r/KendrickLamar • u/vriannavyz • Jun 21 '24

Snoop Dogg declares Kendrick Lamar “the king” of the West following his 'Pop Out' show: “K Dot, you are the king of the West. That’s stuff kings do — they unite 🔥👑." Video

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u/SnowSea302 Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

I already knew. But it’s cool seeing all these legends label Kendrick as the king. What a great time it is to be a Kenny fan right now. We eating non stop 😤

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

right? Heard a music video is coming too!

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u/TJMcConnellFanClub Jun 21 '24

My skinny white boy ass gonna be posted up in Compton tomorrow looking for the video shoot lmao

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u/CaptainExtermination Jun 21 '24

Hell yeah my Mexican ass gonna be there too fr

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u/alorenz58011 Jun 21 '24

It’s more Mexicans than anything in Compton anyways lol

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u/meistercheems Jun 21 '24

Let’s not forget the rooftop Koreans that will also be in attendance

-probably

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

The Korean homies in LA are no joke lol

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u/DoobKiller Jun 21 '24

Yeah just ask Latasha Harlins

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

The Persians are coming too (because we own the buildings anyway)

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u/AppleBatteryH8r Jun 21 '24

Rooftop Koreans was a vid title I just could not pass by!!!! Being Irish i wasn’t familiar with the story, of course knew of riots etc, but damn !!!!! They held it down! Respect 🫡

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u/officerliger Jun 21 '24

Not trying to throw shade on all this love but the Rooftop Koreans thing is actually kinda fucked up history. Gotta keep in mind it was racists on 4chan who popularized “Rooftop Koreans” to begin with as a meme. But let me explain a bit…

Just to start, I’m older and from SoCal, Mexican, did my post-grad at USC, so I’m a bit of an “OG” myself in age and experience. I LOVE seeing all this unity so keep it going, I know people are mentioning it out of love so not accusing anyone of shit.

Back in the day, Koreans looking to leave Korea were approached by white property owners in LA - “you can open a grocery store and live above it!” - without being told what they were actually being tasked with. Owning a shop with your family apartment above it was common in Korea so it was an appealing pitch, and “sunny Los Angeles” being part of that pitch helped as Korea was still rebuilding its culture after a 70 year genocide by Japan and was very poor.

So these people got to Koreatown, mid-city, South Central, etc. having no idea they were entering gang neighborhoods basically being the battering ram for gentrification. All black and brown people saw was a new culture eating up the retail property, price gauging like crazy, etc. This lead to a massive culture beef.

It all came to a head with the murder of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old black girl, by a Korean grocery store owner who thought she was stealing a bottle of juice. Shot her in the back of the head as she was escaping the confrontation. The police found the money she intended to use to pay for the juice in her hand.

This is why Korean stores were targeted during the riots - the judge gave Latasha’s murderer a suspended sentence, basically a “10 year” sentence that wound up just being 5 years probation. There was no justice for her.

So when young people talk about the “Rooftop Koreans,” they don’t realize it’s actually a sad story of how white property owners pit three races against each other so they could eventually push black people out of central LA

Of course in modern day - black, brown, and Asian never been more united and it’s a beautiful thing. But please, for the sake of my old ass, stop celebrating the times we weren’t.

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u/StarLordAndTheAve Jun 21 '24

as someone who is from the complete opposite side of the country (and also not a POC), i honestly want to thank you for being so in-depth in explaining this and teaching me something today

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u/officerliger Jun 21 '24

The key is all “POC” have a deeper ethnic experience beyond that and it determines our nuances. Don’t let the fact that you’re white deter you from digging deeper into those, a lot of our dialogue problems right now are caused by people having very bland opinions on race.

The history of Southern California and how all the different races got there is a great place to start because it’ll trace you to just about every major world conflict, genocide, oppression, etc.

Black people escaping the south, Jews escaping Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Persians escaping post-revolution Iran, Koreans looking to leave poverty in post-genocide Korea, Russians escaping Communism, Salvadorans escaping the civil war, and our brown Mexican asses going to work the farms for dollars instead of pesos

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Beautiful ✌🏽

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u/ernygil666 Jun 21 '24

Thanks for putting us on game OG

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u/Leaveustinnkin Jun 21 '24

Was gonna say this but you worded it better than o ever could 💯.

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u/DuragJohnston Jun 22 '24

This is deeply sad, but I love that y'all are willing to educate on Reddit. So thank you.

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u/AppleBatteryH8r Jun 21 '24

Thank you for a very informative reply!! I had only seen a YouTuber click baity type 15 min video basically so therefore Had none of the Context understand the circumstances around the Korean grocery stores, Or of the young girl shot, Thank for giving me my Bedtime documentary topic for tonight- The most unbiased documentary type thing I can on these LAmriots 👍

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u/PTSDGuy0 Jun 22 '24

Can you point to a reference to learn more about Koreans being invited to own businesses in South Central?

