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Kendrick Lamar Quotes

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"I think consistency still to this day like Kendrick does not have a bad project out there."
"Kendrick has one of the coolest live shows that's out. So intricate, artistic, and he really cares about not only the album he's putting out but the live show experience."
"Kendrick Lamar: Pulitzer Prize winner, Grammy Award winner, the Coltrane of hip-hop."
"Kendrick Lamar's greatest strength is not just how he can show us his truth but how his truth applies to everyone who hears it."
"Kendrick Lamar is hip-hop's anthropologist, using his music and poetry to explore African-American culture as ever-changing and fluid."
"Kendrick's last four albums follow a specific semi-autobiographical journey, revealing his roots, his struggles, and affirming what he values most in life."
"I do not know if you can ever say you really know what to expect out of a Kendrick Lamar album because every single one has been so different sonically, stylistically, content-wise."
"Kendrick if you're watching, amazing [ __ ] album man. This is truly a piece of art in my opinion, transcends hip-hop."
"Kendrick has challenged himself to acknowledge the ugliest parts of his being."
"Kendrick is addressing all of these traumas that plague our communities on such a large scale and breaking them down to their most minute little details."
"Everybody gon' respect the shooter, but the one in front of the gun lives forever." - Kendrick Lamar
"Backseat Freestyle... another vicious performance by Kendrick."
"It's just, it's genius, and even the gun ad-libs from Kendrick, bro, iconic, love that."
"It's as perfect as it gets, bro. It's Kendrick's best song, the best song of all time."
"What the hell is Kendrick doing? What do you mean you got to get right with God?"
"Kendrick Lamar, there's never been a verse that made a [expletive] apologize in two days."
"Kendrick Lamar: Pulitzer Prize winner, making history."
"Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst, best Kendrick Lamar song."
"That's some of the best music I've heard on a Kendrick, and it goes without saying."
"One of the bigger points for this project was seeing a Kendrick Lamar feature and it not being the reason I was most excited for the song."
"Kendrick albums are always like a time stamp in my life."
"Sex and materialism both being used as coping mechanisms for Kendrick."
"Kendrick, who always presents the [__] in this artistic package."
"He's one of them where people 20 years from now are going to look back like 'yo, I wish I was alive when Kendrick was out there going crazy.'"
"Good kid, m.A.A.d city... I'm still getting emotional over it."
"I think Kendrick with this record, with his songs, with his talent and abilities, breathes new life into these ideas in a way that I think no other artists in music or outside of music over the past 10 years has."
"Kendrick Lamar opened the show with a really powerful political performance"
"Initial thoughts: This is why you wait five years for a Kendrick album. It felt heavy and personal."
"Kendrick Lamar represents authenticity, he represents real artistry."
"This is exactly how we expected Kendrick to come and represent."
"Drake is going to literally say, 'Yo Kendrick, I think you softed'."
"I'm glad Kendrick stepped in the ring and I'm glad that he responded."
"Kendrick Lamar holds himself to such a high standard of quality he will record a whole song than redo one ad-lib a month later because he didn't like how he breathed on the ad-lib."
"Kendrick Lamar did that and he did it in a way that seems very simple but it's not."
"Kendrick Lamar's commitment to Artistic growth and Innovation as an artist is evident in the discography."
"It's so much bigger than Beyoncé, it's so much bigger than Kendrick Lamar, but those two people are helping to enact change, to spark up conversation, to get the world to where it needs to be."
"What sets Kendrick apart from not only his peer group but most artists in music history is his ability to move on his own time."
"Fans are willing to wait because of the care Kendrick puts into his art."
"Kendrick has never lacked credit for his rapping abilities."
"Kendrick verse wasn't friendly. It's not friendly, ain't no friend, this is competition."
"I'm telling y'all something, the Kendrick verse is not friendly."
"Kendrick Lamar got everybody scared to death."
"Kendrick Lamar is a freaking demon, bro. He's another alien-level rapper."
"Kendrick's goal coming up was to keep that spirit alive through his music."
"You can see the emotion in Kendrick's eyes clearly during that moment."
