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Kendrick Lamar Quotes

Total quotes: 52
“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
“Martin had a dream
Martin had a dream
Kendrick have a dream”
— Kendrick Lamar, Backseat Freestyle
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, martin luther king, Dreaming, i had a dream
“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'd like to start it out from the bottom and build with ya
Be on my last dollar and split the bill with ya”
— Kendrick Lamar, Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Self Worth, Friendship
“Okay, now open your mind up and listen to me, Kendrick. I'm your conscience, if you do not hear me then you will be history, Kendrick.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Swimming Pools (Drank) - Extended Version
Tagged: Drinking, Alcohol, Alcohol Addiction Quotes
“This is truly a blessing from a higher power, and as long as I understand that, there's really no limitations to what I can do.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Interview: Turn the Page 2014 Cover Story | Complex
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Interview, inspiration
“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
“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
“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
“Some people use drugs, or violence, or whatever your vice may be, and you have creative people that may use music or maybe use style in expressing themselves—whether they are angry or happy, or sad.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar - The Coveteur
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Fashion, expression
“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
“This album did what I wanted it to do...That’s not necessarily to sell tons of records — though it didn’t do bad at that either — but to actually have an impact on the people and on the culture of music.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar on the Grammys, Black Lives Matter and His Big 2015
Tagged: Music, Creation, Hip Hop, Culture
“Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem of the situation. This is our music. This is us expressing ourselves.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Responds to Geraldo Rivera: 'Hip-Hop Is Not the Problem, Our Reality Is'
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, youth culture, expression
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“When I'm in the studio I'm looking for a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Interview: Turn the Page 2014 Cover Story | Complex
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Interview, studio, creating
“Somethin's in the water
And if I gotta brown nose for some gold
Then I'd rather be a bum than a motherfuckin' baller”
— Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Self Worth
“All I have in life is my new appetite for failure
And I got hunger pain that grow insane”
— Kendrick Lamar, Swimming Pools (Drank)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Failure, inspiration
“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
“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
“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
“Live your life, live it right, be different, do different things."”
— Kendrick Lamar, Kush & Corinthians
Tagged: Rap, Music, Hip Hop
“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
“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
“I cut off my ears before I hear your advice and vice versa”
— Kendrick Lamar, XV Ft. Kendrick Lamar - Textbook Stuff (Zero Heroes Mixtape)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Advice
“Stand for something, or fall for anything”
— Kendrick Lamar, Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Self Worth
“I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence”
— Kendrick Lamar, King Kunta
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Uncertainty
“Smoke good, eat good, live good.”
— Kendrick Lamar, Poe Man's Dreams (His Vice)
Tagged: Ethics, How To Live A Good Life, Lifestyle
“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
“Hope euphoria can slow dance with society,”
— Kendrick Lamar
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Society
“Maybe cause I'm a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death”
— Kendrick Lamar, Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Death
“Can't let the government tell me how my future looking”
— Kendrick Lamar, Overly Dedicated
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Government, Politics
“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
“The one in front of the gun lives forever”
— Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees(feat Jay Rock)
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop, Immortality, Guns
“I been a warrior when I came out my mom's placenta”
— Kendrick Lamar, Overly Dedicated
Tagged: Music, Hip Hop
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