December 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM PST
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Was Drake Right About New York Being Kendrick's New Home?
Unapologetically loud and proud about his Compton roots, fans worldwide are curious where Kendrick Lamar lives now.
Homeownership Kendrick Lamar Home
Was Drake Right About New York Being Kendrick's New Home?
Unapologetically loud and proud about his Compton roots, fans worldwide are curious where Kendrick Lamar lives now.
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM PST
When hip-hop lyricist Kendrick Lamar said “sometimes you gotta pop out and show,” he meant it. One week before Thanksgiving, he did just that, and gave Bluesky, Threads and X plenty of comedic GIF inspiration to randomly yell out “Mustaaaaaaaaaard” with the release of his new album GMX. And no matter where he is in the world, Kendrick Lamar proudly reps Compton, California. While the West Coast rapper sent an (un)friendly reminder about where his rap nemesis Drake lives at the end of the audio video for “Not Like Us,” the Toronto-born rapper (whose home is worth $100 million) did ask a valid question in the song “Family Matters“: “Why did you move to New York?”
Regardless of whose side you were on during the Drake versus Kendrick lyrical battle or the jab about a newfound “bachelor life,” it may have left both fans and foes wondering if the Compton rapper really is living on the East Coast. If not, where does Kendrick Lamar live?
From the L.A. Riots to Childhood Home Memories
Even if you’re not into astrology, Kendrick Lamar being born on June 17, 1987 tracks. The Gemini toggles between calm and cool, then lyrically tearing people apart from one song to the next, all the way back to his 2011 album Section.80. Depending on the day he’s having, listeners may get both.
His upbringing could have a lot to do with that too. After all, at his childhood home on 1612 137th Street, he was only 5 years old when the 1997 Los Angeles riots broke out after the acquittal of four police officers who beat up Rodney King. Lasting six days, the riots led to more than 50 people killed, more than 2,300 injured and thousands arrested. A fictional account of the L.A. riots even made its way onto a two-part honeymoon episode of “A Different World.” And the man behind good kid, m.A.A.d city was there in real life.
“I remember riding with my pops down Bullis Road, and looking out the window and seeing motherf***ers just running,” he told Rolling Stone. “I can see smoke. We stop, and my pops goes into the AutoZone and comes out rolling four tires. I know he didn’t buy them. I’m like, ‘What’s going on?'”
He bluntly pointed out that although he’d seen successful people while he grew up in this home, “when we walk outside, we see somebody’s head get blown off. And it just chips away at the confidence. It makes you feel belittled. The more violence you’re exposed to as a kid, the more it chips away at you. For the most part, the kids that I was around, it broke them. […] Before I let it chip away at me 100%, I was making my transition into music.”
While hanging out at the Compton Swap Meet at North Long Beach Boulevard and Orchard, he and his father built up a collection of cassettes and CDs. And when he met Tupac Shakur at the age of 8, Kendrick Lamar confirmed, “I think that was the birth of what I’m doing today.”
By 2016, his 1,200-square-foot childhood home with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a two-car garage is available to rent for $1,895 a month. As of the date of this publication, that house is off the market. And that kid questioning those new tires? He’s a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Rumored Purchase Of a $40 Million Home In Los Angeles
While his rap rival did mention a New York home, it appears the Compton native was negotiating the $40 million purchase of a home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to a Mansion Global report. The seller is a trust tied to Viet Dinh (former chief legal and policy officer at Fox Corporation) and his wife, Jennifer Ashworth Dinh, who paid $19.5 million for the home five years ago, according to property records.
Built in 2018 and designed by Philip Vertoch, a Los Angeles architect, a few features of the home include nine bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, blonde hardwood floors, a wine cellar, a movie theater, a gym, a three-car garage, a wet bar, a fireplace built into a wood-paneled wall and a gourmet kitchen with an eat-in island.
The New York Home Fans and Foes Wondered About
While the Brentwood home may be his latest purchase, it’s not his only one. The “Not Like Us” rapper also had homes in Bel Air, Manhattan Beach and Calabasas, the latter of which has long been occupied by several of his family members. But it was the East Coast home from 2023 that got people talking. His three-floor penthouse, purchased for $8.6 million in New York City’s Pierhouse building, overlooks Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge. The penthouse features four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, 18-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, a rooftop swimming pool and bar, four-hour concierge services, a fitness center and a meditation studio in this 3,140-square-foot property.
Kendrick Lamar Built a Real Estate Portfolio
Even before the Brentwood and Brooklyn homes, Kendrick Lamar was no stranger to homeownership. In 2014, he purchased an Eastvale, California home for $523,400. That 2006-built home, which housed his parents and siblings, included four bedrooms and three bathrooms, a backyard with a fenced-in swimming pool, spa, covered patio with a BBQ grill and a three-car garage. After moving his family to a different home purchased for $2.65 million in Calabasas, he eventually sold the first one for $800K in 2021. The Calabasas home for his family features a swimming pool and spa, an office with built-in storage, and a living room large enough to include ample areas for a dining section and spacious kitchen too.
Meanwhile, in 2019, the 17-time Grammy winner had already bought a $10 million property in Manhattan Beach. (Although there is a Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, the other one is in California where he was.) The 5,350-square-foot home includes four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a three-car garage, a wraparound terrace, and is surrounded by so much glass that he probably never had to turn on the lights until evening hours.
Kendrick Lamar Is ‘Outside’ In 2025
Drake definitely had a challenge on his hands while trying to find dirt on the Pulitzer Prize winner because when Kendrick Lamar is not making music, he admits he’s not “outside” like that. In reference to people who labeled him as antisocial, on one of his latest songs “wacced out murals,” he rapped, “I stayed inside of my house. You better off to have one woman. Everything tricky right now.”
Who that “one woman” he goes home to is not quite clear, but what we do know is it’s a bad idea to test his patience about bringing up family. Good idea? Check out his Super Bowl halftime performance on February 9, 2025, before he goes outside again to tour with SZA starting in the spring of 2025.
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