Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. ALBUM REVIEW [TheNeedledrop]

Wait, but can we please talk about how Fantano can't even come close to comprehending this album? Like he is so frivolous and such a classic "woke" bro that can't acknowledge the influence of religion in Black communities. And he wants to take a moment to think that delimiting Kendrick's lamentations of suffering are due simply because of socioeconomic and political contributions, but God is outside of the discussion. It baffles me, because speculations are speculations and we can't pin point the face of the hand that feeds– just as we can't determine God. So, please, Anthony, tell us exactly what's causing Black boys and girls to continue to die in front of their loved ones. Because I could appellate it to academic terms too, but the presence of God is as omnipresent and unidentifiable as the socioeconomic and political causes that you mentioned. I'm an academic and use these terms regularly in my writings, but you're ignorant for thinking Kendrick is ascribing these social faults simply to just god. Because he recognizes the complexities that imbedded in both sides of the discourse. I'm done. The confusion and anger in this album is exactly how my loved ones and I have felt for the past two years. We don't need another TPAB. We need an outlet expressing our anger without channeling it into a burner. I'm really angry writing this so I'm finished, but his reviews are obsolete to me at this moment in my life after this one.

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