I think he’s talking about the hypocrisy of the culture. It’s about being loyal to a culture that isn’t necessarily loyal to you. We could go deep into why that is. But he’s touching on the idea that the culture is whatever we make it. It doesn’t define us. We define it
Al capone came before frank mathews. Richard kuklinski came before wayne slik perry. The kkk and Irish gangs and Italian mafia came before crips and bloods gds bds and vice lords. Black people bleaching their getting nose jobs wearing blonde red brunette wigs and weave so who's imitation who?
The song is all about their perspective, he changes up the lyrics for each person he turns into, like he's rapping each of their lives in their perspective, cause u know everybody's perspective of life is different
He only TRULY speaks from Nipsey’s perspective and his own. I think he uses the other faces to bring attention to what the culture (American culture, not only black culture) does to black men. Hence him saying at the beginning “I am. All of us.” The faces he uses may tie in with one or two bars, but he only truly raps from his own perspective and Nip’s. Powerful art.
He is 100% talking about the fake loyalty that is black/urban/inner city culture, which was adopted and championed bu hip hop in general. The fact that pain is washed away by another bottle and you're onto the next day. That's the culture you grow up in amd is promoted. The characters he morphs into are people that have made mistakes and have been left behind by the culture. The culture he speaks about is a vicious cycle where the good gets stomped out.
8:00 listen closely, he’s talking about things specific to the faces he’s portraying, almost talking from their perspectives or giving his on their situations
Glad pops asked that culture question because this is exactly what Kendrick was expressing in the song the fact that this culture is scrutinized glorified etc it can demonize you etc
I feel where you coming from pops and I feel what aleah was saying too but it’s apart of our culture cause we lived it and experienced it but most of it was really forced on us we just took it and made the best out of what we had to deal with in my opinion
You said it, it wasn't our culture its what was forced upon us and like everything else we endure/overcome right or wrong it is now engrained in 'the culture'
Hip hop was designed to give us a way out of the negativity but once people saw sensationalism and pain is attractive they pushed that instead of the positivity it was created to bring about but what Kendrick is saying is part of the culture but we're not the only people that have negativity. Plus he shows you as the video goes on the people like kobe and nip who shows the positive side that hip hop was intended for.
"Is this really our culture?" Yes, it is. Culture morphs with time as new generations contribute their own values and preferences and outsiders join the community bringing their own baggage. The culture is the vibe of the community and its change is a reflection of changes in the community. We cannot disown it anymore than a man can disown his shadow.
I disagree. I think what he's saying is that our "culture" has now been high jacked by people who have an agenda. It's like a beautiful, jade bowl with no food or content inside. Look at popular music nowadays. It's pure "money, sex and drugs". There's no soul anymore. Then again, like Kendrick said, life is about perspective. However, perspective can be skewed.
A lot of how the world views black people is due to the media’s portrayal of black people which others formulate their opinions from. Even black people are susceptible to these misrepresentations or over representations of negative images. Example....Hip Hop started positive, it was the voice of the streets until it got infiltrated bought sold and packaged by (rhymes with bluish) owed corporations. That now use the influence of Hip Hop culture to control the minds of millions of young uninformed and misguided people and youths ( especially black ones) around the world. They did it in the late 60s and early 70s with Blaxploitation films and repeated the formula by promoting and financially backing GANGSTER rap music in the mid to late 80s which corrupted the sound of what hip-hop actually started from. Muhamed Ali once said during an interview that the reason he would never do a Blaxploitation film again was because the movie studios that produced these films were not black owned but owned by (rhymes with bluish) chairman and founders and that they use these negative images and portrayals of African-Americans in the media to infiltrate the minds of other African-Americans Muhammad Ali said “they use my people to control the minds of my people” . Black people do not control their own narrative even though they think they do only the negative side of black culture gets promoted positivity gets buried. Every race has a negative underbelly but only in the black community does billions of dollars go into marketing and highlighting that side for the world to see.
@@frankwhite5862 I completely agree with this. 1000 percent. I'm confident the only reason it's viewed as "the culture" and "owned by the culture" is because these take it at face value, just like They intended. Rap/hip hop is now nothing more than a genre or brand. It uses to be a voice for the minority back in the day. Nowadays it's just another avenue to make money. MOST mainstream rap is glorifying the wrong way of life. Funnily enough, according to stats, the main demographic that listens to Rap/ Hip Hop are black adult males, ages 18-34. Coincidentally (or not), black men, ages 20-34, make up most of the incarcerated populace in America. The culture is being used against the very people it originated from.
