Fans of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” music video who believe they have found another easter egg containing a Drake diss have dubbed Lamar a “genius.”
The video’s sequence with Kendrick sitting in a makeshift jail cell appears to be a reference to a similar picture of Milla Jovovich, an actress from Resident Evil, and model, according to the well-known podcast Dissect Podcast.
“Say, Drake, I hear you like ’em young / You better not ever go to cell block one / To any bitch that talk to him and they in love / Just make sure you hide your lil’ sister from him,” the Compton native raps during the scenario in the video.
Jovovich was entangled in a number of scandals involving minors.
The head of a French modeling agency, Jean-Luc Brunel, who was later charged with child rape and providing young girls to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, made the discovery of the star, who was born in Ukraine, when she was still a minor. Before his trial, he hanged himself in jail.
When Jovovich was just 15 years old, she made another nude appearance in the film Return to the Blue Lagoon.
She also had a brief marriage to actor Shawn Andrews, 21, when she was sixteen. Later, she married filmmaker Luc Besson of The Fifth Element, who was thirty-two and had previously dated a fifteen-year-old.
The idea that Drake is a pedophile who preys on minor girls ran through Kendrick’s diss tracks; Drake angrily disputes this.
The “Not Like Us” video by Kendrick Lamar, which was released earlier this month, includes several more visual jokes directed at Drake.
Overtly referencing Drizzy’s OVO bird emblem, it depicts him breaking open an owl piñata with a club and glaring menacingly at an actual owl in a cage.
In addition, former Toronto Raptors player DeMar DeRozan makes an appearance in the video. He is mentioned in the song “I’m glad DeRoz’ came home, y’all didn’t deserve him neither.”
However, the jabs appear to go even beyond, as HipHopDX’s Jeremy Hecht revealed in a recent edition of The Bigger Picture.
In one scenario, Kendrick’s fiancée Whitney Alford makes an appearance along with their two kids, seemingly in response to Drake’s remarks suggesting that their relationship is failing and that one of their children may actually belong to K. Dot’s longtime manager Dave Free (who also makes an appearance in the film).
Whitney even dons a wifebeater vest, which could be a subliminal allusion to the accusations of domestic abuse Drizzy made against Kendrick on “Family Matters.”
The Pulitzer Prize winner can also be seen pushing a Drake impersonator from Dark Lanes Demo, doing exactly 17.5 push-ups (one short of 18), and imitating the 6 God’s “L hands” dance with a young girl in a popular video.
In addition, Kendrick smiles and waves to the camera while sporting a white tracksuit, perhaps as a jab at Drake, who was present at Michael Rubin’s all-white Hamptons party the evening the video was released.
Although it’s unclear if this was deliberate, Kendrick Lamar is no new to adding complex meanings to his songs.
The poem “To Pimp a Butterfly” from his 2015 album gradually revealed his relationship with his hero, 2Pac, while the reverse-release of his follow-up effort, DAMN., confirmed the hypothesis that it “plays as a full story” when listened to back to front.
In 2017, he told MTV News, “Many of my fans know that my albums get real intricate and there’s always details in there.” “They generally have an excellent listening ear to figure out what’s going on.”
