Album Rating: 3.8
“This isn't true, and how would you even know this when you're in Australia”
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Album Rating: 3.0
does australia not have hoods?
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who even knows but i'm assuming he's talking about african american hoods which is where Kendrick comes from and where his music is targeted at
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Album Rating: 3.0
again he was sorta the voice of the black kid living in a white world, like that black kid going to a predominately white HS who feels alienated between his color's culture and the one hes trying to assimilate in, and that was a group that rarely got its voice afiak, but now he abandoned that group in favor of flaunting the shit he been through. so yeah he will always sorta be a HS level rapper that gets a lot of attention from white kids cause they can more easily identify with where hes coming and be like "yea i feel you on this racism stuff kendrick" which is painful af now
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Honestly I'd take Big Mac Mike over Kendrick just cause he's not nasally.
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Album Rating: 3.8
Jesus what did John Adams deserve another one? Steve Reich? Who cares
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Album Rating: 2.0
i live in LA and tbh 95% of people i've encountered who rep kendrick are white
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Album Rating: 3.0
i dont live in LA, thank god
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Kendrick preaches a positive message without cutting too much of the edge off reality. White gatekeepers & industry giants could have done much worse in granting their stamp of approval. As annoying as our 'woke' white kid generation is, the genuine effort to listen and understand is a step up from the colorblind bullshit of the last five decades. i still don't get how a white dude from down under thinks he can gatekeep for a black american art form but you do you, i guess
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
see, there's your problem. in america, race has always been tied to class. that's the legacy of slavery as an economic system.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
"class and race are definitely correlated but poverty is not a symptom of race"
african americans were enslaved in this country for 250 years. they were then legally disadvantaged for another eighty. for the last sixty-some years, discriminatory drug enforcement, gerrymandering, etc has been consistently used to target their communities. have you read any baldwin or wright or coates, who have offered pretty comprehensive reflections (though differing) on the state of race in america? it's not that race guarantees class, but it has a huge social and economic impact on class through pervasive legal and social mechanisms that have been shifting forms since the day this country was colonized.
and for someone who's completely against conscious rap, saying something like "kendrick should be dissin friedman and his theories of monetarism" just illuminates how muddled your own stance on hip hop is
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Album Rating: 4.3
I don't like this conversation
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Album Rating: 4.0
I believe that art should be apolitical.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
"thing is, the issue for my people, as it is with kendrick's (it seems), is not one of being ostracised and marginalised still as much as it is one of a lack of support and an unwillingness to provide a helping hand"
so active vs passive suppression? it's still racialized and effective
honestly, for me it comes down to you, some foreign white guy who probably hasn't done the research on race relations in america, complaining that a black american artist attributes too much to race. it's just bizarre. as far as virtue signaling, all political art virtue signals, that's pretty much the point - use influence to initiate change & influence belief.
i appreciate the discussion though. good night man, don't get banned before i wake up and see your reponse ok
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"I believe that art should be apolitical."
That is a horrible belief. Especially when talking about an art form from which its roots cannot be separated from politics.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I believe that art should be apolitical.'
Everyday Sputnik you give me something to shake my head at
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Album Rating: 3.0
i believe politics should be aart
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Art ultimately imitates life so there are fewer instances in which it may end up being apolitical.
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Album Rating: 2.0
the face of an artist
https://imgur.com/a/k8vkx
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Album Rating: 3.0
i get my political news through soulseek
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