VEVO Presents [live session]

The release of Good Kid, MAAD City, the star-studded debut album from 25-year-old Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar is perfectly on course to make the jazz-loving rhymer the biggest thing in hip hop, but bearing in mind that it’ll be months before he makes it to Irish shores, I thought it apt to spend my weekend watching as many of his live performances as possible. The best by far were filmed in New York for VEVO Presents earlier this year, featuring tracks from his rapturously-received mixtape Section.80. Thug rap meets elevator music on ‘Hol’ Up’, while a live performance of the effortlessly slick ‘ADHD’ shows just how much love Mr. Lamar is getting across the pond.