@@dwifter6268 This is why I appreciate Kendrick so much he’s found a way to bring enlightenment and substance to Hip Hop while simultaneously achieving main stream success ( these don’t usually coexist in the genre). He speaks of these things in a very nuisance and thoughtful way where his words can resonate with the listener regardless of background if they truly listen. His line that goes, “Sacrifice personal gain over everything, just to see the next generation do better than ours” Is in my opinion, the most relevant line in this song to this topic because he’s directly speaking on and calling out those (most likely other hip hop performers) who would put out music that would glorify all the negative aspects about black culture ie drugs, violence, promiscuity, all for money, fame and “personal gain” but at the detriment to the communities, young and or impressionable minds that will absorb this content. Especially effecting those that don’t have a sound adult presence in their life. Imagine a world where every hip hop artist or aspiring artist had the mentality that they would not create content that would promote and glorify degeneracy that exists in the black community but instead chose to promote only things that lead to prosperity self improvement and righteousness. I know that is a pipe dream but how different would the black community be if this was the case. Food for thought at bear minimum.
He said no drums for the 3rd verse,and only face morphed to dead ppl ,ppl with no heart beat , (drum equals heart beat) and the breaths he took like they were coming back to life,I might be reaching but i think I'm right
@@senseishady3185 someone on Twitter also said that him being on his left side dancing like he beating to the beat is symbolism to the heart beating in your chest cause it’s on the left side. I just really appreciate your take and the person who came up with that one. We don’t know surely what it means until Kendrick himself tells us about it, but I think it’s dope to see our interpretations of art.
@@OrondeB 💯 I'm just a fan lol, I know this guys work is always layered. There's a alot of his Art I still haven't solved but it feels amazing to catch on a lil bit.
This song is about GANG culture. This song is about Kendricks feelings since the passing of Nipsey. All the other faces have been put in to expand the conversation but the lyrics are only Nipsey and Kendrick.
@@theshowstopper979 the whole song is. "Look what I done for you" is to gang culture, winning a Pulitzer Prize for damn as a blood, being a gang member who's lyrics are studied "changed curriculums" as a blood. He addresses the crips directly in the end. Look at his hands. He banging Crip the whole ending with Nipsey.
@@Mrgeographyclass it was a mixture bro and that was basically a tribute he was rapping from nipsey Prospective throwing up the 60 NH. So explain the YE and will smith it wasn't all about gang culture just saying
@@theshowstopper979 the video and the song are two different things. The other faces are there to expand the conversation but the song is not about them. The song is about GANG culture, Kendrick and Nip. Them bars were not about those other people, they can be replaced with others. There are only two faces that are irreplaceable, Nip and Kendrick.
@@Mrgeographyclass they were about them as well he was referencing those people in some of the lines when the faces were shown as well as his own life. Except for OJ and maybe Kobe. Kanye: he’s bipolar and in a song with Kendrick(and another on the same album) talked about friends and family stealing from him and extorting him when he became rich and famous. Jussie: he attempted to become a martyr and be a representative of the black community by faking a hate crime. Will: “hurt people hurt people” self explanatory with everything he has going on.
he’s rapping in the perspective of black men who have been cancelled or hated on in the media and rapping in the perspective of people who have passed who had great impact on the world
I get pops these labels control the type of music that is being pushed. They push for artist that are “trap” “drill” versus more conscience music. Kendrick and Cole are the only mainstream conscience artist that get a major push. They feed us this low vibrational music to make us think that we are this way.
No that is not true. They push whatever sells. Y’all have to stop placing yourself as the victim of every story. Black people proudly promoted this music for decades as their own culture . Y’all can’t be like “ well even if I did promote my own destruction, it’s cause the white man tricked us”
Influencers definitely have to drop a 9 in the comments for my gods n goddess pops when you touched on the frequencies you put a print on my mind keep shouting out those gems.
