Posted on 05/21/2018 2:16:52 PM PDT by Simon Green
Kendrick Lamar was forced to step in after the white female fan he invited up on stage at a music festival dropped the N-word three times while rapping along to the star's song.
Lamar, 30, was in the middle of his Sunday night set at the Hangout Music Festival in Alabama when he invited several lucky fans on stage to join him in performing his 2012 track "m.A.A.d city."
After a concertgoer named Rohan "killed it," as one Twitter user said, and respectfully avoided rapping the racial slur, a young attendee named Delaney hopped on stage to join Lamar.
Delaney skipped the word the first time it came up, but failed to censor herself on the second, third and fourth times, prompting an audible groan from the crowd.
Lamar quickly cut the music, and repeatedly said, "Wait" after the third N-word left Delaney's mouth.
Am I not cool enough for you, what's up, bro?" she said, eliciting boos and foul language from the audience.
"My boy Rohan kinda knew the rules a little bit," Lamar explained. "You gotta bleep one single word, though."
Delaney quickly apologized and questioned whether she'd actually said the word - to which the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper confirmed that, yes, she did.
Lamar asked the crowd if he should give Delaney another shot and, despite the resounding boos, he did, after double-checking with her that the slip-up wouldn't happen again.
Delaney did skip the word for the second go-round, but the rapper still opted to cut her time on stage short.
A concertgoer who filmed the performance and shared it on Twitter explained that part of the reason the crowd was so angry was because Delaney had been "begging" to join Lamar on stage.
"Kendrick asked her if she was sure and she said yes… so like… don't blame Kendrick. This girl just has no filter," the Twitter user wrote.
The fan added that the vibe was "so off," and that the rapper followed up the encounter with his track, "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe."
Rap is not music.
Yeah boy. Shakespeare would be proud.
The DEFINITION of “privilege” is that one is exempt from rules which bind the unprivileged. The Left rants about white privilege, while whites have NO privilege.
“What an idiotic post. Nobody other than freaking blacks act like this.”
Apparently, lots of idiots went to that show in Alabama, and one elected to get on stage with Lamar.
What ‘n’ word? Aren’t there lots of words that start with the letter ‘n’? How are we supposed to know what word they are talking about?
JoMa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8giYLHU9g
I just watched that again recently...funnier than it EVER was before!
It’s obvious the white girl identifies as black so the rapper is out of line. Then he calls her bitch. You can’t make this stuff up.
It’s very unclear, but it seems like it might have been an issue with the venue, maybe not. Of course he wrote the song with the word, but it is a bad word.
I’m insulted that someone like Kendrick Lamar was invited to perform in the Hangout Festival. They usually have a good lineup of performers and Gulf Shores is awesome.
Lamar is a shameless hypocrite.
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