Couldn't get tickets to Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated June 16 show? Then follow this path to learn how to watch the unique concert online.
The “Not Like Us” rapper, born and raised in Compton, will treat Los Angeles fans to the Kia Forum for a one-night performance of his hits and new music on Wednesday. The Juneteenth show, announced earlier this month, will mark K.Dot's first live set in SoCal since he traded scathing tracks with Drake in recent months.
Resale tickets for Lamar's “The Pop Out — Ken & Friends” are still available on Ticketmaster, but currently range from $496 to $2,500. Fortunately, fans have another, cheaper option to watch the concert: they can stream it online.
Amazon's Prime Video will stream the event, produced by Lamar's pgLang label and agency Free Lunch, starting at 4 p.m. According to Prime Video, Kendrick will be joined by “special guests.” Amazon-owned Twitch will also livestream the show via the Amazon Music channel.
“We're in lockdown,” Twitch tweeted Wednesday afternoon.
Before Lamar takes the stage, 92.3 KRRL’s DJ Hed and “Not Like Us” producer DJ Mustard and their respective guests will help set the tone. DJ Hed announced on Instagram that he will kick off the event at 4 p.m., followed by Mustard's performance at 4:45 p.m. Grammy winner Lamar will kick off his performance at 5:45 p.m., according to the post. Hed.
“The Pop Out” takes its name from a line in Lamar’s upbeat “Not Like Us,” one of several diss tracks he released in response to Drake’s domestic violence allegations. The public feud between the hip-hop icons dates back to March, when Lamar said in a verse of Future and Metro Boomin's “Like That” that he rejects the idea of Drake and J. Cole equaling their talents, a concept J . Cole promoted last year on Drake's “First Person Shooter.”
The feud took a dark turn when Lamar and Drake released multiple diss tracks, each responding to the other with fierce accusations of troubling behavior on tracks including Drake's “Family Matters” and “Not Like Us” and “Meet the Grahams” The sea. Amid the dispute, Drake's Toronto home became the site of a shooting that left a security guard hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
In recent weeks it seems that tensions between the two rappers and some of their collaborators have decreased. In late May, Drake seemingly mocked Metro Boomin's viral “BBL Drizzy” beat, rapping over the instrumentals in a verse of Sexxy Red's “U My Everything.”
Lamar, on the other hand, takes over the Kia Forum amid online speculation that he will reportedly film a music video for “Not Like Us” in Compton this week.
