in this video i look at how Baby Keem handled being a close relative of one of the biggest artists on earth vs how others have done it (King Combs, Will's kids etc)

his calculated approach helped him build an actual fanbase rather than be written off as a novelty or a nepo baby (nepo cousin?). but of course, he also used resources that were more readily available to him bc of his cousin's connections

what do yall think?

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The difference with keem, is he’s actually a really great writer that did have to go through struggle and came with his own completely unique sound and influences that are outside kendrick’s era. Dude is a creative artist that actually helps Kendrick to be around. They are also super collaborative, getting ideas from each other elevating each other as artists and writers. He takes music serious and took it serious before Kendrick, he def deserves his spot. I think jaden does too, but that’s besides the point.

facts. it must be said keem is legitimately very talented

Your editing got better

Must’ve taken you awhile to edit the video. How long did it take?

Also krishu saying no to Keem is hilarious I had no idea

i would say the same thing about fred again tbh

I’m not invested in baby Keem enough to watch this but yeah Keem is koo

lmfao i forgot the @Krishard_Nixon thing is in the video im crying

it def took me a little bit but honestly it took me longer to do my first few less edited videos than it did to do this, i just got faster with time tbh its all workflow, i know how to anticipate what im gonna need and how to get it done faster

king hadji

yea idk if im well versed enough in electronic music to judge how naturally talented he is. but def an interesting story

Fred a nepo

I like die for my b**** and sound of bad habits but it's kinda crazy that kendrick pretty much wrote both of them.

But make sense knowing he had industry producers and videos with his earlier music

He’s like British royalty or some s*** like that and Brian Eno was a family friend/neighbor

yeah he was in close relation with brian eno growing up but he’s also talented

yea its not a 1:1 situation to keem but he definitely had some crazy connects

yea man like the shia lebeouf connect, there's just no explanation of that whatsoever. not like, shia being like i found him on here, whatever, absolutely nothing lmao

I don’t think bad energy should be given to the title of industry plant or nepo baby
A lot of the most talented artists are that. Destroy lonely father was I-20, Ken knew Lil 88 since being a little kid, keem with Kendrick, lil darkie was shabazz palaces son. These environments it seems helps a lot just foster creativity and make great music, they just didn’t have to go through the bullshit of making connections in the industry like most artists had to. And that’s a blessing for them. If people like the music it stays. Same goes for people like teezo who grinder but just didn’t go as public with music till they had their behind the scenes s*** figured out, that’s what Miguel did. The negative connotation should be given to people like Rich Amiri that bot 70% of their streams lied about his real name and clearly was signed while claiming independent.

Ugly and beat

hahaha i think u mean lil tracy not lil darkie. but facts

Kendrick didn’t write both of them, he wrote like one or two songs to our knowledge and reference tracks don’t prove writing, Kendrick and keem care a lot about the flow and cadence how things r said which references are also used for.

Ur right lol

I think Jaden has done well for himself creating his own identity as an obvious nepo baby. Can’t really speak on Willow because I’ve never heard much of her stuff

yep. this is one point i rly wanted to drive home, just because theres a reference track doesnt mean one person wrote it. and someone "writing" on a track could just be kicking it in the studio or providing one line or even one word. people act like keem is kendrick's second save file in the rap world when we don't have the context to confirm that. but it's clear there was collaboration in the earlier stuff when it wasnt public knowledge at the time

Yeah, its just how studio sessions go really. People bouncing ideas off each other for every aspect

im doubling back on this bc its facts. i think that first line is worth unpacking though

the industry plant debate is interesting (and im working on a 4batz video for next week that's gonna talk about a lot of this) because the only time its ever really flagrant is when artists champion being independent but arent really independent, or start astroturfing this idea of a "come up" when in reality theyve been at it for a long time and are being funded by industry sources

people took the term to mean any artist that was signed, when like, if theyre not lying about it then whats the problem ya know? its a labels JOB to get an artists career poppin