Kendrick Lamar Visits Obama On The White House! What Did They Talk About?
It has appeared on the news that musician Kendrick Lamar visited the White House and had a meeting with the President of the United States Barack Obama. According to MTV, the two had a very powerful conversation, as shown in a Top Dawg Entertainment Video released on Monday (Jan. 11). The video is entitled "Pay It Forward."
"I sat down with President Barack Obama and shared the same views, topics concerning the inner cities, the problem, the solutions and furthermore, embracing the youth," Lamar explained in the said clip. "Both being aware that mentoring saves lives."
The video, which was directed by The Dave Meyers and The Little Homies, brings awareness to the White House's My Brother's Keeper initiative. Get to know more about the initiative by visiting their website here.
Earlier on the news, Obama's Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett shared more on Kendrick Lamar's visit to the White House, in a report by Huffington Post. "[Kendrick] was at the White House," Jarrett said during an episode of "Another Round" podcast of BuzzFeed. "He came and he visited the president, and you know what the president said to him? [Because] he was a little nervous - bless his heart, he's really a very nice young man, and the president said, 'Can you believe that we're both sitting in this Oval Office?'"
The rapper made news when his critically acclaimed sophomore album "To Pimp A Butterfly's" cover showed him surrounded by a group of young black men in front of the white house and a dead white judge with a gavel in his hand. The said cover symbolizes the systemic racism in the criminal justice system.
The president has spoken about the issue before and he even included the disparate treatment of black people in America. Just recently, he discussed it in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"I think the reason the organizers used the phrase 'black lives matter' was not because they were suggesting that nobody else's lives matter," he said. "Rather, what they were suggesting was that there is a specific problem that is happening in the African-American community that is not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we've got to address."
Other than the serious agendas, there may be some topics Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar tackled on during the latter's visit on the White House that didn't make it to news.
