On Monday (May 11), Taylor Swift announced that Kendrick Lamar is set to star in her cinematic-style music video “Bad Blood.”
She also revealed a host of other celebrities – Zendaya, Lena Dunham, Ellie Goudling – will be featured in the Joseph Kahn-directed visual as well. Each of the characters chose their own names, Swift Tweeted.
The moniker K. Dot chose isn’t exactly original. Kendrick took to Twitter to explain why he chose the name Welvin Da Great.
“I chose my Compton Boy Welven as King,” he wrote. “Always had personality. Confidence and self love making it out the city. Hero.”
Lamar is referring to the Vine entertainer known as WelvenDaGreat. The man who coined the term, “Got eem.”
Upon noticing the recognition by Kendrick, Welven took to Instagram to clarify for his followers that the rapper had chosen to portray him in Swift’s video.
Check out the exchange below:
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C0oning for taylor swift huh? This dude is such a corny fraud.
Lmao oh shut up. Raekwon’s done a song with Justin Bieber and Ice Cube is in childrens’ movies. Kendrick’s doing big things, of course he’s gonna be in some pop shit from time to time.
^^ It’s not about “pop shit” you simple minded stan. He agreed to mock a handicap black man in a white girls video. The same white girl who exploits our culture and makes fun of us for more fame and popularity. He’s a co0n for doing this nonsense, plain and simple, no one should be supporting some dumb shit like this.
Why don’t you take a break from being a keyboard warrior and think something out for once in your backwards ass life. For one, how do you figure Kendrick’s mocking him? Did Cuba Gooding mock Radio? Does portraying a mentally handicapped person always have to be mocking them? If you think so, then what you’re insinuating is worse than what you’re accusing Kendrick of doing. And I don’t fuck with Taylor Swift, but what the fuck are you talking about? You have no basis to think that she’s exploiting your culture and making fun of you. Don’t call someone else simple minded when you have the same capacity to think rationally as a brain-dead toddler.
You guys are slow Taylor Swift Believe. It or not is a fan of Kendricks Music she even was caught singing backseat freestyle in a video and kendrick found out and that’s why he fucks with her
This is too funny Kendrick Stan’s are always taking shots at drake for his crossover appeal now this Negus in a Taylor Swift video lmfao.