When Kendrick Lamar first jumped on to the scene with his Overly Dedicated mixtape, a lot of fans were still discovering who he was. It wasn’t until his monumental album Section.80 that hip-hop fans finally saw a star being born. In honor of the West Coast rapper’s rise to stardom, we compiled 25 Amazing Kendrick Lamar Quotes.
Along with Drake and J. Cole, Lamar’s name is synonymous with the younger generation of rap who are entering the game to become the best. Lamar and his peers want to be at the top of the rap totem pole and his most recent album To Pimp A Butterfly, was yet another monumental contribution to rap. Lamar has been pretty quite lately but he continues to resound through the speakers and headphones of hip-hop fans.
Lamar was recently in the headlines for crashing a wedding and dancing around the venue. It does seem a bit uncharacteristic but chances are Lamar was just having a little fun. Don’t mistake his fun and take him lightly, Lamar is still a feared lyricist in the game because of his delivery and fearless nature. You can check out our 25 Amazing Kendrick Lamar quotes below.
“I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.”
“And everything you buy, taxes will deny. I’ll Wesley Snipe you before 35”
“It’s the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don’t see it, All i see is a blur.”
“Love is not just a verb it’s you looking in the mirror.”
“Look inside of my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich.”
“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.”
“I can dig rapping, but a rapper with a ghost writer? What the f**k happened?”
“I’d rather not live like there isn’t a God than die and find out there really is. Think about it.”
“If a flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it?”
“At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.”
“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.”
“Me scholarship? No, streets put me through colleges. Be all you can be, true, but the problem is, a dream’s only a dream if work don’t follow it”
“I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa.”
“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.”
“Loving you is complicated. Feel like you don’t feel, confidence in yourself.”
“Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you”
“When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.”
“And if those mirrors could talk it would say ‘you gotta go.’ And if I told your secrets. The world’ll know money can’t stop a suicidal weakness”
“Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God”
“The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.”
“Thank God for rap, I would say it got me a plaque. But what’s better than that? The fact it brought me back home.”
“Don’t you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from.”
“I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.”
“When sh*t hit the fan, is you still a fan?”
“From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.”