Kendrick Lamar has been named music’s “Hardest Working” rapper, according to songkick.com.
“This year’s results are especially mind-blowing,” songkick.com says when presenting its findings. “We’ve seen a 15 percent increase in distances travelled by the biggest acts in the last 12 months. As artist incomes rely more and more on the live music industry, it’s clear that bands are increasingly willing to tour further and tap into new and emerging markets.”
In April, Lamar announced his “good kid, m.A.A.d. city Tour.” When announced the tour boasted a schedule that included 60 shows, 15 countries, 23 headline concert dates, 22 international festivals and 15 United States summer festivals, as HipHopDX reported in April.
More recently, Kendrick Lamar has also been an opener on Kanye West’s Yeezus tour.
In October, Lamar spoke about how touring with West was helpful.
“We’ll be going into the middle of December, which is a blessing,” Kendrick Lamar said during an interview with Revolt. “A lot of people don’t get the opportunity to be on a major stage in front of that many people and be able to learn. I’m just taking it all in stride and being a student of the game because Kanye [West], he’s a great performer. I’m not too shabby, like I said, again, but I’m just there really to challenge myself, grow myself and take that next level.”
For the year, Lamar has performed in 171 shows, as per songkick.com. The number places Lamar as the second hardest working musician overall. Local Natives earned the top slot with 188.
songkick.com also counted distance traveled by artists as part of its criteria. Lamar also came in second in this area, with more than 229,000 kilometers traveled. Alt-J landed in first place with more than 251,000 kilometers.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Miguel were also named among the the hardest working artists of the year by songkick.com.
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Should include songs and feature appearances in their criteria.
Its not fair for my boy Rozay who worked hard too but he had to lay low for a few months after those gangstas tried to take him out cause they were jelly.
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That nigga didnt lay low he just found another promoter and went back on tour, them niggas never stop recording or touring.
HAH!!! rozay only reason rozay layed low was cause he coulden’t get his lazy ass out off macdonalds!!!
back on tour? 8 lil theatres that werent even sold out LOLOL
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no ones even coming out in the 4th quarter, which is usually for the tax write offs anyway.. they said it had to do with sample clearance
All the fuckin work my nigga puts in and niggas still have the audacity to call him overrated without even giving a solid reason, they just still salty cause of control smh.
That nigga don’t put no work in and look who on the list. He gone up against stars that sing pop music.Control wasn’t even all that, it was actually Kurupt line that he used back in the day but he changed the names so get off his d**k. I would swear you was a female the way you riding that man d**k. He way overrated the only reason he get the hype is cause he signed with DRE.
Somebody’s jealous.
@youmad, yeah, the king of new york line was kurupt’s but the whole verse wasn’t.. the rest was all kendrick.. and he’s got the hype because he made a great album and people recognize his talent..
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Kendrick Lamar, the gay rapper, leader of gay rights, friend of Macklemore. you kids really like this kid? he stole Lil Wayne’s beats to got fame and used Weezy to promote him but at the end he signed to Dr. Dre. what a snake right? but YMCMB dont need a wack artist like this. Drake the straight rapper sold more in 1 month than this gay nigga in 1 year. swag
Wrong.
Drake outsold Kendrick easily. proves that straight music sells more than gay music. Lady Gaga flopped too. swag
Nope. That proves that pop music sells more than hip-hop music. However, Kendrick has better music than Drake.
Wrong. Are you stupid? Drake is real hip hop while Kendrick is a pop star. swag
You got it backwards. Drake is pop while Kendrick is hip-hop.
Any artist that makes a song like Hold On We’re Going Home is not hip-hop.
no, you are wrong. Drake is real hip hop, he makes concept albums. Kendrick makes pop singles. swag
Again, you got it backwards. Kendrick is the hip-hop artist that makes concept albums while Drake makes an album full of pop singles.
Drake is the faggot, he’s one of those guys who stands akwardly around conversations, fake ass motherfucker makin’ songs like started from the bottem while raised with a pool in his backyard and starring in some show as a teen, at least Kdot has lived and seen what he writes about, that’s Hip-hop, not drakes gucci or versace or wahtever the fuck it is bs
Drake is real and he raps about his life. Kendrick is just another pop rapper created by Internscope Records and Dr. Dre. swag
Wrong. Drake is a pop rapper who talks about starting from the bottom when he came from the suburbs of Canada. Kendrick is a real dude from Compton who raps about real life stuff, not a fantasy world of money and bitches.
you are makinh up lies about Drake. he is 100% real. Kendrick is fake, he even lied he met 2Pac, but he was too young for that. swag
I’m speaking the truth. Drake is fake, Kendrick is real. Kendrick never said he met 2pac, he said he saw him.
All those shows yet Drake out sold him in record time. Pace yourself nerd boy. If you try and pull a Tech Nine, people will burn out on you and start treating you like they do 50.
You’re wrong about everything, hater.
Wheres Drake on the list? He must not work very hard he spends all his time crying over his ex girlfriends
kendrick has to work hard for the scrubs will drake makes millions sells the highest tours with out even trying. Drake runs this rap shit with no effort its a fact that drake is more sucessfull than kendrick gaymar will ever be in his entire life.
