Hit single from Kendrick Lamar, “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” cited in Oscar Pistorius murder trial

Last year, Kendrick Lamar scored the final hit off good kid, m.A.A.d. city with the “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” single. Kendrick Lamar also helped Jay-Z rebuild his momentum and caused friction with Drake during this period. But, what Kendrick didn’t expect to happen was indirectly cause a murder.

Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on February 14, 2013. With the murder taking place in the early hours of Valentine’s Day, Pistorius initially said it was a mistake. Pistorius claimed he had mistaken his girlfriend for an intruder.

Prosecutors, however, accuse Oscar Pistorius of killing his girlfriend on purpose during an argument. The Associated Press reported that Gerrie Nel used messages from WhatsApp to reveal an argument Pistorius and Steenkamp had over him playing Kendrick Lamar. During their exchange, Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics were even used.

Read excerpts from this conversation used in court below:

Steenkamp to Pistorius:“I’m scared of you sometimes and how u snap at me and of how you will react to me. You make me happy 90% of the time and I think we are amazing together but I am not some other bitch you may know trying to kill your vibe.

Pistorius to Steenkamp: “I was upset that you just left me after we got food to go talk to a guy and I was standing right behind you watching you touch his arm and ignore me. And when I spoke up you introduced me which you could’ve done but when I left you just kept on chatting to him when clearly I was upset. I asked Martin to put on that Kendrick Lamar album in the car and don’t know it.”

Granted that it was a fucking song, but you should’ve just lent forward and whispered in my ear to change it seeing as I had to drive to pick up your friend.”

When prosecution asked Oscar Pistorius if “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” was the song, he claimed he could not remember. But, the prosecution said Reeva Steenkamp would take offense to that if she could and if she were there, which she is not.