Kendrick Lamar marked Juneteenth with a concert celebrating West Coast rap — and a new round of lyrical jabs at Drake.
K-Dot fired off hit after hit during his one-night only “The Pop Out: Ken & Friends” show at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California on Wednesday night.
The Grammy-winning rapper brought out a slew of his friends, including YG, Roddy Ricch, Steve Lacy, Ty Dolla $ign, Tyler, the Creator, Dr. Dre and more.
The concert streamed on Prime Video and the Amazon Music Twitch channel, and marked Kendrick’s first live set since this year’s rap feud with Drake.
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Kendrick took several shots at Drake with the diss track “Euphoria,” then he ran through some of his other hits, including “M.A.A.D City,” “Be Humble,” and “DNA.”
L.A.’s DJ Hed of Real 92.3 FM and a group of local Southern California artists opened the show.
At the end of the night, Kendrick welcomed Dr. Dre to the stage and the two performed “Still D.R.E.” and “California Love.”
Dr. Dre called for a “moment of silence” as he introduced the Drake diss track “Not Like Us.”
With DJ Mustard on the beat, Kendrick turned in a high energy performance of the single and the hometown crowd recited the lyrics.
The Compton rapper wasn’t done with his Canadian rival. The other artists returned to the stage, and helped Kendrick perform “Not Like Us” a total of five times.
K-Dot ended the show by having all of the night’s performers pose for a group photo. He said some of them were from rival street gangs, but they came together in “peace.”
“Let the world see this,” Kendrick said. “This is unity at its finest. Inglewood, California, y’all did this. Los Angeles, y’all did this!”
He added, “We done lost a lot of homies to this music sh-t, to this street sh-t. For all of us to be together on stage, that sh-t is special.”
Watch Kendrick Lamar perform “Not Like Us” below:
This video is 9 minutes of madness ?
"Not Like Us" is LA's new anthem. pic.twitter.com/e0BhJRSJKp
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