While on the Yeezus Tour with Kanye West last year, Kendrick Lamar says he learned several lessons from the Chicago rapper-producer.
“Kanye taught me to never to downplay your ideas,” Kendrick Lamar says during an interview with hollywoodreporter.com. “I learned to always stay as creative as possible and never have any boundaries. Those things that people called ‘rants’ on-stage are real conversations that we had behind closed doors — about business and how when you get to a certain level people won’t want to see you break through because they only see you as a rapper.”
Although Kendrick Lamar realizes his personal preferences may not be in line with what is deemed popular in Rap, he says he must remain true to himself.
“I’m most comfortable when I’m Plain Jane in my Nike Cortez and my white tees,” the Compton-raised 26-year-old says. “That’s who I am and the era I came from. I always have to remind myself of that. I thought I wanted jewelry and cars, but as soon as I got a taste, I realized it wasn’t fulfillment. A thrill is being as creative as possible and supporting the people I love.”
Kendrick Lamar hopes to retain his creativity as he works on the follow-up to his Grammy-nominated major label debut album, 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city.
“I’m still seeing what I feel like,” Kendrick Lamar says of his next album. “When I really catch it, I’ll be out there with it.”
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niggas goin clack clack in his booty hole
Dafuck?….
LMFAO DEAD
dafuck and you trying to troll
Jewelry and Cars are two ways to lose money quickly. A vehicle will lose value immediately. A custom diamond chain is worthless unless its melted down and pieced out. SMART DUDE. Also, Flashy doesn’t Fly in Compton.
lol sucha stand up dude. hope he gets all those grammys.
Nerd rapper
Said no one ever.
Kendrick’s next album is gonna be called, All Eyez On This Nerd.
and no one laughed!
Still don’t like his lyrical flow, but I am very impressed with this young man and the wisdom he has already attained. Realizing that cars and jewelry still don’t bring fulfillment to a life. Material goods will never bring joy, only short-term happiness…and can a person truly be happy without those things? That is the real question. Of course they can!
if your asking kanye for any advice outside of how to make a hot beat and produce a good album your losing that battle.
this guy will be remembered
great vision, I can’t even lie
this guy knows what he is doing.
I’m impressed by his vision of life, really.
the more I learn from kendrick, the more I become a fan…
Yeah, a Swimfan.
???? i dont get it
hopefully kednrick stays away from this fraud kanye
before I saw the draft saying $5601 , I did not believe that my cousin woz truley erning money in their spare time on-line. . there uncle has been doing this 4 less than 23 months and a short time ago cleard the loans on their condo and bourt a gorgeous Mini Cooper . visit the website… http://www.Fb39.Com
Jewelry and Cars are two ways to lose money quickly. A vehicle will lose value immediately.
feminine rapper. PLAIN JANE? That’s a reference you use for women. The correct phrase would be Average Joe. Homo.
And you sir, are an Idiot.
Plain Jane is a way of just saying something is plain, having Jane in the phrase doesn’t make it strictly a feminine phrase. Go away, Lord Jamar
“about business and how when you get to a certain level people won’t want to see you break through because they only see you as a rapper.”
Really Ye?? Maybe take a look at what Dre, Diddy and 50 been doing. It might really just be because you’re a ranting lunatic and wouldn’t make a good spokes person/representative of said product or brand
Have you seen how long it took Dre to get a deal for Beats, and the headphone game is not as hard to break into as the fashion industry.
Diddy has only broken into the upper level just now, after almost a decade of Sean John being out.
You look at 50, he doesn’t know what he wants, to be an actor(not making it really), to be a spokesperson(almost dying out), rapper(still waiting on a project), clothing(when’s the last time you saw someone in a g-unit tee or jeans).
Kanye gets mad because he can’t do what he wants to do right away, it’s called frustration. It happens to all of us, but don’t you think if you had millions of dollars and people weren’t taking you seriously, even though you knew creatively you were just as good if not better than others, because of an old profession.
That be like saying you can start your own restaurant and make it have so it’s 4 star but because you use to work at mcdonalds no one is willing to try you out.
I think Kendrick is overrated as fuck but I respect these statements. That’s a great viewpoint on life.
Kendrick is SUPER OVERrated i don’t care what any of you think or say.
major co-sign. just the machine of jimmy iovine at work ppl
Listen to section 80 and GKMC and tell me he’s overrated. He deserves his credit. Name someone doing it better than him.
haters be talkin jive. the machine started long before GKMC dropped, long before jimmy iovine even came in the fuckin picture.
^^ He’s overrated honkie, deal with it.
No, he ain’t, hater.
I heard that nigga Dr.Dre make kendrick pull his drawls to the side while he bone that lil mafucka!!
Buy me an SLS and I’ll be happy too
Drake owns 75 cars & has 175 different platinum chains. Kendrick owns 2 cars and has no platinum chains. The choice is clear America… Listen to Drake.
yeah listen to the guy who can’t even say the words “weed” and “bong” without a fuckin euphemism, when he from Canada of all places… fuck that fruit.
what does that have to do with who has better music
“75 cars & has 175 different platinum chains.”
And how many of those cars and chains did Drake buy and not rented?
kevin or kendrick or whatever is lame and corny as hell.
couldn’t have said it better a bunch of time wasting oleaginous bromide
You two are retarded.
My nigga my nigga. My mufuckin’ nigga.
Word.
The problem with Kanye is he takes himself wayyyyyyyyy too seriously. He thinks everyone is worried about him, everyone is out to get him, everyone should respect him. He hasn’t done shit for me, so when I see that nigga on the street wtf do I needa say or do for him?
Nigga if you saw Kanye on the street I could guarantee you would tell him you love his music and be star struck
kanye was a bitch for a long time. whatever you muthafuckas think, kanye aint shit. in OAKLAND, we aint got no cross-dressing muthafucka trying to rap in here haha. one thing about this faggot, he makes 14 out of 16 tracks about his fucking money, WHO THE FUCK DO THAT? fuckin faggot, we dont give a fuck!
fucking sellout bitches fuck outta here
#ESGN
LOL I would call him a name so he would try and fight me. Then I would have to decide whether to beat his frail metrosexual ass or let him hit me a few times so I could get paid.
Is he turning into Game? Keep it shut and let your music do the talking. you’re so much better than Dre’s last protege.
Too many whites on this site.
Facts.
too many jerkoffs like you 2 in this country
Too many spear chuckers in our cities
Too many hoes in this house of sin
Drake, much like Donald Trump, understands money. That’s why he keeps millions stashed in a cookie jar in case the Feds raid his mansion.
Lame