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Rapper Kendrick Lamar makes racial statement with 'The Blacker the Berry'
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar answered his win of two
The track has a dramatically different sound compared to the first single he dropped, "i." An upbeat, uplifting song about self-love, "i" won Lamar two Grammys on Sunday night for "Best Rap Performance" and "Best Rap Song."
"The Blacker The Berry" takes on a much more serious tone, addressing social issues currently being faced by African Americans. It could be a coincidence that he chose to drop this single during Black History Month, but it seems fitting considering Lamar goes all the way back to his roots in the first verse of "The Blacker The Berry," where he raps "I'm African American," then restates the line as "I'm African, I'm black as the moon, heritage of a small village." He also mocks modern stereotypes placed on African Americans in the very same verse. In the final verse of the song, Kendrick lists more African American stereotypes, and indicates that African American history isn't something that should be celebrated for only one month in an entire year.
This win of two Grammys with the release of a new track the very next day that instantaneously had the Internet talking. Kendrick released "The Blacker The Berry" on Monday afternoon, a track to be featured on his upcoming third studio album, produced by OVO's Boi-1da and Terrace Martin. The song immediately received positive feedback from commenters on YouTube and started trending on Twitter.
Lamar begins each verse with "I'm the biggest hypocrite of 2015." Throughout the song, he speaks on violence and hypocrisy, and expresses the anger and hatred felt by African Americans toward
the white-dominated country we live in. He ends the song with the lyrics "So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street? When gang b***ing make me kill a n*** blacker than me? Hypocrite"
Lamar is calling out his own race for responding to racial issues in a violent manner, and for blaming white people for the death of African Americans without acknowledging that many African Americans die at the hands of their own race every day. Lamar is calling for peace.
Lamar has mentioned Martin Luther King Jr. in his music before, beginning in his first studio album, Section.80. It's obvious that he strives to carry on MLK's philosophy of nonviolent activism in his latest release as well. Lamar places blame not only on white people, but also on the black community, much like MLK did.
In an interview with Billboard regarding Ferguson, Lamar said, "When we don't have respect
for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting — it starts from within."
His response received harsh feedback from fellow rappers like Kid Cudi and Azealia Banks, who tweeted, "dumbest s*** I've ever heard a black man say." In the first lines of "The Blacker The Berry," he stands by his viewpoint on how he thinks the current situation in Ferguson should have been handled. It's possible that this song could be received the same way his comment in the interview was, but ultimately, Lamar's intent is to promote peace and to stand up for his race, and so far the song has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.
In the song's chorus, Lamar raps, "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice," which samples Tupac's song "Keep Ya Head Up." The phrase "the blacker the berry" was derived from the novel The Blacker the Berry by Wallace
Thurman, which is about a young woman facing racial discrimination during the Harlem Renaissance. This lyric has been interpreted multiple ways by listeners online, but since Lamar aims to address racial tension that has been especially prominent within the last year, he is likely referring to the current state of chaos that continues to dominate the media and minds of many.
Edited by Garrett Long
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