Yes, it's our culture. I may be young but I believe that there isn't a right or wrong way to progress or push a movement forward. Generally, it's weird and more nuanced but is it the true culture like how it started? No. Is it a part of the culture? Yes. Is it the right culture? Who knows. Pertaining to hip hop, there are people who know the origins, people who understand the legacy, people who are the legacy, and people who innovate hip hop unexpectedly for the future. It's not the culture we want because it doesn't represent us but the consistency of events amongst the culture contribute to the new gen inheriting those problems as normal. It's kind of like a new normal, the new culture. So yes, it's still our culture, even while being in a different time period, but culture is relative to periods of time.
we have conditioned a lot of hypocrisy, hurt, manipulation, to the point where we have said "fuck it" and accepted the wrongs as if that's what our culture was built on and it wasn't.
9:30 A lot of how the world views black people and culture is due to the media’s portrayal of black people which others formulate their opinions from. Even black people are susceptible to these misrepresentations or over representations of these negative images. Example....Hip Hop started positive, it was the voice of the streets until it got infiltrated bought sold and packaged by (rhymes with bluish) owed corporations. That now use the influence of Hip Hop culture to control the minds of millions of young uninformed and misguided people and youths ( especially black ones) around the world. They did it in the late 60s and early 70s with Blaxploitation films and repeated the formula by promoting and financially backing GANGSTER rap music in the mid to late 80s which corrupted the sound of what hip-hop actually started from. Muhamed Ali once said during an interview that the reason he would never do a Blaxploitation film again was because the movie studios that produced these films were not black owned but owned by (rhymes with bluish) chairman and founders and that they use these negative images and portrayals of African-Americans in the media to infiltrate the minds of other African-Americans Muhammad Ali said “they use my people to control the minds of my people” . Black people do not control their own narrative even though they think they do only the negative side of black culture gets promoted positivity gets buried. Every race has a negative underbelly but only in the black community does billions of dollars go into marketing and highlighting that side for the world to see.
Facts! This is a talking point many are reluctant to speak on publicly that is of course if they are even aware of it. Appreciate you shinning a light on this aspect.
Great reaction and review guys! Kendrick always has a lot of substance in his hip hop songs. He's very conscious and aware about what's going on right now in our society and what needs to change for us to movie forward in a positive way.
It is our culture. It really is. We get the shit end of the deal usually. No matter how famous we get. We will always be portrayed this way until the day of redemption.
The lyrics to when he changes is speaking from there perceptive the ending I believe honestly because he is so spiritual I know this sound crazy but I really believe Nipsey was speaking thru Kendrick due to do the pausing with the breathing b4 he change to Kobe preparing his body to be a vessel for the particular individuals but idk everybody has there own perceptive but great review guys.
MARVIN GAYE GIVE HIM HIS PROPS MARVIN GAYE!!! He is giving his rendition on the evolution and dehumanization that we allow. The culture is ever changing. If we want to redefine and save our culture we must become the bastions of or the stewards of it.
I think I understand what pops wants to say, meaning when hip hop was founded, it was founded on talking about the struggle and and overcoming. But now it’s being glorified in the music, and it only influences it continue. It’s like it was hijacked and transformed into something else by record labels
All of it is our culture . It is good snd bad. The music, culture, temperament. Our culture is a little more matriarchal. It has brilliant people, domestic violence, infidelity, more hands on fathers. Music, basketball are all a part of the culture. Drug dealing , hustling, loving hard are all part of it. You don't have to embrace the bad but it is all equally important as the good.
Man I was looking forward to this reaction but that noise when the music is playing is too harsh, I thought my headphones were broken for a second. The song itself is definitely an indictment of our current culture, definitely not the original culture of hip hop but I think what he's also trying to indicate is we all have personal responsibility and how peoples lack of accountability and responsibility impacts and potentially hurts all of us, we can change it, Nipsey and Kobe represent that ability The Marathon Continues
Our culture is broader than hip hop and in the past was highlighted along with poetry, spoken word, dance, other music like jazz, rhythm and blues, painters. All still exist but are not as highlighted. When you look for these other forms of black art they are mostly consumed by Wyte people. In theaters, museums, dance concerts they look at black attendees almost like outsiders. My personal experience.
I feel like it’s definitely our culture still. We originated it and it’s always been ours to grow and explore and intensify. I think it’s also ours to share. I think when other races or people get into it, the culture is enhanced more globally if it’s done in a way of respect and love. People like Eminem and Token who rap and do it well, I think enhance it. I think people who rap and it’s ass are the ones who set it back and that’s across the entire board.
I feel like you’re just some dude on the internet trying to play a bigger role in life by saying something ignorant and hoping someone will see it as profound. Ours?
