Kendrick Lamar has been labeled a “genius” by followers who assume they’ve uncovered yet one more easter egg of a Drake diss in his “Not Like Us” music video.
In response to the favored Dissect Podcast, the scene within the video the place Kendrick is sitting in a makeshift jail cell appears to be a reference to the same photograph of mannequin and Resident Evil actress Milla Jovovich.
Through the scene within the video, the Compton native raps, “Say, Drake, I hear you want ’em younger / You higher not ever go to cell block one / To any bitch that discuss to him they usually in love / Simply ensure you conceal your lil’ sister from him.”
Jovovich herself was caught in the course of varied underage scandals.
The Ukranian-born star was found whereas nonetheless a minor by French mannequin company boss Jean-Luc Brunel, who was later accused of raping a baby and supplying younger women to convicted intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. He hung himself in jail earlier than trial.
Jovovich additionally appeared nude within the film Return to the Blue Lagoon when she was simply 15 years outdated.
When she was 16, she was additionally briefly married to 21-year-old actor Shawn Andrews and later married The Fifth Component director Luc Besson, who had beforehand been in a relationship with a 15-year-old when he was 32.
A theme all through Kendrick’s diss songs was that Drake is a pedophile who preys on underage women, one thing the Canadian rapper vehemently denies.
New “Not Like Us” reference revealed
The “Cell block one” scene appears to reference this 1997 photograph of Milla Vovovich.
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Launched earlier this month, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” video accommodates various different visible jabs geared toward Drake.
It reveals him smashing open an owl piñata with a membership and staring menacingly at a real-life owl in a cage, overt nods to Drizzy’s OVO hen brand.
The clip additionally incorporates a cameo from former Toronto Raptors star DeMar DeRozan, who was namedropped on the music (“I’m glad DeRoz’ got here house, y’all didn’t deserve him neither”).
However as HipHopDX‘s Jeremy Hecht broke down in a current episode of The Greater Image, the digs seemingly go even deeper.
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Kendrick’s fiancée Whitney Alford and their two youngsters seem in a single scene, an obvious response to Drake’s claims that their relationship is on the rocks and that one among their children may really belong to Okay. Dot’s longtime supervisor Dave Free (who additionally pops up within the video).
Whitney even wears a wifebeater vest, which can be a refined reference to the home violence allegations that Drizzy levied in opposition to Kendrick on “Household Issues.”
Elsewhere, the Pulitzer Prize-winner will be seen Jedi pushing a Darkish Lanes Demo-esque Drake lookalike, mimicking the “L palms” dance that the 6 God did in a viral video with a younger woman and performing exactly 17.5 push-ups (one in need of 18).
Kendrick additionally waves to the digital camera whereas smiling and sporting a white tracksuit, a attainable taunt at Drake who attended Michael Rubin’s all-white Hamptons get together the night time the video dropped.
Whereas it’s unclear if these have been intentional, Kendrick Lamar isn’t any stranger to implanting multi-layered meanings in his music.
His 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly progressively unfolded with a poem to (and fake dialog with) his hero 2Pac, whereas he rereleased his follow-up challenge, DAMN., in reverse order, later confirming the speculation that it “performs as a full story” when listened again to entrance.
“Lots of my followers know that my albums get actual intricate and there’s at all times particulars in there,” he instructed MTV Information in 2017. “For probably the most half, they normally have a superb listening ear to determine what’s happening.”
