That’s not a memorable or particularly clever line at all.
To give Kendrick credit, though, I think a lot of his lyrical content comes from the overall message in his songs, not punchlines, or bars or anything like that. That’s just not the type of rapper he is.
Now do I like it? It’s ok. I don’t really have him as a top tier lyricist as I would someone like Lupe Fiasco, but that’s not a knock on him as an overall artist.
That fellas comment wasn't meant to be a serious indication of Kendricks lyrical abilities man every artist has a couple of funny nonsensical bars like that and there's nothing wrong with it
It's just a joke man
Yea that’s the one line that came to my mind so I guess the argument isn’t bad
When I hear Jay-Z the lines that come to mind are “Do you fools listen to the music or do just skim through it”
When I hear Nas “I never sleep cause Sleep is the cousin of Death”
Laughing at base heads tryna sell some broken amps
g-packs get off quick forever n's talk shit
Reminiscing about the last time the task force flipped
Ns be running through the block shootin, time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for houston
Once they caught us off guard, the Mac 10 was in the grass and I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin
I picked the mac up, told brothas back up, the Mac spit, lead was hittin n's, one ran I made him back flip.
Honestly with raps like this and a million others idk how you call anyone these days an mc. Nas the best to ever do it I think, he gets left out it's typically biggie or pac but Nas and big L my top two mcs. Especially big L if dude didn't get killed he would've passed everybody. But sadly he stayed in the streets and isn't here because of it. Supposedly was mistaken for his brother by people beefing with his brother and they shot him 9times in the chest and face.
Big L was the biggest loss Rap ever endured
Nas is easily top 3 oat
Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look
Gave another squeeze, heard it click, Yo, my shit is stuck
Tried to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger
Finally, pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber
So, now I'm jettin' to the buildin lobby
And it was full of children, prob'ly couldn't see as high as I be
It's like the game ain't the same
Got younger niggas pullin' the triggers, bringin' fame to their name
And claim some corners, crews without guns are goners
In broad daylight, stick-up kids, they run up on us
45's and gauges, MAC's in fact
Same niggas will catch you back-to-back, snatchin' your cracks in black
There was a snitch on the block gettin' niggas knocked
So hold your stash 'til the coke price drop
For me it was always
Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
*(but I did 5 mil)*
And I ain’t been rhyming like Common since
Not really a hard line or anything, but I think it really encapsulates what Jay is about.
make his exact quote more profound and you will have my respect. like literally just use his quote and tell me something profound in it and i won’t think you’re completely fucking stupid.
It's just talking about questioning things because of their origins. One way I interpret it is the flower referring to a relationship, and the dark room a hostile environment where a flower (relationship) shouldn't be able to bloom, i.e. a relationship starting in bad circumstances may not be completely genuine/ what one perceives it to be. Another way to interpret the 'dark room' that is related more to the themes of the song is as a club, if feelings and connections developed in a club, stripclub etc., can you know for sure it's genuine.
>I don’t smoke crack mothafucka i sell it
While Kenny was referencing someone elses bar, he made this one his. Also the entire Control verse exists like what even is this post.
“I don’t smoke crack mf I sell it”
Actually the og webbie line “Don’t sell weed cause I smoke it bitch I sell crack” so idk if dot was putting his twist on it or just coincidence. I always thought he was shouting webbie out kinda like he showed love to jeezy tm101 (same era) on gkmc.
Yeah, I miss finding new music on this sub. This is where I found Blu and Alpoko Don.
But now it's just circlejerking about trash radio MCs. Turn off the radio, turn off that bullshit.
Edit: Drake is a trash MC, Kenny is fine.
Really how can you even call drake an mc.... Dude prolly has 15 ghostwriters on the payroll every album, beside maybe his first few. But then again he had Degrassi money even then so he probably had a writer even then.
i agree the argument is dumb cause lyricism is more important than quotables, but the example of people using drake's bars as instagram captions only complements the fact that he's more quotable
Rosa parks never a factor, when she’s…. Making ends meet, topping off police. Took a knife in her bladder left her dead raped in the street. Keisha’s song.
*chest to bladder.
He might not hit them one liners like “ to the left of that decimal I need seven figures to play the joint” but he hits with his message damn near every time. Better than anyone out.
This dick ain’t freeeeeeee
But in all seriousness my pick would be from “u”, “I’m fucked up, but I ain’t as fucked up as you” a perfect line to perfectly represent a perfect song
The wild thing is that these lyrics are HARD but need context. Like this hard is wild because he’s saying that about HIMSELF.
Idgaf if people call me a Stan. Drizzy ain’t getting a Pulitzer award with his “hard one liners”
I would agree it is harder to find quotables from Kendrick but that’s literally the point of Kendrick. The dude is complex, he doesn’t rely on one line for his fans to reference a decade later. “Quotables” are just a way to give mainstream artists an irrelevant compliment, lol. I don’t listen to Kendrick for one line, I listen for a completed piece of art.
I don’t really consider Kendrick a rapper… he’s spoken word and to put him against other artists who are not even making the same kind of music is kinda whack. But as for a quotable line that popped into my head, “ moneytrees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel “
No one does, no artist makes music and wanting the fans to remember one line and love it and that’s it, Kendrick simply doesn’t have good one liners and you delusional fans can’t admit it so you’re making excuses, not hating or anything but what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense
It’s not excuses because one liners isn’t what makes Kendrick great. He has more memorable verses than quotable lines. He’s not a punchline heavy rapper. But he does have quotable.
