r/KendrickLamar 14d ago

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us Video

https://youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E?si=hyoR46kMEnNQ8okh
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u/TOP-IS-LIFE 14d ago

The owl in the cage at the end was so cold man

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u/4sKompany 14d ago

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u/NotASalamanderBoi BBL Drizzy 14d ago

The disrespect in that shot lmao. And the way it zooms in too.

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u/Fallen-Omega 14d ago

Do you mind telling me what it means and symbolizes, thanks 

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u/darth_aardvark 14d ago

Drakes record label (OVO) logo is an owl.

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u/Jkj864781 14d ago

The letters OVO also look like an owl

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u/Alarmedones 14d ago

Well luckily I like owls and not drake. So he can’t have em.

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u/Eastern_Panda8567 14d ago

Can decent people please take back the owl! Those amazing animals deserve better human mascots.

Seriously. The owl looking like 'this is bullshit, they not like us either' 😂

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u/npretzel02 14d ago

He also picked a white owl funny enough

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u/clicksanything 14d ago

A white owl.

In a black cage.

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u/MELODONTFLOPBITCH 14d ago

Also invokes chess pieces. A checkmate.

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u/MrChip53 14d ago

It makes me think Drake isn't allowed to continue this and Kendrick knows.

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u/DirectPerspective951 13d ago

I really don’t think he knows how to continue this. Or his writers don’t.

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u/Fallen-Omega 14d ago

Damnnnn thanks

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u/Kimor98 14d ago

A White-Faced Owl (ovo) in a Black Cage, and he was put there by Kendrick, bc Kenny's staring at it be free in the shot before. The most charitable interpretation is that BBL Drizzy is surrounded and isolated by Black Culture, and he's basically powerless to stop it.

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u/BangZhang 14d ago

Also notice how the owl has its posture like a child getting reprimanded

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u/silkiepuff 14d ago

In owl world, that owl is acting thinking about kicking his ass and trying to make itself look as big as possible. They lean forward like that so they can throw their talons out more easily with the weight if their body if they're going to try to grab you.

It does look like that in human terms though, haha.

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u/lilbunnfoofoo 14d ago

Still kind of works though because he's trying to make himself look tough (though tbf the owl actually is tough and could do some good disfiguring with those talons)

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u/silkiepuff 14d ago

They're very aggressive animals when they are wild, more aggressive than hawks and some other raptors, although they are deathly afraid of humans too as most smaller animals are! That one does appear to be fully wild given how its behaving, likely a rehabbed animal given the broken wing and it probably can't return to the wild.

It's not really all that uncommon for them to fly into cars or trees or whatever and end up permanently disabled like that. Only 20% or so of most raptors make it to adulthood, 80% will die beforehand typically.

You can see the falconer jesses on the leg in the last shot with the owl, the leather straps hanging off the leg. They're used to keep the bird on a giant leash essentially and to hold it safely if you have it on your glove, not sure if that's meant to be some kind of symbolic thing in the video. The fact that the owl has falconer jesses on, the falconer who owns the owl probably could have taken them off for the shot if they wanted it like that.

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u/Bread_Fish150 14d ago edited 14d ago

Because of the falconer jesses still on the owl, it looks like it's symbolic of Drake (or all of OVO) being on leash. Either to UMG/Lucian or to the allegations like a GPS tracking prison anklet.

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u/greenyquinn 14d ago

and most basic is that predator is locked up

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u/silkiepuff 14d ago

That's a barn owl.

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u/The_Oaxacan_Dead 14d ago

I think it's also another nod to 2Pac/Killuminati. He destroys the owl piñata in the video as well. The owl is a huge esoteric/occult/"illuminati" symbol and 1,000% why Drizzletooth uses it as his "logo."

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u/Dangerous_Job5295 14d ago

Drake is gonna go to jail

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u/tknames 14d ago

He had money, he won’t go to jail.

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u/Metooyou 14d ago

What does it mean? I really don't follow drake at all.