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I’ve been waiting for Kendrick to say something about Palestine. I’m glad that at least someone did. Hip hop has needed a bigger voice putting something like this out imo.
Weirdly Kendrick doesn’t talk a lot about (very) current events given his characterization as a conscious rapper. It always seems to come like 2+ years later
There’s something to be said about him being the Obama of rap. But in fairness, not a lot of rappers are talking about Fred Hampton at all. He’s better than the vast majority of rappers, and certainly the best who’s at that level. Not a high bar to clear for sure, but it’s important to keep things in perspective.
~~He’s probably a Black Israelite. He rapped about it in one of his songs ~~
jk, I didn’t listen to the songs carefully enough
How so? He put the snippets with his Black Israelite uncle on Damn as a way to reinforce the theme of problematic elements of Black culture and his immediate environment. It wasn’t ever supposed to be an endorsement. I don’t see how any brand of zionism really fits with Kendrick’s public persona at all. And the angle of him being a Five Percenter, Black Israelite, or Black Hebrew just doesn’t check out either, all those groups are extremely antisemitic meanwhile you got him sticking up for the Jewish community that was betrayed by Drake when he code switched on them too? Just doesn’t square at all.
