“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 as transcribed by joe coscarelli, Kendrick Lamar on the Grammys, Black Lives Matter and His Big 2015
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