American - Musician | June 17, 1987 -
I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
Kendrick Lamar
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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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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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You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
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I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
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I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.
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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.
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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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I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.
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In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
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My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.
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We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
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