“See a lot of y’all don’t understand Kendrick Lamar because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history all in the same sentence

You know what all them things have in common?

Only half of the truth if YOU tell it

See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers till one day I realised I had to come up with my own

I’m not on the outside looking in, I’m not on inside looking out

I’m in the dead fucking center looking around

You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?

That’s an analogy for the way the world make me react

My innocence been dead

So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history all in the same sentence, just know I meant it, and YOU felt it Cause YOU too are searching for answers

I’m not the next pop star

I’m not the next socially aware rapper

I am a human motherfucking being over dope ass instrumentation”

- Kendrick Lamar