Kendrick Lamar and other public figures, including NBA player James Harden, recently visited Bethel Regional High School in Bethel, Alaska to promote education as part of the Get Schooled Foundation’s initiative with Taco Bell and Viacom’s charitable organization, Viacommunity. Lamar spoke with MTV about this initiative and his own education.
“I always wanted to write,” Kendrick Lamar said. “My teachers pushed me to write, so English was always my favorite subject. I never knew how much of a big deal it would be in my career until I really sat back and looked at all my old-school papers and found out these vocabulary words that I learned over the years.”
Lamar perhaps pulled from those experiences when visiting teenagers in Alaska after students in Bethel Regional High School won an academic competition for the school’s commitment to graduating high school, as per MTV. Lamar talked about the reception he got from the students at the school.
“I seen the energy, obviously their energy gave me even more fuel to come out here and look them dead in their eyes and see how much more inspiration that I can give them rather than just seeing me on TV or onscreen somewhere,” Lamar said.
Bobby Hundreds, co-founder of The Hundreds, also visited the school. He posted images of the event on The Hundreds’ website. An image of Lamar and Harden can be seen below, via The Hundreds.
Get Schooled released a video of the visit, which can be seen below.
James Harden, Kendrick Lamar, Sway and Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed Recognize Bethel Regional! from Get Schooled on Vimeo.
In May 2013, Kendrick Lamar visited Mount Pleasant High School in Rhode Island with Get Schooled.
“My teachers were great positive influences in my life,” Lamar said. “My middle school English teacher was probably the reason I became a rapper. He used to encourage me to write poetry and would challenge me, which helped me improve my vocabulary and made me enjoy writing.”
In 2011, Lamar spoke about his education in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX.
“In elementary and middle school and even high school, everybody that I knew wanted to go to the penitentiary just to say that they did,” Lamar said. “When that’s what we was raised around, mothafuckers in-and-out of jail. Then we thought that was cool once upon a time. When I seen that my uncle wasn’t really coming home, that fucks you up once you get a certain age and you realize the power of taking life for granted. That’s something that I realized and it change[d] my whole outlook, seeing him behind the walls and him telling me that’s not the place to be, telling me to make something of myself. Hopefully one day you can change our family history of going to jail and being locked up and being in prison, but it’s bigger than me just changing my ways because there’s a responsibility now for the next generation.”
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King of New York and Alaska now!
Wouldn’t be hard to be king in Alaska. We ain’t got shit out here as far as local music goes.
All of the real kings of NY kicked his ass out, and all that was left was Alaska.
The only kings of NY is Jay-Z and Nas and they didn’t respond. Kendrick never got kicked out of anything.
Kendrick Lamar is the best rapper in the game right now nobody is on his level
Rick Ross is elite status. The rookie Kendrick is not, at least not yet.
No. Rick Ross is not elite status; his sales aren’t even at that level. Ross is still at the middle.
Ricky cant even go plat once in 8 years! Kendrick did it in a less than 1 year
ayyy ross isn’t even close to borderline elite. average at best.
SMH Hiphopdx yall stay late with these stories. This shit happened and was reported about last week. Damn shame.
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What’s an “Alaska”?
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Artists and entertainers have to do more than just making an appearance for a school that won a contest. Bring in some money for these schools that are broke. In Compton, Chicago, New York everywhere in america and throughout the world. Bring in money to the ghettos as well, cause nobody is giving money to the ghettos. & when you dont do that you have people that are starving, commited crimes. Like how is a community supposed to find any type of inspiration when all people see at every corner is a food & liquor joint or a laundrymats. Once you put money to the ghettos we all start living better, we act better, we eat better, we talk better, we become better
It wont matter. As long as capitalism is alive, so will ghettos and poverty. The only reason that people from the ghetto seem so poor is because other people are so rich. Also, as long as there are lazy people that do just enough to get by, there will always be a ghetto. Not saying everyone is lazy in the hood, because that’s far from true, but a lot of them are. Also, as long as drugs and alcohol are available, so will poverty. Unfortunately, its a terrible cycle that is going to be very hard to turn around.
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Alaska is like ny, there’s nothing musically happening over there. Any little nugget can claim that they’re king of it.
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“Ricky cant even go plat once in 8 years!”
Yet he’s more popular than the one’s who do. Go figure.
No, he’s not.
Based off what?
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