Kendrick Lamar has the same politics as the people on MSNBC

its all #thinlyveiledbeef

God OP, you sound more whiny than the people you're complaining about. "People who talk about X online are only doing it to virtue signal and don't do anything else in their lives" - a lot of your post just sounds like conjecture.

Who cares if some of the people dragging Kendrick are doing it for performative reasons? Sure, they shouldn't expect a liberal celebrity with frivolous politics who censored himself at the Super Bowl to be an outspoken advocate against genocide. But expecting more of renowned public figures doesn't even make it into the top 5% most annoying s*** people do online

And @op decided to illuminate those twitter narratives by making a whole thread around it instead of just taking the jokes in and moving on

Positive choice!

Isnt that what he does anyways

Yeah cause capitalism rewards making non boundary pushing "revolutionary" statements and imagery cause then they can sell it and placate a good portion of people. Idk literally we're confronted with this at almost every turn.

Unless an artist explicitly has anti-capitalist themes in their music and does something anti-capitalist they'll just be used by the system. That's why Noname prolly one of the most important artists ever.

I don’t think it’s just jokes

Macklemore is a better advocate than Kendrick Lamar and people have real problems with that

Palestine activism is low-key getting BLM-ed

No. It’s because there’s not a powerful engrained framework and system within America that is defending those atrocities and criminalizing the people against them.

What does this even mean

I say jokes because just like ed, ppl are still gonna go see kendrick because of what they provide as artists. Not advocates.

You have a right to critique them for lack of activism or selective activism (because kendrick was out there marching in 2020) then that is ok ! Everyone has a voice to do what they will with it.

Now you podding lmaoooo

Both you and crack are right.

Hitting the city for the day to talk to actual humans about actual things humans are talking about

Yall be easy doe

He’s is a guy who could make some noise if he drew attention to whats happening in Gaza in some way, he is the guy who said “i choose me” though

We probably shouldn’t expect much from entertainers in general, I’m surprised when any of them speak up about real stuff, artists at that level are in too deep with the class of people that are funding the atrocities themselves, just enjoy the music and get what you can out of it

Am I bugging or was he not referencing Vybz?

I haven’t been around for the discourse

i get some amusement out of how deeply depressed it seems to make kendrick's affluent white hipster fanbase that he's not some modern day malcolm X type just because he made an album about how black people need to learn to love themselves and said donald trump is bad.

but on a personal level, no, his views on palestine are his alone and as long as he doesn't come out and start shilling for the zionist regime, it's none of my business what he thinks about the conflict.

I think I know what you mean, but idk a good way to describe it. Cause you want this issue to be as hot as possible on global consciousness but there's something that gets lost in the whole thing the bigger it gets.

I can't really tell if it's coming from the angle that anti Israeli sentiment coming from the right side of things is rooted in anti-semitism rather than the Israeli government doing genocide on the behalf of western imperialist interests. Or is it the liberal take that it's "bad" but the overall refusal to engage with the fact that the system needs more than just reform.

The most damaging part is that these two groups don't realize they are effectively the same as far as Palestinians go.

When #homeboy was commenting the flag under #otherguy instagram picture I knew s*** was cooked !

This is why it is much more positively productive to look at what activism is happening in your local area based in causes you care about and rally more behind those forces versus the waveforms in your phone or mp3 player !

this gotta be the most shoegaze rug ever

It is obvious he hates the certain white fanbase (i positively hate em too) he gained with TPAB and DAMN it’s why Mr. Morale was so different.

We saying the same thing gang. The distance is what separates them and I'm not talking geography per se

This is just NoName part 2. It is pretty clear he isn’t an activist and isn’t trying to be one. He made sure of that when he had Kodak on his album and jump on those Carti features. The only we see him speaking is for his community.

Wonder when this’ll get locked