RadioOnFire.com - Geraldo Rivera took to his podcast at Fox News world headquarters on Friday, April 14 and dedicated nearly 20 minutes of the taping to address Kendrick Lamar's incorporation of soundbites from statements he made ridiculing the rapper, on his new album.
Several tracks on DAMN feature snippets from a 2015 Fox News segment in which the veteran journalist blasts Lamar for his controversial "Alright" performance at the BET Awards that year. Fans will recall Lamar delivering the song on a stage propping a vandalized police cruiser, upon which he'd stand, beneath a giant American flag. “This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years,” Rivera said at the time.
Rivera's critique becomes something of a motif on DAMN, with samples of he and his co-hosts discussion on the matter showing up on the album's opening track ["BLOOD"] and the track that follows ["DNA"]. Kendrick then goes on to name drop Rivera on the third track ["YAH"] when he raps, “Somebody tell Geraldo this nigga got some ambition.” News outlets immediately picked up on the pattern, leading to headlines of K. Dot going at him having crossed Rivera's desk.
“I didn’t particularly care for the way he mentioned me," Rivera said of the uninvited feature. He then gave some context to listeners who might be unaware of what prompted Kendrick to reference him on the project, before attempting to explain where he was coming from with his 2015 statement. "I think too much of hip-hop, too much of rap in the last couple of decades has really portrayed the cops as the enemy, as the occupying army in the ghetto, in the inner city, in the urban centers. It’s an us against them where this very popular, powerful art form, this poetry, is being used to really set young people, young minorities—black and Latinos, principally—against the officers who are sworn to protect them."
Source: pitchfork.com
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