Kendrick Lamar Quotes

“Kendrick stopped writing to make others feel comfortable; instead, he chose to elevate his thinking and make people catch up to him.”
― Marcus J. Moore, The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

“See, in a perfect world, I'll choose faith over riches. I'll choose work over bitches, I'll make schools out of prison. I'll take all the religions and put 'em all in one service. Just to tell 'em we ain't shit, but He's been perfect, world”
― Kendrick Lamar

“He was a nuanced mosaic of varied influences, pulling into one body the lush humility of southern rap stalwarts like OutKast and Goodie Mob, the lyrical dexterity of Nas and Eminem, and the straight-ahead tough talk of Pusha T and Killer Mike.”
― Marcus J. Moore, The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

“Kendrick Lamar's last name is Duckworth. What's a Duckworth? More than a chicken.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“I have watched the experiences that have shaped my life and the words I fashioned to capture it be stolen, redefined, and weaponized in a campaign of mass destruction. To paraphrase Kendrick Lamar, this effort to destroy these words is bigger than the theory. It is about beating us down in a war to reclaim dominion of the few over the many.”
― Kimberlé Crenshaw, Backtalker: An American Memoir