Best 120 quotes of Kendrick Lamar on MyQuotes

A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel

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.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

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!

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.

As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.

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.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

Colorism is not a good thing, especially when you're Black.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

[ Drizzy] is a good dude , he's been looked out and reached out, and I admire the talent.

[Drizzy] ,it was dope. A great experience, especially with the topic he was talking about and to be... organic.I'm glad that it worked out the way it did where I got to tell my story, tell his story at the same time... and actually have it make sense as far as the whole concept of the album.

[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work.

Everybody has their own way of hearing songs. My fans are usually pretty on point. Sometimes they go all the way to the bottom of it. It's fascinating to me how far an idea can go. I wrote most of my first album in my mom's kitchen, and now I can go around the world and hear people recite those lyrics, and understand the story, even though they're not from the same area I grew up in.

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

Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.

From what I remember, I remember always being a big fan of Kardinal Offishall. He just had that different flow and different flavor. He put himself on the record and that's the type of energy that we love.

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.

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

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.

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

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.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

I am from the inner city, the ghetto. If I can use my platform to carry on a legacy and talk about something that's real, I have to do that, period.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I don't sugarcoat it you'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

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

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

I'm constantly thinking.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time