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Social media is ABLAZE over Kendrick Lamar’s now-legendary ‘The Pop Out: Ken & Friends‘ show on Juneteenth that brought out everybody from Dr. Dre to LeBron James for a monumental night that will reverberate though Hip-Hop history forever.
Nah but the real MVP was our camera person WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP. pic.twitter.com/8mgcM9HJZN
— Amazon Music (@amazonmusic) June 20, 2024
Live-streamed on the Amazon Music channel, Twitch, and Prime Video, the sold out show featured performances from YG, 310babii, Blxst, Ty Dolla $, Dom Kennedy, Steve Lacy, Tyler The Creator, Roddy Rich, and many more.
Part 2: pic.twitter.com/DlI7M3sdEX
— Rap301 (@Rap301_) June 20, 2024
Roddy Ricch Performing “The Box” At The Pop Out Ken & Friends Concert😮💨🔥 pic.twitter.com/CEOILfxe9K
— Rap301 (@Rap301_) June 20, 2024
Y MOTHA F*CKING G pic.twitter.com/6zG95vyuih
— Rap301 (@Rap301_) June 20, 2024
Moments later, Kenny reunited with his TDE fam Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock onstage and performed his “6:16 In LA” Drake diss before bringing out West coast legend Dr. Dre to join the celebration.
Dr. Dre performed “Still D.R.E” and “California Love” before commemorating the moment EVERYBODY was waiting for.
KENDRICK LAMAR X DR. DRE
STILL D.R.E. pic.twitter.com/BZBZOmLW2S
— Rap301 (@Rap301_) June 20, 2024
In thee moment of all moments, Kendrick blew the roof off the Kia Forum with his first-ever performance of “Not Like Us” that sent the whole entire internet into a FRENZY.
“Hello 911, he keeps playing that song” #NotLikeUs pic.twitter.com/fiEeXQpfbO
— Mister Morris (@mistermorris55) June 20, 2024
Not only did Kendrick perform the diss for the first time, he did it at least SIX times just in case a certain Canadian didn’t hear it the first five times.
KENDRICK LAMAR🎙️
NOT LIKE US (2X)📀📀
LIVE🏟️ pic.twitter.com/Z28hPC3NKv
— Rap301 (@Rap301_) June 20, 2024
“Y’all ain’t gonna let anyone disrespect the West Coast or mock our legends” -Kendrick Lamar pic.twitter.com/iz6w01UrZt
— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) June 20, 2024
During the show’s finale, Kendrick celebrated the unity that Los Angeles showed on Juneteenth in a beautiful moment that showed why he’s one of the greatest to ever do it.
“Let the world see this, for all of us to be on this stage together, unity, from East side–LA, Crips, Bloods, Piru, this is special,” he said. “We put this together just for ya’ll.”
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