Kendrick Lamar played at US President Barack Obama’s Fourth of July party this week, having been personally invited to perform some tunes.
In the cheekiest move possible, it seems like K. Dot took a sly little jab at the president in his own home during his set. Most of his songs, given the lyrical content, had been self-censored quite dramatically. Not one controversial line on “Hood Politics though…
“They give us guns and drugs, call us thugs / Make it they promise to fuck with you”, Kendrick raps, followed by the line, ““Obama say what it do?”
This lyric has been interpreted as a dig at Obama for a lack of action in helping black people at all times. Rap Genius explain perfectly on the annotation below:
Obama say, “What it do?”
― Kendrick Lamar – Hood Politics