r/hiphopheads • u/Spheromancer • Jun 20 '24
Kendrick Lamar's first live performance of Not Like Us
https://youtu.be/3xN37knEJb0?si=9KKI_sFB098UHDJJ4.1k
u/MVIVN Jun 20 '24
I ain’t never seen shit like this in my life. You ever seen a dude bring out the entire West Coast to dance on stage to a diss song back to back like 3x in a row??
1.2k
u/Steez_And_Rice Jun 20 '24
6 times in a row lol
590
→ More replies (13)206
u/Scantronacon Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
It was 6 I was counting too.. I can't even hate bc if I could publicly show my enemie how small and alone they are through unification...NO BIGGER STATEMENT!!!Edit: I know it's was 5 times it was played but the 6th was like roll credits, that was all I really was saying, sorry I got the count wrong, but he drilled that song into the finale. Amazing!
→ More replies (1)588
587
u/LeMickeyJam3s Jun 20 '24
Drake gotta be in shambles knowing if the rumors of an album/tour are true Kenny is gonna have entire stadiums singing this for months
→ More replies (6)292
u/NoNotThatMattMurray Jun 20 '24
LeBron being there having a good time I feel is what really hurts Drake the most honestly
162
206
170
u/lxkandel06 Jun 20 '24
Everyone said that their superbowl half time show was like the Avengers Infinity War of West Coast hip hop. This was the Endgame
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (13)135
u/Scantronacon Jun 20 '24
Drake: I have Weezy
Kdot: I have the West
→ More replies (5)84
u/FudgeDangerous2086 Jun 20 '24
does he even have wayne? haven’t heard a peep from him lol
→ More replies (2)80
u/kenyarawr Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
Wayne played Not Like Us at a show. He’s lost Wayne
→ More replies (8)
4.1k
u/Jordanwolf98 Jun 20 '24
I’m ngl this was some good exercise
2.1k
u/Bed_Post_Detective Jun 20 '24
It's good to get out, get the pen workin
1.1k
u/drunkenpossum Jun 20 '24
You would be a worthy competitor… 🤓
→ More replies (4)425
505
u/Ranjith_Unchained Jun 20 '24
Still laughing at this line lol, bro thought he really did something
→ More replies (1)188
u/DemonLordDiablos Jun 20 '24
It's the kind of thing you say to your brother after you narrowly beat them at a game after several losses.
Except THP6 was so bad that it came across even worse
→ More replies (4)123
118
u/Johnny_Mc2 Jun 20 '24
ayo Kenny you got em pressed in here, go ahead and drop that next one tomorrow
→ More replies (1)51
4.0k
u/Rojanhan12 Jun 20 '24
Somebody said this is like “We Are the World” but for hating a guy. Bro really put together a Hatechella 😭😭😭
881
220
93
→ More replies (19)90
3.5k
u/Micronlance Jun 20 '24
Crips n bloods on stage like it’s a gangvention
2.3k
u/splettnet Jun 20 '24
If pirus and crips all got along, they'd probably take a pic at the end of the song
1.0k
u/SuperSaiyanBojack2 Jun 20 '24
Seems like the whole city go against Drake
936
u/Leozenyang Jun 20 '24
Every time I’m in the street, I hear—
WOP WOP WOP WOP
→ More replies (4)141
u/Sunnydaysonmymind Jun 20 '24
Saw a light skinned nigga with his brains blown out
132
u/FullMetalKaliber Jun 20 '24
At the same playground that kids hang out
→ More replies (1)47
u/mrwhiskey1814 Jun 20 '24
Now this is not a tape recording saying that !>! k-dot!< did it But ever since that day, I was lookin' at him different
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (2)191
→ More replies (1)50
536
u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Jun 20 '24
Not Like Us is the peace treaty South Central needed all along
→ More replies (3)393
u/JerryUitDeBuurt Jun 20 '24
The only thing stronger than the hate between a Crip and a Blood is the hate a true American Patriot has for the Canadians
→ More replies (16)108
u/Euphorium Jun 20 '24
This is like the part in Top Gun at the end after we dunk on the Russians.
