Kendrick Lamar, who is in in the midst of international tour dates, recently recalled his initial meeting with Dr. Dre.
“I was very excited,” Kendrick Lamar says during an interview with i-d.vice.com. “I wasn’t nervous at all. I was more excited, ’cause I knew that this was my shot, everything that l’ve worked for, everything I’ve built up to came down to that moment.”
That moment resulted in the recording of his first song with Dr. Dre, “Compton.” The song is featured on Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut album, 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city.
Before the release of good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar appeared on “Buried Alive Interlude” from Drake’s 2011 album, Take Care. Kendrick Lamar said that the pair had an instant chemistry.
“I went on his Club Paradise tour and we really built a bond, a relationship, since the first time we met,” Kendrick Lamar says. “He put me on his album, which was the interlude, red light interlude. We always said it was gonna work. It was just about finding the right song, that was the right song.”
In 2013, Kendrick Lamar and Drake engaged in what appeared to be a feud after the release of Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Big Sean’s “Control.” “I’m usually homeboys with the same niggas I’m rhymin’ with,” Kendrick Lamar says on the song. “But this is Hip Hop and them niggas should know what time it is. That goes for Jermaine Cole, Big K.R.I.T., Wale,Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Big Sean, Jay Electron[ica], Tyler[, the Creator], Mac Miller. I got love for you all but I’m tryin’ to murder you niggas. Trying to make sure your core fans never heard of you niggas [and that] they don’t want to hear not one more noun or verb from you niggas. What is competition? I’m trying to raise the bar high.”
Vibe Magazine published an interview with Drake in December in which he addressed Kendrick Lamar’s verse on “Control” and whether or not he had responded to the song with “The Language,” a song from his 2013 album, Nothing Was The Same.
“I don’t ever want to get into responses,” Drake said when asked if Nothing Was The Same’s “The Language” is a Kendrick Lamar diss. “It’s a commitment to go there. ‘The Language’ is just energy. What it was inspired by, I’m sure that, and other things. It’s just me talking my shit. I never once felt the need to respond to that record. The sentiment he was putting forth is what he should have. Of course you wanna be the best. Where it became an issue is that I was rolling out an album while that verse was still bubbling, so my album rollout became about this thing. What am I supposed to say? ‘Nah, we’ll be buddy-buddy?’ Mind you, I never once said he’s a bad guy [or] I don’t like him. I think he’s a fucking genius in his own right, but I also stood my ground as I should.
Vibe Magazine later released outtakes of a 2013 interview with Drake in which he speaks on his approach to making music and the viability of concept albums in Hip Hop, including Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city.
“I feel like the music that I write is utilized in life,” he said. “It would be tough for me to go in conceptual storytelling. The last great concept album was good kid, m.A.A.d city—still obviously true to his life but very conceptual. Very specific stories that need to be told. I always say hats off to that album. That album’s incredible, what an undertaking.”
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article about kendrick saying some shit he already said in the past.
cant believe Drake put this clown on that record. SMH
can’t beleive kednrick gave drake his best song
nnot even a kendrick fan but buried alvie was the best song on take care.
Lord Knows?
Take Care is so bad, at least BA was good
Take Care blew Good kid out of the water content and sales wise.
Wrong. GKMC has better content than Take Care.
“Take Care blew Good kid out of the water content and sales wise.”
GKMC Metacritic score: 91
TC Metacritic score: 78
Clearly, GKMC is more superior than TC. Your only argument is sales which doesn’t make a good album.
MC Hammer blew TC out of the water sales and content wise
I’m not even a fan but gkmc iks the only classic of this geenration…
I would take Hammer over Drake to this day, that shit goes hard in da paint
rick ross > drake
kendrick shouldn’t give his verses like that, he gives one of the best verses to trash care.
Buried Alive is my all time fav Kdot joint, shame it was on Drake album tho.
Lord jamar says Kendrick was a fool for letting drake on that song in the first place. That nigga too soft
drake is trash
Drake needs to step his game up tbh
will drake ever release a good album ?
Drake is like the worst thing to ever happen to hip hop
He saved hip hop.
No, he destroyed it.
Drake is probably one of the realest emcees of all-time. Very few emcees have given as much to hip-hop culture as Drake.
Yeah, real soft. Drake hasn’t given anything to hip-hop besides a bunch of weak ass R&B/pop music. Stop riding his dick.
Rick ros > drake
cole > drake
j. cole’s terrible
You mean he’s terrific.
big sean > drake
soulja boy > drake
nwts >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MMLP2
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!
Good joke.
too bad it couldn’t even save take care.
Take is Double Platinum domestically, so you ain’t even making sense with your hate lol.
That doesn’t make it good. Take Care is still R&B crap.
That’s why it won best rap album right
Nope. The Grammys don’t know hip-hop at all and got it wrong again. Regardless, TC is still R&B crap.
