Kendrick Lamar Covers ‘XXL’
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Kendrick Lamar cops a squat for the XXL‘s Winter 2015 issue. In his own words, K-Dot touches on the success and controversy of To Pimp A Butterfly, and more. The issue hits newsstands December 22, but you can read an excerpt and watch a behind the scenes of his shoot below.
I know I’m chosen. I know I’m a favorite. I know in my heart there’s a whole other energy and leadership side of me that I have probably run from my whole life. How much power do I want? How much can I handle? That’s the question I keep asking myself. ’Cause when you are a voice for the youth, nothing can stop you. The youth is what changes things. Can I lead that? Should I? I get confused because people are championing me to be that vocal point and it’s a challenge for me to be that because I have some fear of that type of power. This goes back to me being who I naturally am or who think that I am now, that 28-year-old kid that’s kind’ve a recluse. But 28 is old enough for me to figure out who I am and have that power at the same time, that’s the battle and it’s a trip.
The Greatest Of This Generation.
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Before anybody decides to slander let me be one of the first to congratulate! Well deserved
I like Kendrick for what he stand for. You can’t
hate on a nigga that beat the odds and rapping about real shit and being
TRUE to himself.
That quote is so pretentious.
And Americans wonder why their children score low on standardized tests that the rest of the world’s children master.
The rest of the world’s children still see america as Disney Land while alot of the children here have already figured out that america is not quiet the fantasy land its described as being in other countries.
Hey, McFly! Why don’t you make like a tree and get out of here!
LOL. Eat is dick bitch
haha. You live in the greatest country in the world fool.
Of course because thats how americas been marketed to people in america and from america. America is the “greatest” if you have no other conception of anything other then countries that are worse of then america.
We Are dumbing down America – I notice everywhere – look at all the errors – from not preparing a cheeseburger correctly in a job at a fast food place to businesses making clerical errors to incorrect format and most of all the English language period.
So in 2015, now you believe america is dumbing down? Since the inception of america, there’s more out there that you have not been told then you’ve been told.
Another case of the pot calling the kettle black!
Vladimir, your command of the English language is legendary.
Stfu nigga your moms head game is legendary.
Sorry I offended you, Vladimir. I’m chilling with your mom in Room 222.
Room 222 where the faggot niggas dwell
Hush, don’t disturb, Vladimir. Your mom is busy riding this dick in Room 222.
My mom doesn’t like gay dudes.
While that was a good and somewhat surprising showing, things didn’t go as well for Rick Ross, whose Black Market sputtered with 57K sales plus streaming. It was the worst opening of the Bawse’s eight album career, and it made 50 Cent — who had been mocking Ross’s projections — very happy.
Meanwhile G-Eazy did 100k WEST COAST BACK RUNNING THIS RAP SHIT!
hip hop caused 28 year old men to continue calling themselves “kids.”
i kinda agree with this
We don’t know if Kendrick is the “chosen one” because none of you have spoken to God and if you have then what’s his number? Invoking God is trick that black people need to stop doing to one another. Personally I don’t think a rapper is “the chosen one”. Show me who’s this generations Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan and then we can talk about “chosen one(s)”. Shoe me a man that does what he wants to do because he told himself to do it, not because he thought he heard God telling him to do something.
You’re always saying something negative about Kendrick. Get a job dude.
There isn’t nothing negative in my comment about Kendrick dumbass. I don’t speak negative about Kendrick but he has such dickriders for fans that unless your worshipping Kendrick then you take everything as negative.
And you think any of your opinions matter lol Kendrick don’t know you. You’re just a random dude on the internet who says “Kendrick is overrated” on every post. Stop talking down other people’s success and earn your own.
I have not said Kendrick is overrated. You need to read the names of who leaves comments and who there directed to. If you read my comment you woulda saw who it was directed to and furthermore if you understood context you would’ve followed what my comment is about. I haven’t said Kendrick was overrated on any post let alone every post and I have no comments where I’m talking down on his success. Your dickriding so hard that you read other peoples comments and think I said it? Foh
Either way, u always sound negative
Yeah to sensitive people that take things negative when there’s nothing negative there.
The only sensitive person here is you motherfucker
Funny cause I don’t have any comments talking down on his success but I have several comments saying congrats to his success throughout different times in his career thus far. Again Foh
i never said he was the chosen one. i said he has been chosen (not unlike many), and the evidence of it is he is in a position of leadership. he wouldn’t be there had God not permitted it. but his potential is also being watched by our enemies. so, i hope kendrick grows into that which can be of more good. that’s all. i think you read too much into what i said. and i will also say that i don’t reduce our brothers to ‘rappers’ just because they rap. they are far more than that, potentially. time will tell. peace.
