Kendrick Lamar A young boy living in Compton goes against all odds and turns out to be one of the greatest rappers of all time, which shocks everyone. Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, and his great works and songs tell amazing stories. Kendrick Lamar has gone through it all, and even though he started at the bottom, he was able to climb to the top. Many of his songs show his hard backstory and some of the things he has experienced living in Compton. Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest rappers of our time, and is the “MVP” of todays age. At the very beginning of Kendrick’s life, he lived in Compton, California and was born on June 17, 2024. As a kid in Compton, he loved writing stories and later these …show more content…
After a while, he would be signed to Top Dawg Entertainment. This was an interesting thing because a few years ago, there were a few robberies in the area. One ended up being in the KFC where Kendricks' father was working. The robber was about to kill his father, but then he simply offered the man two extra biscuits. This caused the criminal to spare his life, and that criminal was found out to be Top Dawg. Many, many years later Kendrick would write the song Duckworth, describing what happened. After Kendrick was signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, he was then grouped up with other up-and-coming rappers. These rappers included Schoolboy-Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and of course Kendrick Lamar. Instead of the name Kendrick Lamar, he started to go by a rapper name, K-dot. This group was called Black Hippy and was formed in 2008. He would later drop the name K-dot and create Section.80. This was his first independent album under Top Dawg Entertainment. This album would have features like The Game, and rappers as big as Lil Wayne. This caught the attention of one of rap's greatest, Dr. Dre. Dr. Dre basically took Kendrick under his wing and helped him with music and