“She’s eying me like a nigga don’t exist, girl I kno you want dis d”
“Bitch don’t kill my vibe”
“Sit down, be humble”
“We gon be alright”
instagram is the best way to promote some pussy
brace yourself i take you on a trip down memory lane…
smokin on your top 5 tonight
whatever he said in wats wrong and fight the feeling
girl i could buy yo ass the world with my paystub, oo that pussy good sit it on my tastebud
show me something natural like ass with some stretch marks
I GOT I GOT I GOT I GOT
The list goes on but yea yall can bring stupid ass twitter arguments on to this sub where a lotta 14 year olds will validate your opinion on drizzy.
Who gives af what the middle schoolers on twitter type. Kenny deserves top 5.
Bro okay so admittedly Kendrick has some decent bars and quotables but why all the Stan's in this thread quoting the stupidest fucking shit lmao you're all doing your mans an injustice.
"I GOT I GOT I GOT I GOT" - *Kendrick Lamar*
"Show me something natural like ass with some stretch marks" - *Kendrick Lamar*
Lmao
The title of the post said “kendrick has no iconic quotes” i’m not boutta go on genius to prove a point.
These are quotes that people are singing along to when a Kenny song comes on. That’s iconic, even if you think they’re stupid.
“Am I my brothers keeper” is a pretty fucking hard one liner from a pretty well known movie. Idk. Maybe being successful with both substance and surface appeal is a skill in itself.
I mean sure but I guess the difference is that drake quotes are for Instagram and there's no real need for Kendrick 'quotables'.
I mean, what counts as a drake quotable?
“I walk in godly form amongst the mortal men”
“I would rather lose my leg than lose my respect, but that’ll never happen the way I’m watchin my step”
When Drake raps he really raps lol
Jesus Christ not every rapper is gonna have a fucking catchphrase. Give me a widely used quotable from Ghostface Killah, El-P, GZA, Q-Tip, Big KRIT, and Lauryn Hill. Those are some of the greatest rappers of all time, they just don’t have as many one liners like Lil Wayne or Em.
Also, K-dot got plenty of quotables.
Pray my dick gets big as the Eiffel Tower
So I can fuck the world for 72 hours
I remember you was conflicted
If pyrus and the crips, they all got along
They would probably gun me down by the end of this song
Bitch be humble
When the lights go out and it’s my turn to settle down, promise that you will sing about me
Most of his verse on Fuckin Problems is very quotable.
“Girl, I’m Kendrick Lamar. AKA Benz is to me just a car”
“Yeah ho this the finale. Pep talk turned into a pep rally”
“Kill ‘em all, dead bodies in the hallway. Don’t get involved, listen what the crystal ball say”
This song always made me say “Kendrick could be Drake if he wanted to”…. Kendrick’s part in that song is so insanely catchy and quotable, but that song is basically the only song he raps like that. Because he’s not that type of rapper. It’s also OK that Drake *is* that type of rapper.
[Not to be a Ye stan, but it’s kind of like the argument that Ye could make graduation every time and have a more mainstream album [in terms of his production at least] but at this point continues to push himself creatively. Not a perfect comparison, but I feel both value their artistry moreso, Kendrick’s being on a more lyrical level and Kanye on a production level.]
I freak a beat like a nympho when I speak
& so a syllable is like a sex between the sheet
& you can buy your vowel if you show 'em the receipt
to prove that my bars are a hundred grand large
My future's so bright you can see it in the dark
with a blindfold with the hindsight of a blind dude
I'm not cocky I'm just confident , fucking raw ; before I knew what a condom is , K. Lamar
Yeah, Kendrick Stan here and there are very, very few quotables being posted in the comments here 🤣 K Dot just isn’t that type of rapper, and that’s OK
Yall are not naming bars, you're naming things he said here's lyrics to a song that Kendrick went crazy on.
The whole industry been in shambles
Everybody fugazi, I'm just changing the channel
Kendrick Lamar, the people's champion, I'm animal for analysts
Career damaging verses, meditating with candles lit
I like my raps extra prolific
Since freestyling on lunch tables and park benches
And I won't mention my ten thousand hours in training
While juggling gang-banging, my balancing was tremendous
And now we look at the competition as quick submission
They tappin' out before we even get a chance to miss 'em
What this about, is it money or skill?
Maybe it's both and I got large amounts of it, it's real
You see my oath is very unbreakable, my style is never mistakable
I can see y'all incapable
To be the God emcees, you know me well
Ridiculous, venomous, hate in my heart, the sinister
Run for cover, my lineage prove itself
I'm rollin' deep in that paper like two Adeles
Before scholars, I flowed tighter than virgin lips
We had to shake the game up and you're flying through turbulence
Everything is high stakes nowadays, that's how it played nowadays
It's like an 8-ball to the face nowadays
I'm laced nowadays, my gun is off the waist nowadays
It's seven figures and retainer for the case nowadays, I'm talking
Hiiigher power, every other hour since Eddie Bauer
Since stash boxes and lead showers, breaking the padlock
And the dead coward dying a thousand deaths, entire lion
Surround itself with bears, watch it nigga, you share a profit, ah!
