On the latest album from Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, the artist appears to declare himself a Hebrew Israelite — or at the very least to show he’s familiar with the movement’s beliefs.
“I’m an Israelite, don’t call me black no more, that word is only a color, it ain’t facts no more,” Lamar raps on the song titled “Yah.”
Lamar also references core theological beliefs held by Hebrew Israelites found in Deuteronomy 28, a passage which deals with curses delivered by God to the Israelites.
The Hebrew Israelite references in Lamar’s album are tied to a character on the album named Carl Duckworth, who Lamar calls his cousin, who urges the rapper to embrace the Hebrew Israelite identity.
“My cousin called, my cousin Carl Duckworth said know my worth and Deuteronomy say that we all been cursed,” Lamar raps on “Yah.”
A voice mail from that same cousin, or character, appears on another track on Lamar’s latest album, titled “Fear,” with Carl telling Lamar he will continue to suffer in this world until recognizes he is “an Israelite according to the bible.”
“The so-called blacks, Hispanics, and Native American Indians, are the true children of Israel. We are the Israelites according to the Bible,” Carl says.
“Until we come back to these laws, statutes and commandments, and do what the Lord said, these curses are gonna be upon us,” Carl says. “We’re gonna be at a lower state in this life that we live here in today, in the United States of America.”
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