Listen to "The City" by YG Hootie, Feat. Kendrick Lamar

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Disclaimer: YG Hootie (Brick Squad affiliate) and YG (bool, balm and bollected) are two different rappers. They’re both from Compton and they both have songs with Kendrick Lamar.

In the last few weeks, Kendrick’s been featured on Rapsody’s “Power” and Rich The Kid’s “New Freezer,” and now, for YG Hootie’s “The City,” he gets to kick back and lay some clever lines over a beat from DJ FU (of Mike Will Made It/Eardrummers). “Every time I rap it’s with the extras,” he says. True.

Check out YG Hootie and Kendrick Lamar on “The City” below, and see where Kendrick’s DAMN. ranks on our list of the year’s best albums so far here.

Listen to “The City” by YG Hootie, Feat. Kendrick Lamar