Hip Hop was a Time where we Focus all of Our Energies in a Positive way to Spread: Words of Knowledge and Wisdom STRENGTH in Character and how we Express our Emotions and what breathes The Values of Life... Now: We Overly Spread: Everything to the Point we have to be careful how we spread the Word because: THE WORD ON THE STREETS and the Words in how we use it isn't Enough.. Its WORLDWIDE and the politics are be desensitized and screwed over For Financial gain and prophet. Yet Hip Hop is Still Hip Hop..
I believe he’s talking beyond the music as far as cultural he’s talking about the retrospect of life in third person from people in the video in their perspective. You know back in the when we was listening to Meli Mel Kool Herc and Kurtis Blow to Kool G Rap, Kane , and Rakim etc as the years advanced the A&R’s wanted this change because it was about the bread not the art anymore they felt sex, violence, Drugs .
Hey Aleea another great point your Dad made was from 18:20 - 18:30 because I was talking to a customer at my job about this same thing and they didn't believe this 🤥
I think he’s talking about the hypocrisy of the culture. It’s about being loyal to a culture that isn’t necessarily loyal to you. We could go deep into why that is. But he’s touching on the idea that the culture is whatever we make it. It doesn’t define us. We define it
Exactly.
That's how it's supposed to be..
Great observation
Thank you! Cause pops don’t know what he talking about.
Indeed.
Yes it is our culture.
The gangsta shit, the murders, the street shit.
The glamorizing it in our music.
It’s our culture. We have to change it.
Bruh Kendrick Lamar been trying to change that bruh
it's all linked to economics
Al capone came before frank mathews.
Richard kuklinski came before wayne slik perry. The kkk and Irish gangs and Italian mafia came before crips and bloods gds bds and vice lords. Black people bleaching their getting nose jobs wearing blonde red brunette wigs and weave so who's imitation who?
Fax
@@EpickaNESSiskool it’s all linked to spiritual warfare .. God is the the only thing that can change this im talking seriously heart mindset changing
The song is all about their perspective, he changes up the lyrics for each person he turns into, like he's rapping each of their lives in their perspective, cause u know everybody's perspective of life is different
He only TRULY speaks from Nipsey’s perspective and his own. I think he uses the other faces to bring attention to what the culture (American culture, not only black culture) does to black men. Hence him saying at the beginning “I am. All of us.” The faces he uses may tie in with one or two bars, but he only truly raps from his own perspective and Nip’s. Powerful art.
@@hbkdadda That’s why the wait is always worth it with the goat 🐐 himself
@@hbkdadda yup
Bipolar when Kanye came in
That A/C BLOWING!!
They did that for a reason
@@dexterdahmerwhy
@@dexterdahmer doubt it that's not gonna stop anything
@@MajorBall so they don’t get copyrighted
He is 100% talking about the fake loyalty that is black/urban/inner city culture, which was adopted and championed bu hip hop in general. The fact that pain is washed away by another bottle and you're onto the next day. That's the culture you grow up in amd is promoted. The characters he morphs into are people that have made mistakes and have been left behind by the culture. The culture he speaks about is a vicious cycle where the good gets stomped out.
From a personal level I think he's literally explaining that it isn't our culture, we simply make it our culture.
8:00 listen closely, he’s talking about things specific to the faces he’s portraying, almost talking from their perspectives or giving his on their situations
Glad pops asked that culture question because this is exactly what Kendrick was expressing in the song the fact that this culture is scrutinized glorified etc it can demonize you etc
Yall need to check out the audio, it sounds like a hurricane and we cannot hear the song :(
I'm pretty sure it's for copyright, but you can still hear the song
@@Harper_Sloane Yeah that’s what I thought about afterwards, but like I think it’s better they kept their precious small skips in between
Kendrick goes hard and the beat tho 🔥🔥🔥 RIP Kobe & Gigi 🕊️ RIP Nipsey 🕊️
I feel where you coming from pops and I feel what aleah was saying too but it’s apart of our culture cause we lived it and experienced it but most of it was really forced on us we just took it and made the best out of what we had to deal with in my opinion
Yeah? So knock it tf off. Just sayin
Facts
You said it, it wasn't our culture its what was forced upon us and like everything else we endure/overcome right or wrong it is now engrained in 'the culture'
Facts
Hip hop was designed to give us a way out of the negativity but once people saw sensationalism and pain is attractive they pushed that instead of the positivity it was created to bring about but what Kendrick is saying is part of the culture but we're not the only people that have negativity. Plus he shows you as the video goes on the people like kobe and nip who shows the positive side that hip hop was intended for.
