Kendrick Lamar Hip Hop Quotations

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

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.

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

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

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.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

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

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...