>be white
>live in white town, go to white high school
>when pic related came out in 2015 it was huge, friends and I listened to it a ton
>fast forward 5 years, in college
>haven't listened to kendrick in years now
>somehow find my way back to this album, listen to whole thing through just now
>brings back feels, good music, lyrics, vibes
>can't ignore how this was explicitly made for black people, songs are even angry towards white people
>one of the lines is "blacker than the heart of an Aryan"
I just don't know, it's weird liking rap as a white guy. More so when songs are talking about being proud of being black or fuck white people. I still like the album but just makes me feel weird about liking it. Anyone else feel this feel?
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His best album is GKMC so just listen to that instead
What songs are you listening to that say fuck white people?
Jews owned the slave ships and produced this record
Well for this album Blacker the Berry has the line "blacker than the heart of an Aryan". I get he's promoting being proud of being black and white/black conflict is a big topic with that and US history, but just makes me feel weird enjoying this music with that line, and also just the whole vibes of the album when I'm not even black.
this album references black hebrew isrealite conspiracy theories
Are you even an aryan? Also, the line clearly refers to nazis.
The point of those lyrics is to make you feel uncomfortable. The uneasy feel you have when listening to this record is nothing compared to the racism people of color experience in their lifetime. Just know that he wants to make you think about discrimination, he probably doesn't dislike you just because of the color of your skin.
>"blacker than the heart of an Aryan".
you missed the point of the whole fucking song. the character in it is blaming all of the misfortunes that happen to black people onto others but at the end he raps
>So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street
>When gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me?
>Hypocrite!
its about starting to change yourself if you want to see change in the world. I hate that people just squawk bullshit like "white bad black good!!" when talking about this album when they have no idea what they are listening to on the first place.
didn't pick up on that, like what?
I think so, I'm white. I always thought Aryan just means white. It makes sense referring to skinheads though, aryan brotherhood shit.
the aryan line refers specifically to nazis, dont worry about it kendrick doesnt hate white people lmao. im indian so i cant really relate to his struggles and im not white so i dont really feel "targeted" but i get what you mean, its strange listening to something that was obviously meant for a different demographic to listen to
I think you’re just a shallow retard, OP
>feels, vibes
Smart user
The whole song is about black hypocrisy in criticizing the police for killing black people but not black people for killing each other by gangbanging.
yea this is pretty spot on I think. Whole song is about being proud of being black, how white people are evil racists, then ends with pointing out the hypocrisy of black on black violence.
Yea I listen to a ton of different music including rap and sometimes it feels weird with something obviously written to connect with a different demographic but you still feel and appreciate it.
I started a conversation about the song and the meaning cus I didn't really get it, sorry you hate me for that.
it was a shallow interpretation but I get it now. also what's wrong with feels/vibes? Songs have vibes
>what’s wrong with feels/vibes?
This isn’t twitter and you sound like you’re 16
The whole situation of appreciating music that was made for a different demographic than your own is more what I meant the thread to be about. Some people feel a little weird about it but still like it, others might not feel weird at all, idk. Not just limited to rap.
Not only is Aryan a completely outdated and nonsensical racial concept, not all white people were considered Aryan.
It referred to ancient Indo-European peoples who lived in modern day Iran - in fact it's where Iran gets its name - who went on to conquer the Indian Subcontinent, moving up and westward through the Caucasus, breeding with caucasians, and their conquering blonde-hair/blue-eyed offspring going off into Europe to found all the great nations of the continent. Or at least, so goes the 19th century/early 20th century theory.
Aryan isn't a scientific term it's a political one - it can only mean something when used in reference to yourself, as white nationalists emulating Hitler do. Nobody has a right to call you it or hold some pseudoscientific voodoo against you.
Another example is the music video for Tribe by Bas, feature J Cole. I really dig the song even though the video is celebrating Haitian culture in Little Haiti, Miami
That whole situation with the white girl rapping maad city with him on stage was pretty wild. Guy invites up a white girl to sing along a song that says nigga heavily, idk man. He didn't flame her for saying it, even though the crowd was booing her, just made her censor that word and then it was already a shitshow by that point. But that's a good example of it being weird to like rap as a white person.
there's definitely a difference between being white and identifying as an Aryan
SEEN A LITE SKINNED N WORD WIT HIS BRAINS BLOWN OUT
I looked it up more, turns out aryan is about ancient people from Iran, not classic European white people.
Its both, Iranians (actual Iranians, not the mixed Arab ones) have white skin and blue eyes.
So is it weird for white people to like rap music? Nowadays it's really common, at least where I live in the US. I like it myself as a white guy. Are there any other types of music that are made for specific demographics, maybe like country music and rural white people? What demographic is classical music for, probably not even on a race basis?
No music is really made for any particular group unless you're a fucking smooth brain too afraid to leave his comfort zone, plenty of blacks are into modern country music for example
remember whne kendrick invited some white girl on stage at one of his concerts and then blasted her for saying nigga
like do black people think that white people arent gonna sing the lyrics to songs they like?
should i join?
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Correct, but be careful with the whole white/black dichotomy. Race isn't quite so simple as we think of it now when considering ancient ethnography. The distinction between white and black people only emerged in the 17th century in order to distinguish between settler colonial populations versus ethnic native populations.
As this guy says, Iranians would be considered 'white' yet hail from the middle-east - a part of the world considered 'non-white'. The whole concept is just a linguistic construction. Slavic people from Eastern Europe weren't considered 'white' to the nazis and yet they're paler than I am.
Jew record executives mandate the use of the word nigga so you better do what they say you stupid fucking schvartze