Dice Raw and his team claim Kendrick Lamar borrowed elements from Dice’s the last jimmy live play for his Grammy performance.
While Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Grammys on Monday (February 15) has garnered praise throughout the Hip Hop community, one artist in particular isn’t as enthused about the Compton rapper’s performance.
While speaking with Philly.com, Philadelphia musician Dice Raw spoke on the similarities between K-Dot’s Grammy performance and his live play, the last jimmy, which has been performed in Los Angeles and Philly. He said that while watching Kendrick, he began to spot more and more similarities, which he dubbed coincidence.
According to Dice, the response from his legal team and production crew was a little more heated.
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“I though Kendrick’s performance was good — I was watching/not watching — until I got a phone call asking me what I thought,” Dice Raw said while speaking with Philly.com. “Oh yeah, the prison thing. That’s a point. Then the gold cages onstage, yeah that’s another coincidence. Are those musicians in cages? OK. African dance in the middle of that montage — another coincidence, too. My legal team and the production crew behind the L.A. performance took to social media very quickly and heatedly to say that Lamar has borrowed elements of the last jimmy — at least in their opinion.”
It has yet to be announced if any legal action will be taken by Dice, but it has been revealed that his legal team has been in touch with Kendrick’s camp. He also clarified that Kendrick is “not the enemy” in this.
“Something stolen? I don’t know,” he said. “If something did happen, I’d just like Kendrick to call me, you know. It’s sad that — if somebody took something. Maybe it happened subconsciously. We’re both fighting the same fight. I’m sure the brothers who are incarcerated appreciate his efforts. Lamar and I can’t aim attacks at each other. The real enemy is unseen — who is pulling the strings behind mass incarceration and all this new Jim Crow madness. It isn’t Kendrick Lamar — he’s not the enemy…but maybe his choreographer is.”
Footage from Dice Raw’s the last jimmy performance, can be found below.
