Kendrick Lamar Says He Followed 50 Cent's Mixtape Recipe To Establish His Buzz [Video]
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Kendrick Lamar has become one of the hottest names in the music industry, but he's not an overnight sensation. It's taken years of hard work and dedication to get the 25-year old Compton rapper to where he is today.
On October 22nd, the Dr. Dre protege will be releasing his highly anticipated album good kid, m.A.A.d City.
In a new interview with VEVO LIFT he explains how 50 Cent influenced his career.
"Mixtapes for me is really the start of my career," Kendrick tells VEVO. "This goes all the way back to when I was 16, and I was in my homeboy Dave garage. We was looking at what 50 Cent was doing, you know and we was seeing that no money was behind these tapes and they was just getting buzz where they was from. Not only in New York, but it came out all the way to the West Coast. And we wanted to follow that recipe. 'Let's do it too. Let's put 12 tracks on a cd and burn 'em up and pass 'em in the city and see what it do.' It wasn't on no super big scale, but it was the start and it got people to start talking about my name a little bit."
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Comment by Nsc on September 8, 2012 at 7:33am -
My top 5 new guys
J cole, Kendrick, big K.r.i.t, Wiz, imSu!
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Comment by Tariq Yasiin on September 8, 2012 at 6:40am -
Kendrick is Kendrick
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Comment by Slimturk on September 8, 2012 at 12:16am -
Kendrick Lamar will explode his music is proper!! He is the future!!
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Comment by PIMPIN WIT CURLY on September 7, 2012 at 11:42pm -
Save MII EARS FROM RADIO ....
KENDRICK IS THE NEXT .... BLACK HIPPY IS THE TRUTH!!!
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YMCM
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TO MAKE IT.....
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Comment by PIMPIN WIT CURLY on September 7, 2012 at 11:34pm
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IN NEED A GGGGGUNIT MIXTAPE SERVICES
...SAVE MII EARS .....
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Comment by Dial-Tone on September 7, 2012 at 7:11pm -
Most mixtapes is a homage to 50 and G-Unit, all I hear now is mutherfuckkers dropping mixtapes!
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Comment by Serious on September 7, 2012 at 6:07pm -
@AVITY dude must be Yayo. Look at his name "Marvin Bernard" Tony Yayo's real name
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Comment by Ronel on September 7, 2012 at 5:01pm -
@Avity I was gon say da same ting Lmfbao!!!
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Comment by hOLLANDjUNGLE on September 7, 2012 at 3:56pm -
i see he halfway got a hair cut, finally
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Comment by AVITY on September 7, 2012 at 3:46pm -
@Marvin mayne are u closely related to Yayo coz dats the sh*t u talk everywhere in each post lmfao
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