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.
“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.
Man this guys is really REACHING. Death Row had that way before and numerous acts.
Exactly, the dog pound, the lady of rage & snoop all had shows like that on death row even when 2pac was performing live in Ohio there were cages on the stage
Don’t u ever talk about my nigga Kendrick like that i will body niggas harder then makavlei
Wtf is a “dice raw”??……..Foh bitch, lmao.
Dicing fruit like dre
You hip hop net fans are so disrespectful… Kendrick is definitely the man right but Dice Raw is a great talent….extended member of The Roots and tremendous writer. he’s the Ab-Soul to Black Thought’s K-Dot if wanted to put the roots & black hippy in the same league.Folks should do homework
Bitch nigga shut up
He’s reaching , if I’m not mistaken NWA did it in a music video when they the first came out performing in cells then definitely in the movie bamboozled by spike lee. He’s reaching.
Truuuuuu
Gold cells though, and the dancers
This bullshit was nothing compared to Kendrick’s performance.. Dice Raw eat a dxck, u hatin ass nigga.
That’s true what homie said at the bottom. It has been done before, in N.W.A.’s Express Yourself video.. and I thought Dice Raw was that nigga that use to be in Jeezy’s CTE camp lol.
Man I did too lol
You’re thinking of Blood Raw, not Dice Raw
Public Enemy, Death Row, NWA did it first. Oh yeah Dice, your verses on the Roots albums were always the weakest
Agree with first part. Disagree with second – Dice’s verses with the roots were sick! The Lesson Pt. 1 is one of the best Roots songs and it’s pretty much all Dice!
Dice Raw was dope as F, definitely stood out to me and surprised to see his name in the news today
Yeah, that’s quite the reach, but I’m not surprised that a bunch of lawyers tried making the claim. It’s what they do. Dice Raw was basically in a Broadway musical that wasn’t on Broadway. So anyone else that raps on stage and has jail cells and live musicians is biting?
Sorry my man. Been a fan since your 10th grade freestyle on “Do You Want More?!!??!” but this claim is bullshit.
Here here
bunch of dick riders…smh…prison mixed with african dance…aint no african shit in no NWA or Snoop Dogg video…eff outta here!!!
… idiot
these elements are from both videos for They Don’t care about us (MJ)
lol, in that case he borrowed them elements from MJ too…
regardless of the claims. this musical looks dumb as hell!
Peace to Dice Raw. You lackadaisical stan niggas tryna front like ya’ll lawyers yourselves…take a nap with a plastic bag over your head.
be real: if this was Drake that Dice Raw was accusing of doing this, all u boyz would be screaming “fraud”, “culture vulture” etc.
A natural part of any success is haters and guys trying to claim credit.
not the same as constantly ripping off someone’s music
good reporting, not too petty and suggestive with the article itself, but the headline? Fuck off. That said, Dice is a class act for real