You asked who got a movement going authentically...He is at least a house hold name in Hip Hop now. May not be big but your average Hip Hop fan knows of em now.
Someone still has to spread the music around. Just because music is good doesn't mean people automatically hear it.
LOL @ you thinking planted artists are new
hold up, what part of my posts gives off the idea that i think industry plants are something new?

did you not just see me tell the bul that even people in their 70s know what industry plants are? i should be the last person in here that you try to say that chit to.
no, currensy isnt all that known in hip-hop either. he has a supportive niche audience and hes cashing in but hes far from a hip-hop household name. FAR FROM IT. and ive been a fan of his for a decade now.
people in toronto knew about drake. they just didnt care. the same with k.dot.....i mean kendrick. you mentioned asap rocky, he himself said niccas thought that he & his team were gay, so they latched onto the hipster crowd to blow up. i could go on.
AND AGAIN, if your music is really that great, you dont need any type of push to gain a local buzz. if your chit is that hot, you just need to grind properly and you will at least make some sort of name for yourself.
but we knew he was signed when gkmc dropped and we all thought it was classic, shyt new people who never heard section 80 before or knew he was before gkmc feel its a classic, so how do we explain that 
+1 for team industry plants
who are they? i only see people calling gmkc a classic on the internet. the same people who were trying to call section 80 a classic.
and its all apart of the same push. hes been shoved down our throats as the next big thing by the magazines, tv, etc. did you not see the BET hip-hop awards? the show was basically about him and nobody knew who he was before they tuned in/ the crowd didnt even know that nucca. up there accepting awards with the guilt-face.
and still, the general public has yet to buy into it.