FEEL.

The fifth track on DAMN. Kendrick is out here just letting us know how he feels about just about anything. Although this song isn't directly pointing at black oppression and systematic racism there are a few bars from it that stick out to me.

“The feelin', the feelin' of false freedom

I'll force-feed 'em the poison that fill 'em up in the prison”

Kendrick goes pretty hard on this track repeatedly letting us know that “ain’t nobody praying for me”. I am not too sure if he is alluding to African-Americans, or if he is really just talking about him. Anyways, what I do know is that here Kendrick is saying that he doesn’t have the same freedoms as whites because he is black and that his music is considered a poison. He is referring back to when FOX News anchor Geraldo Herrera said that after quoting one of his songs that hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism has.

Referring back to the false freedom, I feel Kendrick is stating that if people take his message from his music and protest the injustice then they will be seen as thugs and thrown in prison for doing so.

#Luke