After his interview with Billboard that can be read following the link below, Azealia Banks had a few words for K Dot

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6436268/kendrick-lamar-billboard-cover-story-on-new-album-iggy-azalea-police-violence-the-rapture


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"When we don't respect ourselves how can we expect them to respect us" dumbest shit I've ever heard a black man say.
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Lol do you know about the generational effects of poverty, racism and discrimination?
3:07 PM - 9 Jan 2015


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There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. fine.... But don't put down the rest by saying they don't respect themselves
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HOW DARE YOU open ur face to a white publication and tell them that we don't respect ourselves.... Speak for your fucking self.
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I really pray for the minds of the urban youth, I really do because I was once on the side of feeling like I wasn't owed anything...
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Once on the side of feeling like black people ain't shit because that's what America and my social studies textbooks taught me
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Becoming an adult and doing my own research has REALLY opened up my fucking eyes, and I get upset to know that.....
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There are still young black kids in our public schools being indoctrinated with the same shit they pumped into my head.
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And fuck all this shit about erasing racial barriers and getting along... Why does white America think blacks even wanna be here?!
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I really just want my fucking reparations, and want you guys to stop killing my sons and telling my daughters they're ugly.
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You can hate me and call my nigger all you want, because chances are I probably think you are a cracker too.
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Give Kendrick an oscar, made everybody think he's a future pro black leader but he's really the black misinformed version of ned flanders
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http://www.complex.com/music/2015/01/kendrick-lamar-ferguson-comments-reaction

she took intro to black studies, read wrteched of the earth or behold a pale horse & all of a sudden is fannie lou hamer

her scorched earth routine is getting hella stale...shes not helping. if she wants to teach...do so respectfully...ie how qtip was trying to do

instead she gets fired up & goes to twitter like other idiotic ass kids & comes off not even half cocked but a quarter cocked


does it really matter?

for all my fans who keep my name in their mouth: http://i.imgur.com/v2xNOpS.jpg

We fear and idolize white folks and hate ourselves. Now if he would just elaborate on that and why that would be dope.

Don't hate on Black Studies they are doing the job your family didn't along with your so called community (ghettos)

The average nigga college grad or not couldn't tell you who Carter G Woodson, Anna Julia Cooper, Frantz Fanon, George Padamore etc were.

lol @ ME hating on Black studies

if you abt reparations, & not no personal check bullshit, cool get down w/ the cause

but this aint it


does it really matter?

for all my fans who keep my name in their mouth: http://i.imgur.com/v2xNOpS.jpg

lastly your rantings don't reflect you retained anything you learned at Howard.

Most of you hanky headed negros don't even think it is possible when the so called "radicals" say it is imperative.

Gnawing my shit. They call her jawbone.

^^Howling..

int he first slave revolt of the Western PA coal mines?

>The average nigga college grad or not couldn't tell you who
>Carter G Woodson, Anna Julia Cooper, Frantz Fanon, George
>Padamore etc were.

Unless you were a Black Studies major why would you be learning about Fanon and Padamore?

Funny thing is, I didn't learn not ONE thing about African-American history SPECIFICALLY at my HBCU
outside of my own schools history

should all HBCUs be required to have a Af-Am studies course in their syllabus?

90% of my courses were math or computer science

i learned about Fanon and Nkruma during my leisure reading in grad school

The modern American university system is overly specialized and students are really dumb outside of their major. It wasn't always this way.

men, but I had to go look for information about my people and what they've done.

Watch when your daughter enters the 1st grade and every February they only talk about MLK and maybe Malcolm (they usually don't until high school) and you tell me if the education is equal on both sides.


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none of them covered afro-caribbean history or pan-africanism that much.
why?
i guess they are of lil use in today's society
ppl get entire degrees in just U.S. Civil War history
you have too much information to cover in too short of time

being at an HBCU i've had instructors go a lil deeper and give the "black side" of historical events but it wasn't any Af-Am studies course
in Music 101 Professor Lott would give the black details that the textbook left out
in Health 101 Ms. Butler would go into stuff like the Tuskeegee Experiments but she would tell about stuff like that in off color jokes

my mom kept us out of school every June 19th and she schooled us (in a very surface level way) of what juneteenth meant




>men, but I had to go look for information about my people and
>what they've done.
>
>Watch when your daughter enters the 1st grade and every
>February they only talk about MLK and maybe Malcolm (they
>usually don't until high school) and you tell me if the
>education is equal on both sides.
>
>
>"i wanna hug all u idiotic bastards & then set you all on
>fire" -Bin
>
>www.twitter.com/bedstuybetty
>http://bedstuybetty.tumblr.com/
>DROkayplayer: Giving you good puff since May '05

and in the public school system. We should also have more Freedom Schools and Community educational centers teaching this stuff. As a kid, I learned about Black History from my parents and my teachers at the Black History camp I attended every summer until I was 12.

