From the Westside with Love II arrived in 2011 and was a success, hitting the Top 100 of the Billboard 200 album chart. Rather than sign on with a label, the talented MC instead decided to start his own label, the Other People's Money Company, which he used to release his own official albums. By this point, he had begun touring across the United States and internationally, playing a show in Djibouti, Africa. He followed with Future Street/Drug Sounds and Best After Bobby in 2009, the popular From the Westside with Love in 2010, and The Original Dom Kennedy in 2011. After college, he began recording, issuing his debut in 2008 with 25th Hour.
In 2020, he released his seventh official full-length Rap N Roll, as well as a tape with frequent collaborator Hit-Boy, Also Known As.īorn Dominic Hunn, the Leimert Park native grew up listening to the Notorious B.I.G., Outkast, 2Pac, and LL Cool J, playing baseball and basketball when he wasn't in school. Numerous albums and mixtapes carried the emcee to the end of the decade. He reached a chart peak in 2015 with third LP By Dom Kennedy. A sequel to that set, From the Westside with Love II, was issued as his official debut in 2011. With a style that pairs terse, simple lyricism with a knack for narrative, Kennedy took inspiration from West Coast rap legends like 2Pac and DJ Quik and began rapping in the late 2000s, gradually building word-of-mouth buzz through several self-released mixtapes like 2010's From the Westside with Love.
Based out of Los Angeles, California, Dom Kennedy is a rapper with a fiercely independent streak.
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