Highlights/Reactions To Kendrick Lamar’s Juneteenth Concert

The world watched final night time (June nineteenth) as Kendrick Lamar carried out for the primary time since his public feud with Drake. Click on inside to see how everybody reacted to the epic night time!

Until you reside beneath a rock, you understand that for the higher a part of the previous two months, the hip hop group has been enthralled with the meat between rap giants Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The 2 Grammy award-winners traded scathing photographs backwards and forwards for nearly a month and left followers on either side defending their goats. After a lot debate, public opinion topped Kendrick the winner, particularly after the discharge of the monitor “Not Like Us.” The DJ Mustard produced track hit primary on the Billboard Scorching 100 upon its launch and continues to be at present quantity six. As soon as the meat died down a bit, followers started to marvel what can be subsequent. A video? A remix? Each?

As a substitute, Kendrick, who simply celebrated his thirty seventh birthday (June seventeenth), blessed his followers with one thing a lot better. Two weeks in the past, he introduced that he can be placing on a one-off live performance entitled The Pop Out – Ken and Pals in Los Angeles on Juneteenth. Unsurprisingly, virtually as quickly as tickets for The Pop Out launched, they bought out. Naturally, the demand for tickets was so excessive that everybody wasn’t capable of buy them. For all of those that weren’t fortunate sufficient to grab up tickets to attend in individual, the live performance additionally live-streamed on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch. Even earlier than followers stepped into The Discussion board, the ambiance at The Pop Out, which was offered by pgLang and Free Lunch, was electrical. It was a celebration outdoors as followers waited for doorways to open. Whereas individuals waited round, there have been a number of merchandise stands, meals and beverage stations and photograph ops for them to hit up. On prime of that, courtesy of HeadCount, there was a voter registration station, encouraging attendees to vote in November.

As entertained as followers may’ve been outdoors, it was nothing in comparison with the present they had been blessed with as soon as they stepped inside The Discussion board. The extremely anticipated live performance started with a set from Actual 92.3 FM’s DJ Hed. He introduced out a mess of established and up and coming West Coast artists together with Remble, Westside Boogie, Kalan.Frfr, BlueBucksClan, CUZZOS, Bino Rideaux and plenty of extra. Legendary Compton, California dancer Tommy the Clown even stepped out to take followers down reminiscence lane with a particular efficiency alongside his TSquad dancers. Hed’s set was an excellent introduction to among the rising expertise in California and an ideal warmup for what went on to be an absolute epic night time.

The live performance was titled The Pop Out, which was a play on one of many lyrics in “Not Like Us.” What higher solution to proceed the night time than by having the producer of the smash hit grace the stage? That’s proper. DJ Mustard was subsequent to affect the gang with an impeccable set. Along with taking part in a few of his personal greatest hits, the Los Angeles native used his star energy to convey out among the celebrity artists he’s labored with all through his illustrious profession. Earlier than Mustard exited the stage, West Coast staples Ty Dolla $ign, Dom Kennedy, YG and Roddy Ricch and extra carried out a few of their large slaps in entrance of a packed home. The roof of the constructing virtually blew off when Tyler, The Creator stunned everybody and blazed the stage. In one of the heartwarming moments of the night time, Mustard paid tribute to the late legendary rapper Nipsey Hussle. He had followers in attendance elevate their telephones and switch their digicam lights on whereas he performed three of Nip’s songs.

Even when the present ended after Mustard’s set, it could’ve been thought-about traditional. Fortunately, the principle occasion was nonetheless on deck. After a short intermission, the person of the hour popped out from the underside of the stage and began his present in a means that solely he may. The primary track in Kendrick’s set was his six minute 24 second Drake diss monitor, “Euphoria.” The gang rapped the entire track phrase for phrase as Kendrick set the tone for what the remainder of his efficiency can be like. After the exhilarating introduction, Cornrow Kenny carried out a plethora of his classics together with, “DNA,” “Factor,” “Alright,” “Swimming Swimming pools” and extra. Nostalgia hit an all-time excessive when Kendrick introduced out Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q to carry out a few of their greatest tracks collectively. The reunion was really particular second because it marked the primary time Black Hippy has been seen collectively since Kendrick left TDE (High Dawg Leisure) in 2022. After Kendrick dipped into his catalog to carry out some extra of his timeless bangers and his controversial “Like That” verse, he introduced out one in every of his mentors and one of many West’s most legendary musicians, Dr. Dre. To the delight of the gang, Dre carried out the simple traditional tracks “Nonetheless D.R.E” and “California Love” with help from Kendrick. 

As Dre was about to exit the stage, Kendrick questioned if he was going to say anything earlier than they continued the celebration. This prompted Dre to stroll again, quiet the gang and whisper “I see useless individuals” into the mic. Each single individual within the crowd and watching at dwelling knew precisely what that meant. For the primary time ever, Kendrick started performing the track of the summer time. The gang utterly exploded as they screamed the lyrics to the track on the prime of their lungs. The track’s affect develop into an increasing number of obvious as Kendrick carried out it 4 extra instances. Every time the monitor restarted, it appeared as if the gang received louder and louder. Probably the most impactful factor that passed off throughout the entire night time occurred earlier than the fifth efficiency of the chart-topping diss monitor. Kendrick introduced up all the artists who had carried out all through the night time (no matter their gang affiliations) and received them to take an image collectively on stage. “Allow them to see this. We put this along with peace.” Kendrick mentioned to the gang. After the image, it appeared as if the entire West Coast music scene was on the stage performing “Not Like Us” in one of the stunning and essential moments in latest hip hop historical past.

The Pop Out – Ken and Pals gave the impression to be a victory lap for Kendrick and a a lot wanted uniter for the West Coast and the town of Los Angeles in particular. All through the present and after, followers couldn’t assist however to chime in and provides their opinions of the night time, Kendrick, Drake and every thing in between. Scroll down to take a look at among the reactions to the most important live performance of the 12 months to date!