“[As] long as I feel like I got the people, they gon’ hear it and they gon’ listen so it’s gonna get me to places that I can only imagine, you know what I mean?”
— Kendrick Lamar as transcribed by Datwon Thomas, VIBE's New Digital Cover Story Is A Candid Convo With Rap's Young King Kendrick Lamar
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