It's the most suited, in-place, institution to disseminate this type of knowledged--Sunday School!

Freedom School is something we created and it's excellent. We need more financial resources and more parent/student buy in.

Both models are obviously effective. As long as it gets the job done it shouldn't matter what the vehicle is. Besides whenever folks say "jew" you know nigger ain't too far away-- we in the same boat so ain't a thing wrong with adopting that model.

it's got people thinking of Black consciousness as a mere subject in school and not
something you're supposed to carry with you throughout life. You start talking some
pro-Black shit and mfkas talkin about "what is this, black studies?" No you silly, braindead
human. It's reality and necessary conversation on a daily basis for our people.

>We fear and idolize white folks and hate ourselves. Now if he
>would just elaborate on that and why that would be dope.
>
>Don't hate on Black Studies they are doing the job your family
>didn't along with your so called community (ghettos)
>
>The average nigga college grad or not couldn't tell you who
>Carter G Woodson, Anna Julia Cooper, Frantz Fanon, George
>Padamore etc were.

they THINK Black Studies is about. More than any other discipline, Black Studies emphasizes the need to apply our course of study to every day life. We also encourage life long learning.

>they THINK Black Studies is about. More than any other
>discipline, Black Studies emphasizes the need to apply our
>course of study to every day life. We also encourage life long
>learning.


I just hate that people treat it like typical western "education" that you discard after
you memorize info for a few tests.

>AZEALIA BANKS ✔ @AZEALIABANKS
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>HOW DARE YOU open ur face to a white publication and tell them
>that we don't respect ourselves.... Speak for your fucking
>self.
>3:15 PM - 9 Jan 2015

Every time something blatnatly institutionally racial pops off Murdoch's peeps find ye old sellout to give the "Black on black crime is worse"* straw man argument, hop, skipping, and jumping over socialized and systemic roadblocks America's put up to keep da darkies down.



*As if white on white crime isn't as high itself

If we're all such savages then what does that say about YOU. If every black person is this institutional thug criminal that doesn't respect anyone then what does that say about the people that raised you?

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Mad cause her ass has been right
If this was a male rapper yall would be ALL of the way up his ass
Lounging his his damn colon
Buying his records tripping over themselves agreeing getting those lips to asscheeks


But she's "annoying"

Cause she got opinions
She's right
And she's not being nice to dumb asses

Right
Sexist fucks
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>Mad cause her ass has been right
>If this was a male rapper yall would be ALL of the way up his
>ass
>Lounging his his damn colon
>Buying his records tripping over themselves agreeing getting
>those lips to asscheeks
>
>
>But she's "annoying"
>
>Cause she got opinions
>She's right
>And she's not being nice to dumb asses
>
>Right
>Sexist fucks
>


^^^^^^

reason at all, lol.

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they hate themselves and idolize white people. We have lived in poverty and squalor and have not murdered each other like we have been doing for the past few decades.

It is a byproduct of racism but no one wants to point that out.

>It is a byproduct of racism but no one wants to point that
>out.

It takes an entirely different meaning and is not too far off what racists bring up to justify their racism, "The black race just doesn't work hard, doesn't get it" etc.

It very well may have been taken out of context, and I doubt Kendrick understood what he was saying even if he meant it.

However, its fucking problematic since it follows a group think that many people, including many enlightened black folks, take too.

TNC seems passionate too

but not unhinged

on another "white" media platform
unless there is a black ceo of twitter that im unaware of

n/m

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No excuse

he showed his true colors

not that I brought into his raps like that anyway

but yea

mr Compton

going to a white publication on that 'new black' bullshyt

he got white folks in his pocket so yal can get mad all yal want

he know where his money is




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ok.

that was some bullshit to say...especially to billboard magazine

>especially to billboard magazine

The Fox news contingent loves that kinda shit. It backs up the nonsense they speak on some "see, even rapper, Kendrick Lamar, agrees with me" type shit. We need to keep those conversations in-house.

his comments are already EVERYWHERE and the issue hasnt even been printed yet
that would be the case whether he told BB, XXL, Forbes, or Jet
the internet rules all

Makes it sound like it's our fault that cops are killing us which is bullshit.

