Top 80 Kendrick Lamar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.”

— Kendrick Lamar

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2. “If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?”

— Kendrick Lamar

3. “My rights, my wrongs, I write ’til I’m right with God.”

— Kendrick Lamar

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4. “If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.”

— Kendrick Lamar

5. “Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God.”

— Kendrick Lamar

6. “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

7. “I’d rather not live like there isn’t a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it.”

— Kendrick Lamar

8. “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

9. “I’m standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time.”

— Kendrick Lamar

10. “The Universe energy doesn’t lie.”

— Kendrick Lamar

11. “It’s easy to forget who you are.”

— Kendrick Lamar

12. “We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us.”

— Kendrick Lamar

13. “What is love? Love to me is god.”

— Kendrick Lamar

14. “Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.”

— Kendrick Lamar

15. “It’s the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don’t see it, All i see is a blur.”

— Kendrick Lamar

16. “Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.”

— Kendrick Lamar

17. “I was a black sheep, but now I’m just a goat.”

— Kendrick Lamar

18. “Just let me be me, That’s the only way I know.”

— Kendrick Lamar

19. “The one in front of the gun lives forever.”

— Kendrick Lamar

20. “We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?”

— Kendrick Lamar

21. “My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.”

— Kendrick Lamar

22. “Don’t you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from.”

— Kendrick Lamar

23. “Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.”

— Kendrick Lamar

24. “The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.”

— Kendrick Lamar

25. “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

26. “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

27. “You really can’t categorize my music, it’s human music.”

— Kendrick Lamar

28. “Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.”

— Kendrick Lamar

29. “I stole a Bible, is that a sin?”

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30. “A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that’s just how i feel.”

— Kendrick Lamar

31. “As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.”

— Kendrick Lamar

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “I want you to recognize that I’m a proud monkey.”

— Kendrick Lamar

36. “I’m constantly thinking.”

— Kendrick Lamar

37. “Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn’t want to self-destruct.”

— Kendrick Lamar

38. “My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.”

— Kendrick Lamar

39. “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

40. “At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.”

— Kendrick Lamar

41. “Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.”

— Kendrick Lamar

42. “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

43. “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.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “I think my vice would be outdoing myself.”

— Kendrick Lamar

46. “Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.”

— Kendrick Lamar

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47. “I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.”

— Kendrick Lamar

48. “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.”

— Kendrick Lamar

49. “You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.”

— Kendrick Lamar

50. “I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.”

— Kendrick Lamar