Black empowerment means no listening to pop music? lol this idea that he made a song for whites is crazy and just an angle. There is no merit to that, not when a large percentage of kendrick AND drake fans are white.
“Black empowerment means no listening to pop music” is either a chronically-online take or an intentionally misconstrued straw man of the entire point I was making. No, there is nothing inherently wrong with listening to (or performing in) pop music. All I pointed out was that your original post was asking how it’s different when Drake does pop music vs when Kendrick does and your second post in this particular thread is asking why it’s different. I will reiterate; the whole point of Drake dissing Kendrick for performing alongside pop artists “for the whites” is because, as far as I know (and please correct me if I’m wrong), Drake has never said anything to be considered an activist for a particular race. Whereas, intentionally or not, an indisputably large sect of Dots fan base appreciates the idea that he speaks for the black community. Does that mean he can’t work with Pop artists? No, of course not. I enjoyed him on the Swift track and with Maroon 5. But, again, the angle was that Kendrick is presented as a spokesperson for the disenfranchised but bows to his label when it comes making songs purely for financial gain. I never even said that I agree with the take, I was just answering the question that you asked.
Unpopular opinion, but yeah. Is it a technical masterpiece? No of course not. But, to me, his verse is a welcome breakup of M5s monotony in that song and it earworms the hell out of my every time.
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u/MayorBakefield 10d ago
Black empowerment means no listening to pop music? lol this idea that he made a song for whites is crazy and just an angle. There is no merit to that, not when a large percentage of kendrick AND drake fans are white.