Big Sad 1900 Addresses 'Best Rapper In L.A.' Buzz, Salutes Kendrick Lamar & Tyler, The Creator

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The Los Angeles and e-streets have been crowning a new people's champ in rapper Big Sad 1900 ... the up-and-comer's buzz has been erupting in the city adjacent to Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator's blockbuster years!!!

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00:00Hey man, how you doing?

00:03How you doing?

00:04Good to see you.

00:05Nice to meet you.

00:06Nice to meet you.

00:07So, a ton of people online are saying you're the best rapper in L.A.

00:12Oh yeah, I be seeing that.

00:13I be seeing that.

00:14I try to stay humble about it.

00:15Best rapper in L.A.

00:16Yeah.

00:17What do you think?

00:18Is that a fair assessment?

00:20Um, I work hard for it.

00:22Y'all feel like it's a lot of up and coming rappers out here that's dope.

00:25But I'm definitely one of the front runners for sure.

00:28Definitely.

00:29Me just having substance.

00:30I think it's my story.

00:31People being able to relate to my struggle.

00:33So, Tyler the Creator just called himself number two behind Kendrick Lamar.

00:39And people are saying he's one of the best.

00:42I seen that.

00:43And his album going crazy right now on the charts too.

00:45I seen that.

00:46That's dope.

00:47Shout out Tyler for sure.

00:48Have a good one.

00:49If he's saying he's number two, do you think you're better than Kendrick Lamar?

00:57Do I think I'm better than Kendrick Lamar?

00:58Number one over Kendrick.

00:59Man.

01:00I think it's different lanes.

01:01Honestly.

01:02Like, you know, I think what we represent is kind of different.

01:05Similar but still different.

01:06You know?

01:07I feel like I'm up there though.

01:08You know?

01:09I like, I mess with Kendrick Lamar.

01:11Kendrick dope.

01:12But you'd put yourself above him.

01:13Would I put myself above Kendrick?

01:15Nah, I wouldn't do that.

01:16Nah.

01:17I wouldn't even do that.

01:18I just started.

01:19Kendrick been going for some years.

01:20He used to rap with my uncle and them back in the day.

01:22So yeah, I wouldn't do that.

01:23I wouldn't do that.

01:24What do you, where would you, would you put yourself above Tyler or where would you put

01:28yourself?

01:29Man, honestly, I feel like I'm number one in my own mind.

01:32But when it comes to like, I like to do, I like to show respect to like to Tyler and

01:36Kendrick Lamar.

01:37I like to give respect where it's due because they kind of paved the way and been doing

01:40this longer than me as well as Nipsey Hussle.

01:42You know?

01:43So yeah, I'll put myself three right after Kendrick, right after Kendrick and Tyler.

01:47I'm right there.

01:48And above Nipsey though?

01:50Nah.

01:51Oh, nah, nah, nah.

01:52Nipsey number one.

01:53We talking.

01:54Oh, right.

01:55Me, Nipsey number one.

01:56I'll go Nipsey, Kendrick, Tyler, me.

01:57Four.

01:58For sure.

01:59Okay.

02:00If we're talking on an independent scale, independent rapper, I'm number one.

02:05Okay, okay.

02:06Now you know.

02:07Okay.

02:08Everyone gave Kendrick credit for uniting LA hoods, but you and Baby Stone Gorillaz did

02:15that with your album?

02:16Yeah.

02:17Yeah.

02:18We've been doing that for a few years now.

02:19Shout out Baby Stone Gorillaz.

02:20How did that come about?

02:21Me just, honestly, I heard some of their songs and when I seen it, I'm like, man, it's raw.

02:27This LA, this real raw song.

02:29I'm like, this dope.

02:30If I can put something together with them and, you know, and just giving them advice

02:34on, you know, they're a little younger than me.

02:35So I was like, let me get them some advice on, you know, the moving in the industry a

02:40little bit.

02:41Okay.

02:42I like that.

02:43What do you have going on right now?

02:44I got an album dropping November 15th.

02:47It's called 1937 South Cornish Street.

02:49Okay.

02:50Yep.

02:51So I'm just working.

02:52When is that dropping?

02:53November 15th.

02:54November 15th.

02:55Love it.

02:56Let me ask you real quick.

02:57Are you looking towards making the XXL Freshman?

03:02Yeah, that'd be dope.

03:03That'd be dope.

03:04I kind of, it's crazy because I feel like I don't really trip off the accolades and

03:08things like that because I grew up rough.

03:10So me, I feel like I already made it.

03:12I'm buying $50,000 watches and getting my teeth done.

03:14Yeah.

03:15I already made it in life.

03:16Honestly, I'm not dead or I'm not in jail.

03:18So yeah, but that'd be dope.

03:19If I can get XXL, I'd love to be on XXL and all the platforms.

03:23That'd be dope for sure.

03:24I mean, they don't put a lot of LA artists on.

03:26You've been seeing that?

03:27I've been seeing that.

03:28Yeah.

03:293 One No Baby definitely deserved to be on there.

03:30Uh-huh.

03:31And I didn't understand why he wasn't.

03:32Yeah.

03:33Yeah, it's like they'd be kind of like, they'd be like, you know, giving us the cold shoulder

03:36a little bit, but we're going to keep working though.

03:38They're going to see it.

03:39They're going to hear about us.

03:40We're going hard right now.

03:41Okay.

03:42Yeah, for sure.

03:43I love it.

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