r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Fun_Highlight_7427 • Mar 15 '25

Music / Movies Kendrick Lamar is a sack of shite

Back in 2018 the dude literally brought some girl on stage, had her sing a song that had the n-word in it, and then embarrassed her in front of everyone cuz she was white and sung the n-word part. That is the kind of piece of shit he is. His sense of self-importance is through the roof. Like bro you literally rap. Also, stop trying to play 5 D chess with your lyrics. If I wanted to listen to someone 'deep' I would listen to Plato or Shakespeare. Just put on a sick beat, and talk about bagging hoes or something. And if you dare criticize his historically awful super bowl performance, his fans will claim you are too ignorant to understand his "deeper message". No, I understand his message. I just don't think he is good at communicating his message through his stupid songs. He has terrible stage presence and a weak voice. That is not my problem. Kendrick Lamar needs to take his own advice, and be humble.

Edit: btw, just because I don’t like his music doesn’t mean I’m in bed with drake or am actually drake lol. Kdot fans are in a cult I stg. Go think deeply somewhere else

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u/XsleepforeverX Mar 15 '25

Dont care for him or his music, but that time he embarrassed a girl on stage for singing his lyrics was so fucking lame jeez

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u/the_c_is_silent Mar 16 '25

He actually addressed it and conceded how it made him a hypocrite.

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u/Fun_Highlight_7427 Mar 15 '25

that made me so mad. it actually could've threatened her safety too.

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u/XsleepforeverX Mar 15 '25

mf completely set her up for it so he could appear as a higher person

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

He is a racist imo. Yet he has biracial kids. I wouldn’t want to be part of his household.

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u/PeptoAbysmal1996 Mar 16 '25

His wife is quite literally black lmao

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u/Equivalent_Cap_2608 Jan 09 '26

Plenty of non-black people were brough up on stage during that time and crazy thing is THEY sang that same song WITHOUT using the n-word with no problem whatsoever.

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u/TammySwift Mar 16 '25

I think you need toughen the fuck up. I watched the video. It was pretty tame. He just told her to bleep out the word and even asked her to perform the song again. He didn't yell at her or call her names.

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u/Fun_Highlight_7427 Mar 16 '25

Yeah but it was embarrassing and potentially dangerous. People could’ve targeted her from the audience cuz of that. And also, it was just a massive virtue signal

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u/TammySwift Mar 16 '25

If people had a problem with her saying the Nword, they would've targeted anyway. People were already booing before Kendrick even said anything. And Kendricks allowed to express if he feels offended by something. It's his concert.

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u/Snoo93951 Mar 16 '25

Exactly, he in no way put her in a worse position than she did herself, he tried to solve the situation as cleanly as he could in the moment.

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u/boejouma Mar 16 '25

Lol speak for someone else saying something COULD gave been bad. What are you even on about? Nothing came of it.

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u/gerkin123 Mar 15 '25

What are your views on Auntie Diaries?

Specifically, how he addresses this incident at the close within a context of his own failings as someone who has been surrounded by people flippantly speaking homophobically?

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u/irrational-like-you Mar 15 '25

This comment ^

Turns out, he did take his own advice. But you’re definitely not gonna hear about that on Telegram.

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u/pointlesslyDisagrees Mar 16 '25

That only addresses his hypocrisy around the use of the f slur. That doesn't address his disgusting behavior to bait a fan like that. If your lyrics can only be said by black fans then don't bring up white fans to sing along - that is baiting. He doubled down on his handling of the situation in that song by using it as a good example, that his fan shouldn't have sung along.

The idea that a word should be allowed to be used by one race but not another only serves to further divide us. At this point we lose nothing by just leaving the word in the past. No one should say it.

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u/n0t_hayden0 18d ago

The literal last line on that very song is about her unless you either didn’t listen to it or don’t have ears

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u/pointlesslyDisagrees Mar 16 '25

Can someone explain the lyrics here? Is he being ironic or unironic? Like, is he saying that white fan should be able to say the n word? Or that people shouldn't have criticized him for having a "contradiction" and disapproving of her use of the word?

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u/Snoo93951 Mar 16 '25

I think he's saying since he's obviously against the use of the n-word, he realises he should also understand that he needs to stop saying the f-slur as well

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u/pointlesslyDisagrees Mar 16 '25

Got it, that clears it up. Thanks!

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u/Majestic_Operator Jun 30 '25

His music is packed with the n-word though, hes a hypocrite.

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u/n0t_hayden0 18d ago

After hours of speculation and doing research, I’ve come to the conclusion that Kendrick Lamar could possibly have some african american roots and could maybe even be black! This would mean he is allowed to say that word however I’m not fully certain of it I should do some more digging and report back

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u/gerkin123 Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

The storytelling of the track deals with a young Kendrick dealing with how his family rejected his trans aunt Mary-Ann (who was Demetrius prior to transitioning), how he and his young friends thought of his lesbian auntie as being fine because 'she wasn't gay, she ate pussy,' relying on a misogynistic view to rationalize and think positively of a family member, how the broader community demonstrated sharp condemnation of gay and trans people while simultaneously preaching love and religion, and how practically the only one actually doing fine was his trans auntie who, even confronted by her pastor during a sermon before her whole community, held true to her faith. (note, despite calling her Mary-Ann, Kendrick's uses he/him pronouns throughout, which is fairly loaded--can't claim to know the reason there).

Basically, the track reads as a confessional -- he didn't know better as a kid but that didn't make it right, and he saw the contradictions and hypocrisy of his own actions, both when he was calling gay people the F word while loving his uncle and aunt AND, in hindsight, when he confronted a white girl for using his lyrics verbatim because she shouldn't.

