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Don’t wrap it up in gold
Don’t hide it behind the sun
Just give it to me as it is
And let it stand
Don’t fly it like a kite
Between the clouds
It needs no excuse
Just bring it down
Let eyes that are in pain look upon it
In all its glory
Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass
Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass
For every voice that is lifted
In reverence and pain
Show us now
And let love not be chained
We should feel what we can stand
And let us be alive
So we know
That we’ve done all we can
Let hearts that are frozen get to see it
In all its glory
Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass
Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass
And let all that is lost be forgotten
And it will pass
So let all that is lost be forgotten
Let us move on
Like the waters in the open sea
When tribulations come all we can say is hopefully
And yesterday you could probably say theres no hope for me
But today Im overly dedicated, Im posed to be
A testimony for broken hearts in the city
You either crash landing or planning on flying with me
Misery loves standing behind its company, well
Vividly I can see that your feelings would like to dwell
On our past encounters, reaching over the counter
Told me that its a appealing to pop a pill, thats a downer
I heard emotions burn deep
I heard when you fall out of love the drop is steep
I heard when you see a thug, thats what you try be
Got these burdens under my wings, but Im still free
Cause I can make the decision to let it all go away
Before I ever run astray Ill look you in the eye and say
Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass
Let us move on
Let us move on
For this is short
And it will pass |
Alright yall
I want yall to put your hands together
And to bring on the brothers that bound to lay more dips in your hips
More glide in your stride
Chi city in the building
And Mr. Southside
And if you dont think its next you got the wrong damn address
Fuck your love, motherfuck your love
Thats what Sir John say
You can laugh all you want but hes right as hell
Cupids aint around these days
Ive heard many stories about how he made people all around the world fall in love
Well I got a call just the other day
Telling me where Cupid was
Cupids too busy in the club
At the bar
Rolling up
And if you see him, let him know
Love is gone
I know, Im sure
Boys and girls
Love aint dead
Stupid Im the the new Cupid
Throw your hands in the sky
Cause loves still alive
I said, Love aint dead
Stupid Im the the new Cupid
Throw your hands in the sky
Cause loves still alive
The responsibility lies on me
Since Cupid aint around
And when yall really feeling like youre falling in love
When my music puts you right on down
And everybody
And I know
Some people really think they in love
But now without a love song
Somethings gone way wrong
Cupids too busy in the club
At the bar
Rolling up
And if you see him, let him know
Love is gone
I know Im sure
Boys and girls
Love aint dead
Stupid Im the the new Cupid
Throw your hands in the sky
Cause loves still alive
I said, Love aint dead
Stupid Im the the new Cupid
Throw your hands in the sky
Cause loves still alive
Love aint dead
As I play out the Commodores, my faith destroyed
My heart dont work, Im unemployed
The feeling is void, dont know what I need
Some pussy, some paper, some counseling
Maybe some Henny, some weed
Im looking for you, Im checking for her
Im parking lot pimpin, Im honking at women, Im all on the curb
Skrt, skrt, skrt, pump my brake, pump my brake
Mini skirt, skirt, skirt, dont walk away, walk away
Im fishing for compliments
This is a fairy tale, I know you very well
Fuck all your promises, I know what time it is
Im just a realist, I am the realest
Reality is fatality cursed on the future for family, wife and some kids
Im looking for you, Im checking for her
Im parking lot pimpin, Im honking at women, Im all on the curb
Skrt, skrt, skrt, pump your brake, pump your brake
Mini skirt, skirt, skirt, dont walk away, walk away
Cupids too busy in the club
At the bar
Rolling up
And if you see him, let him know
Love is gone
I know Im sure
Boys in the club
And if you see him, let him know
Love is gone
I know Im sure
Boys and girls
Might sound weird
But a great night, you in a real relationship, you understand what Im saying
A great night with somebody you love, is difficult
Somebody you like is always good
Like is wonderful
You come home with some juice, with the woman you like:
Can I have some juice?
Gimme that juice, pour juice all over me
Pour that juice all over that sexy body
Let you be together three years and shit
Can I have some juice?
Bitch, why you want my juice?
You know Im dehydrated
I try to come home and shit
Tryin to get some juice you want my juice... |
Whoo Ha!
Backpack raps with gats in it
Dont get your cap peeled by the black menace
K-Dot thoroughbred
Move like a militant soldier, on point like a pyramid
A forced to be reckoned with, fuck with the best shit
Like the strongest manure, Im ready when you are
This is it, Im in the lab cooking up all day
Fuck em up all day like a nympho
I been dope since S curl waves
Trying to convince hoes I got good hair
Knowing damn well theres chemicals there
Im in the hood with the 17 year-olds thats on hood patrol
And they want stripes, so they shoot off bikes
And you know any moment you can lose your life
So kiss your kids and hug your wife, and what not yo
I spar with a dragon, he tried to throw a flame
But I ducked, then I stabbed him and came out the battle laughin
Thats a metaphor for any rapper who wants it
I smack em til their nose is running
You know the hoes is coming if Im there
And the hoes is cumming once we hit the hotel
Theres no assumptions
Cool out before I move out, hop on the 105
Do about 105 before your ass gets threw out the back seat
Oh, Its not Dot? Tell the medics its okay
A beast when the beat break
You probably think Im dope like this the realest shit I wrote
But to me, its a throw-away
I stare at the four walls and rap like Im mad at God
Nice enough to throw a spear at Nas
Launch at Jay, matter fact, let me take that back
See I dont fuck with real legends in rap like you do
Im crucial, concealed by real crips and suwoo
And they shoot like photography students when beef gets to brewing
Is it real, son? Is it really real, son?
