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Drake Pops Out At Michael Rubin’s White Party As Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Music Video Drops

July 5, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Drake had a much better Fourth of July than most of us, popping out for Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin’s White Party this week for a great time. Moreover, new footage of a “Sticky” and “Wants And Needs” performance with Lil Baby emerged online, plus a picture of him with Rubin. However, it’s still a bit unclear whether or not these new snaps are from this year or previous ones, as the 6ix God is a frequent guest at these parties, but most folks online seem to agree that these are all from 2024. Also, we do know that he got an official invite to the celebrations this year, so it all lines up.

Of course, there might have been something pretty big on Drake’s mind around 7PM Eastern time, when Kendrick Lamar dropped the “Not Like Us” music video. In it, Kendrick features his family and co-director Dave Free to clap back at Drizzy’s disses, locks up an owl in a cage, and parodies the “Family Matters” video at one point. It’s a massive moment that is garnering a lot of hype right now for its clean visuals and victory lap attitude. As such, fans are speculating wildly on how the Toronto superstar must feel about all this, but he was clearly distracted by a great party, so who knows?

Drake At Michael Rubin’s White Party

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Elsewhere in this beef’s post-conclusion run, Drake has been consistently trolling Kendrick Lamar and downplaying his disses and success, which we can’t say we blame him for. After all, he might feel pretty vindicated these days after some OVO fans attacked Rick Ross in Vancouver, Canada recently due to a scuffle with them. That whole situation is still unclear, but folks have their theories that Rozay was actually the instigator. Either way, it’s clear that not every battlefield will be a winning one for Kendrick.

But alas, hip-hop has spoken, and folks like LL Cool J think that Kendrick Lamar decidedly got the win over Drake here. “Kendrick won the battle. I mean, come on,” he recently expressed. “That’s obvious. That’s a no-brainer. And listen, I like Drake. I love his music, he’s a cool dude. We don’t know each other but I like his music. I’m happy for him and everything. Kendrick… that might have been a bad choice. I like him but Kendrick did his thing.”

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Kendrick Lamar Hits 3 Million Views On “Not Like Us” Music Video In Just 2 Hours

July 5, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Get ready for a whole lot more debate, discourse, and clap-backs, because the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef is not quite over yet. Moreover, K.Dot just dropped the highly anticipated “Not Like Us” music video, and to absolutely no one’s surprise, it blew up like a fake room full of fireworks on Fourth of July. In fact, it surpassed 3 million views in just about two hours, and 14 hours after its release, it’s currently sitting at 13 million views as of writing this article. Of course, the numbers aren’t everything, but the positive responses to this visual across the board indicates that it’s a pretty big hit with fans.

On the other hand, this is notable because of the many claims of stream botting and fake engagement that Kendrick Lamar fans and Drake fans have hit each other with over the course of this battle. However, a lot of the big conversations have been accusations from OVO to TDE. As such, the wild success of this “Not Like Us” music video comes with a potential asterisk next to it, although the proof behind these claims is questionable. Still, even without bots, it’s hard to imagine a world in which this wouldn’t cause a major splash, so what are we really fighting over here?

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Music Video Skyrockets On Impact

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Instead, most fans decided to point out some of their favorite moments and most relevant “attacks” in the “Not Like Us” music video. Chief among these discussion topics is easily the inclusion of Kendrick Lamar’s family, with his partner Whitney Alford and their two kids dancing together in an equal showing of wholesomeness and hateful trolling. Fans reacted quite excitedly to this due to Drake’s disses about the Compton lyricist’s family on tracks like “Family Matters.” Seems like a picture said more than a thousand words when it came to responding to these allegations.

Regardless, with a new song preview at the beginning, the big thing that the “Not Like Us” music video also achieved was a little bit more hope that we’ll get a Kendrick Lamar project this year. Many became delusional and thought it would drop last night, but alas, the world is not so perfect. So folks are waiting patiently on that, and to see what Drake has to say about all this. But there are so many cool moments with this visual treatment that will probably have fans rewinding for a while.

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Kendrick Lamar Strikes A Pose For New Chanel Ad As Fans Eagerly Await “Not Like Us” Music Video

July 4, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Whenever you see Kendrick Lamar pop out (rarely) at public events, there’s a good chance that he’s going to be rocking some Chanel. He’s already done a couple of ads, partnerships, and style collabs with the company, so it’s no surprise that he’s featured in another ad, posing casually with a black-and-white-striped shirt, pants, and a double-C beanie. Mr. Morale can wear whatever he wants: the real issue is something that a Twitter user replied under the post below. “Bro doing everything but dropping the music video,” they wrote in reference to the highly anticipated visuals for “Not Like Us.”

