Kendrick Lamar is turning up the heat in his feud with Drake, releasing a music video for “Not Like Us,” which is a dis track against Drake of the highest order. Lamar released the video on Independence Day. He previously held a concert called “The Pop Out” on Juneteenth, where he performed “Not Like Us” six times.
The “Not Like Us” music video is currently trending no. 1 on YouTube.
The video appears to make several references to Drake, including the inclusion of an owl piñata and a live owl in a cage. The owl is a mascot for Drake‘s label October’s Very Own, or OVO. While Lamar was hitting the piñata, the music video flashed the disclaimer: “No Ovhoes were harmed during the making of this video.”
There are also references to Toronto, where Drake is from, in the video. Mustard, the producer who made the “Not Like Us” beat, is featured in the music video wearing a Toronto Blue Jays hat. NBA player DeMar DeRozan, who is from Compton but previously played on the Toronto Raptors, also makes a cameo in the video. Lamar gave DeRozan a shout out in “Not Like Us” while dissing Toronto through the line: “I’m glad DeRoz’ came home/Y’all didn’t deserve him neither.”
Lamar also seemingly made fun of some of the claims set forth in Drake‘s diss tracks against him. He is seen doing pushups on cinder blocks in the video, which people interpreted as a reference to Drake‘s diss against Lamar, “Push Ups.”
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