Kendrick Lamar has been given the stamp of approval by a West Coast heavyweight.
Former CEO of West Coast record label, Death Row Records, Suge Knight said that Lamar embodied many of the things that the earlier West Coast rappers were famous for.
Speaking to Medium, he joined in with the buzz surrounding Kendrick and his lyrical talent.
"Kendrick is a dude that's an incredible artist. I'm not surprised because he's from Compton. He grew up in Compton, that's where he lived at, hung out at, and the guys he hangs with from his neighborhood, is p-folk. So there's no way it wouldn't rub off on him," he said.
"There's no way that his vision wouldn't be aggressive or that he wouldn't have the lyrics he has, if he didn't grow up there. Kendrick know, anybody from Compton, that's pretty much saying they're a Death Row artist. That's what they grew up to, that's what they know, that was the people they're involved with... they mimicked their stuff off of the blueprint I laid down. But Kendrick by far is one of them guys that they can't f*ck with. They can't f*ck with that boy lyrically and they better not sleep. Kendrick got a whole army behind him. He got real love out here."
What do you remember about Doggystyle's production? [It] was was pretty much luck. Everybody thought [Dr. Dre] would be doing the records, but Daz pretty much did the whole album. And at the end of the day, once Daz finished it, everybody wanted Andre to get the credit. Next thing I know Daz is having a meeting with Andre and them and came back and said, "It's okay, give me a few bucks and I'll sign anything over that says produced by Andre instead of me."
Suge also reveals that Russell Simmons attempted to sign Snoop Dogg to Def Jam Records right from under his nose. "Russell went to Snoop and flew him to New York and said, 'I want to do a deal with you for Doggystyle,'" he recalls. "They figured if they could work it out with Snoop, they could work it out with Jimmy [Iovine], and where that leave me?" Suge says he took matters into his own hands from there. "We had to go out there and literally smash them. If not, they'd take your shit. I still give Snoop the credit; he still sat down with Death Row and we made it happen."
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What a fucking moron Suge is...
