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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.

Kendrick Lamar

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Kendrick Lamar
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: June 17
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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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The times that we are in, it's something that you can only feel in the air. You don't even have to talk about it. You don't need the news or the Internet to watch it. You can walk outside and just feel it.
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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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There's kids out there that have so much life to live. That's a beautiful thing.
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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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I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.
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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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That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.
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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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If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
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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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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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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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Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
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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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Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.
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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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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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