my mood is both SZA and Kendrick Lamar both releasing really black positive albums after both critiquing BLM, saying police brutality is being blown out of proportion or that it isn’t that deep, and that All Lives Matter. my mood is black artists like them who said things like that, received a ton of backlash, and then try to make up for it thru pseudo black intellectualism. especially now that they seeing that black resistance in music is now being popularized, meaning they can still profit lmao
@aliababyyy ask and you shall receive. this is what Kendrick said in one of his Billboard interviews that sent ppl thru a loop back in the day:
“I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it’s already a situation, mentally, where it’s f—ked up. What happened to [Michael Brown] should’ve never happened. Never. But when we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don’t start with just a rally, don’t start from looting – it starts from within.”
for a lot of people, we really zoned in on that part about self-respect bc of the obvious implication he makes that black people don’t respect ourselves and w/o being respectable we can’t expect to be treated fairly by non-black ppl. in that same interview he also shows a little support for Iggy Azalea. you can read that all in this link:
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