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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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Kendrick Lamar
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: June 17
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Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.
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When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand.
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The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
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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 been a war between the two.
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Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.
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Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.
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I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
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Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me
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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 that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
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I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.
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I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
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Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.
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The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.
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I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.
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The HiiiPower Movement is a movement that's going on all throughout the world like a virus. It's about being on a higher level than the industry. It's a movement we started to be above all the bullshit that's been going on.
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The Universe energy doesn't lie.
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[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent.
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You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
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We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?
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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.
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