{"id":4730,"date":"2025-08-26T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kendrick-lamar-clipse\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:02:11","slug":"kendrick-lamar-clipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kendrick-lamar-clipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Makes Surprise Appearance With Clipse In L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2218218138-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>During a break between the European leg of his Grand National tour with SZA and the Sept. 23 Mexico City launch of a South American segment, Kendrick Lamar dazzled the audience at Los Angeles venue Novo last night (Aug. 23) by joining rap duo Clipse for the first song of their show.<\/p>\n<p>Pusha and No Malice had already begun performing \u201cChains &amp; Whips,\u201d the studio version of which features Lamar, when the artist himself emerged from the back of the stage to rhyme his verse. Afterward, he took a moment to salute the influence of Clipse, whose recent album, <em>Let God Sort Em Out<\/em>, was their first in nearly 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/kendrick-tyler-nas-clipse-album\/\">Kendrick, Tyler, Nas Jump Aboard Clipse Comeback Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/clipse-sort-out-first-album-in-16-years\/\">Clipse \u2018Sort Out\u2019 First Album In 16 Years<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2022\/11\/50-best-songs-of-2002\/\">The 50 Best Songs of 2002<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis is our home city,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s such a privilege to be in front of motheruckin\u2019 legends, man. I\u2019ma be out there watching with y\u2019all.. These are my motherfuckin\u2019 people from day one. Love y\u2019all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clipse are on a North American tour in support of <em>Let Got Sort Em Out<\/em> through Sept. 11 in Baltimore. European dates are on tap beginning Nov. 5 in Tilburg, Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Watch fan-shot footage of the Clipse\/Lamar performance below. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title='Clipse brought out Kendrick Lamar in LA to perform \"Chains &amp; Whips\" together for first time ever\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25' width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4VvGR0wwKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a break between the European leg of his Grand National tour with SZA and the Sept. 23 Mexico City launch of a South American segment, Kendrick Lamar dazzled the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clipse","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}