TDE lyricists Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q offered their thoughts on this month’s shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, during an interview with Hot 97, which took place during BET Awards weekend.
Kendrick shared his belief that there’s an energy trying to spark a race war, while ScHoolboy Q criticized the media’s excessive coverage of the shooting.
“It’s just one of them things where I feel like personally it’s an energy that’s trying to spark an evil, a race war,” Kendrick Lamar said. “For me, personally. Because these events is just happening back-to-back. And it’s demonized events now. It’s starting to get a little deeper than just hatred. It’s a little deeper than that.”
“I think the media, also. They love putting a lot of attention on it,” ScHoolboy Q added. “I’ve never seen this much attention…It’s like the media loves this. And we just giving ‘em more power by always talking about it…We know what’s going on. And I just think the media need to stop pushing it in our faces all the time. It makes hate. How can you sit there with your little daughter, watching TV and they talking about a white dude that killed nine black people in the church? That makes me hate a little bit.”