The West Coast-championing Drake diss is still at the top of the game, whether commercially, culturally, or critically. Some new photos from the upcoming music video see Kendrick Lamar bashing an OVO piñata, standing by his TDE brethren, and joining his wife Whitney Alford and their two children. This was the snapshot that really caught fans’ attention considering all the allegations that Drizzy made about Whitney and K.Dot’s family as a whole. Those were the main pieces of ammo against Kendrick, and it seems like he’s letting a picture speak a thousand words as his response to them.

Kendrick Lamar For Chanel

Elsewhere, the hip-hop community is keeping busy by debating who won between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, something we’ll probably do until the end of time. “Kendrick won the battle. I mean, come on,” LL Cool J expressed during a recent interview with Hot 97‘s TT Torrez. “That’s obvious. That’s a no-brainer. And listen, I like Drake. I love his music, he’s a cool dude. We don’t know each other but I like his music. I’m happy for him and everything. Kendrick… that might have been a bad choice. I like him but Kendrick did his thing.

“It was great for hip-hop culture, don’t get it twisted,” LL Cool J continued concerning Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s battle. “Both of their names will be etched in history because of it. Even us just talking about it now is etching it into history. Both of them are super talented, they both did great. It ain’t like Drake completely and utterly played himself.”

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Kendrick Lamar Quoted By Kamala Harris At BET Awards & Wins Best Male Hip-Hop Artist

July 1, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Kendrick Lamar hasn’t dropped an album in two years, he’s dropped very few features and very few singles… and yet a rap battle took him to the top. Moreover, he recently won Best Male Hip-Hop Artist at the 2024 BET Awards last night (Sunday, June 30) and got some additional shoutouts. The ceremony’s host, Taraji P. Henson, parodied the smash hit Drake diss “Not Like Us” at the very start of it, and even U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris quoted the song in a Joe Biden presidential campaign ad with Henson during the show. “The majority of us believe in freedom and equality. But these extremists, as they say, they not like us,” Harris remarked.

Overall, it’s a pretty curious homage while Kendrick Lamar’s beef ally Rick Ross faces the consequences of playing with Drake in his country. Award shows aren’t the definitive authority on the culture, but this certainly carries a bit more contextual weight than, say, the Grammys… someone go hand him one right now. Whether or not you think the Compton lyricist deserves this award with his limited material, he’s certainly earned it. As the perceived victor of the biggest pop culture event to happen in rap music in recent memory, it’s understandable that his dominance and astonishments took him far in this regard, and that political powers would want to capitalize on the moment and attempt to curry favor with audiences they often neglect with their policies.

Kamala Harris Quotes Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”

Kamala Harris just quoted Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” for a Joe Biden campaign ad with Taraji P. Henson during the 2024 #BETAwards

“…majority of us believe in freedom and equality, but these extremists, as they say, they not like us…”

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— SOUND (@itsavibe) July 1, 2024

Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar fans instead focused these days on his other Drake diss “6:16 In LA,” which got some very interesting recent theories. But “Not Like Us” continues to captivate and electrify. Of course, K.Dot has some more work to do with this beef, namely the Compton music video for this track that should drop any day now. Hopefully that’s his last move and he moves onto his next endeavor.

Meanwhile, Drake is still referencing the beef in trolling, mostly cheeky ways, but they don’t remove the shroud of bitterness and insecurity that many fans perceive. It’s clear that the whole Kendrick Lamar situation got to his head. Still, he just released new summer bops with Camila Cabello, so we’ll be right back to our regularly scheduled program in no time. Nevertheless, congrats to Kendrick on his BET dubs: he has the most wins in the Best Male Hip-Hop Artist category and nabbed it for the third year in a row in 2024.

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JasonMartin Divulges On Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” Music Video Shoot & Bobbi Althoff’s Compton Visit

June 24, 2024 by newhiphopnews

The hip-hop community can’t stop talking about Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming “Not Like Us” music video filmed in his home city of Compton. The media is hawking around the scene for any insight that they can find into the anticipated visuals. Moreover, TMZ recently called up “Pop Out” attendee and West Coast musician JasonMartin and asked about the shoot, as he was also there to witness the whole thing go down. He talked about what it meant for K.Dot and for the surrounding artists, and even chimed in briefly about Bobbi Althoff’s surprising Compton visit and supposed music video cameo. “For me and him… I know for him especially and myself, like, that neighborhood birthed us and raised us,” Martin’s remarks on Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” shoot began. “We’re from over there, Central and Rosecrans, Central and El Segundo.

“So to be out there with all our people, with all our people that watched us grow up,” JasonMartin continued about Kendrick Lamar. “For him to get the love and admiration that he deserves for what he’s doing, it was almost biblical. I have never felt that safe in my own community ever. And then to go to the Compton courthouse and to be at the top with every representation of street culture there at one time. And to never feel any tension is a new reality for us. We’ve been talking about it every day. For those that’s not from here, they won’t get it. Safety was a thing we always had to worry about. From each corner, every corner, there was some different type of mischief going on. To be able to walk around our city like that, knowing that nothing was going to happen.

