Dom Kennedy is basking in the limelight, from his –so far– successful tour, bringing fellow west-coast rapper Kendrick Lamar on stage while in NYC. It started from mixtapes — free mixtapes– but now, with the success of his album, Get Home Safely, Kennedy feels that he may not be able to give music away as freely as he did in the past. Check out what he has to say about it after the jump.
The rapper to sat down with AllHipHop to discuss “potentially never releasing another project for free” among other things, where he stated:
“The Yellow Album was free, but that was only because it was by choice. I was going into it and that was my mindset. Honestly, after I started making it, I knew it was going to be tight and I could sell it and all that, but in my mind and in my heart, I went in to make this for free. But I don’t know if I’ll ever do a mixtape or something like that–something for free. I don’t really see how it would fit into what I do, especially at this point.
The goal is to get better and to go harder. If my next goal is to be 10 times better than Get Home Safely, why would I put that out for free if I didn’t put Get Home Safely for free?”
Here are dates to Dom Kennedy’s Ongoing Tour
