Kenny elaborated: “You might not have heard it on the radio all day, but you’re seeing it in the streets, you’re seeing it on the news, and you’re seeing it in communities, and people felt it.” That’s when the Cali MC admitted that by him chasing commercial success in the early stages of his career, he stumped his musical growth. This mistake is something that Lamar regrets to this very day. “Early, early on, I really wanted to be signed,” K. Dot said. “And that was a mistake, because it pushes you two steps backwards when you have this concept of ‘OK, I’ve got to make these three [commercial] songs in order to get out into the world and be heard.'”
He added: “So there were two or three years where I wanted to be signed so badly that I’m making these same two or three repetitive demo kinds of records, and I’m hindering my growth.”
Learn from the wise, kids.