Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. 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 be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?