Kendrick Lamar has embraced his eccentric side in a Chanel photoshoot highlighting “ambassadors and friends of the house” in honor of this year’s Met Gala.
The annual star-studded fashion event was larger than ever. In honor of the late designer and former creative director for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, celebrities wore their finest gowns (and suits) to honor the legendary fashion icon.
Kendrick Lamar, along with legendary model Naomi Campbell, actor Margaret Qualley, and South Korean pop star, Jennie Kim were among those named as this year’s “ambassadors and friends of the house.” Chanel celebrated the moment with group portraits of the stars on Instagram Tuesday (May 2).
In the photos, the girls give their chicest poses, but at first Lamar offers a very wide (and slightly creepy) smile, revealing his diamond-studded tooth. As for the second flick, however, the rapper decided to give the appearance a dapper touch.
In related news, Kendrick Lamar recently broke Drake’s tour record with his Big Steppers Tour, which has grossed over $100million.
According to Touring Data, K. Dot’s Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour by a rapper as a headlining act in history. It earned $110.9million from 929,000 tickets across 73 shows.
This puts K. Dot ahead of Drake and Migos‘ Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour, Drake and Future‘s Summer Sixteen Tour, Kanye West and JAY-Z‘s Watch the Throne Tour, and his own DAMN. Tour, as well as Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Tour.
The Big Steppers Tour began in July 2022 following the release of Kendrick’s long-awaited fifth album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and ended that September.
With support from pgLang protégés Baby Keem and Tanna Leone, the tour initially toured North America, then proceeded to Europe and Australia.
Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free and Mike Carson were creative directors for the tour, with actor Helen Mirren narrating. The setlist included songs from Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, as well as Kendrick’s previous albums good kid, m.A.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly and DAMN.
Kendrick’s $110.9million earnings put him ahead of Drake and Migos by a wide margin, with their Aubrey and The Three Migos Tour reportedly grossing $79million in 2018 from a total of 678,410 tickets sold across 43 dates.
Drizzy reportedly took home $47million, while Migos’ Quavo, TakeOff and Offset split the remaining $24.5million
Chanel and Kendrick Lamar “don’t mix like two dicks”….
Well this new generation is all about mixing dicks if you didn’t get the memo already….
Kendrick a fake one. Remember this man used to praise Pac. Now he only doing commercial crap and doing nothing for revolution. You should be a role model not a fashion model
And what the hell are you doing for the community besides being up in other people’s business? Get a job, hoe!
Kendrick ended up becoming one of the biggest disappointments in hiphop. Loved 2009 to 2013 or so. Tpab was solid, just not my style. Damn sucks IMO. I don’t even remember the name of his most recent album because I instantly disliked it on first listen. So sad. In 2009, to around 2012 or so, kendrick just rapped over dope hiphop beats. Back when black hippy would just throw on a solid old-school beat and spit. Now any collabs they’ve done are all for the radio.
“If you like my old shit, listen to my old shit” – Jay Z
Pseudo deep rappers. They all queer. Gala priest…look it up. Divine feminine worshippers.
Gala priest. Look it up. They all comprised.
Kendrick ain’t hurting anyone besides his fans and the wokey wokes, boy they must be butt hurt. Rap is fools gold to it’s demographic… people heap twenty somethings onto a pedestal like they will always be the same, and as if their word is gospel. Best thing is not to make this your culture