Not necessarily, It gave his name some buzz. Section.80 is what blew him up.

Nice of him to let him drop the best track in his whole discography

But remember anybody can get it
The hard part is keepin it motherfucker

only real ones remember all those viral freestyles of his doing s*** on beats from Kanye, Lil Wayne, Jay Z etc.

Looking f***ed up in an apartment stairwell or block corner lmao > > >

I was on it since OD

Ignorance is bliss was his biggest song then

Blogs gave him crazy hype,he released section.80 and things took off from there.

Signed with Dre after his music caught his attention from YouTube

The rest is history

Jay Rock feels like another generic gangster rapper who would’ve blown up if it was 2004

Once dre gave him the cosign and Interscope push to promote and make good kid maad city it was a wrap

before that he was pretty underground ... mostly only known to Cali, Game fans, people that heard his verse on take care

Niggas did sense he was next up though. Since section 80 it ws clear he was of a different breed. OD was great too but sonically or lyrically didnt do nothing crazy compared to the rest of TDE

Iconic moment in hip hop

Monster freestyle

Like most artist

Interscope: 💦🌱

Decided to check him out after I heard his verse on YOLO by the lonely island

Real lmao

Niggas really don't understand how hard he's been going since like 2008

A lot of OG west coast rappers were praising him beforehand and then he delivered with section 80 since then the bar just kept getting raised higher and higher and Kendrick been delivering since. True king imo

Hard work and talent.

that was before kendrick

jay rock was their test run to get a greater knowledge of what they needed to do to break into the mainstream

Actually the opposite.

I heard of him through watch out for detox and I was like damn he’s cool and then I think he gained steam with Dre and then drake

By being a one in ten million talent or sum s***

The west coast is so f***ing dope. Them niggas literally passed the torch to Kendrick.