Kendrick Lamar message

I wanted to know the hidden message because I certainly didn’t get it. I didn’t understand the lyrics. I didn’t understand why this artist is considered so popular , as he’s won 14 Grammys, etc..

So I googled, and here is what I found on sporting news article


What was the message behind Kendrick's performance?

“The set for Lamar's performance sent its own message. As the rapper and his all-Black dancers spun around the field, it soon became clear they were performing in a prison yard. The set was designed to highlight the issue of mass incarceration and the racial disparities”

Ok, So now I have questions for the black multimillionaires, entertainers, and tennis stars who have achieved so much in this lifetime are giving us a message about the disparities in the black community growing up in Crompton and doing the Crips dance .

Help me understand why an artist would want to communicate the cyclical issues one grew up with and overcome?

Aren’t messages like this a call for change? For whom?

If a gang killed your stepsister or a family member, why would you want to draw attention to that issue in the Super Bowl?

Or! Was William simply doing the dance because apparently she was criticized for doing it winning a championship?

I simply do not understand why an element of black culture wants to embrace the struggles when we see so many people in the black community have ascended to the highest levels of society and in government as leaders in our society demonstrating there is nothing holding them back from achieving their dreams in this country?

Though I may disagree with their political ideology, it’s still admirable that in this country if you set your mind out to do something, you can achieve it, that is the American dream

We all know that the biggest issue plaguing the black community is the lack of stability in families, the lack of fatherhood- we don’t need studies. We don’t need to continue to blame history or other people or even our society or system. Life is a collective of ones decisions.

So yes, there are disparities in incarcerations because the black families have been destabilized for a variety of reasons, The number one reason being having children before one is prepared for life. This action leads to children being guided by other people’s children.

After so many decades have passed I think we have to look forward rather than backwards.

I guess I’m driven toward Solutions rather than stating the obvious.

The political problem is that messages like this performance ultimately are aimed at white people and white culture?

And we’re supposed to do what exactly?