The song channels Dot’s guilt over surviving Compton’s streets while friends perished. By admitting his violent impulses, he implicates himself in cycles he condemns, blurring victim and perpetrator.
Kendrick’s Personal Reckoning on The Blacker…
The song channels Dot’s guilt over surviving Compton’s streets while friends perished. By admitting his violent impulses, he implicates himself in cycles he condemns, blurring victim and perpetrator.