Top 100 Quotes About Kendrick Lamar: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Kendrick Lamar

#1. I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he is so cool and he uses so many interesting sounds and has such good melodies and is just a beautiful rapper, his raps are just so well-written and his tracks are so insane, I am obsessed with him.

Alana Haim

#2. 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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#3. There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

Skrillex

#4. When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I'm usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar, I can play that often.

Jhene Aiko

#5. Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

Meek Mill

#6. I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.

Wale

#7. You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.

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#8. What is love? Love to me is god.

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#9. The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else.

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#10. 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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#11. Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

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#12. 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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#13. Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

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#14. 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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#15. It's easy to forget who you are.

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#16. I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,

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#17. I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want

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#18. I was raised inside the gang culture.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Tell me how I stay positive
When they never see good in me

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#28. I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. I'm constantly thinking.

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#32. While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.

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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. It's that find some inspiration, it's that crack the installation, it's that quantum jump and that fist pump and that bomb detonation...

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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey.

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#40. 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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#41. If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

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#42. Just let me be me, That's the only way I know.

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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat

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#52. The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

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#53. It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

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#54. People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

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#55. 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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#56. The Universe energy doesn't lie.

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#57. A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel

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#58. We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

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#59. The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Stand for something, or die in the morning

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#60. 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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#61. The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

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#62. I live this life at a pace that anyone can go.
Know your place, and dedicate your role
... To the faith that you'll die alone

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#63. The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

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#64. 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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#65. My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

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#70. People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

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#71. Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

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#72. 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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#73. I stole a Bible, is that a sin?

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#74. I like to let things breathe.

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I am a sinner ... who's probably gonna sin again ... Lord forgive me!

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#79. 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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#80. Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

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#85. I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

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#86. Let bygones be bygones ... but where I'm from,
We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

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#87. My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

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#88. You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

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#92. As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

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#93. 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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#94. How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

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#95. 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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