His live take on his anthemic Drake diss took place at his hometown show 'The Pop Out: Ken & Friends'
Kendrick performed the track five separate times, each more explosive than the last. “Y’all ain’t gonna let nobody disrespect the West Coast, huh?”asked after holding out the oft-repeated “A Minor” lyric in the first edition. He largely let the crowd lead the second, and for the third, there were explosive pyrotechnics, dancers, and a loud chant of the “O-V-Ho'” as he performed the song to completion.
Kendrick Lamar bringing out Russell Westbrook, DeMar DeRozan and the whole west coast on stage while performing Not Like Us at The Pop Out Concert,” shrouded in red lights, falling fireworks and smoke. He eventually performed his “Like That” verse that ignited the beef too. He also played “DNA,” “Alright,” and “King Kunta.” Kendrick spent much of the show accompanied former Top Dawg Entertainment label mates Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and ScHoolboy Q.
Truly, a case could have been made for Kendrick Lamar keeping “Not Like Us” off the setlist. Though the concert seemingly takes its name from the “Not Like Us” lyric — “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show niggas” — Kendrick has clearly already done that over the course of five diss songs in his battle with Drake between late March and early May. The show could have been a celebratory lap that didn’t acknowledge Drake’s existence at all by keeping those tracks off the roster.
Instead, Kendrick hit the ground running with the song that escalated their tensions. Yet in the end, he celebrated the concert as a moment to unify the many and sometimes fractured facets of Los Angeles’ expansive hip-hop scene. “We done lost a lot of homies to this music shit, a lot of homies to this street shit,” he said, noting that the show featured artists from several different gang factions. He promised this would be the first of more collaborative moves.
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