Blog: Beats Per Minute

Watching Kendrick's ascent has been fun. Last year's "street"-album Section.80 ( BPM review / #13 on our Top Albums of 2011 ) proved that he was one of the best lyricists in the game and possibly the new face of west coast hip-hop. Months later we heard reports that he was in the studio with Dr. Dre and in August we saw Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Game sign off on him . Not to mention just last month we saw Kendrick's whole Top Dawg/Black Hippy crew sign a deal with Dre's Aftermath and Interscope. [...]