Kendrick Lamar‘s hometown baseball team will have some help from the hottest song of the summer, K.dot’s “Not Like Us,” as they head into the postseason.
On Friday (October 4), the Los Angeles Dodgers posted a video to their YouTube page to celebrate the team’s postseason, which began on Saturday (October 5) with a game against the San Diego Padres.
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The video, narrated by actor Anthony Anderson, prominently uses — and is titled after — Kendrick’s Drake-bashing banger.
You can watch “They Not Like Us — Los Angeles Dodgers 2024 Postseason” below.
“Not Like Us” has had other recent accolades as well — most notably, being named the third-best song of the decade by Pitchfork.
On Monday (September 30), Pitchfork released a list of their picks of the 100 best tracks from of the ’20s so far, which they described as “the greatest songs that moved culture, coined genres, and are still stuck in our heads.”
At No. 3 sits K.dot’s Mustard-produced banger, though other rappers are littered throughout the list including Lil Yachty with “Poland” at No. 100, Ice Spice with “Munch” at No. 41 and Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s “WAP” at No. 22.
Of their ranking, Pitchfork‘s Alphonse Pierre wrote: “Having contradicting feelings about Kendrick Lamar music isn’t anything new (hello, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers), but ‘Not Like Us’ feels like one of the most complicated rap songs ever. No matter what you say about it, you will be a hypocrite in some way. Forcing you to consider your listening habits, like barely any Billboard chart toppers have before.
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“And like To Pimp a Butterfly’s ‘Alright’ on steroids, the phrase in the title of ‘Not Like Us’ was quickly commodified and absorbed into the cultural lexicon, turning what was initially Kendrick’s celebration of hip-hop culture and ousting of Drake from it into a branding opportunity chauffeuring Kendrick to the Super Bowl half-time show. That has gone on to soften the impact of ‘Not Like Us;’ one of the final nails in the coffin was Kendrick doing the track five times in a row on an Amazon stream. For that reason, giving it any larger cultural significance feels icky, though it will live on as the kind of omnipresent rap banger that doesn’t come along too often anymore.”
