We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound, my pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

Kendrick Lamar

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Everybody looking at you crazy,

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rap crazy moving

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

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rights writing

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

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messages world firsts

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

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imperfection rap blessing

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

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somewhere-else dream reality

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

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people world

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

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love-yourself love-you

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable.

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unpredictable would-be way

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go.

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rap hip-hop roles

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

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no-makeup makeup rap

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

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forgive-me forgiving sin

I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time

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rap fields blow

God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.

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tvs energy love-is

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.

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bottles littles negative

I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

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rap cutting advice

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

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flower writing song

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,

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rap hip-hop demise

I'm constantly thinking.

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constantly-thinking thinking

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

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mirrors stories looks

Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

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color soul people