Kendrick Lamar Quotes

“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.”

“I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs”

“The Universe energy doesn't lie.”

“How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?”

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

“I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals”

“There's kids out there that have so much life to live. That's a beautiful thing.”

“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.”

“We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.”

“Tell me how I stay positiveWhen they never see good in me”

“Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.”

“A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel”

“Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.”

“When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.”

“As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.”

“I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time”

“My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.”

“Being where you from is a strong genetic. You can't run from it.”

“K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.”

“Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.”

“Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.”

“My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.”

“I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.”

“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.”

“[Drizzy] ,it was dope. A great experience, especially with the topic he was talking about and to be... organic.I'm glad that it worked out the way it did where I got to tell my story, tell his story at the same time... and actually have it make sense as far as the whole concept of the album.”