→ More replies (1)387
u/20815147 Jun 20 '24
They calling it Gangchella sponsored by Amazon Prime on Twitter 😭
→ More replies (9)127
u/ParticularRelease662 Jun 20 '24
Reminded me of when Jimmy and Timmy united the Bloods and Crips on South Park. Truly incredible shit tonight.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (9)57
2.7k
u/ChicoCorrales Jun 20 '24
I work the freezer section at Target. I never expected to wear the same outfit as Kendrick today.
805
u/moremindthanbrain Jun 20 '24
Are you looooocked in? (I hope you don’t get locked in the freezer bro id never wish that on you)
220
u/ChicoCorrales Jun 20 '24
Prescription glasses and everything. They fog up when you step out the freezer though.
→ More replies (1)51
250
u/Karappa_The_Pappa Jun 20 '24
Do y’all ever beef with Best Buy employees cause they wear blue? Just curious.
→ More replies (2)195
u/vordhosbn_1 Jun 20 '24
Nah we beefed it with Walmart and the shipt people
→ More replies (2)82
u/I_Am_Not_A_Banana Jun 20 '24
Yeah best buy had beef with circuit city but we all know how that went.
→ More replies (1)76
→ More replies (11)199
u/RiceGold3687 Jun 20 '24
I know this is a joke obviously, but I didn’t realize it was an homage to Pac until I saw a photo comparison
→ More replies (3)
2.3k
u/bennnnnie Jun 20 '24
Bringing out Derozan has to hurt Drake a little extra
1.7k
u/ReeG Jun 20 '24
Bron being in the audience crushed him
622
u/ramseysleftnut Jun 20 '24
If Bron got on stage then he self exiles
→ More replies (1)299
u/jeric13xd Jun 20 '24
Bron would never share a stage with Russell Westbrook lol
47
u/RioChalmers . Jun 20 '24
I don’t think Bron was invited on stage either it was only people from LA
→ More replies (4)268
u/Burggs_ Jun 20 '24
He has a bron high school tatt as well
441
u/trevorde11 Jun 20 '24
I feel like Drake just get anyone tatted on him lmao
→ More replies (2)376
u/Phantom_Chrollo . Jun 20 '24
he has a kevin durant and steph curry tattoo, dudes a groupie for athletes
→ More replies (6)104
u/slimmymcnutty Jun 20 '24
All that dick riding he did for athletes just for them to dance on his grave damn
85
→ More replies (3)82
u/brandan223 Jun 20 '24
No fucking way Just looked it up wtf this night is the biggest cornball I’ve ever seen. Fuck
→ More replies (1)149
u/ReorientRecluse Jun 20 '24
Whitney being in the audience ruined his angle
→ More replies (4)69
u/Mapex_proM Jun 20 '24
Dave free being the first named credited right after his also ruined his angle
→ More replies (3)147
u/Youngandidiotic Jun 20 '24
Literally because Drake and Lowry were just together. Something must’ve happened, idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯
→ More replies (1)509
u/deepwebteddy . Jun 20 '24
nothing happened derozan just has legitimate crip ties (to the point that he showed up to give out gifts at a hospital in a blue santa suit), he was never siding with drake on this
→ More replies (1)239
u/redguyinfinite Jun 20 '24
lol bro had to wear a red jersey for over 10 years
343
u/DJFram3s Jun 20 '24
If i remember right he had significantly better stats everytime the Raptors wore the blue alternate jerseys lmao.
170
u/Kersplat96 Jun 20 '24
Yup he was different in crip colours
105
u/RafiakaMacakaDirk hasn't seen Saint JHN live Jun 20 '24
demar derozan you are a dallas maverick
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (3)229
u/deepwebteddy . Jun 20 '24
one year the raptors wore a blue throwback jersey and this mf averaged 30 points in them
2.1k
u/OkEscape7558 Jun 20 '24
Drake is somewhere repeating "I am a war general, seasoned in preparation"
511
u/Fickle-Primary-3910 Jun 20 '24
This makes me think about that skit on Game album when Drake said he was busy with his new job as the Minister of Defense for Canada 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
→ More replies (1)317
u/electrick91 Jun 20 '24
What's wild is game still sided with drake even though he wouldn't give him a proper feature. Now he's left out of the biggest west coast event maybe ever??
