![]() Alongside producer Terrence “Punch” Henderson, Top had built TDE as a safe haven for aspiring talent who wanted a life beyond the streets. A local standout, he’d caught the attention of Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, who in 2004 had started a neighborhood label and management company, Top Dawg Entertainment. ![]() Over on the West Coast, Compton MC Kendrick, aka K.Dot, was getting serious about his rapping career. I woke up, like, “Man, I ain’t gotta do nothing illegal. “That’s what I did up until I dropped 1000. All my thoughts was illegal,” he recalled to Fader in 2011. “Every day waking up and thinking illegal. So he hit the streets and began dealing drugs. All the more tantalizing: His cousin Rico Wade led the legendary production outfit Organized Noize, the team behind Outkast and Goodie Mob.īack then, Wilburn (rap name: Meathead) was starting to make some noise as a member of Wade’s Dungeon Family crew, but as he plotted his first mixtape, 1000, he was struggling to pay the bills. Since recording his first track at 14, the man who would become Southern-rap phenomenon Future had dreamed of being part of A-Town’s burgeoning music scene. Meanwhile, 864 miles south, in Atlanta, Nayvadius Wilburn was living a double life. The following year, his major-label debut, Thank Me Later, would enter the album chart at #1, moving 447k copies.īut on that pivotal night in Hudson Square, it was time for Drake to show and prove. ![]() In June he’d sign with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment and receive a reported $2 million advance. Coming off the release of his soon-to-be seminal mixtape, So Far Gone, he was just a somewhat nervous kid making his Big Apple debut.Īn eclectic audience that included Kanye West, Bun B, MC Lyte, The Alchemist, Talib Kweli and the chief executive of at least one major-label group wanted to see if the hype was real. It was May 26, 2009, and Toronto’s buzzy native son-born Aubrey Graham-was not yet the most successful artist of the streaming age. My notebook () wrote:“The only dangerous amount of tea is none.“I’m a new artist, by the way… I don’t know if you can tell by this show,” quipped Drake to a packed house at the New York nightclub SOB’s. If that's a cheap and easy way to get follows, then go for it. Za-Chary wrote:There are some people who, if they have a question… and you answer them, they'll just follow you. JesseTyler65 wrote:My browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Chrome 106.0.0.0, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: Ubuntu Linux, Firefox 108.0, No Flash version detected i am superiourr!!! (i am totaly not writing this on my old laptop that is trash and use windows 10 on my main pc)My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 108.0.0.0, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: Linux, Firefox 108.0, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Chrome 108.0.0.0, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Firefox 104.0, Flash 32.0 (release 0)My browser / operating system: Unknown OS, Unknown Browser, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: Windows Server 2003 / XP 圆4, Firefox 68.0, No Flash version detected Wait 'til I downgrade to Windows 98-My browser / operating system: MacOS Macintosh X 10.15.7, Chrome 108.0.0.0, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: Windows 93, Netscape 2.1.7, ActionScript 2.0My browser / operating system: Linux, Chrome 108.0.0.0, Rotom detected, No Flash version detectedMy browser / operating system: ChromeOS 15183.59.0, Chrome 108.0.0.0, Soup in RAM detected, No Flash version detectedįorum Helper / Forum Participator / Interested in artificial intelligence / Dave and Bambi fan / Enjoys writing stories and having fun / Official fan studio / Happy Pride Month! Inspirational quotes from inspirational Scratchers (and my notebook):
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