Echoing divisive comments Lamar made to Billboard recently (“What happened to should've never happened. At the beginning of each verse he confesses to being “the biggest hypocrite of 2015,” but we don't understand what he means till the closing words: “So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street, when gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me? Hypocrite!” The surface message: The narrator of the song has killed black people: What right does he have to be mad at whites who have done the same? That's what you're telling me: Penitentiary would only hire me.” His only solace is the classic hip-hop kind: trumpeting his blackness and flaunting his personal success, calling himself a 'proud monkey' driving a “muscle car like pull ups.” The Lamar of 'The Blacker the Berry' may not be a hypocrite, but the world has made him to feel like one.īut there’s a twist at the end of the song. In one devastatingly concise couplet, Lamar describes the psychological baggage placed on so many black men: “I mean, it's evident that I'm irrelevant to society. This is no-filter, cathartic venting, part of a long tradition that includes Public Enemy and Kanye West. I'm African American, I'm African I'm black as the heart of a fuckin' Aryan I'm black as the name of Tyrone and Darius Excuse my French but fuck you-no, fuck y'all That's as blunt as it gets, I know you hate me, don't you?

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