And? You can come out before an artist and still be influenced by him later on.

Which artists are u talking about? most of those artists said that Kendrick has influenced them

fair enough, I stand corrected

Tell me which artists

It's a silly argument anyways. Doesn't even make sense.

Wats this gotta do with me.

Because a future stan baited y’all.

I don’t get it

I mean, YG, Mac Miller, Tory Lanez. Maybe they've used his flow but as a whole the influence isn't obvious like saba or anderson paak

Get off my d*** weirdo . You on the first page of every thread hating.

I told you get some help it’s bad bro like bad get help

how does that work

I only hate Drake and new-gen garbage rappers

Kendrick doesn’t have more influence because his style is practically incopiable, he’s the artist of the generation.

Of course drake has influence his style and gimmick can be done by any one with fl and autotune. S*** singing and corny clever bars. He doesn’t even write his songs

peers influence each other that's not what people refer to when they talk about influence they talk about later artists. New generation. Yall d***eating rn

Kendrick has respect, drake has clout

OP didn't specify it as such tho

Outside of sound, Kendrick influenced the f*** out of the game when it comes to socially conscious rap being cool again.

Tory was already developing his style before 2012
Mac Miller was already a household name
J. Cole? Like really? He was already a star before gkmc was even promoted lmaooooo
YG lmfaoooo

Have u heard this before? Tory bit Kendrick on a few other songs that I don't quite remember now

Mac Miller has been working with similar producers since The Divine Feminine and even had a TPAB leftover on it and has took a similar approach Kendrick did with TPAB, he used Kendrick flows on Swimming and quoted Kendrick a couple of times on Swimming

YG we all know that Kendrick has influenced his debut album maybe not musically but concept wise

integrity intact

because OP is an idiot and it's obvious

It's not just sound elements or flows. People forget that GKMC and TPAB influenced artists to take the concept of an album more seriously again and not just view it as a bunch of hot singles.

socially conscious rap was already cool. Did yall start listening to rap in 2012?

Copying =/= Influence.

But Baby Keem and JID still say hello!

If u don't think that 4 Your Eyez Only (title track) is at least influenced by Sing About Me then we got nothing to talk about
Cole has said that Kendrick influenced him to make KOD after he saw him on the DAMN. tour

No it wasn't d***head.

Well, I agree that Kendrick's influence isn't as big as his stans claim. He's influenced a relatively irrelevant scene compared to the mainstream and some of those rappers are wack. But he is a huge figure nontheless, it's just a very special lane and his influence is not really felt within the mainstream apart from some wannabe Kendricks

As I said, I think his influence on people overthinking their album structure and conceptualizing their music is bigger than influence on actual sound elements and lyrics