How Kendrick Lamar Used Cultural Hatred to Teach Self Love

I’ve wanted to make a video about To Pimp a Butterfly for a while now. I mean, shouldn’t every video essay channel make a video about this album at some point?


I couldn’t muster up the courage to try and tackle it... so I refrained from even writing about the album for years. But there’s something that I feel like rarely gets addressed with this project, and that’s relationships.


To Pimp a Butterfly is complex and layered and hard to wrap up simply, but it really does ultimately boil down to relationships between different parties of people and the factors that influence each individual’s approach to them, whether those reasons are for better or for worse. I settled on starting what will end up being a video series on To Pimp a Butterfly, where I’ll examine these relationships and the statement that this narrative makes about them, and how we can see out positive growth in our own lives.


But first and foremost, we have to settle our self hatred.


And trust me I get it… it’s not easy. Loving u is complicated.




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