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
A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. To Pimp a Butterfly is an extension of those albums.
It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.
I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.
A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel
I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it
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.
I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa
It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur