senior staff attorney and director of policy for Brooklyn Defender Services, as an “excuse to punish the occupiers by punishing our clients," andcharacterized as "a direct attack" that he was no longer allowed to use her music to support his campaign. And last year,Steven Tyler sent a letter to the Trump campaignasking him to stop playing "Dream On" at events.The Backstreet Boysinvented To forego themselves so they can fit the descriptions placed on their heads. To pretend they have less to offer to the world than they actually do. Blackness itself is a title that’s yours to bear, but not yours to define. So you must pick and choose when to stand up for yourself and when to allow parts of yourself to be stripped from you. Will you bend, will you cower, will you keep your opinions to yourself? And when things go bad, as they were designed to, they will say that you did nothing to help yourself and see this also as a lack of humility. It is your inability to humble yourself and “work” for a respected place in society. He may not yet know what it will mean to be exist on both the “respectable” and the “ignorant” side of the fence but he’s not as concerned with the outcome as much as he is invested in surviving the maelstrom of existing in the moment. A lyric like “What happens on Earth stays on Earth” seems exceptionally agnostic on an album that is assumed to be of tantamount religious allegory, but, then again, the idea that there is no heaven is what keeps us humble on Earth. Without heaven, there is nothing but the moment, and it's obvious Kendrick is determined to enjoy his time as King of the Rap game while he is alive and breathing.