Lamar’s lyrics were criticised for being “not helpful at all.”

Kendrick Lamar kicked off Sunday night’s BET Awards with an energetic performance of To Pimp A Butterfly standout ‘Alright’. Lamar performed the politically-charged track on top of a vandalised police car with the stars and stripes of the American flag waving in the background.

The performance was a talking point on the latest episode of the Fox News roundtable program The Five. Unsurprisingly, the Fox News pundits weren’t feeling it. Talking head Geraldo Rivera criticised Kendrick’s calling out of police brutality, describing his lyrics as “not helpful at all” and making the absurd claim that “hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years.”

Rivera continued, “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 killer with these cops, it is so wrong, it is so counterproductive, it gives exactly the wrong message.”

Chances are they won’t be feeling Kendrick’s new video, either. Watch the Fox News segment below. [via Stereogum]