Kendrick Lamar Quotes
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I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.
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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.
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Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.
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Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
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I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
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The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.
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My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
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I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.
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I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
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I'm selfish.
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The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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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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My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
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Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
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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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Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
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As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.
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From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.
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Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.
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I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.
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People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.