>Makes it sound like it's our fault that cops are killing us
>which is bullshit.

You're saying it to Billboard which has a mixed (mostly white) audience and you're mentioning looting. Very easy to take what he said as "Stop bitching and looting and blaming and take responsibility" if you want to take it that way.

For him to say that there are problems within the community and the community itself should focus on addressing them is hardly controversial. I mean that is true of any community.

I think she's amazing. She wasn't the only famous person on Twitter calling him out for that bs statement.

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the thing that got the looney broad in a tizzy was he didn't knock iggy in the article when presented the opportunity. he coulda said I love azelia banks and it still wouldn't have mattered, she hates that broad for real.

some bullshit in Lamar's statement on the surface....

But black folks saying respect yourself ain't nothing new. Even when black people were getting brutalized by cops in the '60s, the Black Panthers were preaching self-respect....The problem here is that Lamar made it seem like cops beat us because we don't respect ourselves (They have harassed and beat us when have worn suits in a lot of cases)...And when it's being said to Billboard no less it looks sideways...

Still, it ain't enough for pressed ass Drake fans to be on some SEE THAT NIGGA AIN'T SHIT because your boy gets clowned on a daily...

If u got beef with Lamar's comments out of principle then I can dig it.

But if you got beef with his comments because of some wack ass fanboy agenda, then yeah...U doing too much...

I think thats the way his statement was paraphrased.. not actually the way he said it..

I also think he was trying to redirect the question a bit.. his concerns are with the hood... yes police brutality and murder is and issue..

but attempting to confront and eliminate nihilism, lack of hope and the culture of poverty has always been k dots "agenda"

>but attempting to confront and eliminate nihilism, lack of hope and >the culture of poverty has always been k dots "agenda"
that's a weird stance to have when you're ceo is a well reputed, feared gang member. just don't speak on issues because he sounds real smartdumb right now

>some bullshit in Lamar's statement on the surface....
>
>But black folks saying respect yourself ain't nothing new.
>Even when black people were getting brutalized by cops in the
>'60s, the Black Panthers were preaching self-respect....The
>problem here is that Lamar made it seem like cops beat us
>because we don't respect ourselves (They have harassed and
>beat us when have worn suits in a lot of cases)...And when
>it's being said to Billboard no less it looks sideways...

Respectability politics wasn't ok then and it sure as hell ain't ok now.

BP done some great things.
NOI done some great things.
They've also done *a lot* of unfortunate shyt that (I hope) we have learned from.
Respectability is one of them.
How we treat women is another.
Hell, Black Panthers in the 60s would have issues w/ LBGTQ involvement in this current movement.
So, I wouldn't argue 'Well, back in the 60s...'

Further, to continue his unfortunate logic, he suggests that Tamir Rice didn't respect himself.
He suggests that Renisha McBride didn't respect herself or that if you don't respect yourself, you don't deserve life.

He's better off avoiding topics he knows little about.

What I'm curious about, however, is what the actual question was, though.

He was asked about a specific situation...

Ferguson is not like Tamir Rice at all or Renisha or Eric Garner..

Also its clear he has a larger "agenda" for lack of better words.. so he is framing the question to serve that.. from "I" on he has been pretty on topic about what he's tryna do..

I don't know either way, but pretending that a cop is going to lower his weapon because someone respects themselves like He Got That Glow?

Nawl.

>He was asked about a specific situation...

I'm curious what he was asked, but it still doesn't excuse that unfortunate answer.

>Ferguson is not like Tamir Rice at all or Renisha or Eric
>Garner..
>

True
Each case involving unarmed citizens *is* unique and suggesting all one has to do is respect themselves is going to fix that...?

>Also its clear he has a larger "agenda" for lack of better
>words.. so he is framing the question to serve that.. from "I"
>on he has been pretty on topic about what he's tryna do..

Yeah.
I feel you.
He's doing a poor job of articulating it, that's for sure.

Kendrick will not save anyone.. his music will not magically make people rich...

"Fuck The Police" did not reform the police..

