OKAY I'M DONE HERE

Don’t forget Andre 3000. Who Kendrick pretty much got a lot of his style from.

Poope fiasco doesnt have 1 hot album

Jid, Paak, and Keem are obvious ones. Which I think is what you're looking for.

He definitely influenced others in more subtle ways. From OGs to newcomers. Maybe not as far as sound but from his passion, concepts, end execution. Every collective looks up to TDE and how they do s***. Nipsey called them the new Death Row. It's just that the sound that's in right now doesn't allign with Kendricks outside of DAMN./BP. I don't think that denounces all his influence

Yep Joey said it himself

Exactly man. These dudes gotta be trolling

people been saying his in every era. Yall cant even explain it.

Rap was in a critical condition? With wayne game lupe kanye t.i. jeezy out? How?

headass

This mf said wayne game ti jeezy and lupe fiasco? They were washed up when tpab butterfly dropped

Stop trolling

Ok now its obvious who really knows hip hop here.

Wayne was f***in washed.
Ti was a flop.
No ones checking for game
Jeezy got f***ing washed by Gucci
Who else?

lupe def was not washed in 2015, he dropped one of his best projects that year lmao

Nah fam he's f***ing washed hate to break it you. I don't know a single person who plays lupe fiasco records since middle school

Kendrick is influential no denying

But when we say influential in the culture we talking about influencing new artists' entire style out the gate. As far as we know ain't no new artists get they style from Kendrick straight out the gate like some of em get they style from Wayne or Thug or Uzi or Gates etc.

Travis called him the best rapper as well. Wale said he’s top 5 lyricists all-time. List goes on. All of his peers respect him whether they’ve had problems or not.

That's crazy but I think most people can't tell influence unless it's just blatant ripoff
I don't think u can bite Kendrick's entire style because he literally changes his style on every song but I think for example Tierra Whack got her sound from The Art of Peer Pressure's intro and mixed it with other styles & her own style

You forgot D Smoke op

Yep, it’s always easy to tell who is only into rap on a surface level or doesn’t know anything about rap history. Food and liquor changed the game, sales don’t matter for it because everyone who was black and into rap had that album. (And it still won a Grammy and is close to gold)

Hell, All you gotta do is look at that “rappers praising lupe fiasco” thread on OG KTT and see what the deal is and who really influenced a lot of these new niggas.

Kendrick would disagree

KW

Thugger

Lil Uzi Vert (Half Keef half Thug)
Gunna
YNW Melly
Sahbabii
NBA Youngboy
Lil Baby
Lil Keed
Lil Gotit

And probably more smaller artists

How did he influence Paak

Lmao dumb ass