Mustard on the defeat: Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ was a shock, even for the DJ

DJ Mustard, like most Kendrick Lamar lovers, was in disbelief when he to start with listened to the rapper’s “Not Like Us” — even nevertheless he delivered the song’s catchy defeat.

The L.A.-dependent producer unveiled his purpose in Lamar’s diss anthem, revealing to Billboard in a video interview released this 7 days, “I read the tune when absolutely everyone else read it.”

“I hardly ever listened to it right before, I was not in the studio with him,” he told the outlet.

In May possibly, Lamar dropped “Not Like Us” amid his public feud with Drake. Over Mustard’s bouncy beat, Lamar will take pictures at the “God’s Plan” rapper with lines accusing him of youngster sexual abuse and disrespecting hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur. The track, the fifth diss track Lamar has dropped given that March, became a near-instantaneous strike. It swiftly went viral on social media and landed on dance club playlists.

Mustard said he needed to “get a song with Kendrick” and experienced despatched “him five beats a day,” uncertain how he would use them. The producer, whose collaborators also consist of YG and Wiz Khalifa, claimed he only read back again from the Pulitzer Prize winner late a person night time. Mustard (real name Dijon Isaiah McFarlane) recalled Lamar’s reaction: “ ‘This is hearth.’ ”

The Grammy-nominated DJ told Billboard that Dr. Dre and Lil Jon impressed the last snippet. “It took me around 30 minutes to make” the “Not Like Us” conquer, he said.

“I did not know [Lamar] was gonna gasoline that beat like that,” he additional.

“Not Like Us” has been more than the music to seemingly provide the Lamar-Drake feud to an finish — at the very least for now. At Lamar’s Juneteenth “Pop Out” concert at the Kia Discussion board, it built for an unforgettable grand finale.

Lamar delivered his very first live general performance of “Not Like Us” on Wednesday — then he performed it a further 4 moments. Each and every time, he paused at the well-known lyric, “A minorrrrrrrrrrr,” a notice that he and the audience held for an prolonged interval of time.

During his last “Not Like Us” general performance, Lamar brought attendees — including Mustard, singer Steve Lacy, L.A. Clipper Russell Westbrook and radio host Big Boy — on stage to sing along. The live performance, which streamed on Key Video, concluded with an instrumental model of “Not Like Us.”

“This s— will get me psychological,” Lamar reported times in advance of launching into his finale, and in advance of getting a legendary group photo. “We done shed a lot, a lot of homies to this songs s—. A ton of homies to some street s— and for all of us to be on this phase collectively unity from just about every aspect of motherf— L.A.”

He added: “We place this s— alongside one another just for y’all.”