Kendrick Lamar's viral new song validated Dee-1's unyielding message that hip hop culture has sunk into Hades -- and the New Orleans-bred rapper is etching it as a career-changing moment!!!
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00:00So it's been a pretty eventful 24 hours for you, Mr. D1.
00:07Oh, bruh, it's been crazy.
00:11Kendrick Lamar drops a song out of nowhere, his first song since the Super Bowl announcement,
00:17and gives you a shout out that pretty much validates everything you've been saying.
00:22What are you, what was your reaction? Where were you at?
00:25Man, brother, I was actually on Instagram Live working at the time that the shout out came in.
00:32I was talking to a popular blogger in New Orleans, my brother by the name of GDP,
00:37and I was literally telling him, I was like, bro, I'm not afraid to go against the whole culture.
00:42I love New Orleans, but I love God more than I love New Orleans.
00:45Like what I stand on has nothing to do with loyalty to my city or loyalty to the hip hop industry.
00:51All this stuff is fickle and it comes it comes underneath my loyalty to my creator.
00:55I was on live saying that and had people from my city saying D1 can't come back to the city and D1 is canceled.
01:03And we ain't rocking with D1 because of his stances about who should perform at the Super Bowl.
01:08And as that's happening, a whole wave of people started flooding the comments saying Kendrick just shouted D1 out.
01:15Kendrick just gave D1 a shout out. And brother, it just it was poetic.
01:19Honestly, the moment was poetic and I'm glad that it's documented and it's on my man's page.
01:23Like it was it was poetic. Everything has changed in the last 24 hours, T.C.
01:28It's amazing, bro. Everything has changed in my life and in my career.
01:33I'm experiencing it in real time. I mean, it's he said Kendrick said, I want to be empathetic.
01:40My heart like D1, but I would. And then, you know, the song, you know, kind of goes quiet.
01:47You know, it sounds like he he he muted his gangster. What do you think he said right there?
01:52I think I think he he let the side of him.
01:58That wants to physically just inflict pain upon whoever it is that is these devils that he talks about in the culture.
02:06You know, I'm saying it's time to get rid of these devils. So I think he just let his anger get the best of him.
02:11Now, he knew it was best to not even say these words out loud.
02:15And you got to respect that, because when you truly care about our people, our community, our world and our culture,
02:22you really get angry to the point where you almost can't control it, man.
02:25When you see how people are being willfully ignorant and misleading us.
02:30So I love that after the silence, he said, you know, we got to get rid of these devils.
02:35He acknowledges that there's devils in this culture. There are devils in this culture.
02:39Some of these artists are literally like if they're not devils, they are letting the devil work through them.
02:45You feel me? Artists that are acting as devils.
02:48You got label owners and executives this acting as devils.
02:52You got media people that's acting as devils. And you got fans that are blindly following these devils.
02:58The Kendrick talks about, oh, our community is broken, man.
03:02It is broken. Like we are to the point to where we are intoxicated with the ignorance.
03:07Evil has an excuse nowadays. And it's called entertainment, literally.
03:12And people want to be in denial, man. So, yeah, I don't I don't mind what people feel about what I'm what I'm doing.
03:20It's been proven ever since 2010, since my career first jumped up.
03:24It may be one being the same way from day one.
03:28You know, we just celebrated the unfortunate anniversary of one of my middle school students.
03:34A hugely popular rapper in Louisiana named G Money. You heard me. Rest in peace.
03:38He got murdered seven years ago and he was he was my middle school student.
03:43He was a real popular rapper, but unfortunately lost his life to the streets.
03:48Like this stuff has real world implications, man. So I'm not just saying what I'm saying for no reason.
03:53Like I've been saying it and I'm a continue saying it because if we to the point to where we are normalizing and glorifying the same evils that are harming
04:03our community and keeping us down, then we'll never make progress.
04:07So I'll never be afraid to speak up. I mean, Kendrick said a lot in this song.
04:12You know, he pretty much went against everything that you just said.
04:15You know, he talked about guys disrespecting women and glorifying drug using and murder and all that.
04:21You know, he pretty much just watched the party dies is the working title.
04:25But at the same time, there are people that are mad at you for even siding with Kendrick.
04:30You know, you know, like in their Christian minds, like they view that he's too secular to be part of your side of things.
04:39What do you think about that? I challenge any Christian.
04:43To step up and say that they are not a sinner.
04:51Man, Christians need to stop acting as if there's this there's this big differentiation between, oh, themselves and a person who is simply sitting here putting a message out.
05:03That is trying to clearly like trying to bring some form of integrity to the hip hop industry and trying to make a change.
05:14But if they classify that person as secular, that's why I'm just like, bro, people can call me what they want.
05:19You know, I'm saying I call myself a purpose driven rapper.
05:22That's it. A purpose driven rap because being purpose driven, I make purpose driven rap because being purpose driven makes it to where there's always work to do.
05:31I know what I'm representing in whatever room I walk in or whatever platform I'm on, including TMZ, which is God, which is Jesus Christ.
05:38And I'm going to do me like like and I understand the order of operations.
05:42But for people to have this, oh, you shouldn't affiliate with this.
05:47All right. Let let the person who is without sin step to the forefront and say that.
05:53Come on, man. People ain't what they talk about.