“I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on the inside looking out,” Kendrick Lamar says toward the end of his debut album, 2011’s Section.80. “I'm in the dead fucking center, looking around.”
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It’s a good mission statement for the 27-year-old Compton rapper, who some say is the new king of hip-hop. It’s a good mission statement for anyone, really—the reminder that your point of view is your point of view, irreducible and distinct. And it’s a line that comes to mind listening to Lamar's new track, “The Blacker the Berry,” which in less than 24 hours racked up more than a million streams, was knighted as an early contender for song of the year, and sparked controversy related to the Black Lives Matter movement.
New song from Kendrick Lamar, 'The Blacker The Berry.' While everyone else is still obsessing over last night's Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar decides it's the perfect time to drop a new record off. Up until this point, the Grammy Awards probably served as the biggest news item of the day. This just might change that. Following up “i,” Kendrick Lamar has released another new track dubbed “The Blacker The Berry.” Listen above and let us know your thoughts below. 'The Blacker The Berry' is a politically charged battle cry for 2015. This release is a stark contrast to Kendrick's last single, the upbeat 'i.' Kendrick aims this hard-knocking track right at his skeptics, and racists in particular. Tags: Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry Download Related Articles Youngboy Never Broke Again Ft. Hoodrich Pablo Juan & Dylan Raps – Alcoholic.
At the age of 16, Lamar as the song's narrator says he “came to [his] senses”—an awakening of racial consciousness, the realization that powerful parts of America hate him. The response is defiance and pride, delivered with creative venom that made headline writers scramble for to find synonyms for “pissed off” (it’s “blistering,” “scathing,” “seething”)--
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?
“As blunt as it gets,” yes. This is no-filter, cathartic venting, part of a long tradition that includes Public Enemy and Kanye West. 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. 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.”
But there’s a twist at the end of the song. 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?
Hot off of his win at the 2015 Grammy Awards last night, Kendrick Lamar has dropped a brand new song called “The Blacker the Berry”!
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The song will be featured on the 27-year-old rapper’s upcoming third studio album and it was produced by Boi-1da.
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Kendrickwon two Grammys last night – Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for “i,” though he wasn’t at the show to accept them. The song will also be featured on the upcoming album.
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