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Kendrick Lamar Quotes And Life Story

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Compton, California, has produced some awesomely successful hip-hop stars like Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg.  From the same neighborhood comes Kendrick Lamar, one of hip-hops greatest performers.  He is a devout Christian and believes that God saved him from the crime-ridden area he called home.

Lamar launched his career online at first in 2004 and then released his first major album in 2012.  His online activity had gained him a dedicated following and brought him to the attention of his heroes in the world of hip-hop music.  He is well-known for showing great respect to his hip-hop heroes; he has been rewarded with their respect in turn.

Lamar enjoyed meteoric success from 2012 onwards.  He is one of the hardest working rap stars, producing a seemingly endless string of songs and albums.  He also releases videos and mixtapes.  Lamar is a humble man, who is modest in talking about his achievements, but whose lyrics and interviews have produced many words of wisdom.

His success is due to a mixture of determination and talent.  He has never been one to waste the talents afforded him, and his work ethic shows just how much he wants to put those talents to good and productive use.  Inspiration is to be found in the rich fund of Kendrick Lamar quotes, but also in his example as a human being.

Forgiving is easy trusting again, not so much.
Kendrick Lamar

Lamar is happily admits that many others have influenced him throughout his career.  He listened to advice from other hip-hop performers early on, and as a result, made appropriate choices when faced with difficult decisions.  Lamar cites Eminem, Jay-Z, and Tupac Shakur as among his biggest influences.  Tupac Shakur, he says influenced not only his music and his approach to the music business, but also his daily lifestyle.

Musically, while his most significant influences were other established hip-hop performers, he has also been influenced by performers from different music genres.  One has said that he owes much to Miles Davis, the jazz trumpeter, and he has worked with such stars as Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.  It is this willingness to take his influences from a broad field that makes him such an inspiring performer.

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar’s academic record as a high school student, where he achieved straight ‘As,’ shows him to be a highly intelligent man.  His high school achievements came as a result of hard work and application.  In this, his approach to the rest of his life was set.  Combine intelligence with talent and determination, and you will have a winning formula.  We can all learn from a man like Kendrick Lamar.  He shows that anything is achievable if you know what you want and are prepared to work to reach your goal.

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

When you give up it means you never wanted it.
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Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust god.
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Don’t you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing.
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I don’t do black music, I don’t do white music. I do everyday life music.
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I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.
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Look at me, I’m a loser, I’m a winner, I’m good, I’m bad. I’m a sinner, I’m a killer. What I’m doing, I’m saying that I’m human.
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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.
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So the next time you feel like the world’s about to end, I hope you studied, because he’s testing your faith again.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Love is not just a verb. It’s you looking in the mirror.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

Everybody heard that I f*** with Dre, and they wanna tell me I made it. N**** I ain’t made s***. If he gave me a handout, I’ma take his wrist and break it.
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Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where they stand.
Kendrick Lamar

 

If a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it.
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Maybe because I’m a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death.
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I’d rather not live like there isn’t a god, then die and find out there really is. Think about it.
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Look inside my soul and you can find gold maybe get rich. Look inside of your should and you can find out it never exists.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Maybe because I’m a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death.
Kendrick Lamar

 

You can’t have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.
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Everyday I try to escape the realities of this world.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

I can’t change the world until I change myself first.
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It’s easy to forget who you are.
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Live your life, live it right. Be different, do different things.
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Can’t let the government tell me how my future lookin’.
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I ain’t a drinker I’m a thinker, call it what you want.
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Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.
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People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.
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Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing.
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I’m tryna learn something new. I’m tryna surround myself with people that inspire me or at least inquire similar desires.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I’m trying to learn something new. I’m trying to surround myself with people that inspire me, or at least inquire similar desire.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do.
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Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
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Don’t say one thing then do another.
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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. The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.
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Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people… if they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where you stand.
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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know you’re making a mistake but let it go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
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If I speak the good into existence, that instant my dreams will unlock, money flow like water, I’ll just wait at the dock.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust god.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I walk alone with a cross and a diamond stone. I’m a diamond inside the rough, that’s too mighty for maricons.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I was a black sheep, but now I’m just a goat.
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Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

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.
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We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
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It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Since day one, since they first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
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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.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
Kendrick Lamar

 

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.
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The best way to describe myself would be…unpredictable.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.
Kendrick Lamar

 

So the next time you feel like the world’s about to end, I hope you studied, because he’s testing your faith again.
Kendrick Lamar

 

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.
Kendrick Lamar

 

We’re all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learning from them is key.
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But what love got to do with it when you don’t love yourself?
Kendrick Lamar

 

If I speak the good into existence, that instant my dreams will unlock, money flow like water, I’ll just wait at the dock.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Take advantage. Do your best, don’t stress. You was granted everything inside this planet, anything you imagine, you possess.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I’d rather not live like there isn’t a god, then die and find out there really is. Think about it.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Just let me be me, That’s the only way I know.
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Ya’ll don’t want me to win. I’m tryna follow dreams, you want me to follow trends.
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Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That’s the art for me.
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The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now. The strong in me, I still smile.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

Tough times don’t last but tough people do.
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My moms always told me, ‘How long you gonna play the victim?’ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Ya’ll don’t want me to win. I’m tryna follow dreams, you want me to follow trends.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
Kendrick Lamar

 

The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Mark my word, I’m a make my mark, even when they start their martial Law. Even when these martians alienate, my mental state is still at heart.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.
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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.
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I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust god.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I ain’t a drinker I’m a thinker, call it what you want.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.
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My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
Kendrick Lamar

 

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing we call hip-hop.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Talk about it. Make em talk about it. Life to me is currency, prosperity I got it.
 Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
Kendrick Lamar

 

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I like to let things breathe.
Kendrick Lamar

 

It’s easy to forget who you are.
Kendrick Lamar

 

We’re all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Take advantage. Do your best, don’t stress. You was granted everything inside this planet, anything you imagine, you possess.
Kendrick Lamar

 

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick Lamar

 

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That’s the art for me.
Kendrick Lamar

 

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

I walk alone with a cross and a diamond stone. I’m a diamond inside the rough, that’s too mighty for maricons.
Kendrick Lamar

 

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.
Kendrick Lamar

 

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.
Kendrick Lamar

 

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.
Kendrick Lamar

 

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it’s always a war between the two.
Kendrick Lamar

 

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.
Kendrick Lamar

 

But what love go to do with it when you don’t love yourself?
Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes

 

By looking at the success Lamar has achieved, we can see that his philosophy of a humble, hard-working lifestyle works.  He anchors his lifestyle in his Christian faith, which he credits for his successful career.  He believes that God has given him a talent that he must use for the benefit of humankind.  His faith does feature in his lyrics, and can be found in many of the Kendrick Lamar quotes listed here.

 

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