Kendrick Lamar - help me understand this

[Anonymous]

Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

What? Stop saying it. You're allowed to stop. I allow you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

Possibly, although if so, it didn't work, since I don't know who he is or what concert you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

Why is this in Off Topic instead of Entertainment and Pop Culture?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

What? Stop saying it. You're allowed to stop. I allow you.

don't be an asshole PP. she wasn't asking when SHE should stop saying it, you know that is what she meant.

and I hope Kendrick Lamar's little stunt backfires on him. what he did was a total set-up, and entrapment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

What? Stop saying it. You're allowed to stop. I allow you.

don't be an asshole PP. she wasn't asking when SHE should stop saying it, you know that is what she meant.

and I hope Kendrick Lamar's little stunt backfires on him. what he did was a total set-up, and entrapment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

I didn't see the video but I saw a really great explanation for why white people shouldn't use the n-word. If I can find it I'll post. To be honest it smacks of entitlement that white people think they should be able to use that particular word just because it's in the lyrics to songs.

I don't call someone else's spouse, "honey" or "sweetie" or "baby" - it's a similar thing with the n-word. I don't understand why white people want to say it so badly. It's amusing honestly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

I didn't see the video but I saw a really great explanation for why white people shouldn't use the n-word. If I can find it I'll post. To be honest it smacks of entitlement that white people think they should be able to use that particular word just because it's in the lyrics to songs.

I don't call someone else's spouse, "honey" or "sweetie" or "baby" - it's a similar thing with the n-word. I don't understand why white people want to say it so badly. It's amusing honestly.

Oh spare me. If honey or sweetie or baby is in a song you’re singing along to, you and I both know you sing the word. Kendrick should have NEVER pulled a white girl onstage for this song if her singing HIS lyrics would piss me him.
Kendrick is a tool.

[Anonymous]

^^piss him off

[Anonymous]

it is really not that hard, as a white person, to just not say the word- even when singing along to popular music! If people really have a problem with this, than they might have an entitlement problem...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would he invite a white fan onstage to rap with him and then ridicule her and encourage the crowd to do so because his lyrics contain the N word?
These are his words.
He wrote them, he invited her to sing them. Was this an intentional publicity stunt?
When will the use of this word be allowed to end?

I didn't see the video but I saw a really great explanation for why white people shouldn't use the n-word. If I can find it I'll post. To be honest it smacks of entitlement that white people think they should be able to use that particular word just because it's in the lyrics to songs.

I don't call someone else's spouse, "honey" or "sweetie" or "baby" - it's a similar thing with the n-word. I don't understand why white people want to say it so badly. It's amusing honestly.

Oh spare me. If honey or sweetie or baby is in a song you’re singing along to, you and I both know you sing the word. Kendrick should have NEVER pulled a white girl onstage for this song if her singing HIS lyrics would piss me him.
Kendrick is a tool.

But those words aren't fraught the same way as the n-word and haven't been primarily used by whites as a tool of maintaining supremacy.

I think the PP above was referring to this explanation by Ice Cube to Bill Maher about why white people shouldn't use it:

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

[Anonymous]

Non-black people shouldn't use the N- word.

Kendrick Lamar was also being a dick. That song uses the N-word 20+ times. He shouldn't have put the girl in that position.

[Anonymous]

I don't say the word singing along to a song or otherwise. Having been pulled up on stage during a concert, I can completely understand how one gets caught up in the energy of it all and she said the word. I think it was a jerk move of his and I do feel bad for the girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non-black people shouldn't use the N- word.

Kendrick Lamar was also being a dick. That song uses the N-word 20+ times. He shouldn't have put the girl in that position.

Yup. Both of these things can be true at the same time. She is just a teenager.

[Anonymous]

I Did not understand this story either. Why write lyrics people will repeat/sing/perpetuate if it is a problem? Especially younger teens who grow up on the music and don't question it. Why sell tickets to white kids if it's such an issue for him? Kind of a 'do as I say, not as I do' set-up situation. Also, why was it ok to say 'bitch' in the lyrics. He didn't feel that needed to be censored. By his logic he shouldn't be saying that word, either, only females.