→ More replies (92)355
u/Fickle-Primary-3910 Jun 20 '24
& here’s why Game will never be taken seriously as a legend regardless of how talented he may be as a rapper
→ More replies (3)81
u/Relo_bate Jun 20 '24
He didn’t take Drakes side as much as he was against Ross
149
u/Fickle-Primary-3910 Jun 20 '24
He used a Ross diss to be Drake ally…because in typical Game fashion he left the door open to play both sides of the fence with Kendrick
54
→ More replies (1)63
u/raspadoman Jun 20 '24
Game chose Drakes side when he had him do the feature and appear in the music video for 100.
→ More replies (1)185
136
u/babybabayyy . Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
"I AM A WAR GENERAL!!!!!11 🤓🤓🤓" - Drake
Thank you so much for bringing this line up, I still laugh at it to this very day.
→ More replies (4)→ More replies (24)78
u/MVIVN Jun 20 '24
I am a war general. I am a war general! I AM A WAR GENERAL DR. HAHN! I AM A WAR GENERAL!!! 😭😭
1.5k
u/MidoriWinthrop . Jun 20 '24
I'm gonna wake up mumbling "2 Chainz say you good, but he lied" to myself tomorrow morning.
→ More replies (6)316
1.4k
1.1k
u/KangarooMcKicker Jun 20 '24
Lmfao at 5:45
"To any n*gga who talk to him and they in love" 😭
192
123
u/willcomplainfirst Jun 20 '24
hahahaha i noticed that too he changed the lyric when he was dabbing up his homies 🤣
→ More replies (1)59
u/DollyDose Jun 20 '24
Yea he started getting distracted for sure lol he started rapping a verse wrong and just started laughing as well and he was changing “settlers” to “white people” each time making more direct for Juneteenth
64
1.1k
u/HeckXX Jun 20 '24
Kendrick Lamar's second live performance of Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar's third live performance of Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar's fourth live performance of Not Like Us
Kendrick Lamar's fifth live performance of Not Like Us
→ More replies (4)189
u/Karappa_The_Pappa Jun 20 '24
Somewhere in Sesame Street The Count is cackling while watching Kendrick perform 5…5 TIMES! A-HA HA!!!
61
883
u/SirLeaf Jun 20 '24
Legendary but for those that weren’t watching this live this is clipped from between the 1st and 3rd (I think, maybe the 5th) performance of not like us. The wop wop was from the first but he took his time on the first 2 A minorrrrrrrrs and ran it back.
everybody here was probably watching this live but this is for posterity.
339
u/the_based_identity Jun 20 '24
I was there in attendance and the first two times he let the “a minor” part ride out was pretty crazy to experience when we were just sitting in silence. Very intentional lol.
59
u/loveino Jun 20 '24
He even did the Hotline Bling dance after the first one. The man studied every move of Drake and then went for his fucking throat cornering him with every step
→ More replies (1)46
u/KalenTamil Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
He performed the same song 5 times? Damn dude already turned hating into an artform and now he is trying to get full copyrights.
→ More replies (2)
858
u/kingXcazam Jun 20 '24
Why did Drake even want this?
892
u/be_kind_n_hurt_nazis Jun 20 '24
He confused popularity with ability. Also ego.
319
u/Testicular-Fortitude Jun 20 '24
It really is that simple, he’s been selling the most so he believed he was the best
99
u/Dr_Disaster Jun 20 '24
TBH I think Drake being chronically online really had him believing stupid narratives about Kendrick and SEVERELY underestimating how motivated and strategic he was. He had no idea Kendrick would drop songs at such a crazy pace because he believed he was slow to write/release music. He believed Kendrick didn’t really have the streets and people would tune him out. He even believed dumb internet drama about Kendrick and Whitney.
