2025-02-11 15:25
But the music was exactly that, no? Talk.
I enjoy Kendrick's music, but I don't mistake it for boots-on-the-ground activism. It is talk. And we listen to it and many of us enjoy it.
When your art goes out into the world, you don't get to control what it is ppl feel. We have to create like Kendrick LOL? Someone feeling differently from you, who isn't creating in the way Kendrick is, should still be entitled to opine. You don't have to agree, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate their take.