A Top Dawg Entertainment original with a direct, grounded delivery that stays close to the street.
For the full picture, listen to OSOM and then something like 112 Bars. That's the range, from a polished collaboration to a bare-bones street narrative.
He came up in Watts, California, and his music never loses that address. You can hear it in the unflashy substance of tracks like OSOM with J Cole or the raw energy of Wow Freestyle with Kendrick Lamar. He joined TDE in 2005, putting him right there with that foundational crew from the start.
He started rapping as Johnny Reed McKinzie Jr. in Watts and released his first album, Follow Me Home, in 2008. Since then, he's put out a few more records, often working with producers and writers from the TDE circle.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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