Is it really real, son? Is it really real?
Tell me how you feel, son, tell me how you feel, son
Tell me how you feel, son, tell me how you feel
You rappers got nothing for me when Sound-Sounwave record me
Every MC, Im sure to rip them, I guarantee you will forgive them
Come again, no introduction, you know my name
Soul brother, Dueces suck the juice from my ding-a-ling
Orangutan arms banging niggas like a set
When I speak, they fucking silent like sex for the deaf
Violence, I play it like violins in the orchestra
Treat you like vitamins then spit you back out
Like a verse I had way back before I had it mapped out
Rip a page out the Almanac then cross reference when I wreck shit
I wish jaw bone fractures on all of you rappers bumping your gums
Like the measles when the record meets the needle
Heads spinning like a twelve-inch, Smoking the best Celtic
Like I shot Larry Bird, follow my word
Big Herb, Ill with it, I need a hospital gown
You need 54 cards, deal with it
You may think Im killing it, but Im healing it
Like a bitch in the club, Shoe game
Ay yo yo, the flow potent
Whos more focused? Kick doors open
Deliver the golden opus leave with two guns smoking
Its me, the podium closing, a poet well-spoken
The gropes is most consistent with imminent penmanship
Mind-bending, co-existing with the written
Verbal assassin, Internally smashing, Spazzing on tracks
Translation, Im disgusting in action
A lyrical glutton busting over Sounwave productions
Yall dont want nothing, The sum of all fears
Mercury rising, Im summer all year
I sixteen em to death and wish them the best
I guess thats the gift and a curse, You see my pattering
Yall still rapping like thats whats happening
I write rhymes with fire on stone tablets
Peep the malice, Im a monster
Ya Boy running like William Joseph Crawford touche
Is it real, son? Is it really real, son?
Is it really real, son? Is it really real?
Tell me how you feel, son, tell me how you feel, son
Tell me how you feel, son, tell me how you feel
You rappers got nothing for me when Sound-Sounwave record me
Every MC, Im sure to rip them, I guarantee you will forgive them
Straight up, Dont get ate up
Put rappers in quicksand, Dot leaned on em like kickstands
Im so hot, kids put me in their iPod
Even atheists play my shit and say, My God, Jesus, Joseph, and Mary, hes nice
Dont compare me to them, just compare me to Mike Jordan
When I record and the verse and the chorus is ill
You can land in lab of fortune when biting my skills, playa
Watch I lay-up bar after bar like Im trying to build a gate up
See me on the way up like an elevator, Imma let you take the stairs
That metaphor meaning Im already there
Im in the booth with an apron
Cooking up shit like Martha Stewart was my bitch, Amen
Stay on the curb like a spray day tan?
Blowing herb with my nigga Herb, Fuck what you niggas heard
We the new West Coast Wu Tang bitch and Im the best
Think less, You can suck my dick
Who from the West can kill it like us? Give me their name
Now I take em to the house of pain, Top Dawg headquarters
Is it real, son? Is it really real, son?
Is it really real, son? Is it really real?
Tell me how you feel, son, tell me how you feel, son
Tell me how you feel, son, tell me how you feel
You rappers got nothing for me when Sound-Sounwave record me
Every MC, Im sure to rip them, I guarantee you will forgive them |
Let em die
Dead
Black Hippy
We dont give a fuck
Hell nah, nigga
This conglomerate so cool, Rock, we could freeze L.A., nigga
Black Hippy
Move in
Kendrick Lamar
I tell em like this
Ring the alarm or wake to a bomb
You aint a rapper, you Elton John, holding your john
I got a ton of croutons in the Louis Vuitton
Thats big bread, the chickens are flying, flocks when I come
Paul and Masson, half-drunk, stuck in a poem
Light matches underwater while Im bracing the storm
Im cool and Im calm, laid-back, smoking a farm
Socking the shit out of niggas til Im breaking my arm
Up in my zone, two blunts, cup of Patrón
.45 on me, shoot you if you fuck with me wrong
No homo, pause, thats your life and its going flatline
If you dont put your life in the song
I never drove a fast car, I almost ran over Tracy Chapman
She said, Drive slow; I said, Fuck off
Ab-Soul—whats up, yall? Other than youre subpar
Above all? Im a Heaven gate—above all, fucking great
And every time we in the stu
We cook that, chop that, whats that? Thats crack
Yeah, homie, this is what we do
3-1-0 shit, 3-2-3, bitch
Oww, nigga, welcome to the zoo, where we...
