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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.
Hot Track: 'Mud Music'
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Hot Track: 'Another'
Hot Track: 'Hey Muma'
Hot Track: 'Knockout'
Hot Track: 'Hands Up'
Hot Track: 'Letter to B.I.G.'
Hot Track: 'Right Above It'
Hot Track: 'Grindin''
Hot Track: 'Dreams'
Hot Track: 'How to Rob'
Hot Track: 'Izzo (H.O.V.A.)'
Hot Track: 'Stuntin Like My Daddy'
Hot Track: 'I Need a Doctor'
Hot Track: 'Live at the BBQ'
Hot Track: 'The Originators'
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