I travelled to London last night to see Kendrick Lamar perform as part of his 2-date mini tour in the Electric ballroom in Camden. He had never been to the UK to perform before so yesterday and Monday's gig was an exciting and rare opportunity for his UK fan base. There was a great turn out and he even seemed a lil shocked at the knowledge of his musical history that we UK fans possessed. He performed classic hits like 'ADHD', 'Suck My Dick', 'Pussy and Patron' (We all went crazy for these ones, and sang along with extreme volume), He rapped the first verse of 'HiiiPOWER' A-capella which was sik but I would have loved to hear the whole track, this is the one I was looking forward to the most. I can imagine how hype the place would have been all joining in to the chorus of ‘HiiiPOWER'. His set finished just under an hour which left me wanting more, but he finished off with two tracks ( ‘Cartoons & Cereal’ and ‘The Recipe’ ) from his upcoming debut album 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' (release date oct 2nd 2012) which left me buzzing.
Highlights of the night was him claiming we are all family and passing bottles of water to the crowd telling us “sip that shit nigga pass it around", and just his pure energy on stage. His rapport with the crowd was on point and the atmosphere was electric.
I guess the only let down for me was not hearing him perform tracks like 'HiiiPOWER' or 'Rigamortis', oh and the fact that as the ticket said 'and special guests' I kept expecting ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul or Jay Rock to jump on stage.
The videos I took were of very poor quality, due the fact I have a Blackberry, (anyone with a BB curve will understand). So here is a video for my favourite Kendrick track- HiiiPOWER.
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