Fox News Pundits Claim Kendrick Lamar’s BET Awards Performance "Incites Violence"

During the BET Awards, Kendrick Lamar performed his To Pimp a Butterfly track “Alright” while standing on a vandalized police car. The performance was a talking point on the latest episode of the Fox News roundtable program “The Five”, Stereogum reports. In short, the pundits were not fans of Lamar’s lyrics or imagery, claiming his performance “incites violence”. “This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years,” said Geraldo Rivera.

Also worth noting—Eric Bolling’s reading of the “wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho” line is extremely funny. 

Rivera continued:

This is exactly the wrong message. And then to conflate what happened in the church in Charleston, South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops is to equate that racist killer with these cops, it is so wrong, it is so counterproductive, it gives exactly the wrong the message. 

I wonder what they think of the new video. Here’s the segment:

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