"We breed some of the most incredible individuals, creators, intellectuals, talent. We had it since day one" Kendrick Lamar has delivered a surprise speech at Compton College’s commencement ceremony – watch his rousing address below. The rapper made a surprise appearance at the college in his hometown of Compton, California, where he spoke to 2024 graduates.
He began his speech by saying: “Here is not only a representation of the world, but it’s a representation of me. “I still believe in Compton,” he continued. “Compton always been a future for me.
I think we breed some of the most incredible individuals, creators, intellectuals, talent. We had it since day one. That’s why I always screamed this City.
I traveled the world. It’s no place like this one right here.” Lamar also told the crowd to ignore stigmas against the Gen Z generation, adding: “I still believe it’s time that we change the narratives.
Some people tell us, this generation don’t have what it takes. Gen Z. We talk about it all day.
They try to pull us down and say, we don’t know what we doing. They wrong though. “You know why? Because not only y’all have what it takes, but y’all have something even bigger.
Y’all have the heart. Y’all have the courage to be independent thinkers. Independent thinkers.
There’s nothing more valuable than that. Y’all can go out here and tell and express y’all thoughts and say it with conviction and passion and stand on it and be unapologeti.
