Andrew Schulz Just Uncomfortably Escalated His One-Sided Beef With Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar wants white comedians to stop degrading Black women. Andrew Schulz wants Kendrick Lamar — and he’s not taking “no” for an answer.

On November 22nd, the 17-time Grammy-winning rapper surprise-dropped his newest album, GNX, which featured ample callouts of other entertainers who were on Lamar’s hit list somewhere below Drake. In the opening song “wacced out murals,” Lamar promised to “make Katt Williams proud,” rapping, “Don’t let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that’s law.” In the weeks since the album’s release, many white comedians who proudly and loudly trash Black women reacted with outrage to Lamar potentially pushing back on their punchlines, with none more triggered by the “wacced out murals” bar than right-wing podcaster Schulz, who accused Lamar of being “too woke to understand a joke” in the wake of the album release.

Though Lamar hasn’t responded to Schulz’ attempts to cancel him (nor do we know for sure that the music mogul even knows who the hell Schulz is), Schulz turned up the heat on the non-feud during a recent episode of his podcast Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh when he claimed that — seriously — he would rape Lamar if he ever had the chance to face the rapper one-on-one.

There’s a stereotype about “edgy” right-wing comics that, whenever they run out of material, they default to making a joke that boils down to “haha, rape” in hopes that they will provoke a negative response from the audience, a reaction that they will inevitably characterize as “lol triggered, it’s just dark humor.” In fact, there’s a viral webcomic about that exact phenomenon that went viral in the hours following Schulz’ bizarre threat of sexual assault against a rapper who has never so much as spoken Schulz’ name in public.

As a reminder, Schulz is convinced that Lamar is personally victimizing him with a line in a rap song because, in September, Schulz made controversial comments during an episode of Flagrant focused on the viral “Black Girlfriend Effect” trend, in which white men in interracial couples posted pictures of themselves before and after they began dating a Black woman. The topic of miscegenation apparently incensed Schulz, who ranted about how these men posting completely innocuous fit pics “shave their hair because they start losing it from being so stressed, being around this Black girl that’s complaining about shit all the fucking time.” 

Schulz later added, “They grow a beard because there’s more cushion when they get slapped,” before positing, “I think the Black Girlfriend Effect might be a protective instinct.”

While Schulz’ non-joke about how much he dislikes being around Black women would certainly warrant a callout, it’s important to remember that Lamar never specified which white comedian pissed him off enough for him to defend Black women in the offending track. There’s a cynical irony in the fact that Schulz, who is one of the many Joe Rogan copycats currently capitalizing on the popularity of anti-woke “comedy” podcasts, has spent the last two weeks crashing out over a lyric in a random song that might not even be about him.