Meet DJ Mustard, who produced ‘Not Like Us’ by Kendrick Lamar: the hip-hop powerhouse has worked with Tyga and Jennifer Lopez, but what’s the drama with his first wife and baby mama?

In June, Kendrick Lamar hosted a major concert at Kia Forum in Los Angeles to showcase West Coast rap unity. According to BBC, more than 20 artists, including Dr Dre and Tyler the Creator, joined the event. The highlight was the debut of one of Lamar’s many recent diss tracks targeting Drake , “Not Like Us”, which Lamar performed not once, not twice, but five times to an increasingly enthusiastic crowd.

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Photo: @mustard/Instagram This song marks the peak of their feud, with Lamar accusing Drake of exploiting Southern rap culture and making unverified claims about his behaviour. As of May with 11.85 million streams, the track holds the “all-time record for biggest single day streams for a solo hip-hop song in global Spotify history”, according to Complex.

However, there’s one more hip-hop artist behind the scenes who helped bring the track to life: producer DJ Mustard. Despite this being his most famous song to date, he told Billboard that he crafted the beat in “around 30 minutes”. {"@context":"https://schema.

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