Hip-hop magazine calls Kamala Harris' 'pandering' attempt at voter appeal on BET Awards 'unflinchingly corny'

Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance at the BET Awards last weekend that one magazine called a "cringe as hell" attempt to appeal to Black voters.

When asked what she’d been hearing about the upcoming election by actress Taraji P. Henson, Harris replied, "Yeah girl, I’m out here in these streets. And let me tell you, you’re right, Taraji. There is so much at stake in this moment. The majority of us believe in freedom and equality. But these extremists, as they say, they not like us," paying homage to 17-time Grammy winner, rapper Kendrick Lamar’s ‘diss track’ to Canadian rapper Drake, ‘Not Like Us.’"

Complex magazine called the move "unflinchingly corny" while comparing it to past exploits of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"If Hillary Clinton is the Ken Griffey Jr. of pandering, then it looks like Kamala is becoming the Barry Bonds of it," the magazine wrote.

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Jayson Buford, a journalist contributing to the hip-hop publication, added that Clinton’s attempts at pandering to Black voters were "flattening the glaring issues Black people had" and suggested that Harris can't relate to the problems they face.

"The true humiliation of attempting to garner votes she didn’t deserve was what caused Clinton’s eventual downfall in the election. Voters didn’t show up for her like they did former president Barack Obama. Instead of campaigning in areas in the Rust Belt that were on the fence — states Obama had won — she talked about carrying hot sauce on her bag on ‘The Breakfast Club’," Buford wrote.

"The community’s impartial distrust in her cultural knowledge is like a Hulk Hogan headlock for her political