Thoughts on Kendrick's The Blacker the Berry Track? | @AskDEHH w/ Sophie 

Vinnie Mac Just fire Roman already

Myke C-Town Yo Myke for president!

Try to look more Interested

+Tawanda Batana No thanks.

+Myke C-Town I dont recall cole making music like this, especially THIS topic

wym we dont got the same opportunities? why you think that is. im looking for an answer more specific than "the white man". my mama always tell me to stop playin victim, stop blamin problems on the system. yea its fucked up but this america, there is some things the system cant get away with. why dont we as black people go to college? no money? take a loan, and pay it back after you got a degree and an actually make a livings worth instead of bullshit jobs while we feed off welfare. think about that, all the blacks on welfare are taking the white mans money. you dont think they are mad about that? bc blacks compared to the black population, have way too many welfare recipients. we gotta stop actin like the white man out to get us. i know stereotypes are alive and well but i don't believe they are rooting for us to "do their job" and kill each other.

Prince G-MO ironic cause Kendrick's new album is called DAMN. lol

BitchImFatJesus this man predicted the future

Prince G-MO DAMN.

Prince G-MO DAMN...this nigga just predicted Kendricks 4th album 2 years before it came out...DAMN

@@itsnoya5520 DAMN

It did

Not the one it deserves .... Lol

CodysFavorites keep making the vids - Eon from RG (Haha)

Brandon Rodriguez Lol I was thinking the same thing. Kendrick for Batman?

Wait wait.. so a theory blaming the white man for somehow making black people kill each other is the one you're going with? LOL It's called personal responsibility. Pathetic.

towards the gun and liquor stores we didn't built? To the drugs we didn't bring into our communities? Personal responsibility definitely applies but not when our communities are built to kill us and wasn't built by us or for is.

Even Kendrick embraces (at least one of the elements that compose that hypocrisy) that hypocrisy in XXX (if we assume the killer in that song is African American) where Kendrick's advice is "if somebody kill my son, that means somebody getting killed". I believe the reason the song garnered controversy was because people tend to see issues and morality through a black and white lens that isn't particularly detailed in terms of shades of black and white. Kendrick, to a certain degree, lies right on the bed of the grays. He acknowledges human flaw as natural.

Great discussion!

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The video ended with me still confused on how Kendrick makes you uncomfortable.

You'll always look beautiful My Love💕 fuck the hat

Similar to Myke and Halle Berry, I just want to hold your hand and skip while we are at the beach.

azealia banks and Lupe Fiasco are both in the same boats. They are fake ass prophets who do nothing that talk with no action. They think that their words are powerful enough to physically make a change, but in reality they don't take affirmative action because they are both addicted to the white mans money

Brandon Standifer do not categorize lupe with azalea banks bruh. Just...NO

I never mentioned K Dot in my original post.

Musically Lupe is on another level than Banks. But I still put them together like I said in my comment

I actually liked Azealia Banks' album. I like her music but some of her comments make my eyes roll.

and feefo to an extent

+Jevon Watson Trust me, you take any of them out and the whole dynamic is ruined. I get what you mean though fam.

Myke also doesn't talk about Hip Hop on his channel

Not Beezy he doesn't say anything alot anyway he's expendable

***** Nah man, Beezy's got the most knowledge when it comes to producers. He's just not as well spoken as the other guys.

jtsasuke96 Yeah and for Myke to sit there and STILL try to blame black on black "white supremacy" is stupid bullshit.

Myke literally said it's not the African American community😭, bruh

***** You don't get it

Precisely on point! I throughouly agree and couldn't have said it any better!! Many people are unaware of this and they should do well to remember that Kendrick is an album's artist, not a singles artist.

i am 100% sure this is a character if you here that untitled song he did on the Colbert Report all of the songs seem like like characters. he has said plenty of times he is a writer not a rapper and that he wants to tell a story.

