KENDRICK LAMAR-PULITZER PRIZE AND GRAMMY AWARD WINNER!

Kendrick Lamar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) are three leaders walking in Muhammad Ali’s footsteps. They are leaders without fear or boundaries. America and our children need them like never before. The measures to suppress our history and the lies being told are like I have never witnessed or heard (Critical Race Theory).

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton, California in 1987.  He’s considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, and the first non-classical or jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.

The award recognized his 2017 album DAMN., which was critically acclaimed and helped bring mainstream recognition to hip-hop’s artistic depth. Lamar was also the first hip-hop artist to solo headline the Super Bowl halftime. His 13-minute performance will go down in history as, the greatest half-time performance of all time. The Super Bowl Hidden Messages for Black America  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajnW0k0dM0

He was born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth on June 17, 1987, an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Kendrick is also known as K.Dot, Kung Fu Kenny, Petty Pendergrass Dot, and The Boogeyman.  He is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time.  

Kendrick has received various accolades, including 22 Grammy Awards (the third-most won by a rapper), a Primetime Emmy Award, a Brit Award, 4 American Music Awards, 7 Billboard Music Awards, 11 MTV Video Music Awards (including 2 Video of the Year wins), and a record 37 BET Hip Hop Awards.

Time Magazine listed Kendrick Lamar as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. Kendrick is also the first non-Jazz or Classical artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 3rd album “DAMN” in 2018. Lamar is known for his thought-provoking lyrics, unique storytelling, and innovative musical style.

He is the Muhammad Ali, Gil Scott Heron of this generation, a voice and leadership that cannot be bought and sold. I was honored when King Shaza, “The Godfather of Go-Go” who opened for Gil Scott Heron on his European tour added my photo to his poster titled, “The Four Kings–They Never Played The Game.” They heard and saw something and said something.”

Muhammad Ali-Harold Bell-Gil Scott Heron and Kendrick Lamar.

I have had poems written about my exploits in the community and an appearance in King Shaza’s “Traditions” video, this poster was truly an honor. Definitely, voices that have called them as they have seen them!

I was introduced to Gil by our mutual friend, Norris ‘Brute’ Little. Gil made DC his second home. Brute was an outstanding football player at Cardozo High School in DC. It was there he got the nickname, Brute. He was a hard-running bruising fullback.

I remember the Virginia Sailors a minor league affiliate for the Washington Redskins were holding tryouts. I looked up at one of our practices and there was Brute, and H Rap Brown trying out for a spot on the team. I was not surprised that H Rap was there, I had invited him. Brute was a walk-on.

H Rap and I worked for the United Planning Organization (A self-help organization) as Neighborhood Workers in the Cardozo/Shaw Community, along with the legendary, Petey Greene. One day we were hanging out at Harrison Playground at 13th and V Streets NW watching several youngsters play catch with a football.

Rap walked up to the youth and started to show one of them how to drop back and throw the ball accurately. Petey, then urged me to run a couple of pass patterns with Rap throwing the ball. It was difficult trying to run a pass pattern in tennis shoes, but I could tell he knew what he was doing. He had a strong, and a shotgun arm.

I discovered he had played QB at Southern University. He was cut for disciplinary reasons. Rap had football in his DNA. I invited him to try out for the Sailors.

His tryout was amazing, in the passing drills his balls were on the one. The coaches were impressed but wary of his attire during warmup. Rap wore a black Tam and sunglasses, they did not invite him back for the next day’s tryout.

I am not sure how Brute and Gil met, but he would show up to watch our practices in Anacostia Park in SE DC.

This is a photo of players from DC trying out for the Virginia Sailors. Norris ‘Brute’ Little No. 25 standing on the right and I am standing next to him No. 82.

Gil penned several rap songs about DC this is my favorite “It’s The Nation’s Capitol-Washington, DC.”

LYRICS

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast
Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight
The overlords escape in the evening with people of the night
Morning brings the tourists, peering eyes and rubber necks
To catch a glimpse of Reagan making the world a nervous wreck
It’s a mass of irony for all the world to see
It’s the nation’s capital, it’s Washington D.C.

In 2025 the black community is surrounded by racism, especially in social media. Instead of having our own NBC-ABC-CBS-FOX News-CNN, we depend on social media, Facebook-X-Twitter, Tic Tok, to read and distribute our news. It is there, that 1% control the narrative. Everyone who has followed us into this country owns something but us.

