The Black Hippy crew sat down with the good folks of TWV and opened up about progression, not relying on a cosign and the future of Top Dawg Entertainment…
Jay Rock: We are those guys that have been doing our thing for a minute. We never asked for a cosign. These days, all these rappers want is somebody to cosign them. But people are now finally seeing our grind and the work we have done without nobody stamping us or anything. I think that’s what it is. They see us young niggas out here doing it by ourselves so they have no choice but to respect it. We’ve done it without the west coast legends giving us any help. They have no choice but to holla at us.
Kendrick Lamar: Like what Rock said, there’s plenty of dope rappers in the world but you have to have that work ethic. Nobody is going to ride with you just because you have a hot song. I never went in the game wanting somebody to stamp me and throw me in without me putting the work in myself. I don’t put it on their backs to help me. I never said I needed the OGs to help me out. I have to do the same legwork that they put in when they were coming up in order to get that same type of feedback. That’s what we did as a company, as Top Dawg. Now it has reached the heavyweights and they respect it more than just some artist who’s not serious about the music and has a hit record.
Yeah, I’m still waiting on that K-Dot record as well.
Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and ScHoolboy Q join Ab-Soul for the latest leak off his upcoming project, LongTerm: Mentality, dropping April 5th! UPDATE: This dropped in the late hours of the night, so I’m bringing it back up in case anyone missed it.
I randomly ordered my iPod by play times and the end result was Kendrick Lamar, Atmosphere and The Foreign Exchange taking the top spots. Anytime I’m at a loss of what to play though, I find myself throwing on Kendrick and zoning out. The other day I had this discussion with one of my boys and figured I’d bring it to the dopehouse to get more opinions. If you had to throw an order on your favorite Black Hippy members, where would Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q rank?
The two have already worked together on the remix to Kendrick Lamar’s “She Needs Me,” also featuriung Dom Kennedy. I’m interested to see what is the end result this time.
Speaking of Black Hippy, Schoolboy Q’s Setbacks drops January 11th.
With Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul both riding high off their latestreleases. It’s time for Schoolboy Q to carry on the Black Hippy flag with the release of his upcoming project, SetBacks.
A behind-the-scenes look at Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock’s latest photoshoot with Matt Plunkett in Los Angeles. Shouts to Three-1-ZeroCalmatic on the footage.
3/4 (Schoolboy Q x Kendrick Lamar x Ab-Soul) of TDE’s Black Hippy take some time out to spit some bars a capella style. Shot by the homie Three-1-ZeroCalmatic; who also shot over this short film/music video he laced for OverDoz. Be sure to check that below.
