Kendrick Lamar has responded to FOX News pundit Geraldo Rivera over his claims that hip-hop music has done more harm to the young African Americans than racism.
Discussing Lamar's BET Awards performance on FOX, Rivera said: "This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years."
Responding via an interview with TMZ, Lamar said: "How can you take a song that's about hope and turn it into hatred? The message, the overall message, is we gonna be all right. It's not the message, we gonna kill people."
He added: "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.
"Not going out in the streets, go in the booth and talking about the situation and hoping these kids can find some type of influence on it in a positive manner.
"Coming from these streets and coming from these neighbourhoods, we're taking our talents and putting 'em inside the studio."
The performance in question was one Lamar performed on top of a vandalised police car, leading to the channel's strange claims.
It came after Lamar released the music video for the track - 'Alright' - where he addresses police brutality.
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