Kendrick Lamar recently discussed fashion and Hip Hop and addressed his own status in the fashion world.
“I feel comfortable with being a style icon,” Kendrick Lamar said during an interview with Hypebeast. “That’s something new. I’ve been hearing that for quite some time this past year.”
Outside of himself, Kendrick also praised another rapper who has style he admires.
“In my generation, Jay Z always been that dude,” Lamar said. “You want to put that jersey on. You want to put that button-up on. You want to get your grown-man on and everything nice and fitted. That’s when everything as far as the baggy look started to die down just a little bit, when everybody wanted to feel a little bit more like they’re Jay.”
While Jay Z and others including Kanye West, Nelly and T.I. have become involved in the fashion industry, Kendrick Lamar says he does not intend to do follow in rappers’ footsteps.
“Creating a pair of jeans, I could do it, but my heart is not there,” Lamar said. “My heart is in the music. Once my heart gets there, and I fully devote myself, then I’ll do it, but I don’t want to play with nobody’s profession that they’ve been creating their whole life just because I’ve got a lot of money to do it now.”
The Hypebeast interview can be seen below.
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Told ya all that K Dot is gay and having a relationship with Gay Z.
really? that’s the most clever comment and response you can come up with? lol
Its more than your body baby damn its your brain
You make me wanna kiss you like Baby kiss Wayne
And make you call me daddy like Baby do Wayne
Damn that shit sounds gay, its insane
I guess that’s the price the lil nigga pays for fame
Hes on Jay-Z dick.
I’ve seen them fucking. Must be to cure the depression they suffered as a result of gkmc and hgmc bombing.
You are an unfunny troll. Keep lying.
Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 30,000 (912,000)
Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 8,000 (1,000,000)
Me and dentaldamboy took turns doing reacharounds on each other.
K dot is truly a master. I love sucking his dick and Jay Z’s too.
this guy is really interesting, I need to give gkmc a listen
lmao “style icon”? This guy wear the gayest shit imaginable. Shorts above his knees, button ups with sleeves up to his biceps, leather shirts, polka dots, cheetah print, croc-like shoes with no socks, pants rolled up to his shins. He dresses even gayer then Kanye!
no one is wearing shorts below the knees now
^^ The only ones wearing pants above their knees are homo ass little nigglets like you.
u probably wearing them baggy ass jean shorts that go down to your socks right?
Dudes right. Those super short fluro girls shorts you guys are rocking making you look like dead set poofters.
^^^ u prolly dress like Urkle right?
You have a picture of Lupe on the main page for a story on Kendrick.
Kendrick Lamar is the truth
lol yeah, cargo shorts above the knee and open toed sandals look real good.Nobody checkin fo jay z style kid.
Not another kendrick article. What’s next? How much he wants to work with eminem? It seems he’s more of an internet sensation than a musical one. He should just be releasing music or in the studio if he says that’s what he’s all about an stop repeating himself in lame interviews.
you sound mad
would you be happy if he just stopped doing interviews and press and went into hiding?
Well, I am! :- [
I guess you didn’t read it right. I’d be happier if he quit hiding behind interviews and press releases and be all about the music like he said. Just release music. After the control verse he has been scared to come out musically.
you sound like a moron! how is he hiding behind interviews and press releases? thats part of the fucking job!! promote yourself, get new fans, sell more albums and concert tickets.
Your right you gotta promote yourself. But I don’t remember getting smothered by promotion and interviews everytime action bronson, nas or eminem came out with a song or album. If you like reading about how kendrick is capable of designing jeans or how he’s Chelsea handlers cute little nugget than I guess your a happy camper.
He should design clothes for all his 15yr old girl fans that bought his album.
You sound butthurt.
See lil girl high school jargon. ^^^ butthurt^^^^
so lil girls listen to kendrick lamar now??? LMAO thats news to me
lil girls listen to justin bieber, lil wayne, big sean, etc
the only girls i ever heard playing kendrick lamar were university graduates
How do you think you go platnium nowadays. People in the hood and underground ain’t going to out to buy that album. If you wanna sell alot of albums your target audience has to be teen girls.
How do you go platinum nowadays? You make music people want to listen to. Simple as that. Stop getting mad and hating on other peoples success just because you have no peanut butter to go with all that jelly.
I wish it was as simple as that. If that was the case than their would be alot of artist going platinum cuz their are a lot of good hip hop albums that go under the radar. How do you go platnium nowadays? You get the machine behind you.
By the look of that turquoise leopard shirt in that pic, no he shouldn’t.
THIS IS NOT NEWS!!!!!! Kendrick Lamar says that Jay-Z is at the top of hip-hop fashion!? So do 3 million other people….
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he sounds like a genius in his interviews, I’ll probably buy his album this week
Me too. Kendrick is so cute! And with “one direction ” and “big sean” its a good year so far.
this guy will go far, I can see it
with all the hype, I decided to give his album a listen and holy shit, it blew my mind !!!!
real hip hop.
thx god we have artist slike kendrick, lupe and big krit in hip hop because these frauds like drake and wayne suck
intersting interview, I agree with him, he should focus on his music because he’ll go far
He was great at the VMA’s with miley too. I luv you kendrick 🙂
Good job Kenny!
king of ny
king of the nugget youth
is Wayne.
my classmate’s mother-in-law makes $77 hourly on the internet. She has been without work for seven months but last month her pay check was $13602 just working on the internet for a few hours. my link… www cafe44.com
Wayne has really been on a decline to the point now where he’s become a joke. People just laugh at him now. He thinks he’s coming with dope lines but he’s not. You just laugh at him. He really needs to hang it up.