Wrong, Drake stan.
i spit facts i spit truth you internet nerd virgins have a hard time accepting reality thats why you have to jack off to fake rappers like kendrick rapping about his fantasies
What facts/truth? Nothing you say is true at all. You’re just an idiotic Drake dickrider jacking off to Aubrey’s pictures while hating on other artists.
Kendrick fake? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
drake accomplishments =
1)Drake has the most number 1 hits at the age of 26
2) No other artist from the new wave of rappers goes double platinum like drake does
3) Drake is breaking a lot of records and he hasn’t even reached 30 yet
4) Drake is the face of rap everyone listens to rap for drake
5)Drakes tours are the highest selling out of all rappers drake runs rap its a fact stop denying.
Kendricks accomplishments =
1 platinum album thats it. You cant compare kendrick to drake when drake has accomplished far more.
You just copy-pasted old bullshit comments.
Lol kendrick lamar killed drake so many times lol
kendrick lamar his lyrical ability is million times ahead
of drake – drake cant even rap LIKE KENDRICK LAMAR
KENDRICK LAMAR GET COMPARED TO PEOPLE LIKE JAY Z AND NAS
All of that hard work pays off.
Just not on the charts.
Yes, it does.
Fiddy might not be able to tour anymore but he was at a boxing match last weekend and it was hyphy.
tech n9ne has toured wayyy more and puts out an album basically every year easily #1 hardest working
i agree.. he should be up there too..
He will always be overlooked because he will never bend to the main stream but for sure 100%. He also goes way harder at shows I’ve seen Kendrick and he’s good live, but Tech just goes all in every time and he 42 years old
are you a fucking ass? Tech N9ne might have toured his whole career, but this is a 2013 chart, not “everything you have done up to 2013 from the beginning of times”.
I love Tech n9ne but if he toured that much his numbers would be fuckin up there. that simple.
he’s toured a massive amount over his CAREER that don’t mean he did the most hustle this year
Completely ignorant to underground acts (as usual). K-Rino or Jak Tripper bust their ass in the booth.
being in the booth doesn’t mean jack shit
okay “bust their ass” like, they create and mix beats and spit hard.. for what? how long? do we hear any of that shit? are they dishing out 3 albums a year? when they do, then I’ll listen.
Kendrick has been touring non-stop since he dropped GKMC. this nigga went through US, Europe twice, back to US(college tours), then to Canada, then decided to open for Kanye when he didn’t have to… studio hustle ain’t shit compared to that
they underground for a reason.
no one care
KENDRICK LAMAR IS THE BEST RAPPER – BEST LYRICS BEST FLOW
BEST FLOW
HE GOT HIS PASSION FROM 2PAC THE FATHER OF HIP HOP
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and white people stop ACTING LIKE NIGGAS CAUSE YOU ARE NOT ahhahahaah
2Pac is Father of Hip Hop?? Watch your mouth rookie…you clearly have no insight on the culture
This generation of rappers is too funny. Nowadays you got gay rappers (and don’t try to tell me this dude ain’t gay) holdin’ it down for hoods such as Compton in this case. LMFAO! A faggot… holdin’ it down for… Compton. Let that one sink in a little.
You really are an idiot.
do you really think west coast niggas like snoop, dr dre, game, nipsey would all co-sign a gay rapper claiming compton?
the average full time employee works 240 days a year 8 hour days but I guess that’s impressive when you make music for a living?
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K Rino is the hard working rapper in the game he dropped 3 albums in 2013 and writes most of his own sh*t. How many albums did Kendrick lame drop in 2013 none GTFO calling this chump the hardest working rap in the game SMH
no one gives a fuck about you k rino stop promoting yourself
you never gonna get anywhere hating on the next man
Kendrick needs to setup up his game and drop a album every yr or he will lose his whole fan base. K Rino can drop 4 or 5 albums in the same time Kendrick lame takes to drop one. You dyck ryders still say he is the hardest working rapper in the game GTFO. Kendrick is this generations Jadakiss
You are an idiot.
Young chump you not say sh*t I have been listen to to rap hiphop longer than you have been alive. It is really funny that these dyck ryders get so butt hurt when someone states the truth about how wack Kendrick lame really is L O L
It’s funny to see how idiotic these haters are. If you think Kendrick’s wack, then you have hearing issues.
Funny some of you are calling him a top 10 rapper of all time after he has only dropped one so so album. Have you every listed to 2 2pac Nas Scarface or Ice Cube albums all the way through if not STFU. Come back after Kendrick lame has dropped 6 albums if he even makes it that far till then STFU
He dropped two albums. And, yes. I have heard the albums from the rappers you mentioned. They’re dope and so is Kendrick. Stop being such a hipster.
Be to a top 10 rap hiphop artist you need to have a min of 5 4+ mic albums and Kendrick lame does not even have 1 4+ mic album
You really are retarded, you know that?
4 mics dont mean shit and nas kendrick and scarface will be the first to tell you kendrick is that dude and wtf is a k rino
and he is now the best rapper of the last 5 years, congratz my nigga
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good synth/production work but some of those synths are way over used. Jay was boss mobbin but Cam is still better