Kendrick Lamar surprised young rap fans at a hip-hop workshop in Manchester this week by dropping in unexpectedly, which ended up in a friendly rap battle.

In a clip from the workshop, organised by Reebok Classic and Brighter Sounds at a small community centre in the English city, the 28 year old megastar can be seen watching on and encouraging several teenage attendees as they take turns on the mic.

Eventually, the Compton-born star himself jumps in and gets involved. Going up against a multi-Grammy Award winner and platinum selling hip-hop god might seem like an intimidating prospect, but the English teens seemed to hold their own while taking some light joking from Lamar in the process.

Kendrick LamarKendrick Lamar surprised aspiring teenage rappers in Manchester by turning up at a hip-hop workship this week

Lamar is collaborating on a new range of sneakers with Reebok, and so was attending the rap cypher in Manchester as part of the promotional duties.

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He won rave reviews and topped many critics’ end-of-year lists for 2015’s To Pimp A Butterfly, which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to that, he dropped an album of offcuts, called untitled unmastered, at the beginning of this month, which has also topped the US Billboard charts selling 178,000 copies.

Lamar recently intimated that he was busy working on a new track with DJ Khaled, according to Complex. “I am talking to Kendrick Lamar about an anthem that I want him on,” Khaled said on radio station Power106. “Me and Kendrick have been talking about it. I've seen him a few times since I've been out here. I've been staying in touch with Top Dawg.”

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