Top 100 Kendrick Lamar Quotes
#2. The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else.
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#3. Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
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#4. Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
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#5. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
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#6. Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
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#7. When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.
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#9. I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,
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#10. I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want
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#12. What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.
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#13. My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.
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#15. The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.
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#16. Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight,
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#17. I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time
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#18. My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
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#19. At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
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#20. Tell me how I stay positive
When they never see good in me
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#21. I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
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#22. I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.
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#23. God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.
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#25. Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich.
Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists ...
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#26. Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.
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#27. Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.
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#28. It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur
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#29. I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.
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#31. I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
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#32. If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
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#34. Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.
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#35. Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
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#36. The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.
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#37. Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God
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#38. My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
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#39. You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.
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#40. Every time I write these words they become a taboo,
Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,
Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
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#41. I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.
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#42. I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
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#44. The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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#45. It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.
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#46. I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
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#48. A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel
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#49. We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us
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#50. I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it
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#51. The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
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#52. I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.
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#53. A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. To Pimp a Butterfly is an extension of those albums.
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#54. My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
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#55. I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
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#56. I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa
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#57. Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
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#58. I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.
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#60. I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.
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#61. When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.
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#62. It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb,
It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.
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#63. I am a sinner ... who's probably gonna sin again ... Lord forgive me!
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#64. From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.
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#65. Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from
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#66. The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.
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#67. Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.
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#68. Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.
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#69. But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?
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#70. Let bygones be bygones ... but where I'm from,
We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.
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#71. My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.
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#72. You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
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#73. Am I the only one who measures time using songs? Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that's not to long!
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#74. The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle.
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#75. I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.
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#76. As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
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#77. There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.
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#78. How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?
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#79. I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
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#80. Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
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#82. Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you
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#83. You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.
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#84. We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
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#85. I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
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#86. I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
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#90. Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
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#92. Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you?
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#93. Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.
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#94. If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
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#95. So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.
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#96. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.
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#97. We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
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#98. And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats ...
Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.
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#99. I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
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#100. I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
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