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We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.
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.
Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
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
Let bygones be bygones ... but where I'm from,
We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.
But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?
I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey.
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.
I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time
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.
Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God
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.
Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.
You're judged by the companies you keep.
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
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.
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.
I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want
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...
I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
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.
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.
I was raised inside the gang culture.
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.
People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.
It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur
Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.
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.
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.
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.
I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat
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.
We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us
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.
As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
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.
It's easy to forget who you are.
How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?
We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
I don't vote. I don't do no voting.
I like to let things breathe.
I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
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.
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 ...
The one in front of the gun lives forever
God to me is love.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
The Universe energy doesn't lie.
The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
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.
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.
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.
I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it
I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
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.
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
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.
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
The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else.
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from
A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel
I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.
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!
Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you?
Get God on the phone!
I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.