What style? Looking like Cole from Martin??
he has a great future, well deserved.
I’m thinking about buying his album, heard it this morning and it was fantastic.
dude his umble as fuck so he deserves it
hes right, Jay-Z was that dude, fashion as fuck
you’re right kdot, you’re in the right team
Jay-Z GOAT
Way to go kenny! Go get em tiger!
He’s the lyrical miracle!
What is he wearing in the video, it looks like he got nutted on.
No, I think you’re alone on that gay thought, my friend.
Today’s was okay, but tomorrows will be better:
‘Kendrick Lamar says he prefers Coke over Pepsi.’
haha yeah exactly. Kendrick is awesome but seriously i don’t give a fuck about his fashion…
come now DX.
a nigga who wears with shorts with sandals. seriously! kendrick stays cocksucking
the most over rated artist of all time. he raps like he got spit in his mouth. DAMN!
more like the best since nas in 94
“more like the best since nas in 94”
GTFOH. Did you forget that people like Eminem, AZ, J. Cole, Game, Big K.R.I.T, and countless others came out afterward and actually exist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExH5VU5iq9Q
Kendrick is the better rapper but A$AP Rocky has a cuter style, but I mainly just find his braids appealing. Kendrick and Jay-Z could be 2 of the best but their lack of physical attraction keeps them behind, where as rappers like Eminem and 2pac who had biceps and abs, and pecs for that matter, make them probably the best rappers alive, lyrically and physically. Big Sean would be more handsome without all the jewelry, definitely a turn off. Abs-Soul has next though. TDE
fcuk outta here with that homo shit. go read a cosmo
lmao no brooklyn rappers have style…they pay stylists to dress them and its not working well for jay
so every single bklyn rapper has a stylist? we’re gonna need proof of that
This is ironic considering he just said “And I ain’t rockin’ no more designer shit.” but okay…
HAHHAHA LAMAR!? A FASHION ICON? This dude dresses like rocco from roccos modern life. This dude wears shit I wore when I was 6 in 93. Fuck outta here with this clown ass fashion. Stick to rappin, you good at that.
if you’re looking at a rapper for fashion then you might as well draw a big o’ fat L on your forehead
A big drop in the comments on the first day of school!
Take a good look and see all the names that ain’t here. Told y’all a bunch of white kids be on here playing on the internet, you cannot trust they are actually rap music fans.
hilarious!
So… you’re implying that only white kids go to school? That doesn’t sound ignorant at all maybe you should go hit the books homie.
If you truly didn’t understand that comment then it’s really you who need to hit the books so you can upgrade your reading comprehension.
this nicca dresses like a faccot, though. and, he’s just an average rapper in a pool full of 2chainzs and chief keefs. not sure why people ride him so hard.
slow news day
I like that outfit !
damn I thought he was overrated so I gave gkmc a listen and HOLY SHIIIIT
Best album since F&L !!! need to buy it
Clever man, he is already one of the best right now and he knows how to promote his cd, really clever man
He’ll go very far, I can see it in his eyes.
amazing rapper and very humble person, hip hop is in a good place again
was about time, classic.
drop another album kendrick !! please save another year in hip hop !
where can I find that shirt ? love it
will probably buy his album tomorrow, heard it today, it’s fucking genius and he seems very humble, he deserves it.
I love his clothes, damn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUGpOjswDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1tG-m4NSU
Wow Gay-z is better than Wayne because he has more money & he dresses in suits and tuxedos. Gay-z better because he is always on the radio with his commercial cRAP songs… Gay-z is better than Wayne because he is married to Beyonce… Gay-z is better than Wayne because he is always making moves & Gay-z is better than Wayne because he is a Rold Model to little Justin Beiber bitches…
(Its called being Sarcastic)
JAY-Z SUCKS DICK…HIS LIPS WAS DESIGNED TO SUCK DICK & LIP GLOSS,NOT TO RAP…
“Gay”-z… “married to beyonce” if that doesnt prove u are a full nothing ever will
nice outfit
“but I don’t want to play with nobody’s profession that they’ve been creating their whole life just because I’ve got a lot of money to do it now.” Real shit. kendrick cares about the culture that is hip-hop.
Homie look like he wearin’ a snuggie! :-/
fuck style
You know nothing of the movie…..’Wild Style’…otherwise you would never say no dum shyte like that.
All Kendrick does is rhyme big ass words he has NO QUOTABLES! Oh and jay z is swag less wtf is he talking about???
Jay-Z swag less? Wtf are you talking about.. He set about every style trend in early 00’s hip hop. I bet you stopped wearing throwbacks and stepped up to button up’s when he told you.
No quotables? You obviously haven’t really listened.
These kendrick quotables were made for dudes just like you.
“This is deep as the abyss, I’m not just rhyming on the beat,
I be in spots chopping the rocks like flintstone feet”
“I know some rappers using big words/ to make they similes curve/ My simplest shit be more pivotal/
I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals/
Worry some individuals/ that live life critical/
So won’t you bear witness while I bare feet/
So you can walk in my shoes and get to know me/”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwsdW6TAl8
At the end of the day, that’s Jay-Z’s legacy: being responsible for making thousands of dickriding niggas change their outfit.
Funny but true. These lames have no identity of their own and start wearing suits and shit because of Jay-Z and Timberlake. Also stop wearing jersey’s because Jay-Z stopped wearing them and said they wasn’t cool.
“regala sweat suit not too flashy?? ” nigga please
I think its cute what kendrick is wearing. He raised the roof at the VMA’s with Miley and their performances were just so hot. Luv you Kendrick 😉