Bobbi Althoff At Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Music Video Shoot In Compton

“I hope [change] continues, I know it will,” Jason Martin continued. “I mean, it feels like it. Just from talking to some brothers from different other areas. There’s been three to four different arenas of people that have truced up that have been warring for a long time. I think people like how it feels. I can’t say enough about Kendrick, man, I pray that it keeps going on. He said in the line: ‘if Pirus and Crips all got along, they’d probably gun be down by the end of the song’ [“m.A.A.d. city”]. But that has now changed. He got them to get along for longer than a week. It’s hands-down, he’s the king of hip-hop. Period. There’s no one bigger than Kendrick Lamar right now, there’s nobody bigger than him.

“And for him to take his biggest moment and decide to hand all of us the baton to be a part of it just shows you what real kings are supposed to do,” Jason Martin concluded. “I think [Bobbi Althoff] was there the day before shooting some stuff at Enterprise Park. I think it makes all the sense in the world. Why can’t white people come to Compton to have a good time and see what’s going on? I think everybody should be able to come to the city and come see what’s going on, man. We the new Hollywood, come check it out. You good. And I bet she had a great time, too. She felt at home. I feel like all races, all walks of life, should be able to come to our city and have a good time.”

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Kendrick Lamar & His Security Arrive At Compton City Hall For “Not Like Us” Music Video Shoot

June 23, 2024 by newhiphopnews

More and more clips are emerging of Kendrick Lamar’s time in Compton to shoot the “Not Like Us” music video, and they’re making fans even more hyped up. He and his security detail arrived at Compton’s City Hall to film another part of the visual treatment, and it’s unclear whether or not the shoot will continue this weekend or if they already got everything. Either way, we can’t remember the last time there was this much hype around a music video, but we’re glad to see it. Probably should’ve dropped it earlier in the song’s hype cycle, but we’re not complaining about the tardiness.

Furthermore, this also lines up with Kendrick Lamar’s “The Pop Out,” the Juneteenth L.A. show that has some people feeling mind-blown and others acting underwhelmed. For one, DJ Akademiks recently shared his opinion that both Drake and J. Cole have put on better concerts and multi-artist events in their cities than K.Dot. Given how different each show’s lineup, context, and intent is, it’s not really a shocker to claim any of them as your favorite or as the most significant one. Still, it feels like most folks just can’t find a balance between praising this as one of the greatest recent hip-hop moments or as a complete embarrassment and failure; it’s not that deep.

Kendrick Lamar Takes “Not Like Us” To Compton City Hall

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In addition, Kendrick Lamar’s alleged entourage has also provided some interesting insights and occasional tea-spilling when it comes to some narratives around his moves. For example, an alleged close friend spoke out against The Game and his statement on why he didn’t attend “The Pop Out.” The friend suggested that the Los Angeles MC displayed some disrespect and “had to choose his words carefully.” It’s all a mystery and very vague, but it will fade in time.

Meanwhile, the increased security presence at this music video shoot also caused some backlash, for reasons unknown to anyone with common sense. Whether or not Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” music video is a hit or a dud, it will probably (and hopefully) mark the end of his battle with Drake. Maybe things flare up again with a second match in the future, or there’s more to tussle over. But it seems unlikely that the Toronto superstar will bother to concern himself with this, and we hope both opponents move on already.

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Kendrick Lamar & His Security Arrive At Compton City Hall For “Not Like Us” Music Video Shoot

June 23, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Kendrick Lamar Takes “Not Like Us” To Compton City Hall

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Kendrick Lamar Invited Russell Westbrook and Demar DeRozan On Stage During “Not Like Us” Repeat Performance

June 20, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Kendrick Lamar left no stone unturned. The rapper put on a concert for the ages with his “Pop Out” show on Juneteenth. He had co-signs from legends, guest appearances from peers, and a handful of Drake disses that he performed for the very first time. “Not Like Us” was always going to be the closer. Dot made sure the fans got their money’s worth, though. The rapper performed the song five different times, and was joined by a few NBA superstars in the process.

Lamar’s smash single went off every time, but it was the fifth and final time that will go down as the show’s iconic moment. The rapper invited dozens of people onstage to help him bring the show home, which included NBA players Russell Westbrook and Demar DeRozan. Both players dapped up K. Dot, before dancing to the wildly catchy DJ Mustard beat. Westbrook and DeRozan also posed for the big group photo that was taken onstage at the very end of the “Pop Out.” Westbrook has been a longtime admirer of Lamar’s. Last month, he was filmed bobbing his head to another Lamar diss, “Euphoria.”

