We witnessed a coronation last night. Kendrick Lamar is now unequivocally the King of Rap, and has officially entered god status on the West Coast. He walked on stage dressed in a red hoodie with a white tee underneath and an iced-out crucifix draped over it, blue jeans, white, silver and red Nike Shox, and a red baseball hat.
Why is this significant? The outfit was eerily similar to the one 2Pac wore during the 1994 Source Awards when he performed “Out on Bail” with his rap group Thug Life. context is everything. pic.
twitter.com/DJQPFFqJB4 Pac, who at the time was dealing with a bunch of legal issues in his personal life, hijacked the Source stage while A Tribe Called Quest were accepting their award for Rap Group of the Year. As the story goes, this performance wasn’t planned: Members of Pac’s entourage pressed the person in charge of sound and made him play the track.
The rapper and the rest of Thug Life then went on stage, snatched the microphone from Q-Tip and started performing the song, which caused a brief rift between 2Pac and Tribe. Whether the outfit was intentional or not, we quickly understood the message Kendrick was trying to send. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Compton emcee rose up from underneath the stage draped in red light and started his set with “Euphoria” — a song some said held little replay value.
However, the lie detector determined that untrue, because the crowd at the Forum knew every single.