"Is this really our culture?" Yes, it is. Culture morphs with time as new generations contribute their own values and preferences and outsiders join the community bringing their own baggage. The culture is the vibe of the community and its change is a reflection of changes in the community. We cannot disown it anymore than a man can disown his shadow.
This right here. We define the culture and we hold the power to change it we just need daily action by the masses.
I disagree. I think what he's saying is that our "culture" has now been high jacked by people who have an agenda. It's like a beautiful, jade bowl with no food or content inside. Look at popular music nowadays. It's pure "money, sex and drugs". There's no soul anymore. Then again, like Kendrick said, life is about perspective. However, perspective can be skewed.
A lot of how the world views black people is due to the media’s portrayal of black people which others formulate their opinions from. Even black people are susceptible to these misrepresentations or over representations of negative images. Example....Hip Hop started positive, it was the voice of the streets until it got infiltrated bought sold and packaged by (rhymes with bluish) owed corporations. That now use the influence of Hip Hop culture to control the minds of millions of young uninformed and misguided people and youths ( especially black ones) around the world. They did it in the late 60s and early 70s with Blaxploitation films and repeated the formula by promoting and financially backing GANGSTER rap music in the mid to late 80s which corrupted the sound of what hip-hop actually started from.
Muhamed Ali once said during an interview that the reason he would never do a Blaxploitation film again was because the movie studios that produced these films were not black owned but owned by (rhymes with bluish) chairman and founders and that they use these negative images and portrayals of African-Americans in the media to infiltrate the minds of other African-Americans Muhammad Ali said “they use my people to control the minds of my people” .
Black people do not control their own narrative even though they think they do only the negative side of black culture gets promoted positivity gets buried. Every race has a negative underbelly but only in the black community does billions of dollars go into marketing and highlighting that side for the world to see.
@@frankwhite5862 I completely agree with this. 1000 percent. I'm confident the only reason it's viewed as "the culture" and "owned by the culture" is because these take it at face value, just like They intended. Rap/hip hop is now nothing more than a genre or brand. It uses to be a voice for the minority back in the day. Nowadays it's just another avenue to make money. MOST mainstream rap is glorifying the wrong way of life. Funnily enough, according to stats, the main demographic that listens to Rap/ Hip Hop are black adult males, ages 18-34. Coincidentally (or not), black men, ages 20-34, make up most of the incarcerated populace in America. The culture is being used against the very people it originated from.
@@dwifter6268 This is why I appreciate Kendrick so much he’s found a way to bring enlightenment and substance to Hip Hop while simultaneously achieving main stream success ( these don’t usually coexist in the genre). He speaks of these things in a very nuisance and thoughtful way where his words can resonate with the listener regardless of background if they truly listen.
His line that goes, “Sacrifice personal gain over everything, just to see the next generation do better than ours” Is in my opinion, the most relevant line in this song to this topic because he’s directly speaking on and calling out those (most likely other hip hop performers) who would put out music that would glorify all the negative aspects about black culture ie drugs, violence, promiscuity, all for money, fame and “personal gain” but at the detriment to the communities, young and or impressionable minds that will absorb this content. Especially effecting those that don’t have a sound adult presence in their life. Imagine a world where every hip hop artist or aspiring artist had the mentality that they would not create content that would promote and glorify degeneracy that exists in the black community but instead chose to promote only things that lead to prosperity self improvement and righteousness. I know that is a pipe dream but how different would the black community be if this was the case. Food for thought at bear minimum.
He said no drums for the 3rd verse,and only face morphed to dead ppl ,ppl with no heart beat , (drum equals heart beat) and the breaths he took like they were coming back to life,I might be reaching but i think I'm right
Sounds about right! Great analysis.
@@OrondeB I appreciate it, ibe9 been playin this record for two days non Stop
@@senseishady3185 someone on Twitter also said that him being on his left side dancing like he beating to the beat is symbolism to the heart beating in your chest cause it’s on the left side. I just really appreciate your take and the person who came up with that one. We don’t know surely what it means until Kendrick himself tells us about it, but I think it’s dope to see our interpretations of art.
@@OrondeB 💯 I'm just a fan lol, I know this guys work is always layered. There's a alot of his Art I still haven't solved but it feels amazing to catch on a lil bit.
