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Kendrick Lamar Quotes

Total quotes: 42
“As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar : How To Clique a Butterfly - Clique.tv
Tagged: Music, Rap, Interview
“I got a story to tell, you know that I cherish these. Hope it ain't too many feelings involved.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Mona Lisa(feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Tagged: Stories, Emotional Stories
“The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Stand for something, or die in the morning”
— Kendrick Lamar, HiiiPower
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, meaning in life
“This album did what I wanted it to do...That’s not necessarily to sell tons of records — though it didn’t do bad at that either — but to actually have an impact on the people and on the culture of music.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar on the Grammys, Black Lives Matter and His Big 2015
Tagged: Music, Creation, Hip Hop, Culture
“Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem of the situation. This is our music. This is us expressing ourselves.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Responds to Geraldo Rivera: 'Hip-Hop Is Not the Problem, Our Reality Is'
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, youth culture, expression
“I'm so fuckin' sick and tired of the Photoshop
Show me somethin' natural like afro on Richard Pryor”
— Kendrick Lamar, HUMBLE.
“Tell me who you loyal to
Is it money? Is it fame? Is it weed? Is it drink?
Is it comin' down with the loud pipes and the rain?”
— Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, LOYALTY.
“I’m my own individual man, that’s it. Not smoking and not drinking doesn’t put down my manhood and my coolness, you know. I’ve been cool since elementary.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar : How To Clique a Butterfly - Clique.tv
Tagged: Music, Rap, Interview
“You'd be shocked how far it'd take you to just having relationships with people outside of the norm that you're even used to.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Deeper Than Just the Music: Kendrick Lamar's Extended Noisey Bompton Interview | NOISEY
Tagged: Relationship, Friendship, Music, Hip Hop, Respect
“[As] long as I feel like I got the people, they gon’ hear it and they gon’ listen so it’s gonna get me to places that I can only imagine, you know what I mean?”
— Kendrick Lamar, VIBE's New Digital Cover Story Is A Candid Convo With Rap's Young King Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Friendship
“I'll tell you just how much a dollar cost
The price of having a spot in Heaven, embrace your loss, I am God”
— Kendrick Lamar, How Much a Dollar Cost (feat. Ronald Isley)
Tagged: Hip Hop, Music, God, Money, Heaven
“I am a sinner who's probably gonna sin again
Lord forgive me, Lord forgive me
Things I don't understand
Sometimes I need to be alone”
— Kendrick Lamar, Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, sinning, God, forgiveness
“When I'm in the studio I'm looking for a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Interview: Turn the Page 2014 Cover Story | Complex
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Interview, studio, creating
“I love bad bitches, that's my fuckin' problem
And yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin' problem
I love bad bitches, that's my fuckin' problem
And yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin' problem”
— A$AP Rocky, Drake, 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar, F**kin' Problems
Tagged: Rap Lyrics, Rap Songs, Swagging Lyrics, Swag Lyrics
“Miss me with that bullshit
You ain't really wild, you a tourist
I be blackin' out with the purist”
— Kendrick Lamar, King's Dead
“Somethin's in the water
And if I gotta brown nose for some gold
Then I'd rather be a bum than a motherfuckin' baller”
— Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Self Worth
“All I have in life is my new appetite for failure
And I got hunger pain that grow insane”
— Kendrick Lamar, Swimming Pools (Drank)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Failure, inspiration
“Look at me, I'm a loser, I'm a winner, I'm good, I'm bad, I'm a sinner, I'm a killer, what I'm doing, I'm saying that I'm human."”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kush & Corinthians
Tagged: Music, Rap, Hip Hop
“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”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar: 'I Can't Change The World Until I Change Myself First'
Tagged: Music, Rap, Hip Hop, Finding Yourself
“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.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar: 'I Can't Change The World Until I Change Myself First'
Tagged: Music, Rap, Hip Hop, Finding Yourself, life choices
“It's the beauty in her but when the make-up occur 
I don't see it, all I see is a blur”
— Kendrick Lamar, No Make-Up (Her Vice)
Tagged: Music, Makeup, beauty, Hip Hop
“Even in my head you're still in my bed.”
— Maroon 5, Kendrick Lamar, Don't Wanna Know(feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Tagged: Still in bed, Still Into You, can't get you out of my head, Miss you
“It's fascinating to me how far an idea can go.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Ideas, The Power of Thought, Art
“Love a drug that everybody here just tryna get a taste of.”
— Mac Miller, Kendrick Lamar, Iman Omari, Fight the Feeling
Tagged: Love, Drug, taste, Desire, Metaphor Examples
“I think one of my biggest battles within myself is embracing leadership. You always grow up and you hate the term "role model." You would say, "I don't wanna be a role model. I don't want none of that." ... It's impossible to fight the title of role model. Especially when the type of music I make is so personal.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar : How To Clique a Butterfly - Clique.tv
Tagged: Music, Rap, Interview
“The one in front of the gun lives forever”
— Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees(feat Jay Rock)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Immortality, Guns
“I been a warrior when I came out my mom's placenta”
— Kendrick Lamar, Overly Dedicated
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop
“So what I realized was, my greatest fulfillment of accomplishment was having somebody that I looked up to for so many years and knowing that I put in that same dedication and work and them saying, ‘Thank you.’ And them being able to recite them lyrics.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Writer At War: Kendrick Lamar’s XXL Cover Story - XXL
“I got, I got, I got, I got
Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA”
— Kendrick Lamar, DNA.
“I can't recall the last time I took, advice from anyone

Shaped like a figure eight, who trusts pretty girls anyway?

And I can't recall the last time I took advice from anyone

I'm sure I'll be the death of me”
— SZA, Kendrick Lamar, Babylon(feat. Kendrick Lamar)
“I can't change the world until I change myself first.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar: 'I Can't Change The World Until I Change Myself First'
Tagged: How To Change The World, Start With Yourself
“A fatal attraction is common and what we have common is pain”
— Kendrick Lamar, Opposites Attract (Tomorrow W/O Her)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Pain, Love
“Build your own pyramids write your own hieroglyphs”
— Kendrick Lamar, HiiiPower
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop
“Music moves with the times. It’s not something we have to consciously do. This is what’s happening in the world — not only to me but to my community. Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally. And this is where we’re at. When you look at other artists doing the same thing, it’s of the times.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar on the Grammys, Black Lives Matter and His Big 2015
Tagged: Music, Creation, Hip Hop, Culture, Community
“Life to me is currency, prosperity I got it”
— Kendrick Lamar, B-Boyz
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Dj Khaled, Money, Respect, keys
“I smoke color purple, I'm up in here feeling like Celie.”
— Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, Mona Lisa(feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Tagged: Marijuana, Weed, Purple Haze
“Oh, I stare at the mirror then realize, that real lies within me”
— Kendrick Lamar, Let Me Be Me
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, self
“Look inside of my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich”
— Kendrick Lamar, Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Wealth, Self Worth
“Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing”
— Kendrick Lamar, No Make-Up (Her Vice)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Lyrics, Imperfections, beauty
“When you know, we been hurt, been down before, nigga
When my pride was low, lookin' at the world like, 'where do we go, nigga?'
And we hate Popo, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga
I'm at the preacher's door
My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow but we gon' be alright”
— Kendrick Lamar, Alright - Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Freedom, Police Brutality, black lives, Black Lives Matter, Matter, Fight
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