

At the end of the day, he considers it a “dope piece of art.” The Yellow Album was like, ‘N****, we not doing none of that.'”Īs the interview continued, the rapper explained his approach to the music on The Yellow Album, saying he was taking things in a different and unique direction. At a certain point, I was definitely original with it, but it was definitely like west coast-influenced.

Everything is just reference - to a n*****’s flow, this and that, even my sh**, too. When you’re young, especially in LA, you don’t really know, and at this point in rap, it’s so watered down … there ain’t been no originators in like forever. Before that, I was trying to figure out who am I, what do I want to say, who do I want to talk to you.

“I mean, I put out my first project in 2008, so when I got the tattoo, I was probably 24. “It just kind of struck me and I made it my own,” Dom explanied, referring to the tattoo. In a recent interview with LA Stereo TV, Dom discussed how Nas’s 2006 album, Hip Hop is Dead, inspired that first tattoo, and came out his struggle to find an identity as an artist at the beginning of his career. What does that mean? He says it was inspired by Nas, and it helped him find himself as an aspiring artist. In 2008, at the age of 24, he got his first tattoo, which reads “In Loving Memory Of Hip Hop” across his wrist. But, the Los Angeles native has been doing it for years … and from the beginning, he tried to be unique. Rising rapper Dom Kennedy is making a lot of noise, especially with his recently released Yellow Album.
