In front of an elaborate stage set-up, Kendrick Lamar stitched together a hard-hitting medley of songs from To Pimp a Butterfly, including “The Blacker The Berry” and “Alright”, plus a new verse in his “Untitled” series.
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The 58th Grammys had been a massive bust up to the point when Kendrick Lamar marched out in shackles.
Adele performed after Lamar and ended her time by saying, “Kendrick, you’re fantastic”.
Kendrick Lamar has a habit of turning in captivating live television performances, and tonight, a night in which he won five GRAMMYs, he delivered his most passionate, fiery, and unapologetically real performance yet.
K.Dot’s performance began with a praise-worthy introduction from Don Cheadle, who said, “His last album, Good kid, M.A.A.D city, was such a vivid introduction, it was a tough act to follow”. Philadelphia’s Dice Raw, a frequent collaborator with The Roots, took to Twitter Monday (Feb. 15) and spoke to Philly.com on Wednesday (Feb. 17) about the visual similarities Kendrick’s performance had to his 2013 theatrical work the last jimmy. Are those musicians in cages? OK. Then he went on to have one of the most celebrated performances of the evening.
On his message: “You have to be confident enough to know that the message will get to the people around the world and they will understand it. That’s a gift that God to put in me to continue to talk about these things”. It’s sad that – if somebody took something.
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“We’re both fighting the same fight”, he continued. “I’m sure the brothers who are incarcerated appreciate his efforts. I appreciate – we appreciate Mr. Lamar always representing Compton with great pride in any venue – from the White House to the Grammys”. The real enemy is unseen – who is pulling the strings behind mass incarceration and all this new Jim Crow madness.
