Kendrick Lamar Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Reality, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Kendrick Lamar To Geraldo Rivera: ‘How Can You Take A Song That’s About Hope And Turn It Into Hatred?’" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 07, 2015.

• Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Hip Hop, Soul

  Song: Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe

• And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death,
  My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats...
  Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death,
  Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Cousin, Rap, Sleep

• I live this life at a pace that anyone can go.
  Know your place, and dedicate your role
  ...To the faith that you'll die alone

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Hip Hop, Roles

• The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

  Interview with Jordan Sargent, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2012.

• 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.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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!

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, Time, Rapper

• Everybody looking at you crazy,
  What you gon' do?
  Lift up your head and keep moving,
  Or let the paranoia haunt you?

  Kendrick Lamar

  Crazy, Rap, Moving

• I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Verbs, Nouns

• 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.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Writing, Curves

• 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.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Hip Hop, Dumb

  Song: Sherane A.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter

• Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from,
  We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Gun, Giving

  Song: The Heart Pt. 2

• We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
  Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Hip Hop, Demise

• The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Decision, Culture

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

• Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Athlete, Winning, Hands

  "A killer crossover". Interview with Sam Alipour, abcnews.go.com. January 24, 2014.

• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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