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50 Kendrick Lamar Quotes That Will Make Even His Haters a Fan

He's a little more than his music. 
Mark Kupasrimonkol
July 28, 2016
“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 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
“I want to put positive vibes in my music. But actually who I am as a person is not the song. That’s who I wanna be.’”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar : How To Clique a Butterfly - Clique.tv
Tagged: Music, Rap, Interview
“In my album, the confliction of today is : how can I use my leadership ? It’s knowing what to do with it. You come from this place of negativity, of not having nothing or following the older people you look up to, and now you’re taking the lead for thousands of people around the world. That brings a whole lot of change.’”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar : How To Clique a Butterfly - Clique.tv
Tagged: Music, Rap, Interview
“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
“Live your life, live it right, be different, do different things."”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kush & Corinthians
Tagged: Rap, Music, Hip Hop
“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
“We made a right, then made a left, then made a right
Then made a left, we was just circling life.”
— Kendrick Lamar, The Art Of Peer Pressure
Tagged: Hip Hop, Music, Rap
“Love is not just a verb it's you looking in the mirror”
— Kendrick Lamar, Poetic Justic
Tagged: Drake, Rap, Hip Hop, Music, Poetry, Love
“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
“I can't change the world until I change myself first.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Music, Rap, Hip Hop, Finding Yourself, life choices
“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
“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
“The one in front of the gun lives forever”
— Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees(feat Jay Rock)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Immortality, Guns
“[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
“Everybody always gets the glorifying the street cred, but what about the cats that’s trying they best to escape the negativity, but always get swarmed back in because of the circumstances around them? Nobody never told that story…”
— Kendrick Lamar, VIBE's New Digital Cover Story Is A Candid Convo With Rap's Young King Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Negativity, Storytelling
“I need forty acres and a mule
Not a forty ounce and a pit bull”
— Kendrick Lamar, For Free? (Interlude)
Tagged: Hip Hop, Music, Slavery, reparations
“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
“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
“If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?”
— Kendrick Lamar, Poetic Justic
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Relationships
“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us”
— Kendrick Lamar, Opposites Attract (Tomorrow W/O Her)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Pain, Love
“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
“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
“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
“Build your own pyramids write your own hieroglyphs”
— Kendrick Lamar, HiiiPower
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop
“Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing”
— Kendrick Lamar, No Make-Up (Her Vice)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Lyrics, Imperfections, beauty
“Hope euphoria can slow dance with society,”
— Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Society
“Cocaine laced in marijuana
And they wonder why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth
I was straight tweaking”
— Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Society