Cyrus Langhorne
Top Dawg Entertainment’s Kendrick Lamar has come forward to speak out on his “Alright” music video and, notably, the backlash his BET Awards performance sparked from Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera.
Instead of spending ample time talking about Rivera, K. Dot simply said no criticism could take away from the message “Alright” delivers.
“This is our music. This is us expressing ourselves. Rather than going out here and doing the murders myself, I want to express myself in a positive light the same way other artists are doing. Not going out in the streets, go in the booth and talking about the situation and hoping these kids can find some type of influence on it in a positive manner. … [Geraldo’s comments?] You can’t dilute the message.” (TMZ Live)
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
Geraldo stupid ass fuck if he believes his on bullshit! But most of THEM believe that shit anyway….shit some of US even agree….but he’s wrong….now on the other hand is Kendrick really about the shit he kicking or is he just kicking black revolutionary power shit?
I think he’s really about that,it’s just he’s young and trying to find his way to help with the knowledge and resources he’s accumulated. Kendrick’s a rapper so maybe he feel like the booth is the best way he can help the masses. I saw him going that way on the section 80 album.
I feel you but his new album wack to me it ain’t hot …yeah he kicking knowledge and I get that but to me he sounds like he need to turn up the aggressiveness…just seem like a soft revolutionary approach
king kendrick knows a wise man never argues with a fool
^^^ for real.
yeh he on that BR tip u can tell from the hiatus between albums
F HIP HOP DISAPPEARED TODAY, 100 YEARS FROM NOW THERE WOULD STILL BE KILLINGS,POLICE BRUTALITY,RACISTS,DRUGS,GUNS,POVERTY,AND KIDS DRESSING IN A WAY THAT OLD FOLKS WOULD NOT AGREE WITH. WHERE DOES THE BLAME GO THEN?
Why the fuck are Geroldo’s, Bill O’racist’s, and Sean Hannity’s, comments relied throughout hiphopo websites and radio anyway? Those idiots, don’t even believe in what they are saying, it’s just to get a rise out of us.
Restore Pride In Parenting; End Child Abuse & Neglect
Victims of Horrific Child Abuse; Young American Kendrick Lamar Boldly Speaks About Child Abuse, The Seeds of Poverty and Crime
In his 2015 Grammy award winning Rap Performance titled “I”, Kendrick Lamar writes, “I’ve been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent.”
During a January 20, 2011 LAWeekly interview (Google search) Kendrick, born in 1987, the same year songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and VICTIM DENIAL that was nominated for a Grammy award, he told the interviewer:
“Lamar’s parents moved from Chicago to Compton in 1984 with all of $500 in their pockets. “My mom’s one of 13 [THIRTEEN] siblings, and they all got SIX kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton,” he says.”
“I’m 6 years old, seein’ my uncles playing with shotguns, sellin’ dope in front of the apartment. My moms and pops never said nothing, ’cause they were young and living wild, too. I got about 15 stories like ‘Average Joe.'”
It seems evident to me Kendrick identified the source of his depression, the roots of poverty, the child abuse/maltreatment that prevented him, his brothers, sisters, cousins, neighborhood friends and elementary and JHS classmates from enjoying a fairly happy, safe Average Joe and Josie American kid childhood.
Seems the adults responsible for raising the children in Kendrick’s immediate and extended family placed obstacles in their children’s way, causing their kids to deal with challenges and stresses young minds are not prepared to deal with…nor should they or any other children be exposed to and have to deal with.
It seems evident to me these PARENTAL INTRODUCED obstacles and challenges cause some developing children’s minds to become tormented and go haywire, not knowing OR NOT CARING ABOUT right from wrong…because as the mature, young victims of child abuse realize their parents introduced them to a life of pain and struggle, totally unlike the mostly safe, happy life the media showed them many American kids were enjoying. RESENTMENT
I cannot speak for anyone else, but if I was raised in Kendrick’s family I would most likely be silently peeved at my parents for being immature irresponsible “living wild” adults who deprived me of a safe, happy childhood.
