Dom Kennedy

Freddie Gibbs would mention E-40.

Don Kennedy would mention E-40.

And I was like, hold on.

Nipsey Hussle was rapping about E-40.

Thank God that we got it.

At the Long Beach Amphitheater, Big Sean, Miguel and Dom Kennedy are hitting the stage tonight.

Tickets are still available.

Then at Crypto.com Arena, it's a major throwback.

So many different shows.

But While I don't think I've listened to any new albums, a particular song that has been sticking to me very greatly is When I Come Around by Dom Kennedy.

I don't know what it is, but the vibe of that song, it just makes me feel like I'm that bitch, and I've always been that bitch, and I'm going to continue to be that bitch.

When I come around, you know who I am.

But I can stand at the bus stop and I can just groove to it.

So...

If you're into West Coast hip hop and you have listened to Dom Kennedy, the song actually came out years ago.

Go ahead and take a listen.

They're on 64th and Vermont, right? That's a block from Gage and Hoover, which doesn't mean much to y'all if you're not from here.

But this is an area that is like, the heart in part of the heart of south central now the crenshaw district is yeah the lowriders the cruising you know the scene in boys in the hood um it's the crenshaw district right uh it has been a place for black culture um black existence if you want to see the full expression from poverty to affluence it's the crenshaw district like that's Dom Kennedy, if you're familiar with him, Terrence Martin.

The coffee shop in Insecure is actually Haroon.

That takes place in a place called Leimert Park.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, you got Dom Kennedy from the West Side, With Love.

Mm.

You got, uh, Mailbox Money, To Me, and then I'll say the fourth one.

So I just think he was who he was.

Not necessarily the second coming, but I just think it was a, it, I think it was just refreshing for somebody that we get that we felt like was authentic, that was speaking real shit, and that, that, that carried the West in the right way, or moved around like that.

I wanna say, I wanna say [laughs] back on the Mount Rushmore, I had, I had Nipsey's Mailbox Money, I had Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city, West Side Love, Dom Kennedy, West Side Love 2, and then I got My Crazy Life, YG.

I think for my era, to me, that's probably the, the Mount Rushmore West Coast albums.

You know what I'm saying? White boy could spit and cared about hip hop.

We was getting people like Dom Kennedy who was coming from Cali and was given a different turn on what this shit was as far as Cali hip hop.

He was on some cool laid back, get money, get fly, build with your niggas and take it up to the highest level shit.

We was getting iFuture, New York.

And I'm lo- I'm just typing in, um, I'm just typing in, like, artists, recording artists, and I'm looking at Nipsey in there.

I'm looking at all type of, uh, Dom Kennedy, Currensy, um, Young Buck.

Yeah, like in, in and around that time, yeah.

Music.

no what the hell are you talking about

There is a Dom Kennedy song.

Dom Kennedy is a very West coast rapper.

I

know Dom Kennedy.

Oh, there's a song.

Yes.

There's a Dom Kennedy song called come over.

From jump, I was really kind of on Dom, and I really was like...

Yeah, I just thought, I also think, if y'all haven't heard it, I haven't talked about Dom that much on the show, but if y'all haven't heard From the West Side With Love 2 by Dom Kennedy, I do think it is like, I think it's like a perfect summer rap album.

If you put that on in the summertime, there's a song called...

Ice cream truck.

You know what I'm saying? I've never heard a story about Jay-Z doing anything normal.

Everything you ever hear about him, he's doing the most impossible, incredible shit, and he's not breaking a sweat doing it.

When I listen to Dom Kennedy, he's just like, yeah, I drank some beers and ate some tacos and talked to some girls.

I was like, oh no, I do that shit.