"What's going On" did not save the world

He can only hope that (as Pac said) he can plant a seed in someone who will be motivated to do so. That motivation begins with believing in one's self..

People need to let Kendrick inspire... and let the true leaders people on the ground move the ball forward with police reform.

>Kendrick will not save anyone.. his music will not magically
>make people rich...
>
>"Fuck The Police" did not reform the police..
>
>"What's going On" did not save the world
>
>He can only hope that (as Pac said) he can plant a seed in
>someone who will be motivated to do so. That motivation
>begins with believing in one's self..
>

That passage plants the wrong seeds for the wrong reasons.
It's a retread as if he were quoting the willie lynch letter.

>People need to let Kendrick inspire... and let the true
>leaders people on the ground move the ball forward with police
>reform.

It's ok to inspire.
I'm still a fan of his music.
He just needs to stfu about shyt he doesn't know shyt about.
Celebs say dome shyt, we check them on it.
Oprah isn't above it.
Raven isn't above it.
Phylicia ain't above it.
Pharrelll ain't above it.
No one is.
And I'm ok w/ that.

I don't see anywhere where he said he was above it..

but you know ya'll can cook

I don't.

>Hell, Black Panthers in the 60s would have issues w/ LBGTQ
>involvement in this current movement.

http://www.workers.org/2012/us/huey_p_newton_0524/


"During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some uncertainty about how to relate to these movements.

Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion.

I say ”whatever your insecurities are” because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the women or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with.

We must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for all oppressed people. We must not use the racist attitude that the white racists use against our people because they are Black and poor. Many times the poorest white person is the most racist because he is afraid that he might lose something, or discover something that he does not have. So you’re some kind of a threat to him. This kind of psychology is in operation when we view oppressed people and we are angry with them because of their particular kind of behavior, or their particular kind of deviation from the established norm."


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who shared much of her experiences and Regina Davis of abuse w/in the org.

So there's that.

She's the epitome of sophomoric with a lot of her stunting right now.

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some of our favorites just aren't very informed...
the irony is he talks 'respect ourselves' and he's whole label/crew is engulfed in gang culture

and these celebs learn to just stfu.

Their pedestrian, living-under-a-rock opinions don't need to be expressed.
There's a whole host of shyt I don't know shyt about and I stfu about it.

Mofos don't go to school
Don't watch the news
Don't read any kind of news, no history
Don't try to stay informed
Don't have people around them to have intelligent conversation so they know what's going on
Instead of filtering media/social media
Dumbasses tuned all the fuck the way out
Then fools want to do interviews and when they get ambushed on questions which if they educated themselves in the least fuckin way
They know don't answer that shit
But no
They just HAVE to open their mouth and show how seriously fucking stupid you are

Then you want to be mad at the woman who HAS INFORMED OPINIONS and voices them regularly and vocally

Yes that's sexism
Yes you are a dumbass

Got the God damn nerve to say she's sophmoric when ya boy don't know jack fucking shit
Wanting her to hold his stupid fucking hand like she mad him say stupidness
The fuck she have to hold his hand or bite her tongue for?

Yes you are a dumbass
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~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

I think her opinions aren't any more informed than the exact same crowd you just mentioned.. she watched a bunch of youtube videos and now she has a PHD..

Her heart (seems) like it's in the right place (although there is still a huge air of jealousy spewing from her re: iggy) and I think as she lives she will get a better understanding of things..

but maybe not.. she is a harlem chick..

great lighting rod though..

everybody is up in arms because she is speaking her mind
its hard to take lupe serious with his faux righteousness he started his career. i like his music, but his image is fabricated
again
musically lupe + k.dot > a. banks
interviews/public figure a. banks > lupe + k.dot

and clearly biased ass opinions yo lol

like...

u like the girl...continue to do so...

all that other shit seems way off

>and clearly biased ass opinions yo lol

>continue to do so...
>
>shit seems way off

Yall off as shit bending over backwards
I don't like her ass that much but I do call it as I see it
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

>but maybe not.. she is a harlem chick..



