110+ Kendrick Lamar Quotes On Friends, Fake Friends And Family

Kendrick Lamar is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation and is known for his lyrical skill and storytelling ability. Lamar has won numerous awards and accolades throughout his career, including 12 Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kendrick Lamar on love, life, friends.

Top 10 Kendrick Lamar Quotes

1. The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
2. We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.
3. The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning
4. If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
5. We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us
6. Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
7. Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.
8. If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
9. Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God
10. I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat

Kendrick Lamar Image Quotes

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

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. — Kendrick Lamar

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

Kendrick Lamar Short Quotes

• Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
• Just let me be me, That's the only way I know.
• My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.
• Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from
• It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur
• I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!
• I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa
• The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable.
• I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
• I'm constantly thinking.

Kendrick Lamar Quotes About 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. — Kendrick Lamar

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

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. — Kendrick Lamar

What is love? Love to me is god. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

Love is not just a verb. It’s you looking into the mirror. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me. — Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Quotes About Life

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 — Kendrick Lamar

The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle. — Kendrick Lamar

We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group. — Kendrick Lamar

Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

There's kids out there that have so much life to live. That's a beautiful thing. — Kendrick Lamar

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring. — Kendrick Lamar

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night. — Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Kendrick Lamar

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else. — Kendrick Lamar

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man. — Kendrick Lamar

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball. — Kendrick Lamar

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

You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world. — Kendrick Lamar

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. — Kendrick Lamar

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized. — Kendrick Lamar

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

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! — Kendrick Lamar

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble. — Kendrick Lamar

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there. — Kendrick Lamar

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs. — Kendrick Lamar

Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young. — Kendrick Lamar

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery. — Kendrick Lamar

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

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

K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

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

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals — Kendrick Lamar

While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs. — Kendrick Lamar

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. — Kendrick Lamar

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being. — Kendrick Lamar

The HiiiPower Movement is a movement that's going on all throughout the world like a virus. It's about being on a higher level than the industry. It's a movement we started to be above all the bullshit that's been going on. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes. — Kendrick Lamar

My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able to survive. We was always taught that: to survive. When you talking about slavery, it's to survive. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit. — Kendrick Lamar

It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp but what counts is what comes behind. That's what's really important. Upholding that stamp and not only keeping the energy my way but also spreading that energy out to other artists that are coming up on the West Coast. — Kendrick Lamar

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

Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt. — Kendrick Lamar

Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely. — Kendrick Lamar

You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset. — Kendrick Lamar

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home? — Kendrick Lamar

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music. — Kendrick Lamar

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing. — Kendrick Lamar

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music. — Kendrick Lamar

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary. — Kendrick Lamar

When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand. — Kendrick Lamar

[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. — Kendrick Lamar

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards? — Kendrick Lamar

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want — Kendrick Lamar

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me. — Kendrick Lamar

Being where you from is a strong genetic. You can't run from it. — Kendrick Lamar

It's easy to forget who you are. — Kendrick Lamar

There are so many people pulling at me at one time - some want the business, some want my love, some just want my support, just to be there or to acknowledge them the same way I used to. To be able to figure that out is an ongoing process, because there's always another show, another album, another moment that I don't want to miss. But I'm pacing myself. I hope the powers that be keep me on a straight course. — Kendrick Lamar

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom. — Kendrick Lamar

I stole a Bible, is that a sin? — Kendrick Lamar

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that. — Kendrick Lamar

I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself. — Kendrick Lamar

I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared. — Kendrick Lamar

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

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. — Kendrick Lamar

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like. — Kendrick Lamar

I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey... — Kendrick Lamar

The one in front of the gun lives forever — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

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

The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to believe that God is real in my heart, my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I can't run from that. I'll always put that in my music or it just wouldn't be right. People can take it or leave it, I really don't care, because it's for me to put it on records. And I will continue to put more of a spiritual nature in my music. — Kendrick Lamar

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

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment. — Kendrick Lamar

I think my vice would be outdoing myself. — Kendrick Lamar

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

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again. — Kendrick Lamar

I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song. — Kendrick Lamar

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem. — Kendrick Lamar

I don't vote. I don't do no voting. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Kendrick Lamar

You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period. — Kendrick Lamar

I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you know? A lot of my music revolves around me growing up in Compton. I want to tell a different story that's never been told before, of a good kid in a mad city. — Kendrick Lamar

The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me. — Kendrick Lamar

Life Lessons by Kendrick Lamar

1. Kendrick Lamar teaches us to be proud of our roots and to use our experiences to create meaningful art.
2. He also encourages us to be honest with ourselves and to challenge the status quo.
3. Through his music, Kendrick Lamar reminds us that we all have the power to make a positive impact on the world.