Hip-Hop’s Top Proteges: 15 Mentor-Student Teams We Love
"You still a protégé, that's the reason I don't holler," Drake declares on the track 'A Scorpio's Mind.' Well, no disrespect to Drake, but that's how he started out. Alongside every great rap leader is an upcoming protégé -- learning the ropes of the craft in the hopes of excelling in the Hip-Hop School of Thought, paving a way for themselves. Protégés start out wet behind the ears, and if they're lucky, evolve into something greater. In the spirit of passing the torch, the BoomBox has compiled a list of our favorite protégés and the big brothers who mentored them. You will be surprised at how many of your favorite rappers' favorite rappers began as protégés themselves.
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