Lamar is also a vocal and intensely self-critical worshiper and follower of Jesus Christ. He starred in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” His three major studio albums are “ becoming a historic album run a la mid-1960’s Bob Dylan or early-1970’s Stevie Wonder.” Don Cheadle did the second music video for his latest, and it is killer. He is, by turns, a “ masterful storyteller,” the musician-laureate cum black sheep of Black Lives Matter, the most “beautifully complex” rapper alive, a “ woke” sexist, a masterful hip-hop ventriloquist, a “ superstar … in a popular culture he often portrays as debased,” and even (per Ta-Nehisi Coates) the exception to the rule that “ rappers who talk about Jesus are whining.” His rapping energizes the climax of Beyonce’s Lemonade. Kendrick Lamar is, by both general consensus and his own repeated boasting, the current king of hip-hop. Subscribe to Christ and Pop Culture Magazine by becoming a member and receive a host of other benefits, too. This post is featured in the CAPC Magazine, June 2017: Songs of Deliverance issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.
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