• @meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    1185 months ago

    Kendrick dropping truth bombs on the NFL’s biggest stage? Cue the MAGAverse hyperventilating into their flag-print fainting couches. Nothing terrifies fragile hegemony more than Black artistry that isn’t sanitized for their comfort. Oh no—a Pulitzer-winning rapper dared weave politics into the sacred ad-break circus! Next they’ll demand halftime shows be replaced with Lee Greenwood AI covers.

    The meltdown’s a feature, not a bug. Conservatives need perpetual outrage to mask their cultural irrelevance. Imagine stanning a draft-dodging conman but seething when an actual poet weaponizes the mic. Stay mad—the future’s rhyming without you.

    • Lightor
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      85 months ago

      Remember, these are the free speech absolutes that are anti cancel culture. Right?

    • @kava@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Kendrick dropping truth bombs on the NFL’s biggest stage

      What truth bombs did he drop? Some vaguely rebellious sounding lines? “The revolution will be televised?”

      This was milquetoast at best. Actively harmful at worst. I really enjoyed the performance but he is doing exactly what he criticizes the record labels of doing. Taking black culture and commodifying it by turning it into a spectacle.

      This was corporate spectacle and nothing more.

      “Come, comrades, and claim your Che Guevara t-shirts. Indulge that half-buried discontent with the system by picking up these subversive punk rock accessories. For a fleeting moment, we’ll even add a trans flag poster—yours for nothing but shipping and handling. Put on the revolution you crave.”