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Kendrick Lamar Responds To Viral Video Of Security Guard Crying At His Show: “It’s All About The Feeling”

<p>Kendrick Lamar has responded to a viral video showing a security guard crying during his performance of &&num;8220&semi;Love&&num;8221&semi; at a concert in Houston last week&comma; saying &&num;8220&semi;that&&num;8217&semi;s how you want everybody to receive your music&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Devyn Sanford was working Lamar&&num;8217&semi;s concert at the Toyota Center last Friday night when he was filmed in a state of great emotion&comma; having been moved to tears as the 35-year-old rapper performed onstage behind him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The video has already garnered nearly 12 million views on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tiktok&period;com&sol;&commat;dejaihvu&sol;video&sol;7123568269616778542&quest;is&lowbar;copy&lowbar;url&equals;1&amp&semi;is&lowbar;from&lowbar;webapp&equals;v1"><strong>TikTok<&sol;strong><&sol;a> as of Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s What Music Should Do&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Rapper Says Of Emotional Viral Video Of Security Guard<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Lamar caught wind of the 10-second clip&comma; and told 12-year-old reporter Jazzy of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;IxFzg4LI-S8"><strong>Jazzy&&num;8217&semi;s World TV<&sol;strong><&sol;a> that he wondered &&num;8216&semi;what &lpar;Sanford&rpar; is going through&comma;&&num;8217&semi; but added that&&num;8217&semi;s what music should do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8216&semi;At the end of the days&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s how you want everybody to perceive your music&comma; you know&comma; make them feel good&comma; make them feel like a moment they&&num;8217&semi;re attached &lbrack;to&rsqb;&period; It can live forever&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Lamar told Jazzy&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7123568269616778542" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 14-time Grammy Award winner added that he wanted his music and legacy to &&num;8220&semi;impact and inspire people&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Through my music&comma; I want to make sure that&&num;8217&semi;s the legacy &&num;8211&semi; showing people how to communicate &&num;8211&semi; and it&&num;8217&semi;s okay if you&&num;8217&semi;re not perfect&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s about accepting the beauty of imperfection&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Sanford told <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fox26houston&period;com&sol;news&sol;security-guard-goes-viral-at-houstons-toyota-center-after-getting-emotional-during-kendrick-lamar-concert"><strong>FOX 26 Houston<&sol;strong><&sol;a> that he was &&num;8220&semi;going through a tumultuous time in my life&&num;8221&semi; back in 2013&comma; when the song &&num;8220&semi;Love&&num;8221&semi; was first released&comma; saying that hearing it &&num;8220&semi;brought me back&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The security guard nearly missed the chance for the viral moment as he debated whether to buy tickets or work the show&comma; however he said it would have still had the same impact on him either way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Caught Up With Emotion Between Concert&&num;8217&semi;s Energy&comma; Song&&num;8217&semi;s Lyrics<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Sanford said he got caught up with emotion between the concert&&num;8217&semi;s energy and the lyrics of the song being performed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite artist&comma; so I made sure to be there&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the security guard told Fox 26 Houston&period; &&num;8220&semi;I kind of debated whether or not just to be buy tickets or work the show&comma; and I decided to work it&comma; and it still had the same impact&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"IxFzg4LI-S8" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8220&semi;I kind of just absorbed everybody&&num;8217&semi;s emotions and I was trying my best to hold it together&comma; but I just kind of cried&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he told the outlet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kendrick Lamar&&num;8217&semi;s Team Reaches Out To Security Guard<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Since going viral&comma; Sanford says Lamar&&num;8217&semi;s team has reached out to him to send him free merchandise&comma; with the chance to meet the rapper on the table as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8220&semi;They want to send me some free merch and I think I get to talk to him&comma; or something&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not really sure&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m still trying to process it all&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"94695" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kendrick-lamar-responds-to-viral-video-of-security-guard-crying-at-his-show-its-all-about-the-feeling&sol;" data-secure&equals;"40a47892f0"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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