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Kendrick Lamar celebrated Juneteenth along with his highly-anticipated live performance, The Pop Out – Ken & Friends at a sold-out Kia Discussion board Area in Inglewood, California final night time (June 19).
The practically four-hour live performance kicked off with a set by DJ Hed, who introduced out a few of West Coast’s most interesting from Jason Martin (“Like Whaaat”) and Westside Boogie (“Silent Ride”) to Kalan.FrFr and G Perico (“Right Wit It”) and Ray Vaughn (“Problems”), and lots of extra.
Mustard adopted quickly after and blessed the stage with shock company together with Ty Dolla Signal (“Paranoid”), Dom Kennedy (“My Type Of Party”, “When I Come Around”), Steve Lacy (“Static”, “Bad Habit”), Tyler The Creator (“WusYaName”, “Earfquake”), Roddy Ricch (“Racks In The Middle”, “Die Young,” “The Box,” “Ballin’”), YG (“BPT”, “My Nigga”), and extra.
The man of the hour, Kendrick Lamar lastly graced the stage for an epic set stuffed with hits working via his catalogue starting with a stay debut of “Euphoria”, considered one of his Drake diss-records. From there, Kung Fu Kenny segued into his “DNA.”, “ELEMENT.”, “Alright”, “Swimming Pools (Drank)”, “King Kunta”, “m.A.A.d city”, and lots of extra.
His Black Hippy crew quickly joined Ok.Dot on stage together with ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, and Ab-Soul who assisted on the stay debut of “6:16 In LA”, his second Drake-diss file of the night. Kendrick additionally gave a stay debut efficiency of his verse from Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That”.
Kendrick paid homage to the legends of the West by bringing out Dr. Dre, who carried out “Still D.R.E.”, and “California Love”. The Doc helped Kenny usher in a stay debut efficiency of the third Drake-diss file of the night, “Not Like Us”.
Kendrick taunted his nemesis by performing the file 5 occasions straight and introduced out plethora of superstar attendees, earlier performers, and extra on stage. As his “Not Like Us” performances continued, the Compton rapper additionally introduced chosen people from the group and preached unity inside the group and posed for an epic picture opp.
“Let the world see this,” mentioned Kendrick in entrance of over 17,000 in attendance. “For all of us to be on this stage collectively, unity, from Eastside, LA, Crips, Bloods, Piru. That is particular, man. We put this collectively only for ya’ll.
Kendrick continued, “This ain’t got nothing to do with no song at this point. Ain’t got nothing to do with no back and forth records. It’s got everything to do with this moment right here. That’s what this was about. To bring all of us together.”
The Pop Out – Ken & Friends was streamed stay on-line via Prime Video and the Amazon Music Twitch channel.
Photograph: Armen Keleshian
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