Kendrick Lamar Quotes about Rap

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

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

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

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

I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

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

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

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

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.

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

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

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.

A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.