOLLARS ABLE TO KILL AT WILL WHAT HAPPEN TO INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
what makes me made is how they blindly ignore the real cause….first off lets get things clear a lot of my people dont own…not knocking them for the thought but rather using it to make this point…..Drugs and guns are not made by blacks and not distributed by blacks….so the thought that our music owned by them is the cause may have some truth to it…since when do we blame the worker…in any other area its the owners when that bp oil thing happen they went after the owner….so in stead of blaming the people that make songs about content that around in the abundance of said neighbor hood lets blame the owner the music label, gun company and the land lords……
That argument doesn’t stand up. I’m sorry. But when these Chicago rappers just to name a few… Go out and kill each other.. No. THEY MAKE THAT CHOICE. No manufacturer of that gun tells you to go be stupid. That decision is entirely up to you. Enough with the blame game. People need to look in the mirror most of the time and use some fucking sense. When you act a fool you know their can be major consequences. Simple as that.
WHILE I PEACEFULLY DISAGREE I DO SEE A WISH FOR PEACE IN YOUR WORDS …EXCUSE ME IF I GET THIS WRONG BUT YOU DONT SEEM TO BE MOTIVATED BY RACE….AND WITH THAT YOU ARE THE PROBLEM….NOT SEEING THERE IS A PROBLEM IS THE PROBLEM….I RESPECT YOUR THOUGHT BUT THEY NEED TO EVOLVE….ITS NOT AS SIMPLE AS LOOK YOURSELF AND THE MIRROR…..WHAT YOU SUGGEST IS EACH PART OF THE BODY ACT ON ITS OWN AND PULL ITS WEIGHT / DO ITS JOB SO THAT THEY BODY CAN FUNCTION AN NOBLE THOUGHT BUT WHAT ABOUT THE HEAD WHO CONTROLS IT AND WHY…..THE QUICKEST WAY TO STOP A SNAKE IS TO CHOP THE HEAD…IF PEACE IS TO REALLY HAPPEN ALL THAT ARE GUILTY MUST BE PUSHED OUT OF OFFICE HISTORY NEED TO START ANEW CHECKS NEED TO BE WRITTEN HISTORY BOOKS NEED TO BE CORRECTED…SEEDS NEED WATER AND SUN LIGHT TO GROW…CHICAGO IS FULL OF MISUNDERSTOOD MISUSED WARRIORS…THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO…..NO EXCUSE ALTHOUGH THERE IS A REASON BEHIND EVERYTHING…..
WHILE WE ARE UNABLE TO AGREE NOW A COMMON GROUND MIGHT NOT BE THAT FAR AWAY AGAIN I DONT VIEW YOU AS BAD BUT RATHER MISINFORMED EVERYTHING YOU SEE OR THAT IS SAID ABOUT BLACK IS NOT TRUE……THE FRACTION THAT I WOULD USE TO EXPLAIN FAULT OF NO PROGRESS WOULD BE 30/70 WE ARE NOT THE ASAINS ARE MEXICANS SO WE WILL NOT PROGRESS THE SAME REMEMBER WE WERE VIEWED AS 1/6TH OF A PERSON AND A ENEMY BEFORE ALL THE BLACK ON BLACK CRIME HIP HOP ERA.
This is a good look for Kendrick. Good job on the bold move!
lol
Yet Donald Trump shitted on your own people and you ain’t said shit about it. Fuck this sellout!
WHY DOES HE NOT TALK ABOUT CASEY ANTHONY LIVING TO MAKE TRAIL …THE GUY THAT SHOT PEOPLE AT THE MOVIES….OR THE SOUTH CAROLINA KID ….ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE REAL MURDERS AND TWO HAD WEAPONS WHEN THEY WERE CAPTURE YET THEY STILL MADE IT TO COURT…..
THEY EVEN TOOK HIM OUT OF HIS HOME IN HIS NEIGHBOR HOOD IN CUFF….WHAT DANGER WAS HE IN….THAT HE NEEDED EXTRA PROTECTION …BECAUSE TO THEM HE WAS NOT GUILTY YET…..WHY DO OUR INNOCENT GET SHOT WITH NO TRIAL….WHILE KILLERS THAT ARE CAUGHT WITH GUN AND FRESH BLOOD ON THEIR SHIRT GET A A VEST FOR PROTECTION TO THE WAITING JUDGE…..
WHY DOES HE NOT TALK ABOUT CASEY ANTHONY LIVING TO MAKE TRAIL …THE GUY THAT SHOT PEOPLE AT THE MOVIES….OR THE SOUTH CAROLINA KID ….ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE REAL MURDERS AND TWO HAD WEAPONS WHEN THEY WERE CAPTURE YET THEY STILL MADE IT TO COURT…..
THEY EVEN TOOK HIM OUT OF HIS HOME IN HIS NEIGHBOR HOOD IN CUFF….WHAT DANGER WAS HE IN….THAT HE NEEDED EXTRA PROTECTION …BECAUSE TO THEM HE WAS NOT GUILTY YET…..WHY DO OUR INNOCENT GET SHOT WITH NO TRIAL….WHILE KILLERS THAT ARE CAUGHT WITH GUN AND FRESH BLOOD ON THEIR SHIRT GET A A VEST FOR PROTECTION TO THE WAITING JUDGE…..
If violence and deep rooted hate is not the answer, explain how the white man came into power in this country? If being a thief is so bad explain why the white man has made so much money off of and floss the diamonds he’s stolen from Africa by nefarious means? And nah hip hop is not a bigger influence than history or the influence of television. If you gonna run shit and can blame hip hop and sue some folk over rapper’s actions well parents who have kids that died in these streets should be able to sue these corporations for continuing to give light to mainly violent and drug imagery in a rather celebratory manner.
Now we as a people still have a job to do, we need to give our kids more positive things to get into. I’m talking bout parents,cousins,friends etc. Just because you are not a good singer,producer or rapper you could be an executive in that field etc, the same with sports and all types of entertainment. Also don’t just talk about a black community, actually build one up and hire black folk who usually want to work for you. If a place called Korea town can have no negative connotations, several places called Blackville in all states shouldn’t have any as well lley
these fox geniuses keep this foolishness up to keep the dollars flowing. they dont even take the time to let one of the Interns interpret the lyrics. i think it was Sean Hannity who said Walmart should stop selling Jay Z…Walmart sells CLEAN versions. call me naive but I refuse to believe these people live their lives off tv walking around as clueless as they are on TV. please dont get me started on that Hasselbeck chic OMG. really cant understand how they get away with saying the stuff they say other than the bottom line $$$