A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

I was raised inside the gang culture.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

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.

I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat