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Kendrick Lamar Brings 25 L.A. Artists Together for Juneteenth Show, Playing Drake Diss Track “Not Like Us” Five Times

“I promise this won’t be the last of us,” Lamar said as a group photo — featuring stars Dr. Dre, Schoolboy Q and Tyler, the Creator — captured the Los Angeles show's historic moment on Wednesday.

Kendrick Lamar may have begun his set during Wednesday evening’s Ken & Friends – the Pop Out with a performance of “Euphoria”— one of multiple diss tracks the Compton lyricist has aimed at Drake amid their recent rap beef — but the focus of the Juneteenth event was to showcase unity among West Coast talent, more than two dozen of whom made an appearance at the concert. During his set, Lamar reunited with Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock, with whom he’d formed the hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy under the Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) record label in 2008. Oh y’all ain’t gonna let nobody mock or imitate our legends, huh?” as he drew out one of the standout lyrics of the song, “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor” — a double entendre playing off of an earlier reference in the track that alleges Drake likes underage girls — with each refrain.

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