Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

I just read Christgau's review, which is pretty brutal in its economy

Kendrick is going to be playing at Brown in April (yay) opening for Dirty Projectors (boooooooo)

lol college bills are the best

ha, that's insane

this is prob the best one http://www.songkick.com/concerts/832766-clipse-at-columbia-university

one of my favorite shows ever was from the Spring Fling my freshman year:

Figures on a Beach
De La Soul

kendrick and dirty projectors would be pretty sweet imo

yeah DPs are pretty cool live

I had a terrible dream last night that kendrick and jay rock were bullying me and threatening me with guns. I woke up sweating. it was a serious nightmare lol, as distressing as any I've had.

uh

that's a pretty loaded nightmare, ya bish

lol

since gKMc I kinda imagine Kendrick as the older Clifford in the frame story of the movie Clifford

When marc iv awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a G.

that's a pretty loaded nightmare, ya bish

real time lol

are guns phallic? i am not super familiar with dream analysis, is symbolism really that straightforward? i am more concerned with racist overtones than gay ones. I have been thinking about race a lot: the conflict of the n-word's meaninglessness in hiphop and the disastrous meaning it suddenly has if I, a white person, use it. I am not saying this double standard is not defensible, but any language control is a form of thought control, right? maybe Kendrick and jay = black ppl in general, "bullying" me into thinking along the lines deemed acceptable for white folks?

excuse me if this is not the time or place. and if I say anything offensive I swear I am not overtly racist, merely unconsciously so (as this dream hopefully is NOT proof of. though I know studies have proven that ALL are unconsciously racist).

whats so hard to understand about not being a dick?

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xp

I think your subconscious is throwing curveballs at you as it processes during sleep the ruminations you've been having on race

xp why does one person get to be a dick and it is not even being a dick while another (whitey) is dick?!?!?! it is alienating and confusing and as I hear the word rapped 100000x a day I become desensitized and prone to slip ups.

because of slavery

one way to combat against this is to remember that you aren't a black MC on a hip-hop record and as such don't really have a particular reason for dropping the n-word? or maybe bump up yr Will Smith intake

because people were actually owned and sold like fuckin' property your ass doesn't get to say the n-word whenever you want, tough shit

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I have been thinking about race a lot

but not enough

I have definitely met non-black dudes from parts of Miami, etc. who can more or less get away with n---a because that really truly is the pervading language of their environment; sounds like you are not one of those ppl. I'm not either. Just let it go, there's absolutely nothing to be gained from this particular battle.

And yeah, I mean maybe that should be kinda obvious, but you know, sometimes people just get lost in their kind of abstract reasoning without acknowledging painfully obvious realities. I know I used to do that regarding almost everything when I was younger and still do quite often. Certainly the stakes are higher when it's something race-related. When you put something like that post out there people are going to jump on you like it's the most horrible thing ever when it's not that hard to see where you're coming from imo, it's just pretty apparent to me and the world that you should get past that line of thinking soon as possible.

slavery is not really a good enough reason as I nor anyone else in the world was alive. if that is not a valid argument (IMO it is), I am from Canada, home of the underground railway and stuff.

xp djp that is not a bad reasoning except for the fact that mcs use it with wild abandon, not only when talking about politics, so by this logic they are not justified either!

the actual conclusion I have reached prior to this is that although the idea of reclaiming the word MUST have as its endgame it being acceptable for all (in some distant utopia), even though it is 2013 and I live In a big ads multicultural as hell city in a liberal country, racism still exists both here and in rural areas. so if I am given some special pass that would be a bad example for the kkk and stuff. reclamation efforts would be wasted if we move too soon.

however even with this in mind I don't think it's excusable for popular artists to use it in their art, published, as it is, by the hundreds of thousands. there must be other confused white ppl out there and it's a safe bet that a lot of them are learning their lesson not by logic but by getting beaten up.

"logic"

as a white person you still reap the benefits of long years of institutional racism, in ways you cannot even probably understand or notice yourself, the past is not past.

guys he's canadian

contendloraxer

won't somebody think of the confused white ppl

it's a safe bet that a lot of them are learning their lesson not by logic but by getting beaten up.

a ray of light at the end of depressing gibberish

I am from Canada, home of the underground railway

you know what, I think I'm going to bow out of this conversation for the time being

Ok I was almost on yr side a moment ago (though not at all in agreement with you) but now I'm kinda leaning toward 'take all this back to reddit or wherever please'. This is terrible 'reasoning'. Grow up.

is thread really happening right now

where's the #jimmyfallonvirus when i need it the most?

guys just let him explain

I have definitely met non-black dudes from parts of Miami, etc. who can more or less get away with n---a because that really truly is the pervading language of their environment

the guy I know who does this is Columbian!

guys just let him explain

― k3vin k., Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10:34 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's the one with the dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnrswAX5qFo

MARC IV HAD A DREAM

I have definitely met non-black dudes from parts of Miami, etc. who can more or less get away with n---a because that really truly is the pervading language of their environment

you know dj khaled?

lol al

who could possibly want to stop this obv important discussion from continuing???

plz help me to learn!!!!!!

ftr this guy doesn't speak for all canadians

Interestingly enough tho DJ Khaled does speak for all of Miami + he wants you to know this Snack Wrap is delicious.

Ooh, I got to use the "Flag Post" button!

plz help me to learn!!!!!!

― marc iv, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10:40 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Your dreams will teach you. The hard way.

marc iv mordy has a poll you might be interested in