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At least two murals featuring Kendrick Lamar have been vandalized in the Compton area.
Two murals featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar have been vandalized in the Compton area, at least one of which inspired his song “wacced out murals” from his latest album GNX, which he released last month.
One mural, painted by artist Mike Norice on the side of Tam’s Burgers — the restaurant featured in his “Not Like Us” music video — was defaced last month. Another mural, painted by Sloe Motion and Gustavo Zemeño Jr. earlier this summer on the back of Honduran restaurant Mi Sabor, has been defaced multiple times.
“Yesterday, somebody whacked out my mural / That energy’ll make you n—as move to Europe,” read the first lines of Ken’s intro track from his latest album. The song offered some solace for the artists of the Mi Sabor mural, who shared an Instagram Reel featuring security footage of a vandal defacing the mural.
It’s unknown if the vandals were inspired by the ongoing and very public beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, the latter of whom recently filed a lawsuit against UMG for their role in the release of Lamar’s Drake diss track, “Not Like Us.”