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Kendrick Lamar

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Kendrick Lamar
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: June 17
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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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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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It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur
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There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.
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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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That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.
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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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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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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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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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It's easy to forget who you are.
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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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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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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'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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You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.
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Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
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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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The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning
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