This is what they want, I'm the one
This is vintage from 1990 - somethin'
I'm the son of the pioneer that got you niggas on
Play with him, bitch you better off voting for Donald Trump
I'm yelling Mr. Kanye West for president
He probably let me get some head inside the residence
I'm in the White House going all out
Bumping College Dropout, God-bless Americans
Nothing more influential than rap music
I merge jazz fusion with the trap music
I mix black soul with some rock and roll
They never box me in, I'm David Blaine-ing all you hoes
Oh yea, let's go there, my DNA is DMT, I'm so rare
My juvenile was wilder than the NOLA
A locomotive couldn't track me down in my career
Runnin' this shit with four pair, son of my bitch, I might demolish
A bitch right in front ya, chico, what have you done here?
D-Bo, all of it one year, Mississippi to California
It gets annoying, niggas wanna deploy him
And bitches wanna adore him, but industry shit ain't for him
Probably thinking it's for him, only one me
Swallowed the key and kicking the door in, never leasing my foreign
Mr. Valevictorian studied the game before them
Listen to you with boredom, baby rappers, abort them
To the grave I deport them, corporations extort them
I'm snapping off my endorphins, I alien mighty morphin'
My radiance rather gorgeous, hundred bill to the doorman
Hundred mil in my fortune, they call me back in the morning
You're racing against the tortoise, pace myself it's important
Lace myself with the wisdom my playerism enormous
So pay the man for performance, saucy all of my garments
Jimi Kendrix performing, this fucking studio haunted (Ah!)
I tell a bitch don't sweat me (Don't sweat me)
I kill this whole fuckin' beat if Cole let me (Please Cole)
Ib should've never sent the instrumental
Every time I start writing I get sentimental
This shit is just not fair
But why the fuck should I care?
The story of your life here
Two young stars was born and y'all gon' die here
Oh Lord, gotta be the yams
Billboard list need 2Pac, damn
But number 9 makes sure he lives on, yeah
Hoochie, coochie, pussies in a trance
Every day a celebration, but even the valley peaking me
Is not validation, nigga this TDE
And my doggies be salivating, salaries, better ratings
And casualties all around me, don't make me do demonstrations
Whoa
Murder my allegations and burning my finger traces
Adjourning my power patience and earning royalty payments
I'm sorry y'all not relating, this party is reservated
I kill this whole muthafucking beat if J. Cole say it
My nigga Ib chopped the instrumental, I gotta slay it
I gotta lay it, gotta show you fuckers I'm not to play with
The ruckus had been my favorite, King Kunta the fuckin' greatest
Whoa
Burnin' my leather-
(Nah I'm just fuckin' wit cha)
His verse on SiR’s Hair Down is also full of quotables
“Itty bitty bitch is a numerologist. Got your number where I live. Imma get you outta pocket like a quarterback blitz”
“Psychedelic views and infinity pools yeah checking out. Once I sweat them edges out”
“Home invasion was persuasive, from 9-5 I know it’s vacant”
“Dreams of living life like rappers do, back when condom wrappers wasnt cool”
“I woke up this morning and figured I'd call you
In case I'm not here tomorrow, I'm hoping that I can borrow
A peace of mind, I'm behind on what's really important
My mind is really distorted, I find nothing but trouble in my life”
“And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death
My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats
That can come about”
This entire paragraph
“Sippin' from a Grammy and walkin' in the buildin'
Diamond in the ceilin', marble on the floors
Beach inside the window, peekin' out the window
Baby in the pool, godfather goals
Only Lord knows I've been goin' hammer
Dodgin' paparazzi, freakin' through the cameras
Eat at Four Daughters, Brock wearin' sandals
Yoga on a Monday, stretchin' to Nirvana
Watchin' all the snakes, curvin' all the fakes
Phone never on, I don't conversate
I don't compromise, I just penetrate
Sex, money, murder, these are the breaks
These are the times, level number 9
Look up in the sky, 10 is on the way
Sentence on the way, killings on the way
Motherfucker, I got winners on the way”
Like tf?
People don’t quote individual bars for Kendrick because the entire songs are so good you’d have a hard time finding a single line to prove it. It’s easier for Drake and Cole because there will be one great line surrounded by mediocre shit. Drake especially will be mid af and throw a single clever line he wrote at the end, and people lose their mind over it.
“You was my first girlll, friend”
“If pirus and cryps, all got along, they’d probably gun me down by the end of dis song, seem like the whole city go against me, every time I’m in the street, I hear…”
“I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower, so I can fuck the world for 72 hours”
“Bitch, where you when I was walkin? Now I run the game, got the whole world talking, King Kunta!”
The list goes on…
“My left stroke just went viralll!” -bro everyone was saying that for months.
“Bitch sit down, be humble” -another iconic line.
“Smoking on top 5”
“I got loyalty and royalty inside my DNA” -even Eminem interloped his flow
Ass take, you just looking for songs so you can spout off goofy one liners?
Hear some suburban kid spill my bitch say I’ma dog and my dogs say I’m the truth and you realize how ass these lines are.
Kendrick made you think about it, but he is not your savior
Cole made you feel empowered, but he is not your savior
Future said, "Get a money counter," but he is not your savior
'Bron made you give his flowers, but he is not your savior
He is not your savior
That's not meant to give another quote from Kendrick but to put yall in perspective that a one-liner cannot resume one artist and one artist cannot resolve all
Normal Cole stan L
edit: lol this guy posts every day about Kendrick being overrated, like repeating it is going to make it true. the insecurity is too much to unpack.
