Stream: DJ Critical Hype – The Damn. Chronic

 

It really doesn’t seem that long ago that Kendrick was a promising underground rapper whose Dr. Dre cosign was treated with both excitement (for one Compton legend recognizing another) and trepidation (for the very real fear that Kendrick would rap on Alex da Kid beats for the rest of time). For all their connections, Kendrick has never rapped on a Dre-produced beat on one of his own albums, though he was everywhere on the bizarrely now-forgotten Compton. DJ Critical Hype, responsible for that similarly itch-scratching Chance the Rapper/Kanye mashup tape from a few years back, has sought to remedy that with an album that has Kendrick rapping on some of Dre’s most well-known productions.