Kendrick Lamar Beefs Up Safety with Sheriff’s Deputies for Video Shoot
Kendrick Lamar is ready to movie a brand new music video this weekend … and we’re advised the rapper is beefing up his safety to maintain himself, his workforce, and the group secure.
Legislation enforcement sources inform TMZ … the Grammy winner might be filming his new music video in Compton — an ideal homecoming for Okay. Dot on the heels of his triumphant Juneteenth present Wednesday night time on the KIA Discussion board in close by Inglewood.
We’re advised Kendrick’s workforce bought all the correct permits wanted to tug off the undertaking … and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. will ship deputies for additional safety in the course of the music vid shoot.
For safety causes, our sources will not say what number of deputies have been tapped for the gig — which is ready to happen throughout Compton. Nevertheless, now we have been advised that Kendrick’s manufacturing firm is paying round $120 an hour to have them available.
Whereas legislation enforcement sources inform us the police are conscious of Kendrick’s current beef with nemesis Drake, we’re advised no identified threats have surfaced at the moment.
Although the feud, at the very least publicly, ended again in early Might — when Kendrick dropped “Not Like Us” — we’re advised the authorities are nonetheless taking it critically and maintaining a tally of social media for any drama.
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Bear in mind, Kendrick and Drake dropped a sequence of diss tracks about one another, till Kendrick was declared the clear winner with “Not Like Us” not solely verbally taking down Drake … but in addition topping the Billboard charts.
Within the aftermath, the ‘Degrassi’ alum’s Toronto mansion was plagued with 3 police-involved incidents — together with the taking pictures of certainly one of his safety guards. Kendrick was not linked to the taking pictures, and no suspect has been arrested.
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Sources inform us the LASD and others concerned hope for a peaceable manufacturing that reveals off the great thing about Compton, as an alternative of the destructive picture of gangs and crime it grew to become well-known for many years in the past.
If anybody can flip it round, it might be Kendrick who’s having a second … having already introduced a number of L.A. gangs collectively throughout his live performance.