Saturday night, very good rapper Kendrick Lamar headlined the Sweetlife Festival, a two-day event that's ostensibly about finding harmony in the marriage of music and leafy greens. The festival is sponsored by Sweetgreen, a high-brow salad chain that recently debuted its delightfully named Beets Don't Kale My Vibe salad, a buoyantly quirky take on a Kendrick Lamar song remixed in vegetable form.

In all fairness to Neman, I'm not entirely sure what Kendrick thought was going to happen. "m.A.A.d City" is a dark, violently aggressive track laced with a fast, unwieldy beat. When Lamar raps the song, his flow is pained and stretched, practically tangled up in itself. Neman is just a guy who had a dream about salads, a guy who turned that dream into several salad stores with long lines and pretty good lighting, a guy who wanted to use his big salad money to have a salad music show. This whole thing is a powerful reminder that even if you follow your dreams, there will still be times when that gut-wrenching, knee-buckling flush of embarrassment will come knock you on your face.