Kendrick Lamar for BULLET Magazine (7 Pictures + Interview)

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TDEs finest Kendrick Lamar wurde jüngst vom New Yorker BULLETT Magazine gefeatured. Es fand ein Shooting unter der Regie von Bjarne Jonasson statt und wenn sich da jetzt wieder ein paar Heads beschweren, dass Rap/HipHop immer mehr zur Fashion-Show wird: ja gut, isso. Aber sieht doch gut aus. Dem Herrn Lamar haben sie Teile von HOOD BY AIR, Alexander Wang, Supreme, Lynn Ban, Luar Zepol, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Nike und Adidas übergeplünnt, wesentlich interessanter ist dann aber doch noch das Interview, welches Ihr in voller Länge hier lesen könnt. Die Bilder und ein paar Ausschnitte gibt es nach dem Jump:

“I salute people like Jay-Z, how many tours has he been on? How many verses has he put down? How many interviews? How many radio shows? People forget that. They can’t fathom how a dude from the Marcy Projects is sitting next to Barack Obama, so they make up all types of crazy shit and forget the facts: This n***a dedicated every single day of his life to this, and what he has wasn’t just given to him. It’s no mistake he’s at where he’s at.” – Kendrick Lamar


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“It’s a big-ass hangout when we’re on the bus, It’s me and my homeboys, just clowning around and shit, or watching motherfucking SportsCenter all day.”

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It also shows off Lamar’s profound dexterity as a lyricist, with the rapper rhyming in hip-hop’s fabled double and triple times. Pitchfork named it the best album of last year, and it made Lamar, who, in early 2012 opened for Drake on his Club Paradise tour, an instant headliner.

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“For someone who once rapped, “Sometimes I need to be alone,” Lamar rarely is. In person, you’d never know the fivefoot-six, baby-faced kid from Compton has reached stadium status. He’s laid-back, if not lethargic.”

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Lamar’s success is no accident either. Unlike many contemporary pop stars, he isn’t the product of a formula. “For him it’s about the passion,” says rapper J.Cole, who plans to release a joint album with Lamar in the near future. “He loves the art of rap and that’s what really separates the greats from the rest.”

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Before he wrote his first rhyme, while still a student at Centennial High School, Lamar dreamed of basketball immortality. “Everybody wants to be Jordan in the motherfuckin’ ghetto,” he says. But it was Compton’s rich hip-hop pedigree that ultimately drew him in.

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[via + read the full interview @ BULLETT-Mag]

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