When Kendrick Lamar and Sza went on stage at the New Jersey Metlife stadium during the last judgment of their big national tour, the combined power of the duo was one thing to see (not to mention a major argument for the Always wild cost of a concert ticket).
But there is another superstar whose name does not appear on the poster whose presence is felt throughout the show. And if you have paid attention to pop culture in the past year, you already know who I am referring to.
Drake is suspended like a Wraith during the big national tour, his very unfinished company on Earth. Lamar ensures that: instead of letting their rap beef get stingy, he makes two of his entire explosive drake traces (“Euphoria” and “Not Like Us”) in addition to his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin “, like that,” who was responsible for the reactivity of the quarrel in the first place. (For his part, Sza sings “Rich Baby Daddy”, a collaboration with Drake from 2023, but erases Drake’s contributions from his performance. The Shade!)
These cries of musical war are punctuated by fireworks, showers of sparks and plumes of fire that broke out of the scene with revenge. Lamar’s production choices assume that his audience will rally behind him as a “greatest hateful” in the music industry, and Thursday, this hypothesis paid generously: the crowd of more than 50,000 people was too impatient to sing and revel in bloodshed.
Some of the noisiest lines of the evening in the crowd were specific insults in Drake, including the incredulous Lamar, “What is it, the braids?” From “Euphoria” and, of course, the notorious “not like us” rallying cry: “Tryna hits an agreement, and it’s probably a minor”.
The latter was the last solo track that Lamar made – an emphatic final and hard won. During the third verse from Lamar, a mini history lesson that surfers Drake a “colonizer”, my friend turned to me and impassive, “this man is finished.”
Kendrick Lamar at the Grand National Tour. Black Greg / PGLANG
While “Not Like Us” can still be appreciated as a full -fledged banger (shoutout to the producer of Lamar, Mustard, for this indelible instrumental), making its traces dissolved a cornerstone of its list of sets, Lamar guarantees that its triumph over Drake remains in the lead.
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A full year after the release of Drake from Drake and Lamar was crowned Victor by fans and criticism, Lamar cooked this beef in his mythology as an artist. It was not enough to win – he wants to be known forever as the winner.
Even in the face of legal threats, Lamar did not decide. In fact, the trial that Drake brought against their shared record company, which Universal Music Group recently moved, has probably only only bait Lamar’s taunts.
The Grand National Tour is threaded with video interludes, many of which represent Lamar in a deposit simulation. He groves when the out -of -camera interviewer accuses him of being “addicted to attention” and asks him if his hardest words should be considered threats. “Anything you want to take it,” says Lamar.
In another clip, Lamar is invited to report on where he was on May 4, 2024, the day he unleashed “not like us”. Lamar shakes his head, Protestant that he has too much to remember the specific dates, bringing his point of view even further – that his domination has no beginning of the plottable or predictable end.
“Not like US” was celebrated by fans as a musical death stroke, but even if Lamar’s enemies are metaphorically dead, he will work to keep their memory alive. There is no rest for the bad guys.
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