Rappers on Kendrick Lamar (Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, Pusha T, Meg Thee Stallion & more)

off the record with schoolboy q what's one thing that bugs you about kendrick lamar schoolboy q oh man he's the greatest rapper he's the greatest rapper of the 20s like man you know like he honestly really is you know like he's a big inspiration to me like i seen it i see how he records he's so good it makes you mad yeah it makes me mad like like he's a genius you know and and it hurts me because i want i want to be at his caliber but you know what i'm saying hopefully with this album i'll catch you one time you know because it's all still competition and i could still be number one so [Applause] um kendrick lamar same thing i feel like uh i feel like kendrick lamar is just like on a whole different wave like he knows how to make turnip music but he's still gonna get real poetic about it you know what i'm saying like that to pimp a butterfly that was that album that was a really good one like he he's awesome like he he has really good messages too but i really like how he just delivers it to you like he puts together a production you know what i'm saying like it's not just going to be like oh here go 12 bart you know he really going to like write you something and you got to really pay attention to what he's saying like i feel like that's the problem with a lot of people right now they're not they they're our attention span is really short so when you're listening to kendrick lamar like you really got to put your thinking cap on so you can really catch everything he's saying right kendrick is somebody who in his music is very much aligned with movement and activism and the whole black lives matter movement like i hear that movement in his music and his lyrics i thought it was interesting as i was watching the parks and recreation finale that there was a scene where aziz character tom haverford as a book reserve for kendrick lamar in 2023 which is when the year that episode took place in or that scene took place in and it just spoke to who kendrick has become parks and rec never had a mainstream success but it certainly is not the urban community that the show is uh reaching um and so for kendrick lamar name to have so much recognition that it makes it to a to a joke on that show um is is impressive for someone who started on the mixtapes it's very interesting that everyone is trying to claim kendrick in their audience the underground real hip-hop fans are saying kendrick belongs to us the mainstream pop is saying kendrick belongs to us and he's just trying to figure it out you know he's always supportive anytime i need advice i always hit him you know like kendrick like what did you do when this happened what do you think about this because even though you know we kind of came up in the early days together he skyrocketed he's experienced so much that i haven't so he's someone i know that i could look to for advice you know just to kind of gauge on what what i should do you know when i do albums he's one of the people that i'll send the record to um i didn't do that with ease but i did play layla's wisdom for him because i trust his ear right um so you know you hear like stories of a primo and how he would play records for dr dre you know just to get his ear kendrick is like in that peer group for me of my peers ears that i trust so you know that's just always been our relationship mostly built on music you know but i have so much love and respect for him as a person as we all do yeah a1 since day one the reason why i haven't collaborated with kendrick lamar yet is because he don't want to get washed no um i don't know but i'm a huge fan of him and his talent and you know i'm looking forward to collaborating with him one day hopefully because he's animated and i like the you know the animation and all that stuff but also he just respects the craft of rap and i and in this time at this time right now yeah that's all i'll say about that okay state of hip-hop feels good to me i mean i feel like um for the last two years people were talking about how you know people weren't buying records no more and i think that the artists are starting to realize that if you don't sell it's because you wack it ain't going to do with the the state of people buying music right because kendrick lamar come out he sell his records he got great content you know his album has more things to talk about than what the rappers before him did and he moved them units and then you got you know asap rocky just came out he moved some units and i think i think the the good rappers are starting to come back out and you know you have the multiple multiple great artists are going to start coming and it's going to change the scene again and it's going we're going to see the cells you know we see the sales actually staying around in that 130 140 mark going to 200 you know what i'm saying so i think that the bars back set again for these new rappers that if you can't break that then you ain't really making the great music that the rest of these guys are making it's the same thing if i get on this getting on the track with kendrick i can never tell what the [ __ ] he's gonna do right cause he's such a chameleon of styles and he can [ __ ] do any pretty much anything right and he's and he's so proficient at it he's so good at it and you don't know what you're going to get that to me is like a top tier lyrics just because it's like you don't you can get your ass kicked any day you know what i'm saying like certain rappers get on a certain song and it's like it just depends on yeah i actually went to um compton um 134th in and pyro and you know chill with the chill with the homies okay and um you know had a great time out there you know uh met kendrick's family and um you know the control thing man like i looked at it you know as soon as he saw me he said yo i just want to tell you because we had to walk through the neighborhood to find where we're going to shoot it at right like oh no yeah you know so we just walking through trying to find a street or somewhere to shoot it at right and he the first thing he says to me is like yo thank you so much for just you know for understanding and not taking the verse the wrong way i like that and i was like oh i was like kendrick you don't know i'm different bro i was like i'm different like i you