# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C9NOPHUtmr8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20461469-thefader-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/b1092646b2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-07-09T15:15:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

With the “Not Like Us” music video, DaveFree and KendrickLamar pull off a Simone Biles-level flip: turning internet gossip and rap beef into a timeless work. There could be dozens of Easter eggs alluding to the conflict scattered throughout the music video, and its artful presentation has sent internet commenters into a frenzy of speculation: Kendrick was wearing all white because of the Michael Rubin party Drake was at! The hand gestures during the “little sister” line are a reference to this TikTok! The painting facing the wall represents… something! ⁠
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There’s enough here to place it firmly within the context of the beef that consumed timelines for weeks, but not enough to make it an anchor around the video’s neck. Lamar chills with the Top Dawg roster in Watts and dances with his family — direct responses to Drake’s claim of mismanagement and infidelity, sure, but also vibrant celebrations of the communities that made Lamar. What really pulls it together is the mass of people chanting the track’s hook pull the whole video together. Drake tried a scene like this in a music video once, but it didn’t feel like this. It wasn’t like this, Free and Lamar’s video implies, because they not like us.⁠
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Read at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.⁠
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#KendrickLamar #DaveFree #NotLikeus

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