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Kendrick Lamar Just Shattered a Huge Hip Hop Record with “Not Like Us” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: There was a time when Kendrick Lamar was considered more
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  Speaker 2: of a critically acclaimed than commercial artist, but that was
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  Speaker 2: before his dominance of twenty twenty four, fueled largely by
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  Speaker 2: the continuous success of his distrack not Like Us, which
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  Speaker 2: has permanently eradicated that perspective. The single has now spent
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  Speaker 2: more weeks at number one on Billboard's Hot Rap Songs
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  Speaker 2: chart than any other song in its thirty five year history.
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  Speaker 2: The chart, which considers streaming purchases and radio play, just
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  Speaker 2: saw not Like Us on top for its twenty first weeks,
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  Speaker 2: or passing Little nas X's Old Town Road. There's a
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  Speaker 2: very good chance Kendrick will only continue to expand upon
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  Speaker 2: his record breaking run and get this. Between not Like
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  Speaker 2: Us and his joint single Like That with future metro Booman,
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  Speaker 2: Kendrick has been number one on the Hot Rap Songs
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  Speaker 2: chart for twenty seven of the last twenty eight weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.