Kendrick Lamar, One of the Greatest Rapper of All time

Listen(read) to the lyrics and ask How much do you know(love) yourself?

We have got a young brother who stands for something, We got a young brother who believes in all of us; Brother Kendrick Lamar, is not just a rapper, he’s a writer, a rapper, and a visionary; And if you read between the lines, We’ll learn how to love one another; But you can’t do that,
I said you can’t do that, Without loving yourself first.

I done been through a whole lot
Trials and tribulations, but I know God
Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie
Praying that the holy water don’t go dry, yeah yeah
As I look around me
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
But ain’t no nigga never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror, they found me

And I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with guns and dickie signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want with everyone and I don’t mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than sour side)
I love myself
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)

Everybody looking at you crazy (crazy)
What you gone do? (what you gone do?)
Lift up your head and keep moving (keep moving)
Or let the paranoia haunt you? (haunt you)
Peace to fashion police I wear my heart
On my sleeve let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company
Fuck do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
How many times our potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises?
So I promise this…

And I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with guns and dickie signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want with everyone and I don’t mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than sour side)
I love myself
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)

They wanna say there’s a war outside and a bomb in the street
And a gun in the hood and a mob of police
And I rock on the corner in a line full of fiends
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scene, yup
These days of frustration keep y’all on tucking rotation
I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum bases
Dreams of realities peace
Blow steam in the face of the beast
The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now
The strong in me, I still smile…

And I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with guns and dickie signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want with everyone and I don’t mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than sour side)
I love myself
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)

Walk my barefeet (walk my barefeet)
Down, down valley peak (down, down valley peak)
I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (fee-fi-fo-fum)
I keep my heart undone (my heart undone)

I went to war last night
With a hardened metal weapon, don’t nobody call a medic
I’mma do it ’til I get it right
I went to war last night
I’ve been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
I can never yell the blessin’, l can never see the message
I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave
For my nigga that be letting ‘em alienate me

And the sound is moving in a meteor speed
From a 100 to a billion ’til my body in the street
Keep my mommy in a cell and my mama know I’m free
Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read
And the glory to the feeling of all of y’all scenes
Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream “I love myself”
I lost my head, I must’ve misread what the good book said
Oh woes keep me, it’s a jungle inside
Give myself again ’til the well runs dry.

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Raised in Compton, California, Lamar embarked on his musical career as a teenager under the stage name K-Dot, releasing a mixtape that garnered local attention and led to his signing with indie record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). He began to gain recognition in 2010, after his first retail release, Overly Dedicated. The following year, he independently released his first studio album, Section.80, which included his debut single, “HiiiPoWeR”. By that time, he had amassed a large online following and collaborated with several prominent hip-hop artists, including The Game, Busta Rhymes, and Snoop Dogg.

Lamar’s major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, was released in 2012 by TDE, Aftermath, and Interscope Records to critical success. It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and was later certified platinum by the RIAA. The record contained the top 40 singles “Swimming Pools (Drank)”, “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe”, and “Poetic Justice”. It was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album at the 56th Grammy Awards. His critically acclaimed third album To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) comprised funk, soul, and spoken word debuted atop the charts in the US and the UK, and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 58th ceremony, where it was nominated for Album of the Year. In 2016, Lamar released Untitled Unmastered, a collection of unreleased demos that originated during the recording sessions for Butterfly. He released his fourth album Damn. in 2017 to further acclaim; its lead single “Humble” topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Lamar has received a number of accolades over the course of his career, including twelve Grammy Awards. In early 2013, MTV named him the number one “Hottest MC in the Game”, on their annual list. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. Aside from his solo career, Lamar is also known as a member of the West Coast hip hop supergroup Black Hippy, alongside his TDE label-mates and fellow South Los Angeles–based rappers Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, and Schoolboy Q. In 2018, Damn. became the first non-classical and non-jazz album to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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