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"Not Like Us" is a "club-friendly" West Coast hip-hop track with strong hyphy stylings. [10]Several elements of its production, including the "stirring" violins, piano and brass instruments, were taken from samples of Monk Higgins's 1968 rendition of "I Believe to My Soul", a cover of Ray Charles's 1961 composition. [11]
Kendrick Lamar refrained from rapping some of the more explicit lyrics in his chart-topping Drake diss “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl — but that didn’t stop the crowd from filling them in.
For the video he shot in his hometown of Compton, Lamar took home the Grammy for music video. Fellow rappers Eminem and ASAP Rocky were nominated for “Houdini” and “Tailor Swif.”
Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mission: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of ...
When they were teenagers, they relocated to Compton in 1984, due to his father's affiliation with the Gangster Disciples. [3] Lamar was named after singer-songwriter Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations. [4] He was an only child until the age of seven and was described as a loner by his mother.
The original repeated ending line "Tell 'em we don't die, we multiply" has been viewed as a reference to the movie Bebe's Kids (1992) [5] [1] and the N.W.A song "Real Niggaz Don't Die" (1991). [6] This line was removed on the official release, with Consequence reasoning that this was to make the "solution remain vague".
Kendrick Lamar’s streams for his culture-dominating 2024 song “Not Like Us” soared some 430% on Spotify in the hours after his halftime performance during the Super Bowl on Sunday night, and ...
One Shot received mixed reviews from critics. It has a 59% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews, with an average score of 5.3/10. [5]Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Still, director James Nunn’s reunion with star Scott Adkins does effectively use that device to heighten immediacy in an effort that may not transcend their usual B-grade ...