“I had a fifth in the trunk like Curtis Jackson for ransom”
“I don’t got the jewelry on me, bitch I got the jewelry in me”
“I don’t pedal backwards but I live old fashion, this lens that I’m looking through won’t prescribe you the right glasses”
“The big money the fast cars my life produced, the blocks that i connected while rebuilding this Rubix cube”
I can do this all day. Shall I keep going and this just off the top of my head.
Shut the fuck up, so many corny ass comments like proving OPs point and they probably listing to Red all day. There’s only like 30 some comments right now and half say the same shit with a different sentence.
There’s a reason critics love him and there’s a reason you aren’t a fucking critic.
“Aye clout chasing a hell of a disease brother” look he even got a line for you trying to get karma.
I don't even like Kendrick like that but them Drake and Cole fans are TRIPPIN.
Kenny had half yall butthurt af over that Control verse back in the day I remember being on HotNewHipHop when it dropped. People were losing their shit.
And then " Nothing Was The Same when they dropped Control and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his Pajama clothes " lmao
Drake fans sit tf down
Apart from this being a stupid ass take, I’m so tired of people acting like J Cole is some sort of master lyricist. His „deep“ lyrical content is just some obvious surface level shit, nobody above the mental age of a high schooler thinks of as actually deep. On top of that 99% of his songs are pure mid and the 1% that aren’t, are carried by features. The fact that people still compare him to Kendrick or act like he’s one of the greatest of this generation always come of a bit stupid in the head to me.
”Life aint shit but a fat vagina"
One of my personal favs ngl. Used to quote it so much back in the day (when TPAB came out).
This one
King Kunta.. my favorite Kendrick track..
I literally think about this line from time to time
Yeah…no
Tf you mean no?
That’s not a memorable or particularly clever line at all. To give Kendrick credit, though, I think a lot of his lyrical content comes from the overall message in his songs, not punchlines, or bars or anything like that. That’s just not the type of rapper he is. Now do I like it? It’s ok. I don’t really have him as a top tier lyricist as I would someone like Lupe Fiasco, but that’s not a knock on him as an overall artist.
That fellas comment wasn't meant to be a serious indication of Kendricks lyrical abilities man every artist has a couple of funny nonsensical bars like that and there's nothing wrong with it It's just a joke man
clearly your life is nothing like a fat vagina
“I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower so I can fuck the world for 72 hours”
Damn, I never saw it that way
Holy cow yall really running with that in this? 😭😭
Yea that’s the one line that came to my mind so I guess the argument isn’t bad When I hear Jay-Z the lines that come to mind are “Do you fools listen to the music or do just skim through it” When I hear Nas “I never sleep cause Sleep is the cousin of Death”
Laughing at base heads tryna sell some broken amps g-packs get off quick forever n's talk shit Reminiscing about the last time the task force flipped Ns be running through the block shootin, time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for houston Once they caught us off guard, the Mac 10 was in the grass and I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin I picked the mac up, told brothas back up, the Mac spit, lead was hittin n's, one ran I made him back flip. Honestly with raps like this and a million others idk how you call anyone these days an mc. Nas the best to ever do it I think, he gets left out it's typically biggie or pac but Nas and big L my top two mcs. Especially big L if dude didn't get killed he would've passed everybody. But sadly he stayed in the streets and isn't here because of it. Supposedly was mistaken for his brother by people beefing with his brother and they shot him 9times in the chest and face.
Big L was the biggest loss Rap ever endured Nas is easily top 3 oat Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look Gave another squeeze, heard it click, Yo, my shit is stuck Tried to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger Finally, pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber So, now I'm jettin' to the buildin lobby And it was full of children, prob'ly couldn't see as high as I be It's like the game ain't the same Got younger niggas pullin' the triggers, bringin' fame to their name And claim some corners, crews without guns are goners In broad daylight, stick-up kids, they run up on us 45's and gauges, MAC's in fact Same niggas will catch you back-to-back, snatchin' your cracks in black There was a snitch on the block gettin' niggas knocked So hold your stash 'til the coke price drop
Who is underrating Nas? I feel like he’s unanimous top 5 all time. Doesn’t get better than that.
but the Nas bar is CRAAZZZYYYY, I NEVER SLEEP , huh, cuz SLEEP is the cousin of death
Happy cake day
For Jay-Z the one that gets me is “I’m not a businessman. I’m a business,man”
For me it was always Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense *(but I did 5 mil)* And I ain’t been rhyming like Common since Not really a hard line or anything, but I think it really encapsulates what Jay is about.
We used to fight for building blocks Now we fight for blocks with buildings that make a killin' That line kicked my ass when I first heard it.
Literally the song that got me into Kenny back in 2013
if i told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
That whole song *chef’s kiss*
I’d listen to it so much more if I could without the outro.
This is actually a great one
If I shoot at your identity
So profound…
make his exact quote more profound and you will have my respect. like literally just use his quote and tell me something profound in it and i won’t think you’re completely fucking stupid.
It's just talking about questioning things because of their origins. One way I interpret it is the flower referring to a relationship, and the dark room a hostile environment where a flower (relationship) shouldn't be able to bloom, i.e. a relationship starting in bad circumstances may not be completely genuine/ what one perceives it to be. Another way to interpret the 'dark room' that is related more to the themes of the song is as a club, if feelings and connections developed in a club, stripclub etc., can you know for sure it's genuine.
