Kendrick Lamar quotes

Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer known for his innovative approach to hip-hop. His music explores complex social themes such as race, identity, and inequality. He is widely celebrated as one of the most influential artists of his generation. Here are 40 of his quotes:

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

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Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

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I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

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God to me is love.

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I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

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I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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

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Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

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Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

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I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

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My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

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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.

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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.

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My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

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I'm constantly thinking.

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I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

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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.

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I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

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

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As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

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I like to let things breathe.

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

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