Whereas Kendrick Lamar’s history-making wins on the 2025 Grammys should be recent on everybody’s minds, what shouldn’t go unnoticed is the rapper’s constant dedication to highlighting the town that formed him into the artists he’s right now: Los Angeles.
Lamar, who was born and raised in Compton, has by no means shied away from embracing South Central L.A. nor has he departed from the cities musical influences, types, and swag. After signging to High Dawg Entertainement in 2005, Lamar would go on to construct his credibility in L.A. which eveventually led him to forming the rap supergroup Black Hippy alongside fellow TDE labelmate and rapper Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q in 2008, releasing his debut album “Part .80″ in 2011, collaborating with numerous rappers each from L.A. and different main cities and extra.
Quick ahead to right now and it’s clear to see that Lamar’s affect within the Los Angeles music scene has gone far past the perimeter of this main metropolis however it’s helped create a highlight for different expertise—previous and current—to achieve their shine too.
So it’s in that vein that we felt it becoming to try a handful of different artists who’ve and are placing the sounds of Los Angeles on the map.