well said. I love the visuals of the vid and the song is pretty good to me. As far as the verse that has gotten so much attention, i really think people are in uproar because:
A. There was a visual to go with the lyrics for our first time hearing them and its a tad contradictory. K. Dot claims he wants to see an afro like richard pryor's but the woman in the vid has a wet and wavy type texture. I guess the twitter fems wanted to see a darker complected woman with a literal afro. I do admit, when guys claim they want us to not cake on the makeup and wear our natural hair, a certain type of natural beauty is accepted. They're not willing to accept the dark marks, the blackhead scars, the undereye bags some of us may have and claim that our makeup is "tricking them" to believe we're beautiful. So i do agree with the argument that the visuals don't match the lyrics. As for the ass shaking, that's hip hop for you, this isn't new. Kendrick isn't our savior and it's stupid to place him on such a high pedestal as if he asked to be that. His discography has been told us that he has issues with women so I really don't see why there's a huge backlash.
B. We expect these conscious rappers to give a damn about women's rights. Don't know why but i've noticed that some of us that dub ourselves as feminists correlate these "woke bae" males with pro feminism. That's not the case. Let's not forget that the beloved J.Cole has contributed a lot to the BLM movement, raps in an aware tone on his songs and speaks on injustices to the black community, yet his No Role Modelz song puts women in two categories: The hoes and the respectful women and the hoes don't deserve "saving" or respect. I think once we accept the fact that a conscious man doesn't mean a pro feminism man, we won't be so offended when we realize he's sleep when it's time to be woke for women. Conscious black men have put their masculinity first then their race second, dating way back to the black panther party and unfortunately black women have put our race first then our gender rights last. You have to be for yourself first before anyone can be for you.
Claiming a man is a "woke bae" or being happy with him stating facts about women's rights, just like women have for years, is equivalent to expecting a white person who supports BLM to call out their fellow white counterparts on their bs and being disappointed when they don't. Stop relying on those outside of the group you're fighting for to be the voice for you. Period.
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