Myreon Smith totally. Odd then that none of the DEHH crew even bring it up as a viable interpretation. I mean we all remember how Backstreet Freestyle sounded like an uncharacteristic braggadocios track until heard in context of the story and characters. Yeah, I'm glad other people are getting it on the same wavelength. Funny how sometimes the DEHH dudes totally understand the fictional narrative underlying a track(like the Run the Jewels persona/over the top attitude) but take other story/theatrical tracks at face value. idk, interesting though.

Myreon Smith / nah it’s real he really did kill someone. Listen to “ignorance is bliss”

Jourdan 'Faceless' Russell Because of that performance "i" became my favorite song I hope that last verse is on the album though. I also agree with everything you said and alot of us more than people think have self love and are trying to build better communities but some bullshit always happens and derails everything.

You got it exactly right in my opinion!! high five for that.

U know how Dat shit goes

do you like it or do you like it cause everyone likes it?

MyNameLeonIs I specifically like that song and Jungle. I don't like the rest of the tape

Dat nigga Johnny bling is the plug

THE REAL HARD CORE CHAMP lmao, legend has it he put him on to some finer things.

Only a Cole fan would get butthurt over the length of a review.

***** Are you sure? I ONLY buy Nas, J Cole & Kendrick albums.....so try again.

Escobar600GOAT_NODEBATING. Still a Cole fan. I stand by my argument.

***** You are not that bright huh?.....I'll let you keep replying now.....

Stop bitching about something as trivial as that shit man are u serious? Thats cool that j cole said it "first" fine and dandy now look at the bigger picture! The message is being put out. Wanna look for a reason to get at ctown, fuck outta here

Obviously he's not the only hip-hop artist to talk about social issues, it's just that he executed it so perfectly and there's not a lot of rappers in the mainstream who talk about it like he does.

+ Lupe Fiasco

No Slave Name Gambino has sold as much as Cole with his last album that went gold and was nominated for a Grammy in 3 categories. I think it's just a matter of respect given to certain artists for speaking on certain topics, especially in the Black community where those names hold more weight

***** nobody gives a shit about him anymore. They think he fell off and catches heat for stupid shit. I think his album sales for Tetsuo & Youth were lower than Joey Bada$$'s

P-Walk03 When does Gambino really talk about social issues? He is definitely smart, gives personal accounts, and he has a keen awareness about stereotypical perceptions. But I would say I get more socio-political commentary from Gambino in his interviews, than in his actual songs..........

AFunkyDiabetic Right!

Both albums are amazing lol

section 8o was wayyy better imo, that's what drew me as a fan, only personal song he had on that was sing about me, only thing unique about the album was the story line and skits

I wouldn't say commercial teaser because both albums served different purposes. I think Section 80 gained him a huge following (as you say it drew you in), but I believe he would have released GKMC regardless of the size of his fan base. And if you think about it, besides Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe, the album still didn't have radio friendly tracks. Both albums are amazing.

gerry juice Nah that album had hella plays I was actually surprised. Ex. Swimming Pools. Poetic Justice. Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe. Not to sure but I think most of his album got played a lot down here in Texas.

he has a new one out? where can i download it?

Omg thank u so much, CYHI one my faves on that BHP2 rn! WeakPeople is a better version of Blacker The Berry

Kendrick's been saying this same shit for awhile too before he was accessible

Eyad Madani But my thing is Lupe's been doing it since Food & Liquor 1 and The Cool, back when he was more relevant in the mainstream and before he was as complex as he is now. He was like a Kendrick then, accessible and deep, something for all listeners. It's just no one made a fuss about songs like Hurt Me Soul or Real, etc. Don't get me wrong I'm a huge Kendrick fan as well but he does get special treatment in a way, you know?

God Soul Production Oh yeah I know, I'm a Kendrick fan too. Just saying even before that

Eyad Madani Yeah of course, I get that for sure. But I see a lot of older people who think Kendrick is like the first to do it and it just seems weird to me lol

Eyad Madani feels like homework? at least Lupe isn't giving you unnecessary information.

Sean Mounts true. But the only issue I have with future is that his whole album was drug related, which defeats the entire purpose of March madness. And even so that was so surface level, it was like he made it so vague that it wouldn't offend anybody but relate to current issues. Like we have to do better than this. They are in a position to influence the mind set of their fans, like look how far Drake's Hotline Bling went. They can impact this generation and really change things for the better, and Drake is so quiet.

