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Kendrick Lamar
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: June 17
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We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.
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I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.
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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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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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Just let me be me, That's the only way I know.
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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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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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The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.
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I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey...
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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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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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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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As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
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We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us
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What is love? Love to me is god.
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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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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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Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.
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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.
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No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.
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