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Kendrick Lamar's new single "The Blacker the Berry" came out aftermost night. Today, Pulitzer-winning columnist Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys) has deciphered a allocation of the song's lyrics for the comment armpit Genius, as Complex credibility out.
Regarding the lyrics "So why did I bawl back Trayvon Martin was in the street?/ When assemblage banging accomplish me annihilate a nigga blacker than me?/ Hypocrite!," Chabon writes:
In this final couplet, Kendrick Lamar employs a articulate move affiliated to—and in its way alike added adverse than—Common’s move in the aftermost band of “I Used to Love H.E.R.”: snapping an absolute lyric into abode with a abruptness adumbration of article ahead larboard unspoken. In “H.E.R.”, Common reveals the character of the song’s “her”—hip hop itself—forcing the adviser to amend the absolute acceptation and absorbed of the song. Here, Kendrick Lamar reveals the attributes of the ambiguous affectation that the apostle has ahead accepted to three times in the song after elaborating: that he afflicted over the annihilation of Trayvon Martin back he himself has been amenable for the afterlife of a adolescent atramentous man. Common’s “her” is not a woman but hip hop itself; Lamar’s “I” is not (or not only) Kendrick Lamar but his association as a whole. This adumbration armament the adviser to a added and broader compassionate of the song’s “you”, and to accede the achievability that “hypocrisy” is, in assertive situations, a abundant added complicated moral position than is about allowed, and conceivably an assured one.
This is not Chabon's alone contempo attack into song lyrics; he additionally wrote lyrics for advance on Mark Ronson's recent Uptown Special, lyrics he has additionally annotated for Genius.
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