Drake really needs to drop something great, nigga is all hype
still not getting the hype for drake, hes one of the only artists of the new school who hasn’t dropped a classic yet.
really? kendrick was the only one that drop a classic album
must be a j. cole fan; borned sinner’s the worst album of 2013
No, that’d be either INAHB2 or Excuse My French.
throw in Rich Gang too
Two of my favorite artists. Continue to do great things and move forward with ya music and movements. #Salute
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Kendrick only saw real success after “Buried Alive” . . . then he got the “Poetic justice” and “Fuckin Problems” assistance… Then Kendrick’s success really came . . . TRUE STORY!
Dumbass
True idiot
It’s the truth and ppl just can’t accept it
he was already successful and on his way before drake jumped on the bandwagon
^^^^ someone who gets it
Yeah, that’s when I noticed who he was and I thought he was a Drake artist. Drake had to be really secure and sincere to let Ken Doll shine like that. It was before Ken Doll was even signed to Dre. I definitely think that influenced Dre to sign him. Kenny Baby did Drake wrong by dissing at that awards show, after Drake showed love like that. The Weekend did Drake wrong too.
You know that’s a lie. Drake had nothing to do with Kendrick being successful/famous. He was already big before Drake came in.
Hows a fan of a Canadian jewish child actor gonna call a kid from Compton Ken Doll?
50 cent
If Kendrick was as “real” as he claims to be, he’d openly admit that Drake bringing him on tour, featuring him on Take Care, having Drake on GKMC and having T-Minus produce his breakout hit Swimming Pools are a huge reason why Kendrick is now famous.
OVO makes timeless classics, that simple.
He did what the typical black person does to people that help them.
“If Kendrick was as “real” as he claims to be, he’d openly admit that Drake bringing him on tour, featuring him on Take Care, having Drake on GKMC and having T-Minus produce his breakout hit Swimming Pools are a huge reason why Kendrick is now famous.”
You know none of this is true. Kendrick was already famous before Drake decided to ride his dick. Kendrick had co-signs from many big names in hip-hop and worked with a lot of people. Drake and his lackey are not the reason why Kendrick is famous. If anything, Dr. Dre is the reason why Kendrick is famous since he signed him to Aftermath and executive-produced his album, not Drake.
“OVO makes timeless classics, that simple.”
No, they don’t. They make soft, weed-plate music that’ll be forgotten through time.
All of u who says that Drakeis not a real nigga yall just Haters.Fuck. If he hasnt made any classic music or album how his songs are the most number ones R&B/Hip Hop charts,damn see the logic.
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s your typical retarded Drake stan. So according to this Drake stan, having hit songs=classic records. So by that logic, Bieber has classics. The logic of these morons. BTW, Drake has no classics.
Take Care is a CLASSIC.
No, it ain’t.
so much drake haters. Drake killed kendrick on poetic justice he made kendrick famous by having verses on his album. Drake runs this rap shit he has 2 double platinum albums and 1 platinum while kendrick only has 1 platinum album. Drake has more number 1 hits drakes tours sell more drake has more fans drake is more popular drake is more known. Kendrick has absolutely nothing on drake besides a few virgin internet nerd groupie fans. Drake has real fans people have relationships and lives. Kendrick fans act like a bunch of homosexuals online crying over kendricks mishaps and wishing he had half the sucess that drake has.
All of this is a fucking lie.
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GKMC Metacritic score: 91
TC Metacritic score: 78
Critics always gravitate towards boring crap. I was referring to the only stat that matters and that’s sales.
That’s not true at all. And like I said before, sales doesn’t matter at all.
Eminem’s highest rated album on metacritic is 78–the original Marshall Mathers LP.
Drake has more classics than Eminem according to most music critics.
GKMC is a great album and better than every Eminem album. So is Section 80.
Take Care is also a classic.
“Drake has more classics than Eminem according to most music critics.
GKMC is a great album and better than every Eminem album. So is Section 80.
Take Care is also a classic.”
SAID NO ONE EVER. Kill yourself for the bullshit you said.
Yeah, listen to the same critics who over-praised that trash album Yeezus.
“Hammer blew TC out of the water sales and content wise”
ok lol Whatever helps get you through the day.
You contradicted yourself again.
“Critics always gravitate towards boring crap.”
Yes, like every album Drake puts out.
Never boring, just monotous.
Yes, boring.
First collab between Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar was “The Recipe”…god…
“You contradicted yourself again”
You mad an outrageous statement about an artist who was more of a flash in the pan than an artist who continues to grow. Hammer had sales, and should be respected for that when talking about that time period, but your bait and trap didn’t work.
“You mad an outrageous statement about an artist who was more of a flash in the pan than an artist who continues to grow.”
So you’re saying that Drake is a flash in the pan? LOL you just set yourself up for that fail. And Hammer should never be respected at all.
“GKMC is a great album and better than every Eminem album. So is Section 80”
The beats suck, and his flow is boring. At least Eminem had the shock value and dead on collaborations to fall back on.
No. The beats are dope and his flow is not boring. You’re describing Drake’s album.
“The beats suck, and his flow is boring.”
Said no one ever.
kendrick will never be on drakes level. numbers dont lie just remember your opinion is an opinion numbers are facts that cant be disputed you delusional virgins.
Still wrong.
WORD!
And I was talking about Anonymous.