Drakeo The Ruler’s Dad Claims Kendrick Lamar Used Son’s Style Without Credit Because Of “Politics”

Drakeo The Ruler was one of the important artists within the growth of the modern-day L.A. hip-hop scene. He tragically handed away in 2021, after being stabbed throughout an altercation previous to a YG live performance. His demise despatched shockwaves via the group, and his affect is felt at the moment.

Drakeo’s father lately stopped by No Jumper to take a seat down with Adam22 for a wide-ranging interview. One of many subjects that got here up needed to do with Kendrick Lamar‘s GNX. The album, which launched in November 2024 after his extremely publicized battle with Drake, paid tribute to the fashionable West Coast.

There are a number of tracks on the album (and “Not Like Us” earlier than it) that followers cited as cuts that appeared like one thing impressed by Drakeo, resembling “peekaboo” or “squabble up.” Adam22 identified that different California rappers have straight shouted him out after they do one thing impressed by his music. He additionally famous that Lamar did not. When requested how that made him really feel, Drakeo’s father supplied an fascinating response.

“I am not an enormous Kendrick Lamar listener to his music, I am actually choosy with music. I heard this one tune of his, and I am like ‘wait.’ I did not know if I used to be listening to a Drakeo tune that I simply did not hear but. “I am like, ‘oh, that is one among my son’s songs that I have not heard but.'” He did not identify the tune within the interview, however recalled being shocked to study that it was from Lamar.

“The rhyme sample, the syncopation, all of that was the identical […] As far him giving him the props, possibly it was a politics factor […] In some unspecified time in the future, you gotta hold it actual.”

Kendrick Lamar has paid plenty of tribute to different fallen West Coast acts, maybe most notably 2Pac and Nipsey Hussle. Nevertheless, it’s stunning that he has not named Drakeo as a type of artists. Drakeo was additionally not honored at The Pop Out in June 2024, a stunning omission. At this level, it sems that each one Drakeo’s father needs is for his son to obtain some credit score.