Buddy - Awesome Awesome (Mixtape, 2011)

So, this is what Pharrell has been up to? Buddy is a 17 year old native of Compton, and the latest receiver of great Neptunes beats. Pharrell is personally mentoring the kid, but does it show? A bit. Although Buddy isn’t as good a rapper as his elder (nor even close), he seems to be building his rapping style loosely around Pharrell’s own. He also really loves the cooking dance, as all young people from California do, but I seriously feel like he should be paying Lil B royalties here. 

Buddy’s mixtape, Idle Time, will be dropping soon.