Yall keep it up


Meanwhile this is some basic shit yall are tripping over yourselves to talk shit out the side of your mouths about her on
Can't give her an iota of damn credit
Meanwhile once ya boy doesn't even have that basic.ass.shit.down.
Basically a couple of YouTube videos would have fixed his stupid ass
And he didn't do it
Instead of her looking bad
He sounds worse and worse in your eagerness to down her

A damn simpleton now that cant watch a you tube video
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~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

Well you know

"i should be speaking with my tongue clicking on the top of my mouth and shit!!!!!...my natural languages are better than this!!!!!!!" (c) Azealia Banks

click away

Makes your sexist shit feel warm and cozy?
Cuddling up to it n shit?
Need a blanket?
~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

"What do y'all know about Gnosticism ? " (c) Azealia Banks

"What do y'all know about Gnosticism ? " (c) Azealia Banks

No? Trot out more then
Doesn't make her any less right this time
Man that shit is killing you
Lol!
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~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

If she was a man of any age,everyone would be scrambling to give her props. I've learned that people don't like women to be political or have opinions. And if we do, we better be "lady like" when we express them. Foh.

if she was joe budden saying the same shit...

i'd be like "somebody shut his wack crazy ass up!"

i'll stick to TNC for compelling perspectives on race

>i'll stick to TNC for compelling perspectives on race

If you've really been following him you'd realize he's fucked up as well
And admitted his mistakes
This is a fucking rapper
No one is taking her that seriously
But now it's levels of Melissa harris Perry that needed to admit she's right on this
One thing

Again yall doing it to yourselves
Twisting yourselves in knots
Bad as Selma "critics"
And fucking telling in what yall decide to get nit picky about
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~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

she's as good as that as you are at clinging to idiotic talking points

the "mistakes" of TNC happen to not take away from his apt perspective and stable-minded stances

stop being an idiot

>she's as good as that as you are at clinging to idiotic
>talking points
>
>the "mistakes" of TNC happen to not take away from his apt
>perspective and stable-minded stances
>
>stop being an idiot

