Kendrick Lamar Quotes

Most memorable quotes from Kendrick Lamar.

Kendrick Lamar Famous Quotes

Reading Kendrick Lamar quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Kendrick Lamar. Righ click to see or save pictures of Kendrick Lamar quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: We all seem to stumble,
My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: My lyrics say I have
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: A lot of incredible rap
Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Although the butterfly and the
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
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I live this life at
Let bygones be bygones ... but where I'm from,
We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Let bygones be bygones ...
But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: But what love got to
I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I want you to recognize
Bitch don't kill my vibe.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Bitch don't kill my vibe.
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I always felt like there
I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I penetrate the hearts of
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I'm standing on a field
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Hip-hop and being a pro
Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Life Will Put Many Red
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: And I'm not sure why
Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Being able to tell one
You're judged by the companies you keep.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: You're judged by the companies
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Since day one, since the
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: At first, I was scared
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: There's a lot of other
I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I don't sugarcoat it you'd
Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Eventually you get to this
I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I aint a drinker Im
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...
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: It's that find some inspiration,
I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I can't help the way
If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: If I'm gonna tell a
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: You can't change where you
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I see conflict. But the
I was raised inside the gang culture.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I was raised inside the
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The opposite of love? Vice.
People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: People gonna be they own
It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: It's the beauty in her,
Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Found myself screaming in a
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Teenagers expressing this on a
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The thing about hip-hop is
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I can say is if
I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I was a black sheep,
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: People are used to music
We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: We hurt people that love
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: What happened to [Michael Brown]
As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: As long as my music
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: My whole thing is to
It's easy to forget who you are.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: It's easy to forget who
How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: How am I influencing so
We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: We all get distracted, the
I don't vote. I don't do no voting.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I don't vote. I don't
I like to let things breathe.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I like to let things
I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I had to come from
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Whatever pressure I feel all
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 ...
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Look inside my soul and
The one in front of the gun lives forever
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The one in front of
God to me is love.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: God to me is love.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I think my vice would
Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Hip-hop is not the problem,
The Universe energy doesn't lie.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The Universe energy doesn't lie.
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The worst part of success
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: If I told you that
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: While you have people who
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: You grow up inside these
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I've got an extra-specific story
I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the
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,
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Believe in God, it's only
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Every time I write these
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: It's deep-rooted, the music of
I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel. A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I'm a person of my
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I probably spent more time
The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The message I'm sending to
I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I'd rather not live like
I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I don't really believe in
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: My pops and my mom
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I be off the slave
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.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: When I go into the
I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I'm usually homeboys with the
The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: The ultimate thing I want
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I knew I was blessed
Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Don't you know your imperfections
A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: A dollar might turn to
I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I always tell people that
You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: You really can't categorize my
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!
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Am I the only one
Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you?
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Everybody looking at you crazy,<br>What
Get God on the phone!
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: Get God on the phone!
I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.
Kendrick Lamar Quotes: I'm putting out this free
Kendra Wilkinson Quotes «
» Kendrick Meek Quotes