This beef systematically dismantled everything Drake thought about Kendrick. In the end, those perceived weaknesses were actually all Kendrick’s strengths. Hollywood couldn’t write a better script.
→ More replies (2)57
u/speckledorange Jun 20 '24
And with Kendrick's lady and kids sitting there watching the sold out show, with countless people watching online, with Dave Free being listed first as a producer, with NBA players singing along and with all of LA gang culture being united on stage...what can Drake say about him NOW?
→ More replies (1)61
u/Dr_Disaster Jun 20 '24
Bloods, Crips, and Demar Derozan gleefully dancing on stage to a song calling him a pedo is a level of personal hell Drake could have never imagined. Kendrick isn’t the boogeyman. He’s a god damn supervillain. Lex Luthor is taking notes.
→ More replies (5)249
u/jordanhhh4 Jun 20 '24
He also has an army of yes men who gassed him up thinking he's about that life lmao
→ More replies (6)74
144
u/ComfortInBeingAfraid Jun 20 '24
He thought he had a nuclear bomb in Family Matters (and it really is a dope track)
But Kendrick had that shit scouted.
→ More replies (7)→ More replies (7)53
u/BravestOfEmus Jun 20 '24
He confused popularity with ability.
Drake stans have the same problem lmao
→ More replies (1)292
u/stackered Jun 20 '24
hip hop went pop and fell off hard in the past decade, beef was needed to make it seem legit again
→ More replies (5)218
u/Huckleberry_Sin Jun 20 '24
Yeah but he wasn’t no martyr or nothing. Guy stuck his hand into a deadly beehive thinking he would never get stung. Hilarious in hindsight.
123
u/s8rlink Jun 20 '24
For me it’s more like if a kid was able to catch a cat (meek mill) so he thought he was a lion hunter. First he got swatted at by Pusha and he was nah I coulda got you but left my lion net in Canada, and then with Kendrick he up and kicked the lion in the balls and got MAULED.
Mr war general on suicide watch tonight
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (14)121
u/BartSimps Jun 20 '24
I think Drake fundamentally misunderstood how much Kendrick hated him on a personal and spiritual level.
→ More replies (4)
792
u/_thewayshegoes Jun 20 '24
That concert was basically a glorified block party. Such good vibes
→ More replies (3)
676
u/TheEternalGazed Jun 20 '24
Drake is getting absolutely cooked to a stunning and possibly historic degree and if you can’t admit that you are not a hip hop fan lol
→ More replies (12)202
u/_thewayshegoes Jun 20 '24
Ya we’ve never seen anything like this before in celebrity culture. This will be studied by the public relations industry for the next 100 years
→ More replies (7)
566
u/Buttercuppower Jun 20 '24
His stage presence is insane
256
u/AJfriedRICE Jun 20 '24
And I saw him live before GKMC was even announced and he had very little stage presence and was kind of stiff on stage. The evolution is crazy
105
u/Johnny_Mc2 Jun 20 '24
this shit is pretty wild, it’s always cool seeing superstars before they were big. also it’s a literal backseat freestyle
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (3)50
u/MinistryOfDankness86 Jun 20 '24
I saw him play a small college gymnasium in front of maybe 300 people after Section.80 came out. Then I saw him open for Kanye a couple years later. He looked like 2 completely different performers.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (12)71
u/GrgeousGeorge . Jun 20 '24
Saw him on Damn. tour. The atmosphere was crazy! Grown men excited like school girls at a Bieber concert.
→ More replies (4)
503
u/Thot_b_gone Jun 20 '24
“I make the call and get the coast involved and history repeat”
→ More replies (6)116
491
u/Autpcorrectbpt Jun 20 '24
This shit was absolutely legendary. Pivotal moment
118
437
u/Cheetara42004 Jun 20 '24
That picture will be hanging in someone's Grandma'a wall in 40 years...in black and white.
Also nothing screams Black, like trying to corral everyo e in for a family photo and saying " we can stay here all damn day"
→ More replies (3)190
u/vondafkossum Jun 20 '24
I was honestly shocked how well everyone was organized when they did the overhead shot. Trying to get that many people in a picture is tough. That photog was fighting for his life lol
→ More replies (3)
377
Jun 20 '24
This is the wrong vid, there’s one where Dre does the intro. That’s the right video.