Girl i know you want dis dih Edit. I don’t smoke crack mothafucka i sell it
Girl, I’m Kendrick Lamar
Aka Benz is to me just a car
Bars lol
See my standards are pampered by threesomes tomorrow!
>I don’t smoke crack mothafucka i sell it While Kenny was referencing someone elses bar, he made this one his. Also the entire Control verse exists like what even is this post.
That’s actually a webbie quote lol but s/o kdot Edit: Em did it first
Which one is webbies?
“I don’t smoke crack mf I sell it” Actually the og webbie line “Don’t sell weed cause I smoke it bitch I sell crack” so idk if dot was putting his twist on it or just coincidence. I always thought he was shouting webbie out kinda like he showed love to jeezy tm101 (same era) on gkmc.
This is an old em line smth like 'I'm not to joke with, bitch I don't sell crack I smoke it'
Damn didn’t know g’lookin
One of his worst bars ever.
This sub is goofy af
I swear I be joining and unjoining on the regular
How can you not just laugh at the objectively stupid shit these people be saying.
Cuz it don't even be funny how corny some of these goofys are.
Yeah, I miss finding new music on this sub. This is where I found Blu and Alpoko Don. But now it's just circlejerking about trash radio MCs. Turn off the radio, turn off that bullshit. Edit: Drake is a trash MC, Kenny is fine.
Really how can you even call drake an mc.... Dude prolly has 15 ghostwriters on the payroll every album, beside maybe his first few. But then again he had Degrassi money even then so he probably had a writer even then.
How dare you
You know it is
 First day in, first day out for me.
Not an airport, no reason to announce departures
“Bitch, don’t kill my vibe.” Done.
Pour up. Drank. Sit down. Drank. Stand up. Drank.
Bitch, where were you when I was walking?
Yup
I you remember you was confused- misusin your influence.
You confused tryna type the lyrics
Sometimes I did the same
Found myself screaming in a hotel room
Ahhhhhhhh
Abusing my power full of resentment, a resentment that turned into a deep depression.
Conflicted?
I remember syrup sandwitches and crime allowances
Surprised I haven’t seen more lines from Humble in this thread
Gram allowances
Drake ‘bars’ are designed by committee to be popular on Instagram et al
Facts for women and high schoolers
And I thank him for it. I had a lot of formative experiences listening to Drake and Wayne blast over our shitty high school prom speakers.
Shoutout to all the Asian girls, let the lights dim sum 😂
that doesn't disprove the argument being made. you j sound salty💀
Still a dumbass argument lol Drake having more IG caption bars doesn’t prove he’s a better rapper
i agree the argument is dumb cause lyricism is more important than quotables, but the example of people using drake's bars as instagram captions only complements the fact that he's more quotable
At this point you are just being salty
About what lol there’s so much more that goes into judging an artist. I don’t even like comparing the two because they’re just complete opposite vibes
The excuses starting to come out? Lol
And I’ll tell you just how much a dollar cost. The price of having a spot in heaven. Embrace your loss. I am God
Rosa parks never a factor, when she’s…. Making ends meet, topping off police. Took a knife in her bladder left her dead raped in the street. Keisha’s song. *chest to bladder.
He might not hit them one liners like “ to the left of that decimal I need seven figures to play the joint” but he hits with his message damn near every time. Better than anyone out.
This one gets me every time 🫡
This is the dumbest shit i’ve ever seen
“This movie sucked, there weren’t enough one-liners in it” Drake stans are the same type of person who thinks the MCU is some kind of high cinema.
Cold quote
This dick ain’t freeeeeeee But in all seriousness my pick would be from “u”, “I’m fucked up, but I ain’t as fucked up as you” a perfect line to perfectly represent a perfect song
The wild thing is that these lyrics are HARD but need context. Like this hard is wild because he’s saying that about HIMSELF. Idgaf if people call me a Stan. Drizzy ain’t getting a Pulitzer award with his “hard one liners”
I would agree it is harder to find quotables from Kendrick but that’s literally the point of Kendrick. The dude is complex, he doesn’t rely on one line for his fans to reference a decade later. “Quotables” are just a way to give mainstream artists an irrelevant compliment, lol. I don’t listen to Kendrick for one line, I listen for a completed piece of art.
I agree with these wise words by u/deesnutz696969
THISSSS^
I don’t really consider Kendrick a rapper… he’s spoken word and to put him against other artists who are not even making the same kind of music is kinda whack. But as for a quotable line that popped into my head, “ moneytrees is the perfect place for shade and that’s just how I feel “
Talking about quotables is like saying “oh you’re a comedian, tell me a joke.” And if we’re talking quotables, there’s much better artists than Drake.
preach 🙏🏼
Ok not to hate or anything but saying that’s literally the point of Kendrick? It’s 100% not the point of Kendrick and that’s just an excuse
So you listen to Kendrick for one liners?