@@senseishady3185 I feel that man lol
Father & daughter breaking it down for the masses. That was fly.
This song is about GANG culture. This song is about Kendricks feelings since the passing of Nipsey. All the other faces have been put in to expand the conversation but the lyrics are only Nipsey and Kendrick.
The first verse was about gang culture
@@theshowstopper979 the whole song is. "Look what I done for you" is to gang culture, winning a Pulitzer Prize for damn as a blood, being a gang member who's lyrics are studied "changed curriculums" as a blood. He addresses the crips directly in the end. Look at his hands. He banging Crip the whole ending with Nipsey.
@@Mrgeographyclass it was a mixture bro and that was basically a tribute he was rapping from nipsey Prospective throwing up the 60 NH. So explain the YE and will smith it wasn't all about gang culture just saying
@@theshowstopper979 the video and the song are two different things. The other faces are there to expand the conversation but the song is not about them. The song is about GANG culture, Kendrick and Nip. Them bars were not about those other people, they can be replaced with others. There are only two faces that are irreplaceable, Nip and Kendrick.
@@Mrgeographyclass they were about them as well he was referencing those people in some of the lines when the faces were shown as well as his own life. Except for OJ and maybe Kobe. Kanye: he’s bipolar and in a song with Kendrick(and another on the same album) talked about friends and family stealing from him and extorting him when he became rich and famous. Jussie: he attempted to become a martyr and be a representative of the black community by faking a hate crime. Will: “hurt people hurt people” self explanatory with everything he has going on.
he’s rapping in the perspective of black men who have been cancelled or hated on in the media and rapping in the perspective of people who have passed who had great impact on the world
the way i kept on refreshing y’all page to see if y’all reacted yet 😭😭
I know it’s about to go off when your pop starts nodding. Let’s goooo!
I get pops these labels control the type of music that is being pushed. They push for artist that are “trap” “drill” versus more conscience music. Kendrick and Cole are the only mainstream conscience artist that get a major push. They feed us this low vibrational music to make us think that we are this way.
It's deeper than that 😆
Facts these elites must be stopped.
Lol yea cause that’s what sells dummy
No that is not true. They push whatever sells. Y’all have to stop placing yourself as the victim of every story. Black people proudly promoted this music for decades as their own culture . Y’all can’t be like “ well even if I did promote my own destruction, it’s cause the white man tricked us”
@@kkandola9072 lol okay bro go off
Soooo no one is going to mention that waterfall noise that is louder than the actual song???
Copyright protection. I get it.
😂😂😂
That's a horrible way to do it
😭😭😂😂
Each face is a perspective and story he is telling
Q-tip The Renaissance was put on ice when the 04' wave came out
Kendrick really got these guys thinking😂😂😂😂
Influencers definitely have to drop a 9 in the comments for my gods n goddess pops when you touched on the frequencies you put a print on my mind keep shouting out those gems.
Pops breaking it down with his daughter is platinum❤
Platinum & Gold.
Yes, it's our culture. I may be young but I believe that there isn't a right or wrong way to progress or push a movement forward. Generally, it's weird and more nuanced but is it the true culture like how it started? No. Is it a part of the culture? Yes. Is it the right culture? Who knows. Pertaining to hip hop, there are people who know the origins, people who understand the legacy, people who are the legacy, and people who innovate hip hop unexpectedly for the future. It's not the culture we want because it doesn't represent us but the consistency of events amongst the culture contribute to the new gen inheriting those problems as normal. It's kind of like a new normal, the new culture. So yes, it's still our culture, even while being in a different time period, but culture is relative to periods of time.
we have conditioned a lot of hypocrisy, hurt, manipulation, to the point where we have said "fuck it" and accepted the wrongs as if that's what our culture was built on and it wasn't.
It’s our culture in a modern aspect. Kendrick was giving us our hood/ghetto culture stories.
Yeaa I'm glad yall did this one !
9:30 A lot of how the world views black people and culture is due to the media’s portrayal of black people which others formulate their opinions from. Even black people are susceptible to these misrepresentations or over representations of these negative images. Example....Hip Hop started positive, it was the voice of the streets until it got infiltrated bought sold and packaged by (rhymes with bluish) owed corporations. That now use the influence of Hip Hop culture to control the minds of millions of young uninformed and misguided people and youths ( especially black ones) around the world. They did it in the late 60s and early 70s with Blaxploitation films and repeated the formula by promoting and financially backing GANGSTER rap music in the mid to late 80s which corrupted the sound of what hip-hop actually started from.
