The gestation period in modern hip hop is not a long one. After toiling in obscurity for most of the 90's, Kendrick Lamar released the O(verly) D(edicated) mixtape in September 2010 to his first real taste of acclaim... barely a year later, he's already worked with Snoop and Dre, J. Cole and Game as well as appearing on the cover of XXL. As he states in "Rigamortis": "don't ask for ya favorite rapper, he dead... I killed him". Lamar has the flow of an alt-hip hopper but the lyrical predilections of a hardcore gangsta rapper, sometimes - as here - bordering on a horrorcore level of violence.
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