Friday, March 1, 2013

Kendrick Lamar explains why he chose a dark skinned girl for 'Poetic Justice' (Video)



 In an interview with Miss Info rapper Kendrick Lamar explained the theme of the music video for 'Poetic Justice'. He said even though it is more of romantic song he wanted to do the unexpected and to turn into more of a thriller without totally removing the concept of the song.

He also says in the interview he replaced the original model (who was the cookie-cutter lightskin-long hair
video girl) that was suppose to star in the video with a girl of a darker tone because he wanted to reflect that the song could relate to anyone.

I honestly respect his decision to do that. I definitely noticed and hopefully other artists can start to incorporate other kinds of black women into their visuals. Obviously every black women isn't "light skinned" and the industry should reflect that.

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