Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper from Compton, California. Lamar embarked on his musical career as a teenager under the moniker K-Dot, releasing a mixtape that garnered local attention and led to his signing with Carson-based indie record label Top Dawg Entertainment. Lamar began to gain major recognition in 2010, after his first retail release, Overly Dedicated. The following year, he released the independent album Section.80, which included Lamar's debut single, "HiiiPoWeR". By that time,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth17 June 1987
CityCompton, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it
What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.
I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time
Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you
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.
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.
I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!
It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur
Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?
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.