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Those familiar with Kendrick Lamar‘s music would know that he is an avid student of the game. He didn’t start recently either. He’s been at it for a while. But who would have thought that New York Knicks guard Arron Afflalo was responsible for some of that?
In an interview The Players’ Tribune, Afflalo talked about some of his business endeavors back in high school (he went to Centennial High with K Dot), one of which consisted of burning CD’s for $5 on the bootleg. One of his customers happened to be Kendrick, who wanted a copy of JAY Z’s Reasonable Doubt. The rest is history.
This one guy from my school named Kendrick Duckworth was really into hip-hop. He asked me to burn him Jay Z’s Reasonable Doubt. That’s an all-time classic from ’96. You couldn’t just go to the store and buy all these albums, you know? It would cost too much money. But you could come to me and get it for $5.
Kendrick eventually started making his own music. He got pretty good at it, too. You’ve probably heard of him. He goes by the name Kendrick Lamar.
Both went on to be successful in their own rights, and Kendrick even went on to speak on Afflalo on the good kid m.A.A.d city song “Black Boy Fly.” Although Arron doesn’t have to slang CD’s anymore because his basketball skills took him out of Compton and into the NBA, this is a story they probably both laugh about in retrospect.
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