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Naturally, it seems like 2025 is Lamar’s year.
It’s always that for me first."
“I feel accomplished to be able to do that,” the rapper concluded.
We can’t be in the streets forever.'"
With that, the couple moved to Compton, California, with $500 to their names.
Lamar’s aunt helped them out until Oliver got a job.
“As a kid, the biggest influence on you is your pops,” he said.
“Not only that, but your pops being an active pops.”
“He ain’t the most perfect dude in the world.
He just didn’t want me to follow the same steps he went through.”
And few could have guessed how far he had come.
They also needed to rely on welfare and lived in project housing.
“I remember always walking to the government building with mom,” Lamar toldSpinin October 2012.
Although they struggled, his parents tried to give him as normal an upbringing as they could.
In the ’90s, Los Angeles was marked by several racist incidents.
Kendrick Lamar recounted the afternoon of April 29, 1992, when he was just 4 years old.
Immediately, the “Rich Spirit” rapper knew that his dad hadn’t paid for them.
We fixing to get all this s***!'
I’m thinking they’re robbing."
I get it now.'"
It’s exactly what rap group N.W.A.
“It was outside my apartment unit,” Lamar began.
“After that, you just get numb to it,” the songwriter added.
“As a kid, I used to stutter.
“That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.”
Kids who stutter are known to experience a lack of confidence and a difficulty in expressing themselves.
“Kendrick Duckworth is a rapper?
“The passion that which he was writing with, it was there already,” the teacher remarked.
He went on to reveal, “99% of my music is specific events.”
He recalled hearing a loud banging sound while filming a music video and automatically ducking.
Lamar and his classmates dreaded walking home after class because they knew violence could be waiting around every corner.
Unfortunately, around this age, Lamar also began hanging out with the wrong crowd.
He became involved in home invasions, robberies, and had even been shot at.
Fortunately, it seemed the message got through to him.
Sadly, the “United in Grief” rapper has grieved many times.
One, though, struck a particularly deep chord with Lamar.
“He was on the right path.
He did, however, post a tribute to Keaton onTwitterfollowing the service.
Alongside a selfie featuring his late friend, Lamar wrote, “Rest N Heaven my Lil bro.
Watched u become a man.
The city stole yo life, but not your legacy.”
His feud with Drake has polarized fans
From the iconic Notorious B.I.G.
beef with Tupac to Eazy E versus Dr. Dre, feuds amongst rappers have been popcorn-worthy entertainment for decades.
What followed was a series of diss tracks that were dropped by himself and Drake for months.
Eventually, Lamar dropped the track that seemed to one-up Drake for good: “Not Like Us.”
“Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A-Minor,” Lamar famously rapped.
First, he alluded to cheating on Alford on the track “Worldwide Steppers.”
And can it be forgiven?'”
Some ofthe most famous rap couplesthroughout history have dealt with issues like addiction and infidelity.