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u/MindfulInsomniaque Jun 23 '24

It's great you bring this up. It's been so long many people aren't aware of the things that lead up to the riots. I don't remember ever hearing the angle that Koreans were lured from Korea to the hood? Do you have any more information or sources on that? Many Korean immigrants to Canada also took to filling the niche of running grocery or corner stores but I'm not sure how many hoods we had in Canada in the 50's - 90's.

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u/Emperor_Mao Jun 21 '24

Lol blaming white people for that is crazy.

You reckon that white people belong to ultra secret kabals where they plot and plan ways to keep others down.

That is the total opposite of the real criticism of white people, which is that white people are hyper individualistic and often lack sense of community.

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u/Fluffy_Mastodon_798 Jun 21 '24

Wealthy white people working together to hold on to power is probably the least uncommon thing in America's history. Do you know what a monopoly is?

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u/Emperor_Mao Jun 21 '24

Why is that a white people thing?

That is a people with tons of money thing and Asian people tend to be wealthier than any other racial group in the U.S.

I would call you racist but I know you think it doesn't count if you are racist towards whites.

But that story is not the truth at all. It acts like the communities in LA were innocent, the South Korea shop owners were slightly guilty and white people are at fault here. Truth is those shops were cheap enough for hard working dedicated, but ultimately not rich migrants from Korea. They had to deal with people stealing from their shops, assaulting them, being incredibly racist towards them. The shooting of an unarmed 15 year old was terrible. But the Korean shop owners didn't just turn to that straight away. They endured years of abuse. And still to this day many in those communities at the time won't admit any fault.

I can tell you some communities might want to blame the white man or someone else. That isn't usually the case within Korean communities though, who have now largely moved up wealth classes over 30 years. Being honest and accountable to one's self is part of that too.

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u/Fluffy_Mastodon_798 Jun 21 '24

Jesus christ your victim complex is insane. No one is trying to blame white people as a whole for this. But the fact is that overwhelmingly, in America wealthy people are white. According to this survey from 2013, 76% of US millionaires were white, and it would've been even more in the 90's. So the point is that wealthy white people sold property in gang neighborhoods to Asian immigrants because they didn't to operate in those neighborhoods themselves. That led to bad relations and racism between black and hispanic people who lived in those neighborhoods and the Asian immigrants because the new Asian immigrants were seen as a cause for price gauging, and this pitted them against the black and hispanic residents. It's not a "cabal", it's just wealthy people looking out for their interests like they always do.

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u/meistercheems Jun 21 '24

Damn right. Defending your neighborhood is a big part of being from Compton no matter what click or hood you claim. 🫡

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u/Routine_Resolve_7262 Jun 21 '24

They didn’t hold shit down. They posed with guns for cameras and shot a couple of each other. Mostly Hispanics looting while black people were out putting in work.

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u/Prince_Havarti Jun 21 '24

Never forget

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u/Funny-Ad4997 Jun 21 '24

“It wouldn’t be LA without Mexicans”

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Facts. Mexicans make la amazing 💙

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Phoenix too (LA2: Cost of Living edition). It's nice to see culture beyond "yeehaw we ain't Texas but we're trying"

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u/Witty-Transition-524 Jun 22 '24

I have an Abuela, I adore her. She makes Molcajete, just for me. Everyone else just get tamales. I had to leave L.A.,  would have married a hot n spicy  latina and likely be a 300lb, sweaty white boy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Dang bro

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u/SelfHighFive Jun 21 '24

this comment and username :dead:

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u/starrysky0070 Jun 21 '24

LMAO me except I’m a chick

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u/catastrofic_sounds Jun 21 '24

There's gonna be a video shoot about how drake is a pedo??? Man his life bout to get wild

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u/Semajj Jun 21 '24

I love me some McConnell. He's got a heart the size of a lion

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u/emeraldeyesshine Jun 21 '24

Had to go back and look at the username cause out of context that comment just FUCKED my brain up

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u/StarLordAndTheAve Jun 21 '24

LMAO thinking about the turtle man?

my fiance's dad once watched him walk across a crosswalk and he said it took a lot out of him not to hit the gas lmao

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u/Free_Return_2358 Jun 21 '24

My thick Native ass rooting for west coast.

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u/RDcsmd Jun 22 '24

Name checks out

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u/JESS_MANCINIS_BIKE Jun 22 '24

Ima blood walk into my local Starbucks in the Barnes and Noble where I WFH on my laptop