I think you laid out perfectly why Kendrick is so huge, and such a good artist, that even people like me, with not much more than a passing interest in hip hop really like his stuff, and can recognize the musicality and talent.

And the saddest part is that the author of the tweet will not hear any of these arguments because "black man rapping on stage = talentless". Their racism comes before any other aesthetic judgment.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That guy is defending the practice of making a million billion sequels and spin offs of 3 or 4 IPs also, by the way. The only inclusion he wants is making sure every toy from the 90s gets its own movie.

Because God forbid we ever got the healing presence of justice where we could talk about poverty in America as a fascinating backdrop without it being charged with politics. It's something Kendrick documents in his music with the masterful touch one might compare to Monet or Picasso in their efforts to preserve the feeling or emotional resonance of their place and time. I don't mean charged with politics how they mean that, but in the vein of the Palestinian poet, Marwan Makhou: In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent. You want something fresh and original? Star Wars allegory for Black Wall Street burning down and a gray Jedi is born from it. The Jedi and their pal Glorp the green cat with antennae for ears seek to defeat the sith responsible for it but for some reason the jedi side with the sith over them, calling it a moral failure to be upset by his people's setback.

Wizard from underprivileged neighborhood goes to magic community college and has challenging interactions with students from Hogwarts and is slow on the pickup of their celebrated culture. Only to find when they get a chance to sample it, he finds it emptier and bereft of the soul he is used to in his upbringing