The idiot here is you
Keep it up though
Ya asses are transparent
Your shit is showing
~~~~
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

Shit is disgusting.

ones who claim to be so educated.

we should go back to the old days of "no comment".

It is a pretty dumb statement (as is the "we're in the last days" nonsense) - aside from it being victim blaming ("they 'don't respect themselves', so they deserve to die) it's also a blanket statement that clearly doesn't apply to millions of black folks...

"I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it's already a situation, mentally, where it's f---ed up. What happened to Michael Brown should've never happened. Never. But 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."


White folks have never respected us, soooo.... I think the police should learn to respect black life first and then maybe we can have a conversation about 'respecting ourselves'. Priorities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-KI38Y5h8o

and don't drink or do drugs.

everybody scared.

if you scared go to bed so you can wake up for church. © ralphy london

edited to give credit to ralphy london.

Good job, Ms. Banks.

If you have her pegged to be your #1 activist/representative, that's your idiocy.

Keep riding for her.

You are the epitome OF and poster child FOR pressed individuals, my dude.

including her. But I'm pressed.

FOH.

Like I said ride for her my dude. She's representing you well.

lol

If you want to ride for her, like I said that's your idiocy.

Your choice.

Be proud of it, but don't be defensive when someone calls it what it is.

But yes, we will continue to ride for her.
You will continue to wish we'd stop.
But we can't stop, won't stop.
Take that, take that.
*diddy dances on your feelings*
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cka4FK7S9FM/T6ZyczxQpaI/AAAAAAAAAK4/kAfhWdCeg7o/s320/tumblr_m1xq061AZy1qe48vto4_500.gif

from disappointment in seemingly intelligent people's decision to encourage the antics of a misguided child.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cka4FK7S9FM/T6ZyczxQpaI/AAAAAAAAAK4/kAfhWdCeg7o/s320/tumblr_m1xq061AZy1qe48vto4_500.gif

wouldn't 'encourage' her and moving you to the point of insulting people for not sharing the same views as you.
you didn't have to reply to me yet you did showing that you are indeed worked up over this.
i'll let you have the last word which i know is coming after this.
enjoy whatever internet victory you're trying to win in here by calling people names.

You know, the same way you describe mine as "scared".

But it's funny that I can make one, ONE, 1 comment disagreeing with the choice to encourage her, and you suggest that I'm:

Mad
Pressed
Scared
Whining
Worked Up

etc.

But yet, you are more than happy to encourage her ongoing twitter rants, which are transparently rooted in her disgust for Iggy Azealia, without labeling her any of those things.

Do you though.

goddamn you're mad

and political activism. 90% stunting and trolling tho. her particular style of trolling is funny and interesting, and she's pulling peoples card who deserve to have them pulled.

Also, I'm very much sick and tired of rappers being treated like they're our elected officials.

Kendrick either needed to elaborate or stfu on that shit.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

.
.
.
"America, stop turning our Court Houses of Justice into Dens for Justified Murderers."

You shouldn't shoot or murder unarmed citizens. Point blank and period.

Of course he's right, because a people that respected themselves wouldn't ALLOW this shit to happen.


But that's neither here nor there because, once again, cops shouldn't be executing people.

Kendrick's statement puts the onus on the wrong group.


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

as opposed to a conversation.

Miss me talking about how Black people gotta be model citizens to NOT get gunned down by holice.

Because as long as Whites view Blacks as Non-Being and we continue to treat ourselves as Non-Being then what do you think the outcome will be?


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"America, stop turning our Court Houses of Justice into Dens for Justified Murderers."

what.

I want us to do better for US... not so white people will respect us. At the end of slavery,
we were farming, owning land, and doing very well for ourselves. America deemed
it legal to torture us and run us off our land. Tell me Black Wall Street wasn't Black
people "respecting ourselves". They bombed the shit outta that city.
We can go back as far as the invasion of Africa where we had created civilization.
They don't respect us because they don't WANT to.
We will not ever gain collective white respect. We do better for ourselves so we can
protect ourselves from their terror. It's that simple.

do you understand that I'm saying?
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"America, stop turning our Court Houses of Justice into Dens for Justified Murderers."

We both want Black folks to do better.

You seem to believe it will impact how white folks treat us.

I don't.

History shows us that it will make them turn up the gas on the fire and go into
extreme terrorist mode in an attempt to destroy whatever we build.

When we get our shit together THIS time, we gotta be prepared for that.

It is absolutely IMPERATIVE! that we understand that America has very direct
intentions of keeping Black people poor and subjugated. We must also understand why.

She put it all out there.

She put it all out there.

needs to be defined and appraised. Clearly we all have "self respect" but we also have a 400 year history in this country where we have gone through an experience that influences our behavior and how we demonstrate our self respect.

Self respect shouldn't be and isn't required to keep someone from killing a person or group. However, self respect does and should activate a group to not only defend themselves and their "selfs" but be willing to offend others for the sake of liberation.

Knowing Kendrick's perspective and output, what I got from the statement was that any liberation we get isn't going to come from the oppressor, nor from actions made after the fact. We gotta be fully committed if we are going to break this cycle, and stop asking and start taking. Maybe we need to reevaluate the self respect we possess and push towards its 100% actualization, because given our history in this country, even more is required of us based on what we're up against.

