Hip hop journalist DJ Akademiks tells Adam22 that Kendrick Lamar is the reason west coast hip hop has not progressed

[RickyDiBiase]

Westcoast always been mid

I'll say overrated, but they had Pac.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Nobody gives af what these two clowns gotta say. Both need to get slapped especially Adam

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Looking at Zion jerseys on Etsy as we speak

You're looking at his dikk to ride on

@2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat please do the honor breh

 

[Ku$h Parker]

You're looking at his dikk to ride on

@2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat please do the honor breh

Etsy

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

You're looking at his dikk to ride on

@2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat please do the honor breh

you called?

 

[tremonthustler1]

And how far exactly have these guys made it? Lol

All these guys you listed outside Ty$ (and ironically he got a kdot feature) are still really only local artists after years of work. Problem in particular has been rapping for over 10 years now and still hasn't seen mainstream bread. California has always been a bubble that is hard to break out of for emerging artists.

A single Kendrick feature right now with how hot he is can change one of these guys careers and get them a mainstream look that goes beyond California.

Cali rappers are also pretty damn self-sufficient. Problem has a 10 year that's still a career because Cali holds him down. Same with the Bay and their rappers. Drake doesn't have that safety net. He could never just be a Canadian rapper who can live good off that. shyt, even rappers in big towns can only sustain but so much being local. Ask NY rappers.

This begging for a Kendrick feature goes back to what Ak always says about Kendrick. He doesn't put out enough stuff and because he's "inactive" he's the rap version of Kawhi Leonard. Rappers like Kendrick are enemies of content creators because they can't create content off him, and given how big of an artist he is, that's a missed opportunity. He takes his time. Ironically, Drake's best project came from not wanting to immediately follow up Thank Me Later with a mixtape, feeling like he rushed Thank Me Later and deciding he wanted to take care and make the most cohesive project he could. Even Drake knows he shoulda fell back a couple of times now but he's caught up in needing to flood the game with music. Now even some of his more recent hits get lost in the shuffle.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Etsy

You reveal ur own lack of culture

 

[King Sun]

And how far exactly have these guys made it? Lol

All these guys you listed outside Ty$ (and ironically he got a kdot feature) are still really only local artists after years of work. Problem in particular has been rapping for over 10 years now and still hasn't seen mainstream bread. California has always been a bubble that is hard to break out of for emerging artists.

A single Kendrick feature right now with how hot he is can change one of these guys careers and get them a mainstream look that goes beyond California.

Drake has yet to blow up anybody. Jb bloccboy wishes he had a g perico fan base.

 

[MicIsGod]

G Perico (LA) and Q Da Fool (Maryland) both got dropped by Roc Nation. Both had potential but I didn't really see Roc do anything for them. Never saw them on any major platforms besides the local ones that everybody gets on.

Roc nation is fumbling hard if they really dropped g perico. If they did their damn job he’d be huge.

 

[Pop123]

These two guys represent Drake’s demo outside of the females, black geeks who don’t think they’re geeks because they love Rap, and white boys. They both probably cried actual tears at some point while Kendrick was taking the extension cord to Drake’s ass.

 

[DontEemTry]

The word "journalist" doing some heavy lifting in that thread title

 

[hex]

This is an awful thread with all of the bad acting characters in place, even that fakkit ass contrarian

Thread is comedy.

People talking about "Kendrick used the westcoast!" like he needed a co-sign from all them C-Z tier rappers.

People talking about "why didn't he give any west coast artists a look after the Pop Out?!"....the Pop Out was the look, dummy. Aside from a couple artists none had ever been in a venue that big.

Which is why nobody who was actually there is complaining. It's just weirdos, outsiders like Adam22, and passive aggressive Drake stans like Ak.

Fred.

 

[jwinfield]

People talking about "why didn't he give any west coast artists a look after the Pop Out?!"....the Pop Out was the look, dummy. Aside from a couple artists none had ever been in a venue that big.

IIRC, for one of the artists, I think the first one that performed, it was his first ever show.

 

[BK The Great]

Who really watches this cuck fakkit’s show?

 

[krackdagawd]

Woke up lookin for the broccoli