You could call that White Stripes singalong a sign – of how Kendrick’s power, politics and reputation has bloomed beyond hip-hop since bursting out of California with 2011 mixtape ‘Section 80′, spilling into indie and elsewhere. Welcome to the eclectic, and for the duration of his set tonight, electric, Reading and Leeds, Kendrick. Hearing his name bellowed to the guitar part of a White Stripes tune turned football-terrace anthem, however, is probably a first. There’s not a lot, you’d wager from the fiercely rapped autobiography of that record, that he hasn’t already witnessed on his rise from life on violent streets of Compton to the starry peak of modern hip-hop. Kendrick Lamar has “gone been through a whole lot” – he says it himself on ‘I’, the soulful Isley Brothers-sampling lead single from ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’. “OHHHHHH KENDRICK LAA-MAAAA-AAAAR!” sing the Leeds Main Stage crowd to the tune of ‘Seven Nation Army’, as the sun drops on Bramham Park and the biggest name in hip-hop in a generation bounds onstage.
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