“Designed in Destiny”: The Pivotal Childhood Moment That Inspired Kendrick Lamar’s Musical Career
Kendrick Lamar's career started with a pivotal childhood moment he had one fateful day in November 1995 in Compton.
Kendrick Lamar saw the future of his career at eight years old from atop his father’s shoulders, and ever since that pivotal childhood moment in 1995, Lamar has been successfully chasing his longtime dream of becoming one of the most influential and highly decorated rappers of all time.
Twenty Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, one stunning discography, and a highly anticipated Super Bowl Halftime Show performance later, it’s hard not to believe the stars aligned just right that day in California.
A listener needn’t delve too deep into Kendrick Lamar’s catalogue to know that the rapper is a proud Compton native. Over countless albums and guest features, Lamar has cemented his name in the canon of Southern California greats. That highly esteemed list includes Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Coolio. But Lamar’s connection to Compton runs deeper than the address of his childhood home. Growing up in the Los Angeles County neighborhood in the 1990s meant that Lamar was an active witness to the West Coast rap game’s heyday.
Fortunately for eight-year-old Lamar, that put him in just the right place at the right time to watch fellow Compton native Dr. Dre and East Harlem rapper Tupac Shakur as they filmed the music video for the latter artist’s 1995 track “California Love.” The music video is quintessentially 1990s, opening with a dystopian scene of California in the year 2095. Chris Tucker plays an evil tribal chief. Everyone is wearing leather and chains. Chaos, dancing, and desert drag races á la Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ensue. 2Pac split the music video into two parts, ending the first fever dream video with a “to be continued” cliffhanger. In part two, things look much more Californian.
Instead of desert drag races and bonfires, the second “California Love” music video featured house parties and outdoor shots of Compton. This second music video is how a young Kendrick Lamar crossed paths with the two iconic rappers.
In a 2013 interview with the Recording Academy, Kendrick Lamar recalled his father seeing Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur (and the substantial film crew) first. Lamar’s father walked a couple of blocks over to find his son. By the time he returned to the scene of the shoot, “Everybody was out there,” Lamar said. “It was like pandemonium, you know. He put me on his shoulders, and there he was. Dr. Dre and Tupac right there. I think it was a white Bentley. That moment right there, whether I know it or not, subconsciously, I think it, you know, eventually branched me off to what I’m doing now.”
“It was already designed in destiny,” Lamar continued. “Fifteen years later, I meet Dr. Dre, and I explained that story to him when I seen him. He remembered that exact same moment and remembered them kids that was out there, and I said, ‘Dre, I was one of them kids that was there.’”
Lamar paid homage to the late Tupac Shakur and his Compton heritage by replicating a scene in the “California Love” music video where Shakur visits the Compton Swap Meet to find clothes to wear to Dr. Dre’s house party. Lamar did the same thing in his “King Kunta” music video, later telling MTV News, “It blew me away, tripped me out that 15 years later, I’m doing that same thing ‘Pac was doing right in Compton. It’s just a beautiful thing.”
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
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