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."
I thought Kendrick Lamar was a basketball player.
Oh, so it’s okay for Kendrick Lamar to make a living saying the word “nigger” over and over but it’s wrong for the white girl to say it when she repeats it?
Double standard much?
If you don’t want people to say it, don’t put it in the song..................or rap..............
If he can say it, she can.
I thought separate but equal was bad?
Apparently it’s racist to “sing” his “song” like him.
No, he was not. He had the option to allow the "fan" to sing the "song" just as he was performing it.
Do what? It’s in the lyrics but White Girl can’t say it? I’m so sick of these people.
“If he can say it, she can.”
It’s Lamar’s stage and it’s Lamar’s microphone.
He paid for both.
Macroaggression to put in pop songs, invite a fan omstage, and then play the racist card.
The the hell Willis!? ,said Arnold.
Cant be sayin dat!!,,
Yessim massa!
So white folk aren’t allowed to sing your lyrics? Either nigger is a bad word or it isn’t. Don’t want me to say it? Then don’t use it like a normal word. This is nonsense.
How does he have female fans with all the misogyny in his songs?
"the rapper followed up the encounter with his track, "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe.""
How ironic.
Their ‘rules’ are as lame as their music.
The only time there’s outrage is when a White says it. None over non-Whites saying it.
I don’t have any problem with the word at all.
I like it.
No, the venue and/or promoter did. They’re also paying Lamar.
It’s only OK for blacks to use the word they all hate.
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