Though like many victims of child abuse, most likely I would deny my parents harmed me, seeking to blame others for the pain my parents caused to me.
I wonder how little Kendrick and his classmates reacted when their elementary school teacher introduced the DARE presenter and they learned about the real dangers of drugs and how they harm people, including their parents?
In a Oct 25, 2012, LAWeekly interview (Google search) Kendrick talks about being a SIX-YEAR-OLD child who was not able to trust and rely on his mom…essentially he speaks about being emotionally abandon by his own mom.
Kendrick shares his experiences about feeling lonely, which if you read up on Cognitive Dissonance that Dr. Joy Degruy writes about in her book, “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PTSS)”, is it perfectly understandable why Kendrick feels lonely.
Search Google “Post traumatic Disorder Dr Joy de Gruy Leary – YouTube” to watch a very disturbing yet enlightening 1:21:00 lecture about “Cognitive Dissonance” and how it harms developing kids like Kendrick. Dr. DeGruy does an excellent job describing how “CD” helped perpetuate the human ignorances we call racism and slavery.
Dr. DeGruy also describes how using our common sense, we should be able to understand how “CD” can negatively impact developing children like Kendrick Lamar (born 1987), as well as Tupac Shakur (born 1971) and Shawn ‘Jay Z Carter’ (born 1969), to name a few more victims of horrific child abuse.
Early in my police career when I was assigned to the Brooklyn community *Shawn ‘Jay Z’ Carter* raps/writes about attempting destroy by selling poison to people living and working in his community, and rapping about engaging in extremely harmful anti-social behaviors designed to protect his drug operation from rival gangs in adjoining neighborhoods, a few of my training officers advised me to be prepared to experience “culture shock.”
I did find out what “culture shock” is, though it was not a culture of violence and harmful anti-social activities many were insinuating I would be shocked by.
The aspect of this Brooklyn, NY community that shocked me to the core was witnessing children being emotionally scarred by a “American Sub-Culture of Child Abuse/Neglect” that Kendrick Lamar raps and speaks about some twenty-five years after I first witnessed the “American Sub-Culture of Child Abuse/Neglect” that today CONTINUES emotionally damaging many developing children and their communities.
I personally witnessed the emotional trauma and physical pain a young, neglected, unsupervised, Shawn ‘Jay Z’ Carter is responsible for causing, and its aftermath, leaving a community populated by mostly peaceful people fearing for their safety on a 24/7 basis, which are the hours Shawn’s crew/gang were selling community harming substances.
During the twelve years I served this community I met hundreds of peaceful people who were just as shaken, upset and deeply disturbed as I was by the daily displays of violence and other anti-social activities mostly caused by teens and adults who were victims of childhood abuse and neglect.
I was lucky, at the end of my workday I could leave the community, returning to a more peaceful residential community were concerns for me and my family’s safety were significantly lower.
However, virtually all of my civilian co-workers, mostly loving, competent moms living in this community were not as fortunate. They were burdened with stresses and challenges my parents did not face to any significant degree.
The added stresses and challenges my peaceful co-workers faced was preventing their children from being negatively influenced by abused/neglected/unsupervised children being raised and nurtured by immature, “living wild” teen moms and young women who irresponsibly begin building families before they acquired the skills, maturity, PATIENCE and means to independently provide for their family of developing children.
Reading Kendrick’s background, if you have any compassion for kids, you have to feel horrible for a FIRST GRADE school child who can’t depend on his mom to be there for him, a mom who exposes him to things kids should not have to witness and deal with in their young minds.
Kendrick has taken a bold first step by revealing his mother (and father) made poor choices that deprived him, his brothers and sisters from experiencing a safe, fairly happy Average Joe or Josie American kid childhood….YET NO ONE IS LISTENING TO KENDRICK….WHY?
#protect-kids-from-irresponsible-caregivers
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