Kendrick Lamar Shares What It Feels Like To Get Booed Offstage

Getting booed offstage is a right of passage for new musicians. It could be hard to believe right now, although even Kendrick Lamar was whenever a rapper struggling to get a group to understand his music. In a interview with BBC Radio 1, the DAMN. rapper discusses being heckled as an opener and hype man for Jay Rock early in his career.


"I've been booed before, you know," mentioned Lamar. "It happened. It happened. As soon as I first began for sure. It's one of those things. I hear these stories all of the time once they feel like the person onstage wasn't doing good. I knew I was doing good right, nevertheless for new artists, it's a place where people don't necessarily know what they like. You know? And some days to respect a certain artist you must be in the cool factor. You know? I wasn't in the cool factor however, so they don't know what to think."


To be fair, Kendrick Lamar wasn't habitually a proven commodity and did make his share of bad songs before the days of Section.80 and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. In an interview with Forbes for its 30 Under 30 issue, Kendrick was candid any time asked any time whenever he knew his rap career would take off.


"I think any time While I made a terrible single, and that shit was just garbage," mentioned Lamar. "That's the real moment for sure... That's As soon as I realized I really wanna do this, because ain't give up As soon as I made a terrible ass song."


The moment Kendrick is most likely referencing is 2009's "C4," where he came off as a Lil Wayne clone rapping over a host of Weezy instrumentals. Thankfully, the TDE rapper lose that facade pretty speedily on 2010's Overly Dedicated.


Listen to Kendrick Lamar's entire BBC Radio 1 interview here. Lamar discusses his beginnings as a hype man around the 28-minute mark.