But I'm so passionate about it. I can sometimes cut the whole world off to write A-A-A-A-A-A-verse that is perfect to me or damn

they're perfect. He's one of the greatest.s of all time, certainly the greatest of his

era, and he acquired his immense skill precisely because he was and is obsessed with

hip-hop. He worked and practiced and grind and wrote and put in the sweat

equity to become an unbelievable talent. He didn't pop out the womb rhymin. He constructed his talent through years of work and his

obsession with hip-hop and with getting better as an MC. And that is why we're all obsessed with his music now.

Kendrick Lamar on Touré Show. I want this to be a place where I talk to successful people to find out what makes

them successful. I want to kind of look into your mind and see what

your key tactics are and hear what your best attitudes are and understand your

perspective on what you've mastered. I was so excited to be able to interview Kendrick and we cover a lot of ground in this conversation

What was it like being with Obama in the Oval Office? How do you practice MCing? What are his favorite words? What's his best verse ever? What's his greatest record ever?

All right. I say that's one of my greatest records because it gave these kids an actual voice and the actual practice to go out here and make a difference.

He talks about how we actually get to being all right politically speaking and the impact of seeing dead bodies when you're a

kid and the impact of the increasing racism in Trump's America. You know it's

some of that me and you already knew that was there, but now it's televised, you know, on, you know,

major, major platforms. And it just built another fire in me.

This interview was conducted backstage at the Barclay Center

in Brooklyn hours before a hot Kendrick show. It was originally done for the cover of ID magazine

but I had to get you guys the whole interview I had to hook you up it's

that good I'm proud to Steph Curry, you know, if I was talking to Steph Curry,

I could be like, you know know so you're the best yeah and how did you get there you know you did your shots you did your running your nutrition whatever

What is it for you like what are the What are the elements that lead to someone becoming the best

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