Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Not Like Us’ has formally made its method into the repertoire of HBCU marching bands, simply as the ever-present single hit one other streaming milestone.
In a video shared by a Okay.Dot fan account on X (previously Twitter) on Sunday (August 25), Florida A&M College’s Band, the Marching 100, may be seen performing a small portion of the monitor at halftime through the college’s faceoff in opposition to Norfolk State College.
The band’s members even appear to incorporate the “O-V-Hoe” call-out from the track, earlier than transitioning to what feels like Kehlani‘s “After Hours.”
Shortly after sharing the highlight from the 2024 MEAC/SEAC Challenge, which took place in Atlanta on Saturday (August 24), the same Kendrick Lamar fan account shared a video of Alcorn State University’s Band, Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite & Golden Ladies, performing “Not Like Us” throughout a preview of their deliberate performances for this college yr.
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— Kendrick Lamar Updates (@KendrickChart) August 25, 2024
Saturday additionally reportedly noticed Kendrick attain one other milestone with “Not Like Us,” which additionally allowed him to surpass a benchmark beforehand set by Drake.
In keeping with Hip Hop All Day, the track has now amassed over 700 million streams on Spotify, turning into the quickest track to attain that whole on the platform. That document was beforehand held by Drizzy’s 2018 hit, “God’s Plan.”
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ has now surpassed 700 million streams on Spotify 🔥🏆
It turns into the quickest rap track EVER to attain this milestone surpassing ‘Gods Plan’. pic.twitter.com/wcKzPvTAf2
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) August 24, 2024
In the meantime, Drake launched three songs out of the blue that simply would possibly spark spherical two of his battle with Kendrick Lamar.
The Canadian hitmaker shared the trio of tracks on Friday (August 23) by way of his burner Instagram account, via which he dropped an analogous batch of beforehand unreleased songs earlier this month in a bid bounce again from his perceived defeat within the beef.
Included within the new releases are “SOD,” his just lately leaked collaboration with Lil Yachty that now not options the Atlanta rapper, “Circadian Rhythm” and “No Face,” which options visitor vocals from Playboi Carti.
The latter has shortly generated essentially the most chatter amongst followers because of some alternative phrases from Drake seemingly aimed toward Kendrick Lamar and the opposite rappers he sparred with in April and Might.
“N-ggas got lit off the features I skated on / I gotta know, I gotta know / How you get lit off the n-gga you hatin’ on? / Numbers untouchable, they got the data wrong,” he raps, showing to reference his visitor verses for the likes of A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd and Future whereas casting doubt on Kendrick eclipsing lots of his streaming information with “Not Like Us”.
“This is the moment I know they been prayin’ on / What? Aye, what? Aye / Try knock The Boy off, but fuck it, I’m stayin’ on / O’ keep on sendin’ me slaps to go crazy on / 40 keep sayin’ it’s time to be patient / It’s so many people we turnin’ the tables on.”
“Circadian Rhythm,” in the meantime, continues the Kendrick taunts as its title seemingly references a line from the Compton rapper’s “6:16 in LA” diss track the place he rapped: “I know this type of power is gon’ cost / But I live in circadian rhythms of a shooting star.”
Drake additionally dubbed the track “The Language 2,” implying it’s a sequel to his 2013 Nothing Was the Similar minimize on which he subliminally responded to Kendrick’s earth-shaking “Control” verse.
“SOD,” “Circadian Rhythm” and “No Face” are at present solely accessible to stream on Instagram, however they might quickly land on streaming companies like Drake’s aforementioned 100 GIGS loosies “It’s Up,” “Blue Green Red” and “Housekeeping Knows.”
