2 years ago, Kendrick Lamar hosted “The Pop Out: Ken & Friends” on Juneteenth 🏟️🔥
The crowd was stacked
▫️LeBron James
▫️The Weeknd
▫️SZA
▫️North West
▫️LaKeith Stanfield
▫️Russell Westbrook
▫️Chloe Bailey
▫️Rick Ross
▫️DeMar DeRozan
Happy Birthday to the legendary Kendrick Lamar, who turns 39 today 🔥🎈
▫️27x GRAMMY award winner
▫️56B+ Spotify streams
▫️Five #1 albums on Billboard
▫️Six #1 songs on Billboard
▫️Every album has 1B+ streams on Spotify
▫️Rapper with the most weeks spent at #1 in the 2020s
▫️Most critically acclaimed rapper of all time
▫️Performed the highest grossing hip hop tour in history
▫️Released the longest charting rap album of all time
▫️Performed the most watched Super Bowl Halftime show in history
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They crack jokes about George Floyd and laugh in our faces, and we do nothing.
They shoot our children in the back and then sentence them as adults for defending themselves and we do nothing.
They call Michelle Obama, the first Black First Lady of the United States a Man, and a Monkey and we do nothing.
They strip away voting rights in the same southern states where we send our best Black athletes to play college sports to make them BILLIONS, and we do nothing.
They openly talk about bringing SLAVERY back, and we do nothing.
We are desensitized to our own disrespect.
Amid laughter and hugs, they took him to fulfill a dream: to see the sea.
His friends accompanied him to the shore, where happiness was reflected on his face and the waves seemed to celebrate with him.
Dear Lord,
Today, let what I touch thrive, and let every system built to box me in trip over its own plan. Make my obedience dangerous to everything that expected me to quit. Let my grind disturb the folk who counted me out, and let my consistency shake the heads of my haters. Use me to break cycles, cross lines they drew, and change the rooms I enter. In Jesus’ name. Amen🙏🏽
Dear Lord,
Today, help me stop rushing past the life You gave me because I’m busy reaching for the next thing. Let me enjoy my food, talk without racing, laugh without checking the clock, and notice the small blessings trying to get my attention. If hurry tries to steal my day, make it leave empty-handed. In Jesus’ name. Amen🙏🏽