'Whatever these people are going through, that's what I'm going off of when I'm on the stage.' Happy birthday, KendrickLamar!
, his acclaimed third studio album, Lamar admits to sometimes "misusing his influence," which seems unlikely given how conscientious he is."I think I've done that, a pretty good job of that," he said. "Just by the work my neighborhood has seen, giving people more opportunities, building certain areas around the city where we can offer jobs, shed a more positive light on the communities there.
If you're unaware of the yams, they're not that simple. Lamar first referenced them in “King Kunta”–"When you got the yams,” he rapped. “The yam is the power that be/ You can smell it when I'm walking down the street."also defines the yams as "a symbol of authenticity," with its origins in Ralph Ellison'sThings Fall ApartInvisible Man
"Continue on the yam level," he concludes a few pages later, "and life would be sweet—though somewhat yellowish." Not perfectly. But I have a friend who theorizes that in the face of great power, irony, or whatever you want to call it, is the artist's greatest tool: the ability to subvert without appearing to subvert. It is the one thing that artists have that the powerful do not, which is in fact the opposite of swagger, but may in the end be what's called for in a time of yams. "The beat just did that for me,” et al.
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