Now although this album as a whole didn’t shatter any charts or any hearts it did continue to score Lamar credit for his creativity.
Keep this in mind as we approach the chart topping debut of Kendrick Lamar’s ego. This record sneaked onto Billboard debuting at number 72. The artist formally known as K-Dot released his fourth album ‘Overly Dedicated’ on September 14 for digital junkies under Top Dawg Entertainment and on the 23 to all you normal folk (I hope you got that Diddy/P.Diddy reference). Now this might not seem like the ideal reach for popularity but try to remember my lovely hipsters that even bad attention is good publicity. Kendrick toured with Tech N9ne and Jay Rock on The Independent Grind tour that year. Do you have to be black to be in the group while simultaneously not wearing shoes, dropping a lot of acid and wearing wrappable clothing? Get it together kids you might rap super hood but your name is lame.Ģ010 came around and Kendrick Lamar is still fraternizing with rappers I avoid like the plague. Also in 2009, Kendrick joined forces with Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q to form the previously judged So-Cal group Black Hippy. Soon after Kendrick dropped K-Dot (goodbye 90s) and decided to stick with the name his momma gave him (because mom knows best). ‘C4’ was released in December of 2009 and is basically Kendrick Lamar’s version of The Carter III. Weezy co-signed Kendrick resulting in the third mixtape for K-Dot. Hamilton might not be worth a damn but his fame opened a door for K-Dot which lead to him stumbling into the hands of Lil Wayne. This video is basically a mess of tin sounding music in the background of a club while teenage Kendrick raps over drunk shouts wearing plaid and a down vest looking much to hipster in a crowd of gangsters. He made an impact on the Charles Hamilton show who is basically a failed rapper named to XXL’s Freshman in ’09 then released too many mix tapes, stepped on some toes and fell of the face of the earth. K-Dot released another mixtape named ‘Training Day’ in 2005 as his slow climb to the top continued. The kid got some local recognition with some feature verses on The Games songs but Kendrick wasn’t anyone yet. ‘Youngest Head Nigga in Charge’ was the first we heard of K-Dot (Kendricks pseudonym reminding me heavily of the 90s). Kendrick was a straight-A student in high school and was keen enough to make his first mixtape at 16. Dre film the video to a tune you might have heard of called ‘California Love’. Living in Compton, California, eight year old Kendrick witness Tupac Shakur and Dr. Kendrick Lamar’s first noted influence happened back in 1995. I’ll never be able to sum up Kendrick Lamar into words, but I thought you should know a little bit about his story before you decided whether his talk is bigger than his talent or not.
You might hate him because he called out every rapper in the game in his ‘Control’ verse but I’d be damned if I didn’t respect someone who is ballsy enough to come out of the depths of Compton to the most talked about performance at the Grammys. Dre, The Game and Eazy- E, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth reps his roots like only hood-ass rappers from Compton can. Hailing from the origin of the likes of Dr. The cause of this might be because they seem to have chosen the worst name ever and never rep but I’d be more surprised if you haven’t heard of their most popular member who has been stirring up the rap scene since 2010. Now I don’t really expect you to know the hip-hop crew known as Black Hippy.