On Overly Dedicated he sounded like a lot of blog era rappers

He had songs influenced by cudi, wiz, lupe and drake

he is a combo of wayne, andre 3000, kurupt and eminem

but yeah wayne is his biggest this isnt new, that tape is dedication to wayne and him doing songs over nothing but wayne tapes

side story i have a big homie that thinks this is best kendrick lol

@op f*** you really made the whole connection

this is around the time iirc he got offered to sign with ymcmb too directly by wayne n birdman thru jay rock and game

so i always wondered if it was a homage/thank you to their offer and support on top of wayne being his #1

Where’s that story from?

kendrick goosebumps verse pitiful

why not just listen to the tape.... woulda answered a lot of what you were trying to do here

It's a tape dedicated to Wayne and the intro track is a recording of Wayne co-signing K-Dot (this was pre-"Kendrick Lamar") and shouting out Jay Rock. Tapes used to be where you figured yourself out

edit: wait is OP trying to argue Kendrick was trying to sound like....Drake?

the internet and blogs and people from round there such as wack 100, game and few industry people

its when kendrick went to ny in 08 to 09 touring with game, yg and jay rock - kendrick with klep in 09 and had the collab tape with jay rock in 08

kendrick also did a few battle rap battles out there with papoose and charles hamilton

jay rock already worked with wayne in 08 on iirc two songs, one made rocks album, and top has connects with birdman through their street days and were already cool - hence jay rock song during waynes biggest peak

also part of how drake connected with kendrick later on

so, kendrick finally being in ny for iirc the first time, and next to wayne and birdman, they offered to sign kendrick, but kendrick turned it down to stay west coast (and probably had some contract obligation with tde) and iirc they just signed tyga who also had connects to schooly boy q back in the day - yg, nipsey, tyga, kendrick, schoolboy q and problem were always around each other in their real early days

in some timeline drake and kendrick are both on ymcmb

this is also why wayne and birdman always had respect and reverence for kendrick

Doot posts only getting 1 or 2 likes

Is this dork finally banned lmao

Yessir

Gd even with the S get outta jail free card Vietbrah still rolled the dice and rebanned huge drake fan?

30 deserved likes, if he went out at least he went out on a banger

Ima stop you right at wack 100 and game, the biggest storytellers in rap lmfao. I think Kendrick was still just Rock’s hype man at the time even if he had put in work. I don’t think Birdman and Wayne were anywhere close to signing otherwise we woulda heard about it by now, easy ammo for Drake.

I think it was just 2 bloods linking to perform/work together and Dot just so happened to be on his entourage and a blood as well so he got that blessing for C4.

I’m tryna get these hoes single

Damn rock and huge drake fan back to backed

Wtf is happening lol

Mass exodus

Huge Drake fan got banned for continuing the gimmick in the rich homie quan thread, idk about the other dude

He got banned for staying in Character in the rich homie quan thread even though it was tasteless, and still continued that annoying ass s***

Thank god

Insufferable user

jay rock had a verse from wayne back in the worldstar unsigned hyped days

S*** this is actually more recent, cant be more than a few hours ago wtf