E-40 Gives Kendrick Lamar His Flowers, Calls Him ‘One Of The Best That Ever Did It’! It is not known how much longer fans may have to wait for the next Kendrick Lamar album, but the Los Angeles rapper appears to be taking his time. The Top Dawg Entertainment star released Damn back in 2017, yet the much-acclaimed project still has fans talking till today. K-Dot has earned a reputation as one artist who stays out of the limelight and minds his business, racking up respect from millions of his fans and fellow artists alike.
Rapper E-40 was recently full of Kendrick’s praises as he took a walk down memory lane and revisited a time during which he was on a tour with Lamar over a decade ago.
“Everybody you can name. We was all one big—two and a half months,” he told HipHopDX. “Just every day, I would open up the studio after I performed or before and after. I have a portable studio so I have it on my tour bus or I have it in the room. I get a suite. Kendrick could hang out with me, him and Jay Rock, all of us. We really hung, real tough. And this is 2010, feel me?”
“This how you know they some real dudes. Kendrick was opening up, not opening up, but being Jay Rock’s support,” he said. “We all knew Kendrick was raw, but he was his support. And he never hated, he was right there on stage with him. Never hated. To see Kendrick blossom and now Jay Rock not hating on him, then next thing you know, Jay Rock end up getting him a big one [with ‘Win’].”
E-40 put emphasis on how the TDE artists are “teamwork make the dream work”-orientated while at the same time praising the evolution of the Los Angeles-based label. When asked if he saw Lamar as a star back then, E-40 responded that there were “no ifs, ands, or buts,” about the rapper’s star power. “I knew it.”
“He might seem quiet, but that’s a little—that mothaf*cka got hella character to him. He know how to act and all that. You seen him on Power,” added 40.
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