Eric Bolling: Rapper Kendrick Lamar raised some eyebrows last night when he opened the BET Awards singing on top of a vandalized cop car.
[Clip: Kendrick Lamar]
Wouldn't you know
We been hurt, been down before
Hitta, when our pride was low
Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?"
Hitta, and we hate po-po
Wanna k** us dead in the street fo sho'
Hitta, I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon' be alright
Eric Bolling: Did you catch that? Lamar stated his views on police brutality with that line in the song, quote, "And we hate the po-po, wanna k** us dead in the street fo sho'." KG.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: Ah, please. Ugh, I don't like it. I mean, you know I don't like it that's why you came to me. I get it, that's his right to express himself, let the free market decide. Personally, it doesn't excite me, it doesn't turn me on, it doesn't interest me, I'm not feeling it.
Eric Bolling: Geraldo, not helpful with those song lyrics.
Geraldo Rivera: To say the least; not helpful at all. 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. And then to conflate what happened in the church in Charleston, South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops is to equate that racist k**er with these cops, it is so wrong, it is so counterproductive, it gives exactly the wrong the message. It doesn't recognize that a city like Baltimore, where — remember Freddie Gray — they've had a homicide a day since Freddie Gray, no one's protesting that. Baltimore, a tiny city, 7% the size of New York, has just as many murders as New York. You know, we've got to wake up at a certain point and understand what's going on here.
Eric Bolling: Dana, timing's everything and this may be a little too soon.
Dana Perino: Well, the thing I was thinking about this too it's not like it was somebody on cable news who just happened to say something that they regretted and that they had to go then apologize for. This was planned, there were probably a thousand people, at least several hundred if not a thousand people who all knew that this was all going to happen and nobody raises their hand and says, "Maybe this isn't the best idea to do?"
Eric Bolling: Yeah, with what's going on, Tommy, look at that police car. Vandalizing a cop car.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: It incites violence.
Tom Shillue: You sure it was planned? It looks like a spontaneous demonstration to me.
Dana Perino: Who pushed the video?
Tom Shillue: No, a rapper who's anti-police? I mean, it's never happened before.