if I was already of the opinion that Kendrick was going down that road it would have reinforced that opinion. I would be pretty mad at Kanye for that same line in the same beef.
but I think there is a perfectly plausible reading where that’s not what he’s going for and I’m choosing that one
[note: I can't see the OP]
I don't know if 5% stuff is always a red flag, Wu-Tang is full of 5% stuff but AFAIK they have never had any issues with antisemitism
I mean, the Five Percent Nation "philosophy" isn't far from anti-Semitism, I'm not sure that the reference to it here encompasses all of that, just shorthand for figuring out references. But I could be wrong!
yeah I guess my thought is that there's some fucked up shit in there, but also some people have steered clear of that, so an isolated reference to 5% doesn't set off warning signs unless there's more context I missed!
like some Black Hebrew Israelites are cool and some are Very Much Not
The next track could be straight anti-Semitic and then we will both look silly, who knows? Being a colonizer of Atlanta, as it stands now, is a good line.
(Here's the OP for reference)
yeah I guess where I come down on it is that this is still well within benefit of doubt and therefore yelling at him about it is likely misguided
I do kind of think that if Kendrick was going to hit that angle he would likely be less subtle about it- lots more room to dogwhistle with deniability
and I personally think we collectively should pick fights about benefit-of-doubt cases less when the baseline level of antisemitism is higher, which is a strategy call with which one can reasonably disagree.
