Kendrick Lamar Made His New Album For Himself — Not Us

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“[Kendrick] Lamar’s public introspection on the album is multi-layered and vulnerable, but the potency of his message is undercut by some of the other choices he made on the project that left many of us scratching our heads.”

. Kodak Black was able to walk away a free man even after admitting to abusing a woman because she didn’t want to have sex with him. And so on, and so forth. canceling anyone, it’s hard to reconcile Lamar going so hard against the “hypocrites” and the “sensitive” while defending bad men who abused Black women. The dismissal feels callous coming from a person still grappling with trauma himself. And as a Black woman listening to the album, it feels particularly isolating.

Clearly, Lamar’s self-imposed time out of the limelight has resulted in some serious heart work, because the artist of theeras is not the man we see today. Unlike other projects that felt personal but simultaneously universally applicable — “Alright” and “i” are considered anthems for a reason —is a pointedly subjective work, pages torn out of Lamar’s journal and turned into song for the sake of personal liberation.

 

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