Kendrick Lamar Delivers ‘Not Like Us’ Video Full Of Easter Eggs
Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us” video clip has at last been released and the new visual features a number of easter eggs pointing back to Drake‘s diss lyrics.
The movie was unveiled Thursday evening (July 4) and amassed about 2 million YouTube views inside just one hour. Ahead of heading into the strike one, the previous TDE rapper teases what may well be a new tune, rapping just six new bars.
In addition to the scenes filmed in Compton just days after Lamar’s historic Juneteenth reside overall performance in Inglewood, the clip finds the rapper beating a piñata shaped like the head of an owl as completely as a scene in which his spouse Whitney Alford and the couple’s two little kids dance along.
And as a ultimate contact once more to Drake’s accusations against Kendrick all via their 10-music substantial back and forth, Dave Totally totally free serves as the video’s co-director alongside his pgLang husband or wife.
K. Dot filmed the visible for his chart-topping Drizzy diss in his hometown of Compton late earlier thirty day period, bringing out an army of mates, collaborators and locals for the shoot.
Several hours in advance of releasing the formal “Not Like Us” audio video, Kendrick Lamar teased some of the imagery from the clip with a handful of pics that created their way on line on Thursday morning.
The photographs bundled the especially spicy image of Kendrick hitting an owl piñata, a nod to Drake’s OVO brand. The pgLang rapper seems in but an additional image up coming to his fiancée Whitney Alford and two small ones, an clear act of defiance quickly just after the 6 God dragged his household into the beef.
On “Family Issues,” Drake accused Kendrick of beating his longtime spouse and proposed that 1 of the couple’s small ones primarily belongs to Lamar’s manager Dave Free.
A fourth image displays Kendrick posted up in the hood along with his former TDE spouse and kids such as label founder Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul, as appropriately as presidents Terrence “Punch” Henderson and Anthony “Moosa” Tiffith Jr.
“Not Like Us” producer Mustard was also spotted at the film shoot donning a Toronto Blue Jays cap, sparking speculation that he, as well, was trolling Drake.
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In an job interview with Huge Boy, nonetheless, the multi-platinum producer denied the assert, saying: “I wasn’t trolling. I actually wasn’t trolling. I bought a lot of hats that I like. I bought an STL hat, an Angels hat, a Braves hat. I put Religion of a Mustard Seed [the title of his new album] on all of them.
“I sweated out two of my hats at ‘Pop Out’ [Kendrick Lamar’s Inglewood concert] and that was the final hat that I had with Faith of a Mustard Seed on it. It just occurred to be a Toronto Blue Jays hat.”
Mustard also discussed that the cap was a nod to Baldwin Village, the infamous South Los Angeles neighborhood acknowledged as “the Jungles” in which he grew up.
