![]() He added, “The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.” It’s something I still have to think about when I sleep at night. “I don’t talk about these things if I haven’t lived them, and I’ve hurt people in my life. ![]() ![]() “It’s not me pointing at my community it’s me pointing at myself,” said Kendrick. According to the 28-year-old Compton native, his words on “The Blacker The Berry” were not meant to be viewed as a condemnation of his entire race. Kendrick spoke about the criticism with NPR. He was also confronted with negative comments for the lyrics in his song “The Blacker The Berry” which referred to him being a hypocrite for crying over Trayvon Martin’s death and not over the African-American deaths caused by gang violence. The TDE emcee was criticized for saying “we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us?” after the Michael Brown killing. Unfavorable terms such as “victim blaming” and “respectability politics” were brought up. (AllHipHop News) Before dropping the critically acclaimed, socially conscious album To Pimp A Butterfly and essentially becoming the musical voice of the Black Lives Matter movement, Kendrick Lamar faced backlash from some members of the black community.
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