Kendrick Lamar rarely uses social media, but it’s not because he has any ill will toward it.
During a recent interview with Citizen Magazine, K. Dot explained that one of the reasons for his digital absence is because he doesn’t fully understand how to use social media.
Despite this, people are still looping him in on what’s happening online. “People ask me, ‘Man, you’ve never been on social media, you really hate it?’ Bro, I don’t really know how to use it like that to be 100% real with you,” Kendrick admitted.
He added: “I got friends, family, my team, they send me things, so I got good sentiments on what’s going on.”
Kendrick Lamar also talked about fame not being his goal and how privacy is important in his life.
“Distinguishing between Kendrick and Kendrick Lamar. I’m still learning the balance of that,” he said. “Because I’m so invested in who I am outside of being famous, sometimes that’s all I know. I’ve always been a person that really didn’t dive too headfirst into wanting and needing attention.
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“I mean, we all love attention, but for me, I don’t necessarily adore it. I use it when I want to communicate something. The person that people see now is the person that I’ve always been.”
He added: “For me, the privacy thing has never been an issue that I had to carry out with full intention. It’s just who I am. If I feel I have to remove myself, I just remove myself. I won’t complain about it. I won’t cause a big blow-up or a big stir and let the world know that the walls are closing in.”
Kendrick Lamar released his new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers in May and is currently on a world tour. His upcoming North American dates include cities such as Portland, Oakland, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, before heading to Europe in October with Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London shows on his schedule.
You would think the label would beg to differ.
Actually most labels love artists like this who are big enough that the press generates their own articles/hype about with minimal involvement on their end, but aren’t getting themselves into a pr nightmare everyday by wildin out on their socials. With the new generation it also works as reverse psych cuz the less someone posts the more interested everyone is when they finally do. Lack of socials also fits in with his “I’m not like other rappers” marketing he/the label use as well
What do you base this on? Are you in close communication with major label owners? Are did you just make a blind assumption based on what you think you would want if you owned a record label?
I would never want to own a label lol too many egos. I work as a data/trends/intel analyst in social media/pop culture marketing, and some of our clients are artists/these labels. This is based off of convos we’ve had and have been involved in when everything is going well or isn’t across many diff profiles. Labels love artists with social media profiles like him, because the risk of cancellbility is low (he’s barely online saying or joining something), and they get a good ROI on their marketing cuz media/people starved for fresh content so they share it and make it go viral once he drops it
Bitch you ain’t shit.
Kendrick looks so gay nowadays. Devil definitely got to this dudes soul.
Corniest comment I’ve ever read
You likely where skinny jeans and wear beats lol
Man shut yo goofy ass up! smh
Sorry if me insulting a famous rapper hurt your feelings and personally offended you. I apologize, I forget there’s still people out there who get very defensive when someone insults a rapper that they worship.
Everyone in hollywood is fake. Kendrick is no different.
Not using social media just confirms that he’s the smartest rapper of his generation
He can’t be that smart if he only takes orders from gabriel and metatron.
Or maybe it’s not everyone that is addicted to social media, genius
I actually like the fact he ain’t on social media. He’s not putting his business out there. You don’t hear about drug busts or traffic stops…like every other rapper.
Hey I’m Kendrick , I have a sex addiction and can’t keep it in my pants but it’s not my fault! It’s all white people’s fault, yeah! … That’s it! You see , I love black women so much that I have been fucking blonde white Swedish women while on tour despite my wife been pregnant but it’s totally not my fault. As I said , it’s all white people to blame. Please listen to my new album, it will explain it all. Oh remember when I had 2pac on my 2015 album? Well this time I have the moron who insulted him in multiple interviews by saying he was wack and boring. Oh and my closet cousin is also on here too but we don’t talk about his love of Isaiah dick. Anyway, I’ve been Kendrick Lamar, your bored lord and saviour of the trans community.
Good. Social media is the devil. Cell phones are the devil. Society has basically been destroyed by it.
Oh I know guys, how about Mr. Lamar come to repentance by surrendering his precious soul over to the Lord Jesus! Perhaps YE (Kanye) could heip him with that, like seriously family.
@jay Kendrick always never been a fashion dude like most he’s doing what he’s always be creative in his own it’s always a mf like you who want to tear a man character down I bet you ain’t so Dapper yoself FOH