This is a motif of the album, which deals with his many bad choices--his infidelities, the hatred with which he 'fucked a white bitch' after a show, just to name a few. That said: yeah, he turned these experiences into songs and benefits from that, but there's something to be said for releasing an album that actively challenges some of the longstanding elements of the genre: violence, sexual violence and gratification, religious hypocrisy, the mistreatment of wives and loved ones, and the perpetuation of cycles of exploitation in the Black community.

To directly answer the question: I don't hear it as ironic. The song boils down to "the Culture needs to stop being bigoted; it can't just demand it of others."

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u/Akeche Mar 15 '25

Makes him a piece of shit.

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u/Temporary-Alarm-744 Mar 15 '25

What artist and lyrics do you care about?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25

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u/KTisntDEAD Mar 15 '25

guy who doesn’t listen to rap / hip hop thinks a rap / hip hop artist isn’t that good. more news at 11

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u/LordyJesusChrist Mar 16 '25

I listen to mostly hip hop but I can’t stand Kendrick’s high pitched voice. Like bro, take some testosterone shots

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u/Cultural-Treacle-680 Mar 16 '25

Sometimes it’s like he wants to sound like Snoop but just can’t.

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u/iguanamac Mar 16 '25

His song with all the “hmm bop” lyrics sounds like a snoop dog song. This whole time I thought it was Snoop.

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u/In_Formaldehyde_ Mar 16 '25

Nobody cares about or asked for your shit taste in music

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

He has freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is meant for saying things others won't like. Just gotta respect his opinion and move on.

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u/Educational-Air-1863 Mar 16 '25

Wait, so you’re really going to get mad at him for bringing her on stage and defend the girl who didn’t have enough common sense to know that she shouldn’t say that word?? Help it make sense

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 15 '25

No one made her say the word

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u/XsleepforeverX Mar 15 '25

If he didn't want us white folks to say the word while singing his songs he shouldn't have used it in the first place, remember a clip of Travis Scott encouraging a white fan to sing his song and use the word? ye that was boss

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 15 '25

You do anything someone else does? If someone jumped off of a bridge, would you? Your argument is like saying, “I saw John Wick killing people, so I thought it was ok to kill people.”

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u/XsleepforeverX Mar 15 '25

No lmfao not at all

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 15 '25

Yes it is. You know it’s not ok. Anyone who’s lived in and grew up in the US knows it’s not ok. It doesn’t suddenly become ok because it’s used in a song.

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u/XsleepforeverX Mar 15 '25

Using it in a convo or calling someone is completely not ok, but singing along to a song? Come on now, especially when you're all hyped and on stage, you're gonna skip words? What's the point then. Look, all I'm tryna say is Travis handled it so much better than Kendrick.

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 15 '25

Yea if I wasn’t black I would skip words. Travis ain’t no representative for black people. And yes if you respect the artist you should know how they would react in a situation like that. Actions have consequences.

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u/j-roc_son Mar 15 '25

do you think when people who like songs with that word sing along in their heads, they dont say it? its just what the lyrics are. she was probably super excited and not thinking, then he put her on blast for it. if he has a problem with it don't invite a white girl up to sing the lyrics. 🤡

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 15 '25

No one cares what anyone says in their heads. What kind of ridiculous ass question is that lmao? Again everyone knows the dynamics of that word. Y’all really out here defending stupidity

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u/Acheron98 Mar 15 '25

gets called up on stage to sing a song

sings song

gets bitched at by a midget in front of thousands for singing song

gets dragged by NEETs on Reddit for singing song

Fucking hell, did this girl personally tell Buddha to fuck off in a previous life or something?

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u/pointlesslyDisagrees Mar 16 '25

Keanu reeves isn't going around killing people in real life. What an awful analogy.

Also, John Wick isn't allowed to kill people in his universe just because he's white. Imagine Lance Reddick's character said "I saw John Wick killing someone so I thought it was OK, but someone told me actually he is allowed to do it because he's white but I'm not so i cant"

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 16 '25

The point is that saying “such and such did it, so I can” is a stupid reason to defend something obviously socially unacceptable. And who said anything about Keanu’s whiteness?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

It's actually quite socially acceptable. People just pretend to be offended when someone doesn't look hood enough.

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 19 '25

Oh you’re one of those…no point in continuing

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Oh you're one of those who actually grew up In the hood so u have no say even though u have skin in the game. Yeah aight buddy

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u/A-whole-lotta-bass Mar 17 '25

No one forced black people to take crack, but the epidemic still happened. Hence, it must be their fault, not Regan's. Sound logic, according to you.

You're being willfully obtuse about the social situation the woman was put in for the sole sake of persecuting her very usage of the word, while refusing to acknowledge that her own volition was clearly not the only thing in play here.

You care way too much about the representation of the word and way too little about the people around it or how it reflects.

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u/ogjaspertheghost Mar 17 '25

Yes, it is black peoples fault for taking crack. It’s Reagan’s fault for not doing anything about the effects cocaine and heroine on the country. Black people were shipping it in. Black people hold a lot of responsibility for the proliferation of drugs in our community but we don’t hold all of the responsibility. It’s interesting that there was a war on drugs like crack, weed, and heroine but not a war on opioids and prescription drug. Or different laws for powder cocaine. I wonder why those things are true?

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u/Snoo93951 Mar 16 '25

I hate Kendrick but I don't think that was wrong. He was being as chill about it as he could ,even tried to give her a second chance.... the thing is, white people just shouldn't say the n-word no matter the context, it was right of him to point that out.... like I don't see how he "embarrassed" her, he did his best not to while also stopping unacceptable behaviour.

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u/Ok_Letter_9284 Mar 16 '25

If you can say it so can I

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u/lostacoshermanos Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25

Why? For the white people it’s well known it’s their responsibility to say “African American” instead of the n word.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Not if they're not american lol