"...Kendrick has proven himself to be the goat in this situation."
"Drake sent more subliminal at Kendrick saying that he's number one in the game and Kendrick isn't."
"I guess Kendrick like no gloves [__] let's get cracking."
"Kendrick is out for blood, he just wouldn't stop hunting them."
"This is sick, lyrically sick, Kendrick is showing why he's a master at this."
"Kendrick Lamar is a very scary opponent."
"Kendrick has probably one of the strongest discographies in hip-hop history."
"Travis Drake Kendrick those guys are very decisive they know exactly what they want so it's like um they they kind of they're in there with you and they're very Hands-On."
"Kendrick Lamar's verse might be the first time a Kendrick Lamar verse is being played in a club like they're playing a song in strip clubs like it's a hit record."
"Kendrick Lamar... his music goes beyond only impacting the hip hop genre, it impacts society."
"Kendrick Lamar bought millions of fake views."
"...Kendrick Lamar is crazy right now."
"Kendrick is not to be played with and I always knew he was a beast but he's a whole Boogeyman"
"Kendrick wanted to stir up some friendly competition in hip-hop"
"I think Kendrick is winning dog Kendrick is [__] winning."
"If Drake was to respond to anybody in the industry, the [__] that it would be is Kendrick, not [__] Pusha T, not [__] Joe Budden, it's Kendrick Lamar."
"Yo, Kendrick ain't even on the level Pusha came with, he came with a nuke button in a bomb bro. Kendrick ain't did that [__] yet."
"Kendrick got all the game, everything. I ain't even heard so many people talking about Kendrick in forever bro."
"Kendrick Lamar is winning this battle."
"Kendrick Lamar with this album proved just how talented and how great he really is and how he was able to make phenomenal albums a day in the life of young Kendrick Lamar and Compton around 16 17 years old."
"In my opinion this is Kendrick Lamar's best album and this is my second favorite album after my beautiful dark twisted fantasy those two have cemented themselves as my top two for sure."
"I think Kendrick Lamar really honestly did was show that he truly is hip-hop."
"Elon Ryan. Wesley's Theory totally sets up the Pimp Butterfly. And Big K.R.I.T. from 'Forever is a Mighty Long Time' was the best way to start his indie career."
"Kendrick is amazing, he really is an incredible artist, an excellent top-tier rapper."
"Every single bar on this is going to have an encyclopedia because it's Kendrick Lamar."
"The delivery was great; most of Kendrick Lamar's delivery is very good."
"Damn is now my favorite Kendrick album."
"Hip hop is not based on truth and vulnerability, that's actually what's dope about J.Cole and Kendrick, their art is based in truth and vulnerability."
"That's what I mean when I say an album like Kendrick's... there are four or five songs on there that connect with where I feel like I'm at right now."
"Kendrick is way more creative, way more risk-taking."
"Kendrick's writing style reminds me of Jordan Peele, John Singleton, Spike Lee."
"Kendrick to me is more of a lyricist, a poet."
"The fact that you were able to put this to music in a body of work is what makes Kendrick Lamar one of the greatest of all time."
"It's been one year since the Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers dropped, that was an important moment of hip-hop."
"Kendrick tells a story from the intro to the last track, but if you play it back from the last track to the first track, it's also a story."
"Kendrick Lamar is better by the way."
"I think it showcases a bunch of different layers of Kendrick Lamar within that one."
"With Kendrick, there's not too many songs I'm listening to for the enjoyment more than I might be listening for like the message."
"It's a beautiful reflection by Kendrick."
"It may not have insane replay value, but it is some of Kendrick's best writing."
"Kendrick Lamar is literally the culture."
"Kendrick Lamar paints pictures that I don't feel like any other rapper even comes close to."
"One of the most powerful Kendrick songs... this song actually manages to hold a torch to some of the greatest cuts on that album."
"Kendrick can set this up so beautifully, no matter what the narrative is."
"You don't listen to To Pimp a Butterfly, you feel it."
"Conscious rappers became mainstream rappers, and so Kendrick Lamar isn't writing about shooting people in the face."