Kendrick Lamar has his finger on the pulse of the young, black community, but Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera thinks hip hop is the problem.

Recently, Rivera took tot he airways to to speak against a recent Kendrick Lamar performance and hip hop in general. Here is what he said.

“This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years. This is exactly the wrong message,” Rivera said, specifically pointing to the “Alright” line: “And we hate po-po/ Wanna kill us dead in the street, fo sho.”

Lamar’s response was brilliant.

Lamar’s response was brilliant.

“How can you take a song that’s about hope and turn it into hatred?” he asked. “The overall message is ‘We gonna be alright.’ It’s not a message of I want to kill people.”

Instead of dropping diss lines or threatening Rivera, the cooler headed Lamar addressed Fox’s slander with an explanation of the meaning and message behind his song.

“For the most part it’s avoiding the truth,” he said. “This is reality, this is my world, this is what I talk about in my music. You can’t delude that. Me being on a cop car, that’s a performance piece after these senseless acts. Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem of the situation. This is our music. This is us expressing ourselves. Rather than going out here and doing the murders myself, I want to express myself in a positive light the same way other artists are doing.

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