Beyond just entertaining his community with his Juneteenth “Pop Out,” Kendrick Lamar made a significant charitable contribution to Los Angeles.
A $200,000 donation was made to 20 Los Angeles-based nonprofits and city community programs by K.dot, his company pgLang, Tim Hinshaw’s Free Lunch, and the special guests he brought out for the concert, according to Billboard.
“We haven’t seen this kind of unity on the West since we lost our brother Nipsey Hussle,” stated Hinshaw. This was more than just a back and forth, as Dot stated on stage; it was about standing behind one another and demonstrating to the rest of the world that we could unite for a more important goal. It is hoped that we would all continue to support these groups going forward because they are all crucial to the growth of our town.
One of the twenty recipients was the Compton G.irls Club, who released the following statement: “We would like to thank pgLang and Free Lunch for recognizing their roots and supporting g.irls from the hood.” Knowing that Kendrick consistently gives back to the community in order to assist the younger generation is reassuring.
Check out the full list of organizations that received money here.
Another seemingly insignificant but possibly significant allusion to J. Cole during Kendrick Lamar’s epic Pop Out performance went overlooked at the time.
Last week, Kendrick performed his 2015 smash song “Alright” at the Kia Forum in Inglewood. However, some keen observers have only just recognized that the background track he utilized was Cole’s remix, since the Dreamville rapper’s ad-lib was audible during the entrance.
This might have been an attempt to patch things up with Cole after the North Carolina native made fun of Kendrick on “7 Minute Drill” for his scathing line on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”
Naturally, Cole made a U-turn in a matter of days, expressing regret to Kendrick during his Dreamville Festival headline show and subsequently taking “7 Minute Drill” off from streaming platforms.
The two had been longstanding friends and occasionally working together before their brief altercation; Cole’s “Alright” remix was released at the same day as Kendrick released his 2014 Forest Hills Drive song “A Tale of Two Citiez.”
In addition, Cole produced Kendrick’s single “HiiiPoWeR” from 2011. For years, there were rumors that the two would collaborate on an album.
