Dr. Dre came through Kendrick Lamar’s “Pop Out” concert and delivered the instantly iconic “dead people” intro to K.Dot’s Drake diss “Not Like Us.”
Kendrick brought Dre onstage during his Wednesday (June 19) show, and then asked: “You ain’t gonna say nothing else before we continue to party?”
The N.W.A legend responded with: “Yeah, okay. I’m just gonna need a moment of silence for this one.”
He then introduced Kendrick Lamar’s diss song with its intro: “Pssst. I see dead people.”
Before helping the “Money Trees” rapper launch into his latest hit, Dr. Dre ran through other hits “Still D.R.E.” and 2Pac‘s “California Love.”
Check out the clips below.
.@drdre says @kendricklamar is "one of greatest that's ever did it" 🙌 #ThePopOut pic.twitter.com/6Avi2P5qst
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) June 20, 2024
.@drdre & @kendricklamar performing "Still D.R.E." 🎤🔥 #ThePopOut pic.twitter.com/g2rfe35PqJ
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) June 20, 2024
.@kendricklamar performed "Not Like Us" 5 times in a row 🤯 @drdre #ThePopOut pic.twitter.com/YE1Gdrkhez
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) June 20, 2024
Kendrick Lamar references the 1999 film The Sixth Sense with the intro for “Not Like Us,” whispering the same words that the movie’s young protagonist, played by Haley Joel Osment, shares with his therapist during the movie’s climactic moment.
The allusion is a notable Kendrick bit, in the sense that K.Dot also referenced the film and its star actor on his first Drake diss, “Euphoria.”
Digging a bit deeper, fellow West Coast rapper The Game kicked off his 2006 diss track towards 50 Cent, “It’s Okay (One Blood),” by whispering: “Dre, I see dead people.”
Lastly, Kendrick Lamar’s use of “psst” carries on from his closing lines of “Euphoria”: “If you take it there, I’m takin’ it further/ Psst, that’s something you don’t wanna do.”
The “Pop Up” concert put the stamp on a remarkable battle between Kendrick and Drizzy — a beef that was recently declared “great” for Hip Hop by LL COOL J, who also said that K.Dot definitely won.
Appearing on The Bootleg Kev Podcast in an episode published earlier this week, Cool James – who knows a thing or two about rap beefs – shared his thoughts on the infamous feud.
“I thought it was great for Hip Hop,” he told Bootleg Kev. “I thought it was the right thing. I thought they both did well, they held their own. I thought that Kendrick won, but I thought that Drake by no means did he embarrass himself or have anything to hold his head down about.
“He did his thing, he showed up and I think his fans can feel comfortable wit that. […] The key to that stuff is as a long as it doesn’t distract you from your ultimate goal, it’s a wonderful thing to participate in. I love it.”
Ĺol…that shits gotta hurT
you gone stay in that toilet til we flush you down
Funny how dre still has no no.1 albums. Ross has some, Jay z has many, even weak ass nas had a few but dre STILL has no no.1 albums
Give it a rest gay greg. Drake isn’t gonna bang you
how many dudes have called a drake a homo for how long from game on up? go slob a knob ya fuckin fraud
how many dudes have called a DR DRE a worthless homo for how long from game on up? go slob a knob ya fuckin fraud – fuck your auto type bs
great greg is punching the air right now
it’s good to see who the homos are. jeru warned us of the frauds derek x never understood their ways never ran with gays. these dudes beat up their girlfriends then freak each other off back stage. easier to just be on the right side of things from jump. you mfs dead for real. career done
This is actually a really dope post from Greg. Dude knows his shit. LMAO.
gay greg foaming at the mouth rn hahahha
this is a coward culture and they think they have an easy mark. they will be fucked over and publicly defeated and their empire will lay in complete ruins. they will burn down to the ground. no honor period.
The irony of this was all of those white people in the audience at a Juneteenth concert with the biggest Sambo of all Dre, who just divorced his Karen a couple of years ago after she took half talking about they’re not like us, lol. SMH. A whole concert dedicated to dissing a dude? This was one of the lamer moments in hip hop history, and we have quite a few contenders.
Another L for Drake. Love to see it
One Blood is not a diss track to 50 Cent. How is a Hip Hop website this uneducated?
Everyone agrees with you 100 percent but you should know by now THIS IS NOT A HIP HOP SITE DESPITE HAVING HIP HOP IN ITS TITLE. IT’S A LAUGHABLE, EMBARRASSING, PATHETIC, CRINGY, CORNY, NON-CREDIBLE Z LIST GOSSIP DUMPSTER FIRE RAN BY A SUPER SLOW, CRINGY, CORNY, PATHETIC, EMBARRASSING, LAUGHABLE, WANNABE,PRETENDING, GARBAGE, RETARDED DUNCE CAP D/X SHIT STAFF WHO HAVE A COMBINED IQ OF 89.
Pac didn’t fuck with DRE at the end
He didn’t fuck with him at the end or before that either. Quite the thing that he’s out there talking about Pac when he has shouted out Puffy since Pac was telling him that they were trying to kill him. It’s all disingenuous to try to rally around that dead man when all of them regularly disrespect him and don’t say shit when dudes like Funk Flex or Wack 100 shit on him constantly. But AI Pac and buying the ring went too far. FOH.
This is all corny and wack. It cannot be denied that hiphop is dead. There’s no passion, no direction, no message, no purpose, no creativity, no originality. It’s just a bunch of art-school nerds fighting for attention from hapless fans that can’t pay attention for more than 20 seconds.
“Masterfully” lmaoooo. Will the mega pathetic fruity Scooby you’re without doubt 1 of the corniest clowns on Earth. Go drink a gallon of Clorox I can guarantee you with 100 percent certainty you wont be missed.
the entire state of california can eat shit fuck los angeles and fuck dre the wife beating clown