Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper joined Earth, Wind & Fire yesterday at Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee and fans were definitely treated to a great show. On top of performances by K.Dot and Chance the Rapper, Flying Lotus,Atmosphere, and Run the Jewels, also took the stage.
Earth, Wind & Fire bassist Verdine White had never met Kendrick Lamar until he saw Lamar and Chance the Rapper at the side of the stage during their late-night set and the band invited them out to freestyle."I knew who he was, but it wasn't planned, We stayed up there — what — 90 minutes? We were only supposed to be up there 70 minutes. You know, you just go. You don't think about it, you just keep going. He's in the band right now." Verdine White told USA today
Check out some footage from the set below.
It is good to see Kendrick smiling, despite the horrific acts of child abuse he, his siblings, neighborhood friends, elementary and JHS classmates were exposed to, causing Kendrick to rap about being a depressed adolescent in his 2015 Grammy Award winning performance of ,"I".
ReplyDeleteIn a January 20, 2011 LAWeekly interview Kendrick, born in 1987, the same year songwriter Suzanne Vega wrote a song about child abuse and VICTIM DENIAL that was nominated for a Grammy award, he told the interviewer:
*"Lamar's parents moved from Chicago to Compton in 1984 with all of $500 in their pockets. "My mom's one of 13 [THIRTEEN] siblings, and they all got SIX kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton," he says."*
*"I'm 6 years old, seein' my uncles playing with shotguns, sellin' dope in front of the apartment. My moms and pops never said nothing, 'cause they were young and living wild, too. I got about 15 stories like 'Average Joe.'"*
I grew up enjoying the sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire.
Had EW&F written music that characterized females, aka our moms, sisters, grandmas and daughters, as witches and bhores, as many of today's music performers characterize women, I'm pretty certain I would have thought these guys were troubled human beings, much like I believe many of today's performers are troubled victims of early child abuse that causes them to demean females.
Good to see Kendrick rubbing elbows with peaceful composers and talented musicians who write music that makes a large segment of our human population want to smile, dance, love and respect women.
*#protect-kids-from-irresponsible-caregivers*