Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q explain how they came together to form what would become Black Hippy and the strength of their bond in On the Road Budweiser Made in America, a video series leading up to this year’s Budweiser Made In America Festival.
“Everybody really want to see each other win, not only in the music, but just in life,” Kendrick Lamar says in the documentary. “We started together so we know what it feel like to be at the bottom and know what it feel like to actually be doing something with ourselves. At the end of the day, it’s about keeping that brotherhood, a group of guys that come from nothing.”
Jay Rock, who was signed to Warner Bros. Records and is now on TDE/Strange Music, says that he and the rest of his crew had to grow into the powerful unit that Top Dawg Enetertainment has become. “Niggas always had the dream to be big, but we didn’t really know the business like that,” Jay Rock says. “We was just doing the shit to be doing it.”
The Watts, California rapper says that he knew Kendrick Lamar was a gifted rhymer the first time he met him. They were working together in the studio and he says Kendrick Lamar impressed him immediately.
“It was taking me a minute to write my verse and it just took this dude like five minutes,” Jay Rock says. “He’s like, ‘I’m ready for my verse. I’m ready.’ So I was like, ‘Where your pen and pad at?’ He didn’t have no pen, no pad, no nothing. This is when he was only like 16.”
Elsewhere in the documentary, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q explain how they joined the TDE fold. Ab-Soul also says that joining forces with Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar was a reality check.
“It was very humbling for myself because before I met Jay Rock and K. Dot, you know I just thought I was the best rapper in the world,” the Carson, California rapper says.
ScHoolboy Q, who says he was broke when he joined the crew, now relishes in the fact that he can now provide for his daughter through his career as a rapper. “You finally see how your momma feel,” he says. “My mom always got the job done. I didn’t know I was broke until I was like in high school. She kept it low-key the whole time.”
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they better put an album out
co sign. i bet its already in the works… i just think the idea of blowing up solo is a smart move. so when they decide to drop a BH album everyone knows who they are. that album would destroy any rap group album
give it up ‘consumers of rap music’ have short attention and will easily be distracted with whatever watered down crap is ‘HOT’ by the time the album drops
im afraid they gona sell out first
schoolboys oxymoron doesnt seem like anything special
that yaya song is wack
collard greens was alright but still
kkk
xxx
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gonna put chain saws on u suckers
n then RUB MY NIPPLES
ur only holding hip hop back with comments like
we want real opinions
any takers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5GeAYyZ5Q
Jay Rock is the only decent rapper in the whole click! Kendrick Lamar is a just another soft hippie wanna be.
cuz he on strange
Jay Rock ft Game – California Soul
jay rock the realest
schoolboy the technical mc
kendrick a lyrical beast (not the best)
and ab-soul the wildcard
“Said I was the underdog, turns out I’m the secret weapon.”
– A Black Lip Bastard
DX… do something with your comment section. One kid that keeps typing Jason and Freddy and Leatherface, like thats offensive or something
fuck the trolls they only do that shit cuz they dont know hip hop
eminem fans especially
wont put an album out cuz they cant top slaughterhouse’s first album
Kill yourself
i dont think u know lryics
tech
pac
em
go study bars
oh and just so u kno they got match
or read a book , watch a documentary , learn
without an album they just a crew
hip hop dx calls them a group
groups make albums together
still a group stupid
They made a mixed tape … go look it up Black Hippy
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It’s nice to see a lady who can spit and doesn’t walk around half-naked in order to sell records. You’re a great role model for women everywhere.
Eminem – we are americans
hope schoolboy makes more songs like “Fuck Ya Hip Hop”
and say wassup
say wassup by j.rock
realest in the crew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SCtyEOJy0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-cIzI4iQA
great vid, been listening to Kdot since 09 ot 10, since the Kendrick Lamar EP and i knew this kid was gonna be great! increadible lyricist
Then you have Jay Rock the G of the group, you can feel his love for music in his songs, he tells about how he grew up, how life was, he’s an increadible aritst and i wanna hear him announce his new album ’cause Follow me Home was GREAT!
Ab-soul, damn where to start with ab-soul… THs guy just blows my mind, he isen’t the greatest lyricist, doesen’t have the best flow in the group maybe (and i say maybe because both are on an elite level) but he is an increadibly intelligent guy and you hear it in interviews and his songs, He just looks like one of those guys that you can talk with for hours about stuff other people are just afraid to talk about.
ScHoolboy Q has won a lot of respect in my book… first i thought he might be the “weakest” link in the group but it took a few more listens to his songs for me to find out he is just as good as any other member in the group, he can do it all: make a club banger, talk deep shit, talk about drugs,hoes and clothes but does it in a way that it’s different from other rappers, it’s not recycled.
BH is just a gift to hip-hop 4 increadible artists, all in their own way, all with their own personality and own style of rapping and they make it work perfectly, hope they keep up the good work for a decade or so, these guys are real artists like few in hip-hop still exist
hell yeah man, straight up, good post.