know i understand like i listen to raps right right it's the sport of hip-hop it's the sport it's the sport of hip-hop and i and i looked at it like man you know he he's um he shouted out his peers he shouted out his peers and he was and he was like yo you know i want to take something from your fan base mac miller's fan base you know i want to take all of that when is that not the when is that not the um the mission i'm a super fan of a lot of the newness that's going on and actually sometimes that's where the inspiration is drawn from right i'm a super kendrick fan yes sir you know what i'm saying and and you know i ain't really got no too much to say about too many other names because he's not that i'm not a fan of a lot of other artists that's new but kendrick is one of the only new artists that reminds me of the time frame when they was giving artists double xl and five mic album ratings yeah we ain't got that i don't know how many new artists i don't think there's any new artists in the last 10 to 15 years because we're in 2014 now so it's really like since the 90s i don't know any new artists that got a five mic rating right not one so that just goes to show you how much times have changed as far as just the mentality of what the artist might feel they need to contribute i feel like kendrick represents authenticity he represents real rap he represents you know real artists he represents real artistry uh he represents poetry you know i mean there's a long list of you know the great things that he represents you know what i'm saying and um [ __ ] i appreciate him for being here you know i mean i appreciate him for being a part of this rap game a part of hip-hop history because [ __ ] you know what i mean before we had him we was really in a critical condition you know what i'm saying but to me it's just funny because like i said i've been a fan i've been following since 15. so i'm like almost like one of those fans that's like fickle like ah now the whole world want to get up on him and ride his wave like y'all [ __ ] is late like now everybody's a kendrick lamar fan like oh wow like y'all [ __ ] are just bandwagoners you know i was saying but it's also different for me because you know i mean now i'm one of the best rappers in the world myself so it's like it's competition you know i mean yeah um i gotta say to pimple butterflies definitely my number one you know um just cause of of course the message but he introduced a musician like he reintroduced a musicianship back to hip-hop on a real major mainstream level that i think you know was really unique and really needed so i definitely would rank that number one i'd probably rank good kid in my city two section 83 damn four yeah that's just me though you know what i'm saying that's just me you know me and kendrick we don't we don't talk too much we never really got the chance to really build but i already know we right here with it you know what i'm saying and timing is everything with me i just let the universe take its course like when that's supposed to happen it's going to happen you know i mean i don't ever chip about that i wouldn't say new york is soft i i i stand behind what mayno said i was listening to him on radio station it was crazy to hear somebody from new york speak from the perspective that he's both from you know the same people that's in new york going to go to clubs and party and listen to future and everybody else so i think that we kind of lost lost i lost our culture there is no more new york sound and he's a real [ __ ] so you can't just not take his words into account so when i was listening to him speak from his perspective he basically hit it on the nail because it's a lot of following going on you know with sound and influences well what people don't understand is that in new york influenced everybody in the beginning when hip-hop was born and bred it was born here and it spread around the whole globe so its influence was definitely going to take on new faces and new you know bodies and new sounds or whatnot but the thing is it all originated here so there's no such thing as a true original there's really no originator to what it is but people get so caught up with trying to make beef when he's just making good music he's making a point by saying what he's saying he's juggling both coasts his music is being played all over the new york radio station all over the west coast radio stations he's selling tons of records he's selling off concerts [ __ ] that's the key i mean when i was doing that i proclaimed myself to king and nobody had a problem with it's just that he's he's a nice guy so they have a problem with it because he doesn't have a gangster approach but let me let y'all know he got a hundred thousand [ __ ] gangsters woody so y'all better watch what y'all say you understand what i'm saying keep it hip hop because that's what he did he kept it all here he didn't go personal he attacked his friends and told them this is friendly competition and he named them these are my friends that i'm after because they're hot and they smoking and they don't and he named him and he told him i'm on you and that's what hip-hop does that's what it's supposed to do so me as a as an old guy as a forefather i could sit back and just watch the game and just give my perspective from a fan you know what i'm saying and i have to get involved because this is a young man's game and i'm not young anymore so i had to sit back and watch the show he took you know the rap game by storm and he did it without without the help of dr dre and snoop dogg so to speak you know we're there for him but we not catalyst his record that's his name and that makes me feel good that he can stand on his own two feet and create his own movement and not be so connected to the gangster movie but have his own movement and create his own sound and style and then do records with people all over the world and get that national respect so when he did drop the you know control verse to me it's necessary you know he's feeling like he's feeling one thing about the west coast we never been friendly so i don't know why y'all thought his [ __ ] was gonna be friends with y'all cause he had a backpack he may have a [ __ ] ak in that bag [Music] you

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Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)

Published: Mon May 16 2022