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Even in the 21st century, the pernicious lie that Black Americans do not value education still persists.

"I think we should be doing what Australia is doing, and separating our children from this pernicious disease of thought that is infecting them," he says.

Perhaps it is human nature - that your own arm's length bodies don't feel as pernicious as ones dreamt up by a predecessor.

Just like when Lamar scooped up an award for “Not Like Us” at the Grammys, he had the whole Super Bowl crowd singing along to his particularly pernicious barbs.

“Companion” is confident, but with so little to back it up, that confidence comes off as arrogance, making the film feel ironically steeped in the pernicious masculine tone it’s trying to lampoon.