DJ Mustard (aka Dijon Isaiah McFarlane) has recently addressed the rising fan speculations that he was wearing a Toronto Blue Jays hat to troll Drake during the recent shoot of Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track, Not Like Us.
Fans recognized that Toronto Blue Jays is the hometown baseball team of Drake and speculations were high on whether the producer was trying to take a subtle jab at the Drake. However, DJ Mustard shut down the speculations in a recent interview.
In a recent talk with Big Boy released on YouTube on June 25, DJ Mustard explained that he wasn’t trying to troll anyone. He revealed that he had bought a lot of hats belonging to several baseball teams and had printed “Faith of a Mustard Seed” on all of them as a nod to his new album.
“I wasn’t trolling. I really wasn’t trolling. I bought a lot of hats that I like. I bought an STL hat, an Angels hat, a Braves hat. I put Faith of a Mustard Seed on all of them.”
Furthermore, the cap was symbolic of the Baldwin Village, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles where DJ Mustard spent his childhood.
“I grew up in the Jungles, we all wear that hat. I mean, I wear the NY hat — that’s Nip’s hat, the neighborhoods. Our hats mean a lot of different things so I never thought that much into it like, ‘Oh, I’m tryna troll y’all.”
DJ Mustard was also present at Kendrick Lamar’s recent Pop Out concert
June 19 marked a special date for Kendrick Lamar and his compatriots as it was the first time the rapper performed live after the feud with Drake. Organized at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, the Pop Out: Ken & Friends concert was attended by famous faces of the industry like Dr. Dre, Russell Westbrook, DeMar DeRozan, LaKeith Stanfield, The Weeknd, and many others.
DJ Mustard was also one of the guests and revealed that he wore two of his Faith-of-a-Mustard-Seed hats at the event and had only one hat left for other occasions. Coincidentally, it happened to be the Toronto Blue Jays hat.
“I sweated out two of my hats at Pop Out and that was the last hat that I had with Faith of a Mustard Seed on it. It just happened to be a Toronto Blue Jays hat.”
Finally, DJ Mustard quipped that if he were to troll Drake, he would’ve erased “Blue Jay” and replaced that with an “X.”
“If I was on that, then I woulda probably wacked the Blue Jay off and put an X between it. I wasn’t on that, though.”
Kendrick’s Pop Out concert ended with a special moment for the fans of hip-hop across the world
Fans of hip-hop witnessed something special at Kendrick’s Pop Out concert on June 19 as more than 30 West Coast big names of the industry gathered onto the stage by the end marking a moment of solidarity in the hip-hop industry. Kendrick Lamar dedicated the moment and the entire event to the friends and family who have lost their lives due to violence.
After performing Not Like Us for a total of five times, the crowd was hyped and Kendrick Lamar called everyone on stage. However, none of it was choreographed and the performers had no idea that it was happening.
DJ Hed, who was also one of the performers at the event commented about the moment in an interview with XXL released on YouTube on June 21.
“We had just finished our sets and while Dot was on stage, they were just hitting everybody like, ‘Yo, Dot wants everybody to stay. Stay right here, everybody stay right here. Dot wants us to come on the stage at the end of the show.’ And we’re like, OK, like if that’s what Dot wants, then we’ll come on stage. We had no idea. We all found out pretty much when y’all found out.”
By the end of the show, Kendrick Lamar acknowledged the moment before clicking a group photo with everyone in the frame:
“This is unity, y’all just don’t know man.”
The Pop Out: Ken & Friends concert broke the record for the most minutes watched across Prime Video and Twitch for any Amazon Music video.
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