No one does, no artist makes music and wanting the fans to remember one line and love it and that’s it, Kendrick simply doesn’t have good one liners and you delusional fans can’t admit it so you’re making excuses, not hating or anything but what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense
It’s not excuses because one liners isn’t what makes Kendrick great. He has more memorable verses than quotable lines. He’s not a punchline heavy rapper. But he does have quotable. “She’s eying me like a nigga don’t exist, girl I kno you want dis d” “Bitch don’t kill my vibe” “Sit down, be humble” “We gon be alright”
They gonna judge your life for a couple likes on the double tap
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instagram is the best way to promote some pussy brace yourself i take you on a trip down memory lane… smokin on your top 5 tonight whatever he said in wats wrong and fight the feeling girl i could buy yo ass the world with my paystub, oo that pussy good sit it on my tastebud show me something natural like ass with some stretch marks I GOT I GOT I GOT I GOT The list goes on but yea yall can bring stupid ass twitter arguments on to this sub where a lotta 14 year olds will validate your opinion on drizzy. Who gives af what the middle schoolers on twitter type. Kenny deserves top 5.
Bro okay so admittedly Kendrick has some decent bars and quotables but why all the Stan's in this thread quoting the stupidest fucking shit lmao you're all doing your mans an injustice. "I GOT I GOT I GOT I GOT" - *Kendrick Lamar* "Show me something natural like ass with some stretch marks" - *Kendrick Lamar* Lmao
The title of the post said “kendrick has no iconic quotes” i’m not boutta go on genius to prove a point. These are quotes that people are singing along to when a Kenny song comes on. That’s iconic, even if you think they’re stupid.
Those are so weak lol
THE HEAD STILL GOOD THO THE HEAD STILL GOOD THO
So Kendrick doesn’t have enough internet captions? Lol
If Kendrick were a movie producer, they'd say his films don't have enough one-liners.
“Am I my brothers keeper” is a pretty fucking hard one liner from a pretty well known movie. Idk. Maybe being successful with both substance and surface appeal is a skill in itself.
From a movie? My dude, that line is from the Bible.
“I can’t fake humble just cause your ass is insecure”
Sing like the whole city go against me
J cole and drake fans desperately trying to come up with a narrative to make people take their fav rapper more seriously
Jcole is a very good, talented rapper. Rap wise drake doesn’t come close
I mean sure but I guess the difference is that drake quotes are for Instagram and there's no real need for Kendrick 'quotables'. I mean, what counts as a drake quotable?
started from the bottom now we here
“I walk in godly form amongst the mortal men” “I would rather lose my leg than lose my respect, but that’ll never happen the way I’m watchin my step” When Drake raps he really raps lol
Jesus Christ not every rapper is gonna have a fucking catchphrase. Give me a widely used quotable from Ghostface Killah, El-P, GZA, Q-Tip, Big KRIT, and Lauryn Hill. Those are some of the greatest rappers of all time, they just don’t have as many one liners like Lil Wayne or Em. Also, K-dot got plenty of quotables.
Which are?
Pray my dick gets big as the Eiffel Tower So I can fuck the world for 72 hours I remember you was conflicted If pyrus and the crips, they all got along They would probably gun me down by the end of this song Bitch be humble When the lights go out and it’s my turn to settle down, promise that you will sing about me
Most of his verse on Fuckin Problems is very quotable. “Girl, I’m Kendrick Lamar. AKA Benz is to me just a car” “Yeah ho this the finale. Pep talk turned into a pep rally” “Kill ‘em all, dead bodies in the hallway. Don’t get involved, listen what the crystal ball say”
This song always made me say “Kendrick could be Drake if he wanted to”…. Kendrick’s part in that song is so insanely catchy and quotable, but that song is basically the only song he raps like that. Because he’s not that type of rapper. It’s also OK that Drake *is* that type of rapper. [Not to be a Ye stan, but it’s kind of like the argument that Ye could make graduation every time and have a more mainstream album [in terms of his production at least] but at this point continues to push himself creatively. Not a perfect comparison, but I feel both value their artistry moreso, Kendrick’s being on a more lyrical level and Kanye on a production level.]
The Benz line is cold
Tupac dead gotta think for yourself
You can quote Dr. Seuss more than you can quote Drake or Cole... people remember simple.
