Should you’re from the West Coast, and even in case you’re not, chances are high you’re bumping Dom Kennedy.
The Los Angeles native lately celebrated the 10-year anniversary of his critically acclaimed second studio album, Get House Safely. The undertaking options standout appearances from Nipsey Hussle, Ty Dolla $ign, TeeFLii, Skeme, and extra.
Over the weekend, Dom Kennedy took the stage on the GRAMMY Museum in downtown Los Angeles for an occasion referred to as Backstage Move alongside producers Mike & Keys, who performed a pivotal position in making the undertaking a masterpiece. The dialog centered across the making of Get House Safelytogether with Dom’s position as CEO of his personal label: OPM (Different Individuals’s Cash).
With Nipsey Hussle’s loss of life anniversary lately passing, Dom Kennedy shared some phrases about his relationship with Nipsey and the way they struggled collectively.
“That was a troublesome loss for everyone, musically,” Dom started. “However for us, as we sit right here at the moment, it’s nothing on this album that got here out, that he wasn’t there after I recorded it. Or he didn’t hear the beat. And there’s nothing that got here out that he made with them on the time, we had been engaged on all of this collectively. We actually had been all engaged on all of this collectively. In these moments, in these years of fighting any person, seeing them day in and day trip. Simply engaged on it, unselfishly. It was days the place I’d report and Nip would sit there. It was days he would report and I’d sit there.”
Dom Kennedy proceeded to disclose that him and Nipsey used the identical microphone.
“Crenshaw, Get House Safelysimilar microphone,” he continued. “I can hear that microphone after I take heed to his songs. The identical microphone, I can hear the room within the songs. That’s how shut it was. Man, a man that I’ve a lot respect for. Happy with him for sticking it via. They made Victory Lapplenty of it. I used to be capable of be on that album.”
Dom Kennedy was featured on “Double Up” alongside Stomach, who’s official music video hails over 236 million views and counting.
“However in these instances proper right here, we don’t should overstate or understate it, however he was part of it. Not simply on a music or something, he was actually consuming lunch with us. Driving. We had instances, race to the studio. We’d see who’s automotive was there first. Placing in actual work, it wasn’t fairly. On the ground, white t-shirts, home sneakers. However with a dream and a imaginative and prescient and a objective behind it, made it every part. With that angle of: that is going to work. On daily basis, with LA confidence. We had been by no means unsure about something that we had been doing. I don’t assume we ever was like aw, we gon’ rise up outta right here. It’s over. Or they lastly obtained us, we performed. No, that was by no means the case. That was by no means the case.”
