Kendrick Lamar: How To MC

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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He’s the greatest MC of his era. Is it even a question? But how did he get to be that? I talked to Kendrick Lamar to find out how Kendrick became Kendrick. In this conversation we talk about how Kendrick got to be so good—how do you practice? How do you develop as an MC? What are his favorite words? We also talk about his best verses and his best song. And the impact of seeing dead bodies on the street when he was a kid. He’s a man who’s obsessed with hiphop, so he practiced intensely and constantly, but he’s also willing to accept failure. His success—his amazing music—is built atop lots and lots of private failures that helped him learn his craft and become a master MC. Toure Show is successful people talking about their success. What tactics, attitudes, and strategies fueled their success? How’d they deal with failure? What can you learn from their journey that’ll help fuel your rise? I want these conversations to be valuable for you. I hope Kendrick Lamar has some gems that help you learn how to shine. Toure Show Ep 12 Kendrick Lamar—“How To MC” Host & Writer: Toure Producer: Chris Colbert and Matt Ford The House: Cadence 13 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock
0:07.9	Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,
0:14.4	playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.
0:18.3	Here we go!
0:19.3	I'm for a drum and bass!
0:21.3	Oh, just 110 pounds! Tom Bola! Open for fun!
0:27.0	Terms apply 18 plus. Please play safely. But I'm so passionate about it. I can sometimes cut the whole world off to write A-A-A-A-A verse that is perfect to me or damn
0:50.2	they're perfect. He's one of the greatest M. C.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 grinded and wrote and put in the sweat
1:06.4	equity to become an unbelievable talent. He didn't pop out the womb rhyme and he
1:12.0	constructed his talent through years of work and his obsession with hip-hop and with getting better as an MC.
1:18.0	And that is why we're all obsessed with his music now.
1:24.0	Kendrick Lamar on Toray Show. I want this to be a place where I talk to successful people to find out what makes
1:40.9	them successful. I want to kind of look into your mind and see
1:44.6	what your key tactics are and hear what your best attitudes are and
1:47.5	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
1:56.5	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?
2:07.0	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.
2:17.0	He talks about how we actually get to being all right politically speaking and the impact of seeing dead bodies when you're a
2:24.2	kid and the impact of the increasing racism in Trump's America. You know it's some
2:30.7	that me and you already knew that was there, but now it's televised, you know, on, you know, major platforms.
2:38.0	And it just built another fire in me.
2:42.0	This interview was conducted backstage at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn hours before a hot Kendrick show.
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