Kendrick Lamar Quotes
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I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.
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I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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It's easy to forget who you are.
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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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I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals
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We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.
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A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel
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I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me.
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I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa
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Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely.
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Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
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Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me
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I'm constantly thinking.
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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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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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I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.
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You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.
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You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
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I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want
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I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat
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The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.
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From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.
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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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The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.
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Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
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