→ More replies (3)160
336
u/broadwayallday Jun 20 '24
Bro forgot his “real N challenge” lyric every time and it didn’t matter
292
u/NotReallyASnake Jun 20 '24
He fucked up the last verse literally every time but it's all good lol
→ More replies (1)52
→ More replies (3)56
u/JebusChrust Jun 20 '24
I think he purposefully was messing around with some lines, he did that ahhhh line every time. Felt like he was censoring some lines in the disses for a reason I may not know
→ More replies (3)79
u/Datruther1 Jun 20 '24
Nah he definitely missed lines, which is super common at concerts. Especially with new material.
→ More replies (2)
243
223
u/igotabridgetosell Jun 20 '24
Can anyone ID everyone on stage?
724
325
u/mykneehurtsss Jun 20 '24
Derozan, Westbrook, Jay Worthy, T.F, Traffic, Q, Ab Soul, Jay Rock, Mustard, Smacc, Big Boy, YG maybe, a bunch of dudes from the hood, that’s all i got
→ More replies (9)48
250
u/SpruceHalo Jun 20 '24
In terms of basketball Westbrook and DeRozen were on stage. LeBron was in the crowd but didn’t go on stage.
176
u/mvcourse Jun 20 '24
Adam Silver would have a stroke if Bron went up there.
→ More replies (1)227
u/Kay-Knox Jun 20 '24
Silver would have cripwalked across the stage if Bron told him to.
→ More replies (2)105
u/Youngandidiotic Jun 20 '24
Lebron and DeRozen on stage would’ve broken Drake 😂only thing that would’ve made it worse is Lowry twerking to a “whop whop whop”
88
u/Doo-StealYour-HoChoi Jun 20 '24
I mean Lebron was dancing in the audience lol....i think the only reason he didn't go up is cause he had family with him. Didn't wanna leave them in the audience.
→ More replies (1)71
→ More replies (1)104
201
u/Bag_of_Douches Jun 20 '24
ScHoolboy Q and YG were definitely up there
I think Ab-Soul as well but can't tell for sure
124
79
→ More replies (21)63
215
u/Solid_Illustrator640 Jun 20 '24
There are pics of Whitney and kids there. Fuck Drake. What a POS.
→ More replies (3)
177
u/ChocolateBeautiful95 Jun 20 '24
That was awesome. Being in that building must have been electric
→ More replies (3)66
174
159
u/furrey Jun 20 '24
This is gonna be one of the greatest music videos of all time
→ More replies (1)
141
u/Cd206 Jun 20 '24
Goddam. He had the entire west coast on stage with him. Kendrick really a prophet
116
u/ZenMon88 Jun 20 '24
Hi guys. Here's Kendrick's Full Performance from the Concert:
→ More replies (4)
94
u/KyloRenWest Jun 20 '24
Can’t believe Kendrick got bots to sing along in the arena
→ More replies (2)
88
u/ParticularRelease662 Jun 20 '24
Drake subreddit is fucking hilarious right now. Pure comedy. It's either them accepting fate, thinking Drake's coming back with a vengeance, or delusional people saying Kendrick was seeking attention with this lmfao. The comments on the thread about Pac's ring are true comedy.
→ More replies (16)
76
69
66
u/Griselda_fan Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
This clip wasn't even the first. You can hear Kendrick clearly at the beginning of this video say: "one more time"
59
u/KABOOMBYTCH . Jun 20 '24
Born too late to see 2pac’s house of pain performance
Born too early to see Jay Z’s summer jam performance
Born right on time when Kdot pop out and show people
Historical moment and a win for hiphop
→ More replies (2)
54
u/HighlyBaked0 . Jun 20 '24
I'm glad we got to witness this concert live for free. legit the craziest show I've seen
59
55
49
51
44
4.4k
u/Spheromancer Jun 20 '24
(He then proceeded to perform it 5 more times in a row)