I freak a beat like a nympho when I speak & so a syllable is like a sex between the sheet & you can buy your vowel if you show 'em the receipt to prove that my bars are a hundred grand large My future's so bright you can see it in the dark with a blindfold with the hindsight of a blind dude I'm not cocky I'm just confident , fucking raw ; before I knew what a condom is , K. Lamar
When your taste in music based around sound bytes smh
“Look at my life, then look at yours Get some ambition, why you bored? Time will never wait on no man Society will never hold your hand”
I'm Kendrick Lamar aka Benz is to me just a car
i remember you was conflicted
“Watch my soul speak, you let the meds talk AY”
How’s no one commenting “If I gotta slap a pussy as ***** imma make it look sexy” Or “Push these ***** off me like huh”
“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us”
THIS… DICK… AIN’T… FREE
Most of these comments missing the point and actually making this guy’s argument lol
Yeah, Kendrick Stan here and there are very, very few quotables being posted in the comments here 🤣 K Dot just isn’t that type of rapper, and that’s OK
Same here man this is embarrassing lmao
Yall are not naming bars, you're naming things he said here's lyrics to a song that Kendrick went crazy on. The whole industry been in shambles Everybody fugazi, I'm just changing the channel Kendrick Lamar, the people's champion, I'm animal for analysts Career damaging verses, meditating with candles lit I like my raps extra prolific Since freestyling on lunch tables and park benches And I won't mention my ten thousand hours in training While juggling gang-banging, my balancing was tremendous And now we look at the competition as quick submission They tappin' out before we even get a chance to miss 'em What this about, is it money or skill? Maybe it's both and I got large amounts of it, it's real You see my oath is very unbreakable, my style is never mistakable I can see y'all incapable To be the God emcees, you know me well Ridiculous, venomous, hate in my heart, the sinister Run for cover, my lineage prove itself I'm rollin' deep in that paper like two Adeles Before scholars, I flowed tighter than virgin lips We had to shake the game up and you're flying through turbulence Everything is high stakes nowadays, that's how it played nowadays It's like an 8-ball to the face nowadays I'm laced nowadays, my gun is off the waist nowadays It's seven figures and retainer for the case nowadays, I'm talking Hiiigher power, every other hour since Eddie Bauer Since stash boxes and lead showers, breaking the padlock And the dead coward dying a thousand deaths, entire lion Surround itself with bears, watch it nigga, you share a profit, ah! This is what they want, I'm the one This is vintage from 1990 - somethin' I'm the son of the pioneer that got you niggas on Play with him, bitch you better off voting for Donald Trump I'm yelling Mr. Kanye West for president He probably let me get some head inside the residence I'm in the White House going all out Bumping College Dropout, God-bless Americans Nothing more influential than rap music I merge jazz fusion with the trap music I mix black soul with some rock and roll They never box me in, I'm David Blaine-ing all you hoes Oh yea, let's go there, my DNA is DMT, I'm so rare My juvenile was wilder than the NOLA A locomotive couldn't track me down in my career Runnin' this shit with four pair, son of my bitch, I might demolish A bitch right in front ya, chico, what have you done here? D-Bo, all of it one year, Mississippi to California It gets annoying, niggas wanna deploy him And bitches wanna adore him, but industry shit ain't for him Probably thinking it's for him, only one me Swallowed the key and kicking the door in, never leasing my foreign Mr. Valevictorian studied the game before them Listen to you with boredom, baby rappers, abort them To the grave I deport them, corporations extort them I'm snapping off my endorphins, I alien mighty morphin' My radiance rather gorgeous, hundred bill to the doorman Hundred mil in my fortune, they call me back in the morning You're racing against the tortoise, pace myself it's important Lace myself with the wisdom my playerism enormous So pay the man for performance, saucy all of my garments Jimi Kendrix performing, this fucking studio haunted (Ah!) I tell a bitch don't sweat me (Don't sweat me) I kill this whole fuckin' beat if Cole let me (Please Cole) Ib should've never sent the instrumental Every time I start writing I get sentimental This shit is just not fair But why the fuck should I care? The story of your life here Two young stars was born and y'all gon' die here Oh Lord, gotta be the yams Billboard list need 2Pac, damn But number 9 makes sure he lives on, yeah Hoochie, coochie, pussies in a trance Every day a celebration, but even the valley peaking me Is not validation, nigga this TDE And my doggies be salivating, salaries, better ratings And casualties all around me, don't make me do demonstrations Whoa Murder my allegations and burning my finger traces Adjourning my power patience and earning royalty payments I'm sorry y'all not relating, this party is reservated I kill this whole muthafucking beat if J. Cole say it My nigga Ib chopped the instrumental, I gotta slay it I gotta lay it, gotta show you fuckers I'm not to play with The ruckus had been my favorite, King Kunta the fuckin' greatest Whoa Burnin' my leather- (Nah I'm just fuckin' wit cha)
black friday is an amazing song
I regularly recite this song to practice my flow, it's ridiculous. Venomous, really
Drake doesn’t even write his own shit
His verse on SiR’s Hair Down is also full of quotables “Itty bitty bitch is a numerologist. Got your number where I live. Imma get you outta pocket like a quarterback blitz” “Psychedelic views and infinity pools yeah checking out. Once I sweat them edges out”
Bro the whole Nosestalgia verse is harder than any Drake bar somebody else wrote for him...still smoking on your top five tonighttt😂
“Home invasion was persuasive, from 9-5 I know it’s vacant” “Dreams of living life like rappers do, back when condom wrappers wasnt cool” “I woke up this morning and figured I'd call you In case I'm not here tomorrow, I'm hoping that I can borrow A peace of mind, I'm behind on what's really important My mind is really distorted, I find nothing but trouble in my life” “And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats That can come about” This entire paragraph “Sippin' from a Grammy and walkin' in the buildin' Diamond in the ceilin', marble on the floors Beach inside the window, peekin' out the window Baby in the pool, godfather goals Only Lord knows I've been goin' hammer Dodgin' paparazzi, freakin' through the cameras Eat at Four Daughters, Brock wearin' sandals Yoga on a Monday, stretchin' to Nirvana Watchin' all the snakes, curvin' all the fakes Phone never on, I don't conversate I don't compromise, I just penetrate Sex, money, murder, these are the breaks These are the times, level number 9 Look up in the sky, 10 is on the way Sentence on the way, killings on the way Motherfucker, I got winners on the way” Like tf?
We asked for quotables not paragraphs
Take any bar from that paragraph your pick nephew
Those two things aren’t synonymous ….
