1. Kendrick- especially on TPAB- has many strong influences. TPAB is NOT only influenced by FF. There are flavors of everything from FF to Quik to Pac to other genres. Just cuz you love FF doesn't mean they get all the credit.


2. WTF are you talking about? Plenty of Dre adjacent artists haven't done shit. He has Snoop, Em, Kendrick. I could make an argument that each of them would have been a star either way. He tends to hop on slam dunks for the most part.

The Dre myth in hip hop is literally insane at this point. He is A LOT closer to Puffy than most want to admit. Except I think Puff would probably keep his kids housed at least.


3. That isn't to say association doesn't help- of course it does. But I am not sure how this relates to the thread at all.


Your response was incorrect and not even relevant to the thread.