Kendrick Lamar's hidden track with Lil Wayne?

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Kevin Balthazar
August 8, 2024 (1:07)

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Kendrick Lamar almost collaborated with his hip hop hero, Lil Wayne, years before his rise to fame.

On HipHopDX's The Bigger Picture, DJ Hed revealed that a young Kendrick, then known as K. Dot, was initially set to do the hook for Jay Rock's 2008 track ''All My Life (In the Ghetto)'' instead of will.i.am.

''Fun fact about this record: K. Dot was originally on this hook, and I actually have that record. But it can never see the light of day,'' Hed shared. ''He was doing a whole different hook. The song was called �Ghetto' but it had a different hook on it that K. Dot did.''

DJ Hed also mentioned that Anthony «Top Dawg» Tiffith, founder of TDE, decided to shorten Wayne's lengthy guest verse on the track.

''When Jay Rock did this record, Wayne gave them this long-ass verse and they cut it up,'' Hed said. ''Top was brilliant � and shout out to will.i.am, too � in arranging the song to where Wayne and Jay Rock sounded like they were going back and forth.''

Released in October 2008, ''All My Life (In the Ghetto)'' was the lead single from Jay Rock's debut album Follow Me Home.

Despite missing out on ''All My Life,'' Kendrick eventually secured collaborations with Lil Wayne on ''Buy the World'' and ''Mona Lisa'' from Wayne's Tha Carter V.

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