2015 was Kendrick Lamar’s year. With releasing his Grammy nominated album To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar is on top of the world. Being nominated for 11 categories, he wants “to win them all,” K-Dot told Billboard for their latest cover. Check out some what he has to say below.
ON TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY: “The album just had a deeper impact than I expected, because it touched so many homes, and not just in my own community. I guess I’m just speaking words that need to be heard in these times.”
ON HIS NEXT ALBUM: “As far as content, what I want to get across, I have an idea. But even that’s still premature. Once I get back in that studio, things evolve into other things.”
ON DRAKE AND KANYE WEST’S INTERNET FLUENCY: “That’s not my talent. Those guys, they’re gifted in that department. Hopefully, I’ll get them talents. But for now I’ma stay in my lane.”
ON COMPTON: “I’ve felt that pressure in Compton, looking at the responsibility I have over these kids. The world started turning into a place where—where so many were getting no justice. You got to step up to the plate. ‘Mortal Man’ is not me saying, ‘I can be your hero.’ ‘Mortal Man’ is questioning: ‘Do you really believe in me to do this?’”
ON PRESIDENT OBAMA: “The way people look at me these days—that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human. When [the president] said to my face what his favorite record was—I understood that, no matter how high-ranking you get in this world, you’re human. No matter how high the pedestal you reach, we all still like a beat. Even the president has got to hear that snare drum.”
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