Latest Quotes

“Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem of the situation. This is our music. This is us expressing ourselves.”

— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Responds to Geraldo Rivera: 'Hip-Hop Is Not the Problem, Our Reality Is'

“Music moves with the times. It’s not something we have to consciously do. This is what’s happening in the world — not only to me but to my community. Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally. And this is where we’re at. When you look at other artists doing the same thing, it’s of the…”

— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar on the Grammys, Black Lives Matter and His Big 2015

“This album did what I wanted it to do...That’s not necessarily to sell tons of records — though it didn’t do bad at that either — but to actually have an impact on the people and on the culture of music.”

— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar on the Grammys, Black Lives Matter and His Big 2015

“Some people use drugs, or violence, or whatever your vice may be, and you have creative people that may use music or maybe use style in expressing themselves—whether they are angry or happy, or sad.”

— Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar - The Coveteur

“I'd like to start it out from the bottom and build with ya Be on my last dollar and split the bill with ya”

— Kendrick Lamar, Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)

“Stand for something, or fall for anything”

— Kendrick Lamar, Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)

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

— Kendrick Lamar, XV Ft. Kendrick Lamar - Textbook Stuff (Zero Heroes Mixtape)

“Maybe cause I'm a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death”

— Kendrick Lamar, Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst

“Cocaine laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking”

— Kendrick Lamar, open.spotify.com

“Hope euphoria can slow dance with society,”

— Kendrick Lamar, open.spotify.com

“Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing”

— Kendrick Lamar, No Make-Up (Her Vice)

“Build your own pyramids write your own hieroglyphs”

— Kendrick Lamar, HiiiPower

“I am a sinner who's probably gonna sin again Lord forgive me, Lord forgive me Things I don't understand Sometimes I need to be alone”

— Kendrick Lamar, Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe

“Look inside of my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich”

— Kendrick Lamar, Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe

“Oh, I stare at the mirror then realize, that real lies within me”

— Kendrick Lamar, Let Me Be Me

“A fatal attraction is common and what we have common is pain”

— Kendrick Lamar, Opposites Attract (Tomorrow W/O Her)

“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us”

— Kendrick Lamar, Opposites Attract (Tomorrow W/O Her)

“Language does not arise from a need to escape but from a desire to enter, not from frowns of impotence but from a surplus of vitality and wonder.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison, Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age

“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were— I have not seen As others saw — I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then— in my childhood— in th…”

— Edgar Allan Poe, Alone

“The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.”

— Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers: A Novel