He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke but like everyone else, Kendrick Lamar also has his own vice. In his 2022 album “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” Kendrick Lamar opened up about his battle with sex addiction, leading him to cheat on his longtime partner, Whitney Alford.
“Insecurities that I project, sleepin’ with other women / Whitney’s hurt, the purest soul I know, I found her in the kitchen / Askin’ God, ‘Where did I lose myself? And can it be forgiven?’ / Broke me down, she looked me in my eyes, ‘Is there an addiction?'” Lamar rapped in “Mother I Sober.” Despite his troubles, Lamar initially lied to Alford about his addiction, choosing instead to keep her in the dark. Alford would later catch on and encouraged the rapper to seek help. “Pure soul, even in her pain, know she cared for me / Gave me a number, said she recommended some therapy,” he explained in the song.
Lamar and Alford started out as high school sweethearts, but their relationship has since evolved into something deeper. In 2015, the rapper, who’s notoriously private, confirmed his engagement to Alford. The couple has since welcomed two children together, daughter Uzi born in July 2019, and son Enoch, born in 2022. “I wouldn’t even call her my girl. That’s my best friend. I don’t even like the term that society has put in the world as far as being a companion — she’s somebody I can tell my fears to,” Lamar gushed to Billboard in 2015.
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