Soon, she was there talking to police, and the boy was released into her custody. Amid the chaos, someone asked the boy for his mother's phone number and called her. The police responded by pepper spraying the crowd, causing a scene that drew even more protesters to the scene. According to several witnesses who spoke to Mic and news accounts from the time, scores of conference attendees gathered to confront the police about the boy's arrest. What happened over the next hour made headlines across the globe. "We saw this encounter happening, saw this young man being arrested and so a number of folks went over to talk to the police to see what was happening," Treva Lindsey, an assistant professor at Ohio State University who witnessed the altercation, told Mic. Until they spotted a 14-year-old black boy being questioned by police for allegedly carrying an open container of alcohol onto a bus. Despite taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, a city recently in the national spotlight for the deadly police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the week had gone by without any direct confrontations with police. After three days of talking about the the police violence that had roiled black communities, they were saying their goodbyes to one another and boarding buses back to their respective cities. They had all just wrapped up a conference called the Movement for Black Lives, the first formal convening of Black Lives Matter's official and unofficial network of activists. Despite the adage, sometimes you do remember who came in second.It was a warm Midwestern day during the last week of July and hundreds of activists were gathered at Cleveland State University.
#ALRIGHT BY KENDRICK LAMAR POEM PLUS#
(Then he won another for 2017's DAMN, plus a Pulitzer for good measure).
And, surprise! It also won the Grammy for Best Rap Album. The year after the Grammy snub, TPAB elevated Kendrick from one of the best rappers in the game to one of the best artists of all time. To Pimp a Butterfly is Kendrick’s Guernica-a timeless, powerful, and fascinating political statement-as well as one of the sharpest left turns in rap history. The music is as complex as his thoughts, favoring deep jazz, fragrant coffeehouse poetry, and dirty P-funk with help from a phalanx of collaborators ranging from Kamasi Washington and Thundercat to Pharrell Williams and Boi-1da. And in the wake of increased gun violence and police brutality, the powerhouse “Alright” became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. Kendrick holds a microscope up to the consequences of racialized self-hatred and class subjugation on “Wesley’s Theory” and “Complexion,” while “How Much a Dollar Cost” and “You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)” are dramatic, personal testimonials about fame and his changing world. He juxtaposes pain (“Institutionalized,” “The Blacker the Berry,” “King Kunta”) and depression (“u”) with joyful celebration (“i”). city’s Compton street soliloquies, the follow-up To Pimp a Butterfly is a searing portrait of the black experience in America as well as a document of Kendrick’s own personal awakening. Flush with heat rocks like “Backseat Freestyle” and moody turns like “Swimming Pools (Drank),” good kid, m.A.A.d city was an epochal moment for Kendrick Lamar and West Coast hip-hop-but a bigger moment was still on the horizon. In 2014, after Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s The Heist won the Best Rap Album Grammy over Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city, Macklemore posted an apology to Kendrick, reading, in part, "You got robbed.
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