Kendrick Lamar says that critics put him in a box by classifying his music as one particular thing.
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Lamar may spin socially clairvoyant rhymes, but he doesn't like being
pigeonholed as a "conscious" rapper. During an interview with The Fader,
K. Dot addressed the biggest misconceptions about himself from the
critical community, observing that media tries to classify his music as
one particular thing but that he just wants to be viewed for the
varietal content of his songs.
"Early on, when I started really getting attention, I seen a lot of
blogs and a lot of media try to classify my music as one particular
thing. That was like the 'conscious' thing," he said. "It’s crazy,
because they define it after just one project, certain things I was
talking about. I never wanted that. I never want people to classify my
music. That went out the window once I dropped a record called 'Ignorance Is Bliss.'
It was street, it was West Coast, it was a little bit more wisdom, and
a person can’t really fake that. They figured out it wasn’t just the
introspective side. At the end of the day, I want people to recognize me
as just a human being, period. I talk about whatever I feel and
whatever I go through."