Same joke came to my mind.

*So What You Saying Is* that's what I thought. Maybe lil meech? Lol

He has, but I think they meant that Kendrick is one of the few artists to talk about things like this that does it in a way where the majority of people can understand the message right away. Lupe has an enigmatic way of getting his message out and he can easily go over the average listeners head, which would require multiple listens in order to get it like Feefo alluded to in the video.

Ant718100 I actually wrote this before I heard Feefo say that. It wouldn't be so difficult for people to decipher what Lupe says if they didn't dumb hip hop down so much. It wouldn't have been hard in the 90's...although I do agree with you Lupe has displayed direct messages as well with: "American Terrorist, Hood Now, Bitch Bad, Words I Never Said" just to name a few.

***** Lupe Fiasco is a mainstream (signed to Atlantic) artist with independent content. He's went platinum at least that's what he said and if that is true he is popular. Kendrick is newer, his music is great so he should have more popularity. He also has the strongest machine backing him in Interscope.

***** Lupe was as popular as Kendrick when he did The Cool. Watch how they got stop playing Kendrick on the radio. These whites folk don't want us to come into the Knowledge. Surprised interscope let him put this out, they got find a way yo stop him in the long run.

Mark Harris I'm only replying to you because someone told me you said something so I came looking for it. My issue is that everyone is OK with "we" when it's talking about something good, but when it's something bad everyone want to jump out and say "but I don't do that." Yes, I don't personally kill anyone. You don't' personally hurt anyone, but I'm looking at this from a community standpoint. If you or others don't like the "we" when discussing community, then that's fine. But then we have to stick to that when discussing anything. And that's not something that's isolated to black people. When women discuss rape, they say "men rape." That's not to say ALL men rape. It's up to us to stop and think about what's being said and discern who is actually being discussed. To have to insert "certain" before every statement made should only serve to aid the ignorant. Not the intelligent. And by simply trying to exclude ourselves from the problem or hanging onto semantics we are doing absolutely nothing to fix it. Why do we use the term "black on black crime?" Because that's exactly what it is. Black men killing other black men. What should it be called? Sure, you want to label it simply "crime?" Yes, that's fine, but when you are talking about an isolated issue, it helps to give it a specified name. I don't think it goes any deeper than that. When addressing this particular issue, it's necessary to give it a name that is very clear to anyone looking at the situation that may no be involved actively in the discussion.

If it dont apply to you then they aint speaking about you..

The status of the rapper. Many underground rappers are consistently promoting this type of message but due to their position in Hip-Hop, no one really cares for unfortunately.

Vinny Paz You don't think J. Cole has status as a rapper? He sold 371,000 copies of his last album in the first week. He definitely is not underground.

J.Cole isn't doing anything. Literally the second song on his latest disappointing record talks about lying to a girl about being a virgin. Real groundbreaking stuff there.

So your just going to ignore 03' Adolescence, Love Yourz, GOMD, No Role Modelz and Note to Self? Where he speaks on real shit? You need to listen more homie

Brandon Standifer None of those songs speak on anything that Kendrick does. The best song on that album is the very first track. Everything after that is forgettable.

J Cole is half white therefore is only entitled to 50% the props. The 50% card also has it's advantages. You just don't get the full experience. #idontmaketherules

He does more for the black community than ANY other mainstream black rapper. I don't see why he doesn't get the credit.

Gr33nPhoenix you don't know that. You actually don't know what most of these guys do. You just assume. Let that marinate.

dazza818 You're right, name another mainstream rapper that was on the streets of Ferguson.

I'll wait.

They meant big name artist!

***** Maybe kendrick is what came to there mind!

No

3 weeks passed and there's nothing

Even though you are right, Dizzy is not on that same mainstream level like Kendrick

In the trash

In the trash

Be patient, this came out first.

lol, oh look what ive done, I did say i was only trollin'

"Slam dunk in the recycle bin" ~ Beezy430

Darrel Be coz he deserves everything he's achieving