#dontdontdoit

[areyouafraidofheights]

New shit! #dontdontdoit #nooneeverreallydies #kendricklamar (at Providence, Rhode Island)

[gnomishmath]

#Beignets are a #HelluvaDrug! #TicketToRide #HigherBaby #PureAsDrivenSnow #FunBaby If you get hooked it's no body else's fault! #DontDontDoIt #CaneSugar (at The Parish Cafe)

[barryorchestra]

barryorchestra presents Top 50 of 2018 - #8

#8 - N.E.R.D. & Kendrick Lamar - Don’t Don’t Do It!

So in 2017, another Pharrell Williams project made my list, and I used that opportunity to talk about the N.E.R.D album that had just dropped at the time, and I was thoroughly impressed by the record. It still holds up to this day, and I even when and bought a hard copy. This is progressive hip hop at it’s finest. Conscious, uplifting, aggressive, experimental, and most of all fun, “NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES” is an album that I have already reviewed, so I won’t say anything else about it.

Don’t Don’t Do It focuses on police brutality, even listing the cities in America where specific incidents have taken place. The title refrain is a direct response to when cops ask one to put their hands up. If you’re still going to get shot anyway, what’s the point? The song progresses from a smooth jazz/R&B introduction to a punk rock chant all before Kendrick Lamar comes through and spits a killer verse without missing a beat. It’s a wild ride, and yet it never wavers from its stance, and never becomes overwhelming.

[defalternative]

#COPS #TEXAS #CHILD #Christmas> They Gonna do it Anyway? [@Pharrell @KendrickLamar @NerdArmy] Whoa Ferguson, oh Baltimore Raleigh, North Carolina But you know, they're gonna do it anyway Wisconsin, Tulsa, Oklahoma Cleveland, Ohio Montgomery, Baton Rouge, Cincinnati car Dayton, Ohio But you know, they're gonna do it anyway New York, New Jersey, Phoenix, Minnesota South Carolina #TheyGonnaDoItAnyway! #DefHot> #PressPlay #DontDontDoIt #LyricVideo > https://youtu.be/PpzFAIY2quk #DefNot> #SoftMedia A favorite tactic of American media used to gloss over police killing innocent people is to describe their crime in the passive voice. It’s not “a reckless and negligent sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 6 year old boy,” it’s “a bullet made its way into a mobile home and killed Kameron Prescott.” Takes the blame off the cop and puts it on the inanimate bullet. Much cleaner and helps maintain the illusion that police are blameless and upstanding defenders of peace. #ReadMORE> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/kameron-prescott-anger-police-bullet-kills-child-171224091628070.html