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It was like getting past the Bob Dylan listening curve, who I struggled to listen to at the time. While I was used to high-pitch voices like Phife Dawg’s, Kendrick’s made it difficult to listen to the album. His voice was nasally and high-pitched, and I honestly found it irritable.

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I remember reading and watching reviews about this young Compton native, then coming home from school, downloading the torrent off of Pirate Bay, and finding myself struggling to get past the third track. I was actually first introduced to Kendrick through this project.

Section.80, Kendrick’s debut album, is the fruit of his maturation. While the mixtape is great, listening back to it now, however, you could see that Kendrick was just beginning to blossom into the wordsmith we recognize now. He managed to amalgamate his unique perspective on issues with spacey beats to produce music that stuck out from the crowd. Rather than be at the club or gang-banging at a local cul-de-sac, he was either at Bible study or stealing his momma’s van to hang out with his friends. But Kendrick wasn’t trying to imitate anyone else. where Kendrick confesses that he doesn’t smoke weed most likely would not have ended up on Wiz Khalifa’s Rolling Papers, nor did it fit the typical machismo rapper mold that many tried to emulate. On the opening track, The Heart Part 2, he raps arguably my favourite lyrics on the whole project: “Let bygones be bygones, but where I’m from/We buy guns and more guns.” The mixtape also separated him from his West Coast gangsta-rap peers, and, in general, many of the buzzing MCs at the time. On Average Joe, he illustrates an episode where he nearly got shot walking home from high school. Rapping over beats primarily produced by Top Dawg Entertainment’s in-house production team, Digi+Phonics, the mixtape displayed an MC cognizant of the world around him who also just had a knack for stringing words together.

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Additionally, it would help him land him on the XXL 2011’s Freshman Cover, among Mac Miller, Lil’ B, and YG. Dre, through Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s manager, who showed him the short video for Ignorance is Bliss. Released in 2010, the 14-track tape had managed to reach the ears of Dr.