Kendrick Lamar continues to taunt Drake in his “Not Like Us” music video, judging by early photos of the shoot.
K. Dot filmed the visual for his chart-topping Drizzy diss in his hometown of Compton late last month, bringing out an army of friends, collaborators and locals for the shoot.
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Fans have now been given a first glimpse at the finished product thanks to pictures that surfaced on social media, including a particularly spicy image of Kendrick hitting an owl piñata, a nod to Drake’s OVO logo.
The pgLang rapper appears in another photo next to his fiancée Whitney Alford and two children, an apparent act of defiance after the 6 God dragged his family into the beef.
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On “Family Matters,” Drake accused Kendrick of beating his longtime partner and suggested that one of the couple’s kids actually belongs to Lamar’s manager Dave Free.
A fourth picture shows Kendrick posted up in the hood alongside his former TDE family including label founder Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul, as well as presidents Terrence “Punch” Henderson and Anthony “Moosa” Tiffith Jr.
“Not Like Us” producer Mustard was also spotted at the video shoot wearing a Toronto Blue Jays cap, sparking speculation that he, too, was trolling Drake.
In an interview with Big Boy, however, the multi-platinum producer denied the claim, saying: “I wasn’t trolling. I really wasn’t trolling. I bought a lot of hats that I like. I bought an STL hat, an Angels hat, a Braves hat. I put Faith of a Mustard Seed [the title of his new album] on all of them.
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“I sweated out two of my hats at ‘Pop Out’ [Kendrick Lamar’s Inglewood concert] and that was the last hat that I had with Faith of a Mustard Seed on it. It just happened to be a Toronto Blue Jays hat.”
Mustard also explained that the cap was a nod to Baldwin Village, the notorious South Los Angeles neighborhood known as “the Jungles” where he grew up.
“I grew up in the Jungles, we all wear that hat,” he said. “I mean, I wear the NY hat — that’s Nip’s hat, the neighborhoods. Our hats mean a lot of different things so I never thought that much into it like, ‘Oh, I’m tryna troll y’all.’
“If I was on that, then I woulda probably wacked the Blue Jay off and put an X between it. I wasn’t on that, though.”
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A release date for the “Not Like Us” video has yet to be announced, although it appears to be dropping soon.