I here that but a position of leadership doesn’t really mean your the “chosen one” unless you mean by the process of voting or takeover. Did “God” make Hitler the “chosen one” cause he was in a leadership position? If Donald Trump becomes president did God choose him? What side is “God” on because its been millenniums and he still aint won a fight with the devil yet from what I see on earth. I understand people’s wanting to put God in the situation but how do we know God is on Kendrick’s side and not our enemies? Because Kendrick been doing alot of rapping and really aint shit changed in the streets from what I see. Just a whole lotta killing and brutality as usual. I’m not trying to be negative. What I’m saying is maybe we need to look in the mirror to find “God” because it don’t seem like he has our best interest in mind.
It’s going to take more than just the greatest rapper of this generation to fix the problems he wants fixed. Kendrick has a voice in the Hip-Hop community, but what about outside of it? There needs to be a whole movement dedicated to positively influencing “the youth that changes things”.
Its gonna take a thousand “Kendricks” but not rappers. We gonna need to see the “Kendrick” of politics, the Kendrick of academia, the Kendrick of law, of the scientific world, the medical world, technology, architecture and building, news media, writing, business development, housing development, community reform, etc… Every area of study, field and profession is gonna require a “Kendrick” to rise up. I can’t just be about who got the dope new song out.
Technology, architecture and building?
Yeah. Saying that making music isn’t gonna be enough. Its gonna have to be “Kendricks” rising up in all fields. The potential is already there. There is a talented, intelligent niggas on the top of his game in all fields. The problem is the fear factor. Niggas is too afraid to openly say out loud that their individual work is for the progression of their people as a whole.
thats my point G. It’s gonna take more than music to make that positive change.
I know but I just added on. I understand why people look at rappers to make change but as far as being a “voice”? Maybe its time for the youth to stop looking for influence and that “voice” to follow and just be that in which they seek. When the youth look for who to follow? Imo their really looking for confirmation of things they really already know to be true.
Rappers do have a voice in the Hip-Hop community, but I think that’s where it ends most of the time. I wasn’t trying to get the message across that the youth should listen to rappers to make a change. Like you said, they need to become a voice themselves. Start a movement or something. and that’s true, they go to their favorite rapper for that conformation.
Has Grammy Winner Kendrick Lamar Lost Touch With Our Real World?
Kendrick speaks to XXL, “The past few years or so has been very politically charged and controversial. From Trayvon Martin, to Eric Garner to Michael Brown and issues of police brutality and racism and for so many other reasons. All of it has really struck a nerve with me because when you experience things like that personally and you know the type of hardships and pain that it brings first-hand, it builds a certain rage in you.”
“It brings back memories of when I’m 16 and the police come kicking the door in. They don’t care that I’m a little boy and they stumped me in my back two times and they dragged me out the house and have us all handcuffed. It brings back those memories. Memories of losing loved ones. It brings back some of the most painful memories and deepest thoughts of real life situations that I didn’t even want to address on good kid. Or wasn’t ready to. Rage is the perfect word for it.”
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Please take your time reading the next four paragraphs, consider the criminal, anti-social, people and community harming lifestyle Kendrick describes he and his three siblings were introduced to by their “living wild” parents.
1) In his 2015 Grammy award winning Rap Performance titled “I”, Kendrick Lamar writes, “I’ve been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent.”
2) During a January 20, 2011 LAWeekly interview (Google search) Kendrick, born in 1987, the same year songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and *VICTIM DENIAL* that was nominated for a Grammy award, told the interviewer:
3) *”Lamar’s parents moved from Chicago to Compton in 1984 with all of $500 in their pockets. “My mom’s one of 13 [THIRTEEN] siblings, and they all got SIX kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton,” he says.”*
4) *“I’m 6 years old, seein’ my uncles playing with shotguns, sellin’ dope in front of the apartment. My moms and pops never said nothing, ’cause they were young and living wild, too. I got about 15 stories like ‘Average Joe.'”*
Now go back and read how the police treated Kendrick when they raided his home TEN YEARS after he first witnessed his family members “living wild,” selling drugs, using firearms to protect and enforce their community and people harming drug operation.
Again I ask, has Kendrick Lamar lost touch with reality?
Is Kendrick actually blaming the police for him be treated like a dangerous criminal felon with the potential to cause harm to police while they are attempting to protect The Duckworth’s peaceful neighbors from armed drug dealers who do their best to profit from destroying people’s lives and derive pleasure from actively causing chaos in their community?
I read that Kendrick believes he is ‘The Chosen One’.
Frankly, if Kendrick continues denying his parents are responsible for his depression by depriving him and his siblings of a safe, fairly happy Average Joe and Josie American kid childhood, I will view him as a man who had the opportunity to make a significant change and blew it because he is not strong enough to be honest with himself and others about his abusive childhood.
“The Chosen One” is a title of high regard, exclusively reserved for an exceptionally truthful, honest common man or woman who genuinely seeks to improve the lives of others.
If Kendrick continues to deny the source of his near lifelong depression, he will not be selflessly helping others who share his abusive up-bringing, in my opinion excluding him earning the status as The Chosen One.
I wonder how little Kendrick and his classmates reacted when their elementary school teacher introduced the DARE presenter and they learned about the real dangers of drugs and how they harm people, including their parents? *Cognitive Dissonance*
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Peace.
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