and as much of a problem as I have with "new black" and "respectability" lines of thought...

i don't always assume that the people thinking like that aren't aware of the systemic racism as an institution...

they want us to do better and be better and avoid that institution until things improve

while the kneejerkers are like "NO!!! THEY DID TO US!!! THEY HAVE TO FIX IT!"

and if they did...it would be a huge deal...maybe

cause maybe they'd enforce more petty crimes in orgs or blue collars just so they can racially equalize the prison industrial complex to the burbs and good neighborhoods

people are so resistant to change though...when you belong to a group...it's sometimes ok to think "we need to do better" without thinking about the way the system is rigged

it's a very churchy way of thinking too...

you don't question God (or authority), u build up your congregation...

i don't agree with that but i don't see the harm in trying to balance the 2 and if you haven't done the research or don't have the expertise to challenge or influence "authority" go ahead and focus on whatever else u do feel capable of addressing or are familiar with

I think it's hilarious how people talk about how she speaks her mind...just bc they agree with her Freshman Black Studies class rants...

I hate when conservative rednecks speak their mind

I can't really think of an artist as genuine as KL and even though she annoys me A Banks either...but i know which one is an asshole in their approach

Q-tip tried a nicer approach and people called it "condescending/patronizing"...she's trying it with unhinged attacks with minimal facts and maximum emotion...

nobody is willing to make the first change

She was the dumb one on fresh prince right?
Carlton's sister?
Whatever.

Her hearts in the right place and I appreciate her speaking out for black people, she's still problematic (and also extremely homophobic//transphobic). She needs a mentor.


Now Kendrick....smh. We were rooting for you, nigga. I agree with Banks when it comes to this, cause this wasn't the place (definitely not the time) to be saying ish like this.

lol, explain how she's problematic or homophobic please

but it isnt homophobia, it's trolling to get under his skin. he came at her for attacking Iggy and she went for the jugular

she could easily pull a "some of my best friends are black" because her biggest supporters are within the gay community

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exactly, she's stated many times that she's bi

Quite possibly.

she's 23 (not really an excuse, but she has growing to do)
she's from Harlem (not really an excuse but look at how Camron was well into his 30s)

i think she was trying to hurt Perez Hilton deeply because she felt attacked, there's a difference between that and having a general distaste for the gay community

she responds to people with shit like "I hope your dad molests you". How can you take someone who says shit like that seriously?

Oh ok.

even if there is validity to what she says, her delivery is so off putting that I can't support.

is simply bc rappers are dumb?
and dumbing everybody else down with them



somehow a bunch of high school grads became the cnn, the lifecoach, guidance counselor, black studies prof, therapist, and legal advisor 4 the hood

On the surface I'd disagree with what she's saying about being owed something because although a lot of folks feel they're owed something-- not sure if she was going the "owed" reparations route with that or not.

I ride with everything starting with "racial barriers"

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2015/01/lupe-fiasco-azealia-banks-beef/

Banks has to pick her battles better than this. Her hate towards Iggy comes across as bitter and jealous to an extent.

even if she's right, that's fairly obvious which undermines a lot of her credibility pertaining to Iggy.
Which is why I feel she's the wrong person to be the representative of the subject.

>even if she's right, that's fairly obvious which undermines a
>lot of her credibility pertaining to Iggy.
> Which is why I feel she's the wrong person to be the
>representative of the subject.

... It comes across as patronizing now because she earned recognition for her artistry.

Who's another person that could speak on this issue without patronizing Iggy or coming across as jealous like Azealia?

speaks for itself

Kendrick and Lupe, maybe two of the most socially conscious rappers in the mainstream as of late.

Like their latest songs were "i" and "Delivery".

that merry fleximus shit had me dying around christmas

This is where she loses credibility to me

how is she going to be dissin someone over relevancy??




but im banned tho.
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Dallas Cavericks LETS GO!!

The fuk is up with u and Canada?

I know its Drake related which is weird in itself

but u bring Canada up in the most random and left field ways possible

being witty is not ur lane

do better yt


but im banned tho.
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Bitch....to show that 2015 is not about young emotional bitches....o....k and he's what about a decade older than her

Yeah.... Lol @ the cosigners in this thread too

She's in her early 20s and most of u r pushing 40, why do yall hate her so much?

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>She's in her early 20s and most of u r pushing 40, why do yall
>hate her so much?

bitterness

LOL @ ppl who can't read where the ppl in various subthreads have stated pretty clearly what issues they have w/Banks' various Twitter rants.

LOL @ passive aggression, generally.

>Yeah.... Lol @ the cosigners in this thread too
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>She's in her early 20s and most of u r pushing 40, why do yall
>hate her so much?

Clearly there's a preassigned space they have for her
And the audacity of her not seeing fit to get in it
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

he won the petty rapper twitter war

Scott Mescudi ✔ @KidCudi Follow
Dear black artists, dont talk down on the black community like you are Gods gift to niggaz everywhere.
4:13 PM - 10 Jan 2015


Scott Mescudi ✔ @KidCudi Follow
If you wanna help, inspire, uplift, don't point the blame and talk down.
4:20 PM - 10 Jan 2015


Lupe Fiasco ✔ @LupeFiasco
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Shut up...FOH @KidCudi
4:21 PM - 10 Jan 2015


Lupe Fiasco ✔ @LupeFiasco
