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There’s also a clip that shows a pair of shoes on a electric wire, if you know anything about poverty neighborhoods you know that's a symbol meaning you can find drugs near by, these are all things that tie into the portrayal of destruction or of evil prevailing amongst the city. There is nothing but negative and dark imagery that is being shown from the burning cars and the people in mayhem, the older woman with makeup running down her face as though she has been crying, or the younger woman with blood coming from her head to look like she’s been hit with something, or is it the men jumping on cars and downing alcohol. But how we respond to Kendrick’s music just might.In the beginning of the video we are seeing a city being terrorized along with the people in it, the way the first minute and thirty seconds is being portrayed is like the city has entered the apocalypse. Rather than reviewing this album, let's review what we do with it. When you are alone with his words, do you hear them? Do you believe them? Or do you attempt to lump them together with whatever hackneyed and two-dimensional concept you have of "Compton?" That is for you to decide when you are listening to his work in its completion. The question then becomes how hard and for how long will America continue to fight, deny, or ignore this humanity. It is about the humanity of every other black person whose face is painted on the mural of this wall of sound. It is about him and his complete humanity. He does not break off pieces of blackness as a hood souvenir that you can post on your wall or bump in your car in order to feel like it’s all good. Kendrick’s hip-hop is not the hip-hop that allows white guys to breathe. It is not fake, it is not afraid, and it is not accidental. It is the record of a working artist who has been visited by genius and who has a deep and earned mastery of his form. Butterfly is not the recording of a natural genius. It is precise and skilled, as perfect in technical execution as it is uninhibited in content. Do not buy it when critics will inevitably try to sell you that his work is rough or unbridled, the magic work of a hood savant. Unlike other artists whose juxtaposition of hip-hop bluster with confessional vulnerability feels like shtick, Kendrick does not do performative honesty.
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To be honest and black and poor and smart and gifted is to know how to move others to action. To be honest and black and poor and smart is to know who is at fault. To be honest and black and poor is to know deeply and personally how racism and capitalism works.
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To be honest and black is, by nature, to be a threat. This is what makes him the most hopeful and threatening rapper of all. Meaning, he doesn’t do any of the things that allow you to put comfortable limits on how seriously to take him. Nor does he assuage white guilt by preaching peace and unity and colorblindness and one love. He doesn’t threaten record executives, come across as a goon. There are no secret stories of him beating women or throwing people out of windows. Kendrick, on the other hand, is not commenting on your post. If you want to you could feel justified in simply blocking him. But he’s still responding to the original post. It’s also what keeps him from being as dangerous or compelling a symbol of black power as he might be. That’s part of what makes him so awesome. And by not liking him you immediately become "Get Off My Lawn" Grandpa. Yeah he’s good, but he was unbelievably rude to that pretty and innocent white girl that one time. Yeah he’s good, but his fashion show was terrible.
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Kanye gives people a chance to say "yeah, but." As in yeah he’s a genius, but he’s so full of himself. Maybe because My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was the last time a hip-hop album so confessional and idiosyncratic was greeted on such a grand public scale, but, unlike Kanye, Kendrick cannot be dismissed, even if you wanted to. Listening to To Pimp a Butterfly, I thought about genius (Kendrick has it) which, in turn, made me think of Kanye. If he can admit that, it makes me wonder why so many music writers can’t. On the track "Momma", he lists all the things he knows about growing up poor and black in Compton and then admits that he doesn’t know shit. What he tells is honest and therefore entirely devoid of tropes. With Kendrick you don’t already know what it is.