"Everybody looking at you crazy,What you gon'..." - Quote by Kendrick Lamar
Everybody looking at you crazy,What you gon' do?Lift up your head and keep moving,Or let the paranoia haunt you?
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“It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp but what counts is what comes behind. That's what's really important. Upholding that stamp and not only keeping the energy my way but also spreading that energy out to other artists that are coming up on the West Coast.”
“Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.”
“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.”
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“That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.”
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“I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other Beatles. If I took up ballet dancing, my ballet dancing would be compared with Paul (McCartney)'s bowling.”
“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
“At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don't know the consequence of playing badly.”