{"id":419716,"date":"2026-05-09T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:30:07","slug":"kendrick-lamar-marks-full-circle-moment-in-new-outing-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419716\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar marks full circle moment in new outing: &#8216;Never forget&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/663628_061849_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Kendrick Lamar marks full circle moment in new outing: 'Never forget'\"\/>Kendrick Lamar goes viral for wholesome childhood memory<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Lamar marked an emotional moment meeting a memorable face from his childhood during his latest outing.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old rapper attended an event at his alma mater Centennial High School in Compton, California, on Thursday, May 7, and reunited with his childhood teachers. <\/p>\n<p>The Not Like Us hitmaker shared a wholesome hug with his seventh-grade science teacher, who attended the event to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher revealed that her daughter had told her to \u201cjust show up, he will recognise you,\u201d and Lamar sure did recognise her, as he said, \u201cI&#8217;ll never forget you.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Social media users flocked to the comments and wrote, \u201cDude got a loving heart. He&#8217;s got no atom of hating bone in his body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another added, \u201cNo fame changes that kind of bond. He really never forgot her,\u201d and a third chimed in, \u201cThis is so wholesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Luther singer was joined by fellow musicians Dr. Dre and will.i.am to celebrate the $270 million modernisation project, which marks the first major construction at the school in over 70 years. <\/p>\n<p>Lamar was the batch of 2005 at the school, and is one of the most notable alumnus of the institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar goes viral for wholesome childhood memory Kendrick Lamar marked an emotional moment meeting a memorable face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-419716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}