INGLEWOOD.- Not content with taking a victory lap after winning his battle against rap superstar Drake, Kendrick Lamar converted his concert Pop Out of Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) at the Forum in a cathartic celebration of unity in los angeles.
Lamar hosted a three-hour, live-streamed concert featuring a mix of the city’s rappers and rising stars, including Tyler, the Creator, Steve Lacy and YG. When it was his turn to take the stage, the 37-year-old rapper participated in a set with Black Hippy collaborators Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock, performing his vs. Drake songs. Euphoria y 6:16 in LA.
He was then joined on stage by Dr. Dre.
The two West Coast titans performed Still D.R.E. y California Love before Dre asked the crowd for a moment of silence. Then I uttered the dialogue of Sixth Sense (Sixth Sense) with which it starts Not Like Us from Lamar: “I see dead people.”
The concert
A crowd of 17,000, including The Weeknd, LeBron James, Ayo Edebiri and Rick Ross, rapped every word of DJ Mustard’s biting but jubilant production, which Lamar restarted twice after the first verse and performed four times. In its whole.
Dancing, frolicking and twirling around him as Lamar walked across the stage in a red hoodie were NBA stars Russell Westbrook and DeMar DeRozan, Mustard, rapper Roddy Ricch and a teenage dance troupe led by the innovative Tommy the Clown.
Lamar reveled in the moment: “They’re not going to let anyone disrespect the West Coast. They’re not going to let anyone imitate our legends,” he said, referring to Drake’s use of an artificial intelligence tool to imitate 2Pac’s voice in one of his trash songs.
But Lamar had more things on his mind, calling several people to join him on stage for a group photo.
“Let the world see this,” he said. “May we all be together on this stage, unity, on the east side… LA, Crips, Bloods, Piru, this… it’s special, man Together just for you,” he said
“This… It has nothing to do with any song right now, it has nothing to do with any record back and forth, it has everything to do with this moment here.”
Lamar said goodbye, saying, “I promise you this won’t be the last of us.” The trumpets of “Not Like Us” blared once again and the crowd rapped the lyrics without Lamar as they moved down the halls toward the parking lot.
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