We think we are free on Facebook, X, Tic Tok, and other social media platforms. My hashtag for decades has been, “WAKE UP EVERYBODY” but this self-hate, jealousy, and envy continues to divide.

I was in FACEBOOK jail and I could not wait to get on Tic Tok only to discover the Chinese are just as racist as Facebook, X, and Twitter. For example; I tried to post the poster, “We Never Played The Game” with the soundtrack “Traditions” by King Shaza, the Godfather of GO-GO! Tic Tok refused to post it.

It got worse when Forestville, Maryland, trainer/coach Ty Barnett tried to post his 6-year-old student’s inspirational poem, “I am Malcolm X” on Tic Tok. He received the same denial message as I did.

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“MUHAMMAD ALI, HAROLD BELL, GIL SCOTT-HERON, KENDRICK LAMAR

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These are the positive messages and thoughts Ty Barnett tried to post from a six-year-old.

“As-Salama alaykum, my sisters and brothers, I am Malcolm X. I am a Muslim Minister and human rights and community activist. I believe we must be forceful in demanding to be treated equally. We must declare our rights on this earth as human beings in this society, by any means necessary- We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.

The Chinese are being led by the 1% rules and regulations to keep a strangle hold on minorities, and making sure there will never be an “Even Playing Field.” Forty Acres and Mule-never to be!

The Chinese are going to have to shut down and accept Trump’s buyout offer or walk away with nothing but a platform. If they take Trump’s offer, Musk, and Trump will become partners on Tic Tok.

The voices that are speaking the loudest for Black children and our community are Kendrick Lamar, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). When Cortez arrived on The Hill in 2019 she was on fire and the fire still burns bright. Young Americans, black and white, love her nose-to-nose combated style. Colleagues are suggesting she run for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s seat and I concur. Schumer’s decision to support the Trump Spending Bill has him on the hot seat with his colleagues.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), followed Cortez to DC, and she ain’t just talking the talk, she is walking the walk. There will be no sitting on the fence waiting to see if the issues of our children and community are safe for her to attack (GOOGLE Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett).

Congressman Al Greene (D-Texas) was recently escorted from the State of the Union address, for standing during Trump’s speech and yelling, “You have no mandate.” Greene was called back to the House to be officially censored by Republican House Speaker, Mike Johnson. While he was being censored by Johnson, a handful of Democrats stood around Green singing “We Shall Overcome” too little too late.

“We Shall Overcome” has been our theme song for almost sixty years, we need a fresh version, the 1% are laughing at us. Maybe Kendrick Lamar can come up with a rap version!

Johnson appeared on Fox News, ‘The Home Court’ for everything Republican, and said, “This was really a sad day for our institution.” Moments before the vote, he told ABC News, I took no pleasure in making history like this. and I hope Green will acknowledge his mistake.”

The more I hear Johnson speak, he sounds like a recipient of “White Privilege.” He added, “Green chose to deliberately violate House rules in a manner that we think is probably unprecedented in history. He interrupted a message by the president of the United States, who was an honored guest.“

Evidently, the Republicans have selected memories, have they forgotten a member of their party Joe Wilson stood up, yelled during a State of the Union address, and called Obama a lie? And then there is Majorie Taylor Green at a State of the Union address, she yelled to Biden, “Call her name.” There was no censor!

Crossing the aisle and making a difference, no one did it better!

Everyone wants to make Trump the bad guy. Trump’s first time in the White House, he showed us who he was, a poor businessman who declared bankruptcy six times, a slum landlord, now a convicted felon (34 counts), meet the President of the United States of America. Who zoomed who!

The problem in the black community is self-hate, who can we trust, we own nothing we can leave our children (generational wealth) and our WORD means absolutely nothing. While we are pointing fingers we need to look in the mirror.

The Democrats are in total disarray, ten of them voted with the Republicans to censor Al Green. The latest bombshell, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer supported the Republican back funding bill keeping the government open for six more months. Some Democrats are calling for him to step down. There is a suggestion that Cortez run for his seat in the next election, and I concur.

Kendrick Lamar, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett will need a little help. God help us all!

UPDATED LYRICS–GIL SCOTT HERON

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast
Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
Residents of poverty are barely out of sight
The overlords escape in the evening with the ladies of the night
Morning brings the tourists, peering eyes and rubber necks
To catch a glimpse of Trump making the world a nervous wreck
It’s a mass of irony for all the world to see
It’s the nation’s capital, it’s Washington D.C.