Inspirational Kendrick Lamar Quotes

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ? ~ Kendrick Lamar

Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you? ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it. ~ Kendrick Lamar

The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I don't live in this soul music bubble. I love Young Thug, Drake, Kendrick Lamar. I even heard that Kendrick was a fan of my music. Hopefully there's a door open for us to do music together. He's one of my favorite artists. I love Jazmine Sullivan, Lianne la Havas, Usher, Ginuwine. It goes further than classic soul. ~ Leon Bridges

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home? ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out. ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name. ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

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

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

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

Mr. Kendrick was born on a horse and he'll die on one, and maybe that's not something you can breed for. He's one of those rare men who can make a horse work for him but never asks for more than they have. WOW. Very unexpected. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both. ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

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

I think my vice would be outdoing myself. ~ Kendrick Lamar

Let bygones be bygones ... but where I'm from,
We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young. ~ Kendrick Lamar

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it? ~ Kendrick Lamar

Get God on the phone! ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized. ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

I was raised inside the gang culture. ~ Kendrick Lamar

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first. ~ Kendrick Lamar

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur ~ Kendrick Lamar

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I don't vote. I don't do no voting. ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us ~ Kendrick Lamar

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

Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct. ~ Kendrick Lamar

I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it ~ Kendrick Lamar

I am the best person in the universe. ~ Kendrick Nguyen

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