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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers delivered another healthy month of hiring in June, adding 206,000 jobs and once again displaying the U.S. economy’s ability to withstand continually high interest rates.
Last month’s job growth did mark a pullback from 218,000 in May. But it was still a strong gain, reflecting the resilience of America’s consumer-driven economy, which is slowing but still growing steadily.
Friday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that the unemployment rate ticked up from 4% to a still-low 4.1%. And the department sharply revised down its estimate of job growth for April and May by a combined 111,000.
The state of the economy is weighing heavily on voters’ minds as the presidential campaign intensifies. Despite consistent hiring, relatively few layoffs and gradually cooling inflation, many Americans have been exasperated by still-high prices and assign blame to President Joe Biden.
Economists been repeatedly predicting that the job market would lose momentum in the face of high interest rates engineered by the Fed, only to see the hiring gains show unexpected strength. Still, there are signs of an economic slowdown in the face of the Federal Reserve’s series of interest rate hikes. The U.S. gross domestic product — the total output of goods and services — grew at a lethargic annual pace of 1.4% from January through March, the slowest quarterly pace in nearly two years.
Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of all U.S. economic activity and which has powered the expansion the past three years, rose at just a 1.5% pace last quarter after growing more than 3% in each of the previous two quarters. In addition, the number of advertised job openings has declined steadily since peaking at a record 12.2 million in March 2022.
Still, while employers might not be hiring so aggressively after having struggled to fill jobs the past two years, they aren’t cutting many, either. Most workers are enjoying an unusual level of job security.
During 2022 and 2023, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate 11 times to try to conquer the worst streak of inflation in four decades, lifting its key rate to its highest point in 23 years. The punishingly higher borrowing rates that resulted, for consumers and businesses, were widely expected to trigger a recession. They didn’t. The economy and the job market instead have shown surprising resilience.
Meanwhile, inflation has steadily declined from a 9.1% peak in 2022 to 3.3%. In remarks this week at a conference in Portugal, Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted that price increases in the United States were slowing again after higher readings earlier this year. But, he cautioned, further evidence that inflation is moving toward the Fed’s 2% target level would be needed before the policymakers would cut rates.
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Kendrick Lamar seems to be mocking Drake again with his new music video for his diss track “Not Like Us.”
The two major hip-hop stars were embroiled in a diss track war in April and early May after Lamar publicly called out Drake and J. Cole in a verse on “Like That” for Future and Metro Boomin’s album “We Don’t Trust You” in March.
Neither rapper has released a new diss track since May 5, but Lamar is still fuelling the beef.
On Thursday, the “Not Like Us” video became the first music video Lamar released for his Drake diss tracks.
The video is filled with cameos, including his longtime partner Whitney Alford and their two children.
The video seems to be Lamar’s second victory lap after he performed four of his five diss tracks and rapped “Not Like Us” five times in a row at his Juneteenth concert last month.
At first, hip-hop fans were excited about Lamar and Drake’s rap beef, believing it was a friendly competition between some of the genre’s most notable stars. Rap beef can help artists boost streams and sales and prove they are worthy of acclaim in the hip-hop world.
But Drake and Lamar’s beef soon turned vicious when both stars made unverified allegations of sexual assault, pedophilia, and domestic abuse against each other.
After a week of back-to-back diss tracks, Drake seemed to drop out of the beef after the release of “The Heart Part 6” on May 5. But Lamar just keeps going.
Here are all the moments in the “Not Like Us” music video that seems to reference the rap beef.
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The “Not Like Us” music video features multiple shots of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Compton, California, and scenes of Lamar and fans outside the court.
In the first verse of the song, Kendrick calls Drake a pedophile, and showing the courthouse could be a nod to that.
In May, Variety reported that the cover art for “Not Like Us” was an aerial view of Drake’s mansion near Toronto with pins on the building, resembling those used on sex offender maps.
Drake denied the pedophilia allegations in “The Heart Part 6,” saying he’s “too famous” to have sex with underaged women and he would be arrested for it.
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Before the “Not Like Us” beat begins, a new track plays where Lamar raps about reincarnation.
Could this be another track directed at Drake, or is Lamar teasing a song for an upcoming album, indicating that he is moving on from the beef?
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Tommy the Clown, DeMar DeRozan, and Black Hippy rap group members Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, and Jay Rock are some of the many cameos in the music video. They also appeared onstage during Lamar’s Juneteenth concert last month and are figures of the West Coast hip-hop community.
In the diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle,” released in April, Drake uses AI-generated vocals of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur to question Lamar’s position as a representative of the West Coast rap scene.
Lamar challenged this idea by getting figures from the West Coast community to publicly support him in the video. Lamar likely filmed “Not Like Us” in Compton landmarks, such as Tam’s Burgers, for a similar reason.
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Early in the video, Lamar hits a pinata shaped like an owl, the logo of Drake’s record label, OVO.
A caption at the bottom of a screen reads, “Disclaimer: No OVhoes were harmed in making this video.”
“Ov-ho” is a term Lamar uses in “Not Like Us” to mock Drake and his label.
This scene seems to be a direct reference to Lamar and Drake’s diss track fight.
At the end of the video, Lamar stares at a real-life owl and puts it in a cage, suggesting that Lamar thinks he has defeated Drake.
The cage could symbolize Lamar’s attempt to ostracize Drake from the hip-hop community with the rap beef.
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In Drake’s first diss track, “Push-ups,” the rapper uses the exercise as a metaphor to mock Lamar’s alleged deal with his former label, Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). Drake claimed the label took 50% of profits from Lamar’s songs.
Lamar and TDE never responded to this allegation.
A representative for Lamar and TDE did not immediately respond to a comment request from Business Insider.
In one scene of the “Not Like Us” music video, Lamar is seen doing push-ups on cinder blocks, appearing to reference the track.
Lamar may also be suggesting that Drake should be in prison. The layout of the room, the small bed, and Lamar’s tracksuit outfit all seem to reference a prison cell. At this point of the song, Lamar also makes the pedophile allegations.
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Partway during the video, Lamar stands next to Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, the CEO of TDE, and later hugs him. This may be another way of Lamar addressing Drake’s allegations that TDE exploited the “Humble” rapper. When the pair hug, they prove there’s no beef between Lamar and TDE.
Mustard, the producer of “Not Like Us,” makes a cameo alongside Lamar when they drive to Tam’s Burgers.
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Whitney Alford, Lamar’s longtime partner, and their two children are the final major cameo in the “Not Like Us” music video.
In his diss tracks “Family Matters” and “The Heart Part 6,” Drake claims that Lamar domestically abused Alford. Drake also claimed that Dave Free, the cofounder of Lamar’s company PGLang, is the biological father of one of Lamar’s kids.
Lamar has not directly addressed either allegation. But Alford and his two children appear in the music video, and Free got a director credit at the end of the video.
Lamar seems to suggest there is no drama between him and Alford or Free.
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