Last year for example, the rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped the album “To Pimp a Butterfly”, an album released to critical acclaim. But that is not what made it special. Its special on how the themes of police violence and brutality are weaved into his music. For example, let’s look at a quote from one of his songs, “The Blacker the Berry’’. “Or watch BET cause urban support is important So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street? When gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me? Hypocrite!”
Kendrick Lamar here is using Trayvon Martin (an unarmed black man killed, albeit not by the police) as a comparison, by using a personal example, how blacks are are dying by either by cops, others, or by themselves. Another example