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Kendrick Lamar

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Kendrick Lamar
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: June 17
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I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.
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I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
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Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.
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I can be calm and reflective from time to time and other times I can have a burst of energy, that's just me.
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I stole a Bible, is that a sin?
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Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.
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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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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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The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
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While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.
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We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.
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I wanted the next family to hurt, because you made my family hurt. Them emotions were still running in me... Whether I'm a rap star or not, if I still feel like that, then I'm part of the problem rather than the solution.
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My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.
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God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.
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I'm constantly thinking.
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I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.
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When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.
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Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
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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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From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.
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