Look at the reception to Kendrick Lamar’s game-changing To Pimp A Butterfly in 2015, shortly before the BLM movement found itself in the center of the preceding year’s presidential election. Black artists at that point, for all their groundbreaking works, were not regaled on a national critical stage (a stage largely bereft of Black critics) until mass awareness shifted our lenses. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement permanently changed the discourse of American politics and culture, to the point where those who were newly conscious of the enduring struggles of African-Americans had begun to retrospectively reevaluate the worthiness of media from the last thirty years, when hip-hop was a fledgling art and soul music was on the cusp of a renaissance.
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