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S5E1 - Kendrick Lamar: DAMN.

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Season 5 is dedicated entirely to Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer-Prize winning album DAMN. Today’s episode dives into Lamar’s upbringing in Compton and the developing spiritual beliefs encoded in his early discography. As we’ll come to find out, these beliefs become the basis of the underlying question DAMN. serves to answer: Is it wickedness or weakness? Say hi @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Purchase Dissect merch at https://shop.dissectpodcast.com/. Listen to original Dissect themes on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k8BsZM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.9

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0:16.0

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0:21.0

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0:27.0

It's the summer of 2015 and rapper Kendrick Lamar is standing on top of a cop car.

0:36.0

Lamar is the opening act at the 2015 BET award show.

0:44.0

He stands straddled over the red white and blue police lights

0:47.2

while behind him waves a giant 40 foot American flag.

0:50.9

As smoke slowly fills the stage, Kendrick recites what would become an anthem for his generation. Anyone paying attention to the American political and social landscape in 2015

1:09.8

could recognize Lamar's performance for what it was, a reflection of the Black Lives

1:14.4

Matter protests occurring in the streets across the nation. Triggered by the

1:18.6

deaths of unarmed black men and women at the hands of police officers, the Black Lives Matter movement demanded an end to racial

1:25.2

injustice and police brutality through thousands of grassroots protests in the years 2014,

1:30.5

15 and 16. Kendrick's performance of the song All Right from his album to Pimp a Butterfly

1:36.4

clearly resonated with many in support of the movement.

1:39.2

Within a month of Kendrick's award show appearance,

1:42.0

protesters in Cleveland, Ohio could be heard

1:44.4

chanting All Right's forward refrain of defiance, resilience, and hope.

1:48.6

We won't be All Right.

1:51.1

We won't Be All Right, could be heard chanted at protests across America.

2:00.6

It became the adopted rally cry for a movement that defined a moment in American history.

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