Kendrick Lamar Quotes

“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us”

“I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.”

“If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.”

“When I ask OGs why there's so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.”

“It's easy to forget who you are.”

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

“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!”

“I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat”

“Everybody has their own way of hearing songs. My fans are usually pretty on point. Sometimes they go all the way to the bottom of it. It's fascinating to me how far an idea can go. I wrote most of my first album in my mom's kitchen, and now I can go around the world and hear people recite those lyrics, and understand the story, even though they're not from the same area I grew up in.”

“[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent.”

“It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.”

“Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.”

“Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.”

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

“Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.”

“My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are so many people pulling at me at one time - some want the business, some want my love, some just want my support, just to be there or to acknowledge them the same way I used to. To be able to figure that out is an ongoing process, because there's always another show, another album, another moment that I don't want to miss. But I'm pacing myself. I hope the powers that be keep me on a straight course.”

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

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

“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 don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it”

“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.”