While celebrities, musicians and otherwise, have come out in praise of Kendrick Lamar's recent Grammy performance, there's one artist who is expressing at least a bit of disapproval. Philadelphia's Dice Raw, a frequent collaborator with The Roots, took to Twitter Monday (Feb. 15) and spoke to Philly.com on Wednesday (Feb. 17) about the visual similarities Kendrick's performance had to his 2013 theatrical work the last jimmy.

Lamar's performance featured the rapper in chains as actors and musicians danced from behind bars around him. As the piece transitioned into an African dance number with a large silhouette of the continent behind him, the similarities to Dice Raw's work began to grow.

“I though Kendrick’s performance was good — I was watching/not watching — until I got a phone call asking me what I thought,” Raw said to Philly.com. “Oh yeah, the prison thing. That’s a point. Then the gold cages onstage, yeah that’s another coincidence. Are those musicians in cages? OK. African dance in the middle of that montage — another coincidence, too."

He continued: “My legal team and the production crew behind the L.A. performance took to social media very quickly and heatedly to say that Lamar has borrowed elements of the last jimmy — at least in their opinion."

It doesn't appear as if Dice Raw is overtly bothered by the performance, telling the local website, "We’re both fighting the same fight. It isn’t Kendrick Lamar — he’s not the enemy...but maybe his choreographer is,” and writing on Twitter during the telecast "I know Kendrick don't know he bit my play but the person who told him to do that dose. I'm not mad."

Watch a performance of Dice's the last jimmy below and determine for yourself if the similarities are more than a coincidence.

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