He became a popular guest performer on tracks put out by other rappers and also joined fellow Top Dawg artists Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and ScHoolboy Q in a hip-hop collective known as Black Hippy. Dot- Training Day (2005) and C4 (2009)-before releasing Overly Dedicated (2010) as Kendrick Lamar. Duckworth put out two more mixtapes as K.

The music impressed Anthony Tiffith, head of the newly formed record label Top Dawg Entertainment, and he signed the musician. He began writing rhymes as a young teenager, and he released his first mixtape, Youngest Head Nigga in Charge (2003), under the name K. Kendrick Lamar, in full Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, (born June 17, 1987, Compton, California, U.S.), American rapper who achieved critical and commercial success with such albums as good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).ĭuckworth grew up in a high-crime area of Compton, where, ironically, his parents had moved to escape a violent milieu in Chicago.

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