Comedian Andrew Schulz has responded fully to Kendrick Lamar’s harsh criticism against him in the opening track of his new album GNX“The murals were removed.” At one point in the song, the reigning hip-hop artist raps, “Don’t let white comedians talk about black women, that’s the law.”
Quickly embraced by sharp K-Dot listeners when the album unexpectedly dropped last month, the lyrics serve as a veiled reference to Schulz’s jokes aimed at Black women who have went viral on the podcast earlier this year ShxtsnGigsas the BBC reported. The podcast’s co-hosts, James Duncan and Fuhad Dawodu, later apologized for what was said.
But Schulz did not apologize and even doubled down in response to Kendrick’s criticism of his post. Andrew Schulz’s publicity with Akaash Singh podcast on Wednesday (December 4). In fact, the comedian attempted to ironically illustrate how hip-hop itself has a history of containing misogynistic content.
Maintaining a sarcastic tone throughout his criticism, Schulz quipped, “Listen, no one respects women through art more than rappers, okay?”
He continued, “So I totally understand how a rapper can look at a comedian telling a joke and say, yo, you all need to change that. Why you guys? you dare say that your wife is annoying, you know, be more like us and, you know, [starts rapping lyrics from the Diplomats’ “B***hes Ain’t Shit”] ‘B***h he’s nothing but h**s and tricks / I beat my b***h with a stick, what?’“
Schulz continued in a mocking tone, “Those are real lyrics from music that defend women. And for decades – [it] protect women. And listen, right now, the head man, Kung-Fu Kenny, he’s making sure that the comedians – he’s going to lay down the law.”
Even criticizing the grammar of the lyrics, the comedian said, “Technically speaking, if we don’t understand English grammar, he’s saying I Maybe talking about black women. … So he’s basically saying [to] all white comedians talk about black women. That’s what I’m talking about! He finally understood.” (See clip below.)
Furthermore, Schulz satirized Lamar’s understanding of humor, correctly pointing out that the rapper was working on a live-action comedy with South Park co-creators Trey Park and Matt Stone plan to open in 2025, as Diversity reported earlier this year.
But that’s not all. Schulz also took exception to another lyric in “Wacced Out Murals” that seemed to comment on other white entertainment figures commenting on black issues – “The n*** is like that, the n*** is like being groomed, sliding on both of them.”
“Well, that sounds like a call to violence,” Schulz commented. “If he wanted to protect black people, why was the call to violence directed at black people and not white people making jokes about — what?”
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