Muhamed Ali once said during an interview that the reason he would never do a Blaxploitation film again was because the movie studios that produced these films were not black owned but owned by (rhymes with bluish) chairman and founders and that they use these negative images and portrayals of African-Americans in the media to infiltrate the minds of other African-Americans Muhammad Ali said “they use my people to control the minds of my people” .
Black people do not control their own narrative even though they think they do only the negative side of black culture gets promoted positivity gets buried. Every race has a negative underbelly but only in the black community does billions of dollars go into marketing and highlighting that side for the world to see.
Facts! This is a talking point many are reluctant to speak on publicly that is of course if they are even aware of it. Appreciate you shinning a light on this aspect.
Got to react to Dave “heart attack” much love- Iwan still here supporting fr fr 🙌 hope the twitch going good
Yeessss !!! I was literally waiting for y’all to do this one y’all reaction the one I’ve been most excited about for sure
The fuck is that wind
The first thing you see when the video comes on is "I'm All Of Us." That should help you with the meaning.
I can't even stand to listen with the constant sound of loud ocean in my ears.
Big ups to my Fellow Afro-Latino aka Black Hispanic kinfolks ✊🏿
Great reaction and review guys! Kendrick always has a lot of substance in his hip hop songs. He's very conscious and aware about what's going on right now in our society and what needs to change for us to movie forward in a positive way.
Pops definitely gotta react to The Heart part 1-3
Kendrick will always be better than Drake, idc what no one says. Kendrick touch my soul with his music. drake doesn't
Facts, drake more commercial than anything
That depends on here preference tho I feel same way you do about Kendrick
Drake makes fun music.
Some comments aging like fine wine🍷
1000% recommend the heart 1-4
Man i been waiting for the reaction, nice to see it finally out!
Pops got Hella wisdom. 💪🏾💯
new Zealand in da house my peps..mad love on yr reaction..
It is our culture. It really is. We get the shit end of the deal usually. No matter how famous we get. We will always be portrayed this way until the day of redemption.
The metaverse with the deep fakes. Be ready. That song and video is firya!
He speaking in each of their perspectives based on how he believes they thinkin witch is prolly facts to tha fullest Kendrick killed it
POP'S ALWAYZ COMES WITH VISION AND THE WISDOM!!! ✊️👏🤝
Fan volume: 98/100%
Reactors: 40/100.
Huh!? Wtf did you say? Lol
The lyrics to when he changes is speaking from there perceptive the ending I believe honestly because he is so spiritual I know this sound crazy but I really believe Nipsey was speaking thru Kendrick due to do the pausing with the breathing b4 he change to Kobe preparing his body to be a vessel for the particular individuals but idk everybody has there own perceptive but great review guys.
They did y’all dirty on the audio playback to the video itself but y’all are dope. Whole album is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Was waiting for this!
Kendrick Lamar makes half the rap game sound dumb he is a true artist good reaction
I swear it sounds like the mic out the window driving 70!
😂😂
Wow!!! 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
The fact that Pops is afraid to say what he really thinks sucks. I thought TH-cam was supposed to be a platform that promotes free speech
"So you can leave whenever you want "
that was a hilarious little slip of the tongue😂
It took them 13 minutes and 47 seconds to catch one correlation between the face and lyrics 😂
At 6:24 lol. Shocked the mess out of him.
It’s all about the hypocrisy we praise what destroys us but never the positive even the dirt has flowers that bloom in it
MARVIN GAYE GIVE HIM HIS PROPS MARVIN GAYE!!!
He is giving his rendition on the evolution and dehumanization that we allow. The culture is ever changing.
If we want to redefine and save our culture we must become the bastions of or the stewards of it.
The audio while the video was playing was BRUTAL!!!!! I'm a fan but I couldn't finish the video with that fan noise. Please no more fan!!!!!!