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How about you stop shitting on the people who really cared about your well being when this biz was ripping you apart. Fake ass @KidCudi
4:25 PM - 10 Jan 2015


Scott Mescudi ✔ @KidCudi
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Uh oh we got em mad!!! Hahaha
4:40 PM - 10 Jan 2015



*edit*

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Not sure what happened prior too but..

http://hiphopwired.com/2014/08/21/kid-cudi-lupe-fiasco-trade-shots-twitter/

seem like lupe & cudi was finna shoot the 5

that thought saddens me :-(

Kermit had the best year of 2014 tho... meme kermit out here WINNING

recently when Grande called him a fake ass muslim eating bologna after Grande, Lupe and DJ Dahi went at it over a beat DJ Dahi sold to Lupe but gave to Grande years ago even refused money for it lol


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yea ummm

http://www.midamarhalal.com/Ordering/Product/Default.aspx

bring truth to the light

...and express strong opinions passionately. She's not giving the safe answer and she doesn't have to check with her publicist to take a shit.

Kendrick "tried" to give a safe answer, but it ended up sounding stupid; at least in the context of Ferguson.

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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

the platform makes the backlash more visceral though

but everyone experiences push back from someone...

whether it be parents or teachers

it's almost always a respect thing too...

the only difference is that it aint always so public and instant a pushback...

maybe i was just a respectful ass youngin and this social media shit just gives folks a chance to hide physically from that pushback lol

Say your piece and kim, you trying to get the last word with a broad who literally doesn't matter

Hit that bitch with the 'k at best

Okp was so trailblazing in terms of snark shit in a Black context. Really was.

Key word: was

All the talents moved on except me.

Oh well.

srsly

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niggas with no passion in there lives living vicariously and shit

not giving a care for how unhinged they are bc they saying shit they moderately agree with

i think ol girl is dope but just a grade A asshole...

being passionately ignorant with a couple of nuggets of truth is the "but i paid my child support!" type of achievement

twitter ruined a lot of people for me. I long for the days when all you knew about artists was their crafts.
You didn't know their every thoughts. The closest you could get to them was posters, awards shows, movies, and music videos.
You still had an imagination of what their personality was outside of their music/acting. I was okay with that.

>twitter ruined a lot of people for me. I long for the days
>when all you knew about artists was their crafts.
>You didn't know their every thoughts. The closest you could
>get to them was posters, awards shows, movies, and music
>videos.
>You still had an imagination of what their personality was
>outside of their music/acting. I was okay with that.
>


http://i.minus.com/iomXcB1cr4sGp.gif

I can't take her cornball ass serious at all. I was done after the tweeting through birth.

I fully admit that I am somewhat out of the loop.

I've heard plenty of everyone she has gone after on Twitter. But I am unclear as to if I'm familiar with her, outside of her aggression towards popular acts online.

(Not that this discredits her opinion at all-- it may be merely a coincidence that every time she gets my attention, it's due to a new Twitter beef with a popular musician instead of for her own music. I read the news more than I seek out contemporary new acts. Just asking whether she's popular for her artistic accomplishment, or if she's more popular for stuff like this.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk

Let's really stop acting as if that wasnt what drove those tweets the Ferguson shit was just a excuse for her to Tweet at him FOH lol


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he made a politically correct ambiguous statement. if she wanted to take issue with that she could have. she's been fired up about racial issues not related to Iggy Azalea as well, she's probably the most vocally pro-black celebrity out today

She is more popular for her twitter beef than her music.

there are celebrities known for doing less

i'm dying laughing at their exchange lolsmh
#TrollLife

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She young she's going to learn
lol walked right into it too
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

http://i.imgur.com/b6i7iKe.gif

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lol

Far be it from me to say she's always right. She was being ridiculous, and he put
the pie on her face.

or nah?

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

lol.. waited all day for this

Hmmm... And she criticizes Lupe saying no one cared about him before their twitter war...

Its like when people bring up black on black crime as if its only unique to black folks
When in reality violence is common in all communities & nations regardless of race.

As many have pointed out, respecting or disrespecting yourself has nothing to do with racism
That’s what makes it racism in the first place – that you’re being treated one way regardless of how you actually behave.

The notion that blacks need to love & respect themselves isnt unique to the black experience either
All people need to love & respect themselves, blacks arent the only ones dealing with some form of self-hate

I say all of this because too many blacks buy into these cliched narratives which are true,
but they mislead you to believe that the problem is you & if you fix these problems everything else will fall in line

No, the problem is being enslaved & being treated inhumane for hundreds of years,
The problem is losing culture & history,
The problem is assimilating to a foreign way of life,
The problem is trying to prosper in a foreign land amongst a people & government that views you less than equal

In short, the problem is the oppressor & his infrastructure of institutionalized racism

Always has & always will be

Its like that line from the Usual Suspects:
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

And thats exactly whats going on
The oppressor has flipped the narrative & got blacks believing theyre the cause of their own misery

Its some wickedly brilliant pimp shit

I think they the same person.