Kendrick Lamar Referenced DeRozan On “Not Like Us”

Westbrook also heaped praise on Kendrick Lamar when he was referenced in the rapper’s 2017 song “The Heart Part 4.” “K-Dot’s my man,” he told USA Sports. “I was surprised. I’m happy. Whenever you hear your name in a song you feel like ‘I made it’, especially from my man.” DeRozan, meanwhile, was mentioned by name on Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” “I’m glad DeRoz’ came home, y’all didn’t deserve him neither,” Dot spit. “From Alondra down to Central, n**ga better not speak on Serena.” This is a nod to the fact that DeRozan was born in Compton, but spent a decade on the Toronto Raptors, Drake’s hometown team. DeRozan’s Compton pride was on full display onstage.

Westbrook and DeRozan weren’t the only NBA stars who attended the “Pop Out” concert. James Harden was filmed dancing alongside another Drake enemy, Rick Ross. LeBron James was also photographed in the crowd. James was spotted dancing to “Not Like Us” at a Los Angeles club back in May, so it’s safe to assume he dug the repeat performances. All in all, a tough night to be team OVO.

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Drake Allegedly Disrespected In Streets Of Compton With Bloodied “BBL Drizzy” Mural

May 21, 2024 by newhiphopnews

It is no secret that Drake’s name is getting dragged through the mud and then some as of late. Most people have crowned Kendrick Lamar the winner, especially after “The Heart Part 6” was widely panned. With the diss tracks seemingly at a permanent halt, people are making sure to remind The Boy that he took a massive L. Metro Boomin has been an instigator, applauding Lil Wayne for spinning “Not Like Us” at a recent show. He even played his diss beat at a St. Louis Cardinals game the other night. The entire state of California has clearly showed who they believe has taken the W. That point has been hammered home, especially after a supposed sighting of a “BBL Drizzy” mural popping up in Compton.

This wall art was found by a user on X (formerly Twitter), and it is quite the “kick to the family jewels,” for lack of a better word. In the short clip below, it zooms in on a depiction of Drake all beaten up and bloody in a yellow tracksuit. Next to “BBL Drizzy” it says, “They not like us,” a clear reference to Lamar’s final diss. Then, the person behind the camera pans left, portraying Kendrick as one of his many aliases.

This Is Brutal For “BBL Drizzy”

a mural of “BBL Drake” beaten up appears reportedly in Compton pic.twitter.com/GQ4JeEquP6

— SOUND (@itsavibe) May 20, 2024

They decided to show him as Kung Fu Kenny essentially kicking the crap out of Drake. It is a real disrespectful way to literally paint him. To us, it conveys the utter hatred for the Canadian multi-hyphenate and it seems it is only growing. Even though the diss tracks are no more, this beef is far from over.

What are your thoughts on this “BBL Drizzy” mural popping up in Compton? Have you ever seen a rapper get this much hate thrown his/her way, why or why not? Who do you claim as the winner of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef? We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and their ongoing beef. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.

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Metro Boomin Coincidentally Posts Lil Wayne Track On IG After Clip From Weezy Concert Reveals “Not Like Us” Was Played At It

May 19, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Metro Boomin has continuously been on the front lines of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef. The decorated producer essentially rekindled the flame when he put out “Like That” a couple of months ago now. The record went onto spawn one of the most entertaining rap feuds in the genre’s history. At times, multiple diss records dropping on the same day. It seems that the dust is settling a bit, with fans pretty much declaring K-Dot as the winner. But Metro is seemingly still piling on Drake after “Not Like Us” was spun at a recent Lil Wayne concert.

A fan pulled up to a recent Weezy show, as evidenced by the clip from X below. In the 30-second video, it was revealed that the “Drake killshot” was being played before the Louisiana legend hit the stage. Of course, most people are aware that Wayne and Drizzy are extremely close. For that reason, it is quite shocking to see this. However, it seems that a DJ was just trying to get the crowd ready for the main event.

Metro Boomin Appears To Show Love To Lil Wayne

What is not surprising is that Metro Boomin was happy to see the Drake hate continue. It appears that the “BBL DRIZZY” producer saw the video because he coincidentally posted a Wayne track on his Instagram story. He reshared “Crazy,” off Da Drought 3 one his classic mixtapes. Who knows what Metro was actually up to, but we can only assume that it was to applaud Wayne.

What are your thoughts on Metro Boomin sharing a Lil Wayne song on his IG story after “Not Like Us” was played at a Weezy concert? What kind of message do you think Metro is sending here? How about Lil Wayne? Is “Not Like Us” the best diss track from the Drake beef, why or why not? We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Lil Wayne. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the world of music.

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