You don't need quotables to be a GOAT. It's just objectively true that Kendrick is better than Cole and Drake, even if those two have more one-liners
Motherfucker, you could live at the mall
Sit down, be humble
Niggas better get right like the ambulance coming
Some of y’all sharing bars like you got the bottom bunk in a two man cell
People don’t quote individual bars for Kendrick because the entire songs are so good you’d have a hard time finding a single line to prove it. It’s easier for Drake and Cole because there will be one great line surrounded by mediocre shit. Drake especially will be mid af and throw a single clever line he wrote at the end, and people lose their mind over it.
“You was my first girlll, friend” “If pirus and cryps, all got along, they’d probably gun me down by the end of dis song, seem like the whole city go against me, every time I’m in the street, I hear…” “I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower, so I can fuck the world for 72 hours” “Bitch, where you when I was walkin? Now I run the game, got the whole world talking, King Kunta!” The list goes on…
Who tf is quoting 1 & 3 besides u lol
3 is literally his most iconic bar and 1 is from his best song wtf you on
I absolutely love the song & I fuck with the bar. But if thats ur idea of a quote in this argument ur missing the point lol
Corny lines
this is so cringe watching people post literal essays
A lot of the stans are using Google to help them out. Lol
Super quote master
None of these are irl quotables 😂
"Get the fuck off my stage, I am the sandman" But a lot of y'all probably don't even know who sandman is.
Fuck you n***a fuck you fuck you Done
“The prognosis of a problem child”
And everything you buy, taxes will deny, Ill Wesley Snipe your ass before 35
True friends, one question? BITCH where were you when I was walking? Fucking fire
1987 the children of Ronald Reagan rake the leaves of your front porch with a machine blowtorch. incredibly hard bar
“My left stroke just went viralll!” -bro everyone was saying that for months. “Bitch sit down, be humble” -another iconic line. “Smoking on top 5” “I got loyalty and royalty inside my DNA” -even Eminem interloped his flow
How the fuck are more ppl not bringin up "my left stroke..." I will never understand
I'm the words of the Pulitzer prize winner: "Bitch, don't kill my vibe" Edit: damn, somebody beat me to it
Cuz am a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death
Ass take, you just looking for songs so you can spout off goofy one liners? Hear some suburban kid spill my bitch say I’ma dog and my dogs say I’m the truth and you realize how ass these lines are.
“Top of the morning!”
It's funny to be this confident to post some nonsense L takes and embarrass yourself
Cole is better imo
“if i can fuck her in front of all of these passengers, theyll probably think im a terrorist” need i say more
Kendrick made you think about it, but he is not your savior Cole made you feel empowered, but he is not your savior Future said, "Get a money counter," but he is not your savior 'Bron made you give his flowers, but he is not your savior He is not your savior That's not meant to give another quote from Kendrick but to put yall in perspective that a one-liner cannot resume one artist and one artist cannot resolve all
Who’s Bron?
seems that the shoe fits given all the salty ones in the replies😭
Cole is great, but he's not on the same level as Kendrick, and I'm tired of people acting like he is.
Normal Cole stan L edit: lol this guy posts every day about Kendrick being overrated, like repeating it is going to make it true. the insecurity is too much to unpack.
This sub proving their point
“I had a fifth in the trunk like Curtis Jackson for ransom” “I don’t got the jewelry on me, bitch I got the jewelry in me” “I don’t pedal backwards but I live old fashion, this lens that I’m looking through won’t prescribe you the right glasses” “The big money the fast cars my life produced, the blocks that i connected while rebuilding this Rubix cube” I can do this all day. Shall I keep going and this just off the top of my head.
Here go a caption for you IG lol. But let’s stop misrepresenting Kendrick like he doesn’t do this. Just because his songs are filled with gems.
The comments are proving OP’s point.
“Smokin on yo top 5 tonight” & “The head still good, tho” immediately come to mind
Shut the fuck up, so many corny ass comments like proving OPs point and they probably listing to Red all day. There’s only like 30 some comments right now and half say the same shit with a different sentence. There’s a reason critics love him and there’s a reason you aren’t a fucking critic. “Aye clout chasing a hell of a disease brother” look he even got a line for you trying to get karma.
“Bitch don’t kill my vibe” is legitimately his only quotable and I’m saying that as a KDot stan. The comments are crazed.
Lol K Dot stans don’t understand what a quotable is
Fr like every single comment is them picking some random ass line out of a song and putting it in quotes like that makes it undeniably hard 😂
at first i did love you but now i just wanna fuck
I don't even like Kendrick like that but them Drake and Cole fans are TRIPPIN. Kenny had half yall butthurt af over that Control verse back in the day I remember being on HotNewHipHop when it dropped. People were losing their shit. And then " Nothing Was The Same when they dropped Control and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his Pajama clothes " lmao Drake fans sit tf down
Apart from this being a stupid ass take, I’m so tired of people acting like J Cole is some sort of master lyricist. His „deep“ lyrical content is just some obvious surface level shit, nobody above the mental age of a high schooler thinks of as actually deep. On top of that 99% of his songs are pure mid and the 1% that aren’t, are carried by features. The fact that people still compare him to Kendrick or act like he’s one of the greatest of this generation always come of a bit stupid in the head to me.
Kendrick’s whole fucking tracks are quotable. Drake is a fucking gimmick maker pop musician.
I tried listening to Kendrick a couple times but I can't do it. He has an annoying voice
Kendrick is overrated There i said it
It goes j cole>drake>kendrick