Kendrick Lamar calls out white fan for rapping N-word on stage at his concert

Cut short: Kendrick Lamar cut off a fan for using the N-word: Getty Images for Coachella
Cut short: Kendrick Lamar cut off a fan for using the N-word: Getty Images for Coachella

Kendrick Lamar blasted a white fan for rapping the ‘N-word’ while on stage with him.

The award-winning rapper halted a performance mid-song during his show at Hangout Festival on Sunday night after a woman he had invited up on stage repeatedly used the word during a rendition of his hit M.A.A.D City.

Lamar asked the woman, who introduced herself as Delaney, to join him on stage mid-way through his performance and handed her the microphone so that she could join in.

But the rapper stopped the performance when the woman started to repeatedly use the ‘N-word’, which appears multiple times in the song.

The crowd started booing the first time she used the racial slur, after which Lamar cut the music and stopped the song.

Obviously not realising why she had been cut off, she asked Lamar: “Aren't I cool enough for you? What's up, bro?”

The rapper explained: “You gotta bleep one single word.”

She responded: “Oh, I’m sorry. Did I do it? I’m so sorry… I’m used to singing it like you wrote it.”

He then asked the audience whether or not he should give the woman another attempt at the song, to which he was met with a chorus of “nos”, but gave her a second chance anyway.

While some fans praised the star for taking action, others said that it was hypocritical that he uses the word in his own song and expects others not to use it.

“Honestly how did that girl at the Kendrick Lamar show think it was okay to use the N word? Even after he told her not to she was still gonna say it. I'm glad he cut her off after that,” one person wrote on Twitter.

“Kendrick Lamar stops his concert because the girl that he brought on stage to sing HIS song says all the lyrics & because she’s white she’s not supposed to say the N word that’s in the song? Kendrick can take the L for that. Don’t use the word if you don’t want ur fans saying it,” another person wrote.