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'All my life I had to fight': Kendrick Lamar's tribute played for author Alice Walker on TV
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1:38Now PlayingKendrick Lamar’s 2015 hit “Alright” quotes iconic lines from Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple: “Alls my life, I had to fight.” In this clip from an interview on “The Beat with Ari Melber,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist watches and responds to Lamar quoting her novel for the first time ever, and discusses the truth they are both pursuing in their art.
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Watch Alice Walker See Kendrick Lamar Quote Her For The 1st Time | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
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