Lol 😂 bro I was wearing headphones I couldn’t take it anymore
That swamp cooler hecka loud . 😂😂
Yooo I watch it it was dopest song I happy Kendrick Lamar is back great video with your pops 🔥🔥🔥
I was waiting for y’all’s reaction 😄
Kendrick 🔥🔥
I think I understand what pops wants to say, meaning when hip hop was founded, it was founded on talking about the struggle and and overcoming. But now it’s being glorified in the music, and it only influences it continue. It’s like it was hijacked and transformed into something else by record labels
Good father
All of it is our culture . It is good snd bad. The music, culture, temperament. Our culture is a little more matriarchal. It has brilliant people, domestic violence, infidelity, more hands on fathers. Music, basketball are all a part of the culture. Drug dealing , hustling, loving hard are all part of it. You don't have to embrace the bad but it is all equally important as the good.
I really hate what the rap beef did to her.
why it sound like im listenining to someone riding in the car when the music play
Very Last Poets 2022 edition love that Marvin sample
Valid question Pops! I get you
Pops ready to go off !
Man I was looking forward to this reaction but that noise when the music is playing is too harsh, I thought my headphones were broken for a second. The song itself is definitely an indictment of our current culture, definitely not the original culture of hip hop but I think what he's also trying to indicate is we all have personal responsibility and how peoples lack of accountability and responsibility impacts and potentially hurts all of us, we can change it, Nipsey and Kobe represent that ability
The Marathon Continues
I think he’s talking through each persons perspective that’s why in the vid it says I am all of us
He needs to react to father time or savior off his album
What’s up with the volume! Dam been waiting for this one
Our culture is broader than hip hop and in the past was highlighted along with poetry, spoken word, dance, other music like jazz, rhythm and blues, painters. All still exist but are not as highlighted. When you look for these other forms of black art they are mostly consumed by Wyte people. In theaters, museums, dance concerts they look at black attendees almost like outsiders. My personal experience.
They taught us to be that this is our culture or our way of living.
babe we cant hear the video through that fan sound lmao
Fr like damn
somebody turned their leaf blower on
I feel like it’s definitely our culture still. We originated it and it’s always been ours to grow and explore and intensify. I think it’s also ours to share. I think when other races or people get into it, the culture is enhanced more globally if it’s done in a way of respect and love. People like Eminem and Token who rap and do it well, I think enhance it. I think people who rap and it’s ass are the ones who set it back and that’s across the entire board.
I feel like you’re just some dude on the internet trying to play a bigger role in life by saying something ignorant and hoping someone will see it as profound.
Ours?
dont put em in token in the same sentence
@@UncleRandy73 yeah ours. Black culture. The culture He’s talking about. It’s still ours. Goofy😐
@@nicholaspolen3418 valid lol I was just naming some names
Kendrick on another level....Ninja is good
Bro do the hearts parts 1-4 they are amazing 🙏💯
It's a 2 Disk album dropping at 12 a.m..
Shout out to yall .
Love this team but deadass they had us in jfk exclusive airplane noise
FYI: The Ones Who Did The Video Were....."MATT STONE & TREY PARKER"..[the creators of South Park]NO CAPP🚫🧢🚫🧢....FAXXX!
Hip Hop was a Time where we Focus all of Our Energies in a Positive way to Spread:
Words of Knowledge and Wisdom
STRENGTH in Character and how we Express our Emotions and what breathes The Values of Life...
Now:
We Overly Spread: Everything to the Point we have to be careful how we spread the Word because:
THE WORD ON THE STREETS
and the Words in how we use it isn't
Enough..
Its WORLDWIDE and the politics are be desensitized and screwed over
For Financial gain and prophet.
Yet Hip Hop is Still Hip Hop..
I believe he’s talking beyond the music as far as cultural he’s talking about the retrospect of life in third person from people in the video in their perspective.
You know back in the when we was listening to Meli Mel Kool Herc and Kurtis Blow to Kool G Rap, Kane , and Rakim etc as the years advanced the A&R’s wanted this change because it was about the bread not the art anymore they felt sex, violence, Drugs .
"O o o what the frick?" 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow that sound made rough to see this video
Loved writing this song with Kendrick! I’ll play this with Kendrick on July 18th, 2023!
could you guys react to some dance hall music .... wold love to see u and ur dad to react to the flavor , Swear!
He’s really talking about LA gang culture and Industry
Hey Aleea another great point your Dad made was from 18:20 - 18:30 because I was talking to a customer at my job about this same thing and they didn't believe this 🤥
Actually his first feature of the year was with busta rhymes on look over your shoulder
Wtf is this jet engine in the background destroyed the video
Y’all should review all of the Heart tracks by him.
What's that noise in the background