Cook that, chop that, whats that, thats crack
Yeah, homie, this is what we do
3-2-3 shit, 3-1-0, bitch!
The Black Hippys, the bag full, the bag empty
Spent it all at the car lot, then crash quickly
Im trying to come with enough power to pass Fifty
Im talking fifty bills—you niggas dont fit the bill
You niggas dont keep it real, you fake as Pamelas titties
I pound kitties, then hit the club with dogs with me
Tan Polos, no socks, chopped Dickies
Tan coupe, no top, bumping Biggie
Blowing sticky, before the group, been a hippy
Nifty-fifty, all blue, real Crippy
Big money, long stocks, ask Pippy
Mask on, one sock, I gets busy
I smoke Blacks, relax, and watch Walt Disney
Puff squares, pace in circles until Im dizzy
Speaking of Disney, fantasies, I had many
I used to hate on Mickey Mouse cause he had Minnie
Anyway, every time we in the stu
We cook that, chop that, whats that? Thats crack
Yeah, homie, this is what we do
3-1-0 shit, 3-2-3, bitch
Oww, nigga, welcome to the zoo, where we...
Cook that, chop that, whats that? Thats crack
Yeah, homie, this is what we do
3-2-3 shit, 3-1-0, bitch!
Ahhh, napped through my final, made enough, richer than Lionel
Fucking bitches on my job, coming harder than rhino
Breaking their spinal, laid-back, bumping my vinyl
Navigation on the scopes, easy to find em...
... Find you and Im right behind you, laid back, puffing a blunt
Gat on my lap, constantly talking shit; Ima dump
Your homies acting charged up, they can still get jumped
Take your chain, ash the kush for all you punks...
... However you want, whenever you want, you all can get it
Contagious, its mad syphilis, blazing, its God-giftedness
Die over death sentences, flow hot, plus, the beat knock
Like Jay witnesses, tell em I killed the witnesses...
... Gifted as twenty Christmases, itching to blow
Like twenty bitches with mouths that need a dick in it, wow
I ran rap for half a mile, then got tired
Laid down and realized that I was lying
And every time we in the stu
We cook that, chop that, whats that? Thats crack
Yeah, homie, this is what we do
3-1-0 shit, 3-2-3, bitch
Oww, nigga, welcome to the zoo, where we...
Cook that, chop that, whats that, thats crack
Yeah, homie, this is what we do
3-2-3 shit, 3-1-0, bitch! |
Back in the projects
Back in the projects
I lost it all, all, all, all
Now Im back in the projects
I cant get all of you in it
Big slugs, hardcore drugs
Everything crooked, what you thought this was?
Steam pot, turned powder into rock
Plan go sour, thats how you get got
Aww shit, got it poppin into bricks
Part of playing cool now its time to get rich
Keep in mind, never walk round blind
I cant get all of you in it
All that back and forth gets me hot sometimes
Wanna see somebody get knocked out, just box one time, shit
Catch a fade, catch a fade, it aint nothin
Get your head up, at the gym, bring your knuckles
Look, Im deep inside the projects where its brackin at
You know the zip
Where we take a quarter piece, flip it, til the corner lit
A1 yola, that fresh over the border shit
Shoot outs and abortions, situations so unfortunate
I knew a nigga, doin double digits, bust the head wide
For another nigga whos scared to rep his set right
Now in solitary, doin push ups by his bedside
All he want is a Green Dot, his homie keepin himself fly
Dont come around without your pass, niggas on they tip
Zero tolerance on niggas money, niggas want they shit
Dont start nothing without your blower, thats a one way trip
Six feet under, real life, thats all gunplay is
That is that hood shit
When young niggas on that misunderstood shit
Jumpin out of smokin rentals, Ks with the wood grips
Bitches for them bank statements will come and hit a full split
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
I cant get all of you in it
Niggas jaw-jacking, they aint on that hood shit
Bitch we bout that action, on that wish you would shit
All red flags, swag on ten
We aint in the club, we cant get our goods in
So we in the hood, lituations look grim
One time circlin for colors of your skin
Black lives matter out here, no way
Cops get promotions while the family gotta pray
Its fucked up, cant explain, babies all in a dump truck
Its all about that money mane, miss me with that Trump stuff
Tryna make a dollar outta fifteen, dont get fucked up
Its shake in the bag, get a bud then you lucked up
You fakin, you mad, you got a issue, you get fucked up
Get laid on yo ass, you feeling bad, your blunts crushed up
We in the set, just bickin it like the Cosbys
Tryna get dope, live happy days like Chachi
If you get a call from papi, thats like Jesus callin
All you do is execute, next ten seasons ballin
You can get the world, stay loyal, why you even trip?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
Dont you know no good, dont you know no good bitch?
I cant get all of you in it |
Take a trip with the narcoleptic
Suffered insomnia, but this time it was only seconds
I see thermometers boil as you lay in the desert
Of eternal fire hate ya then deny yourself of a blessin
Meanwhile Im on a new cloud chunking the deuce
Renewed vows with sinners, homies, enemies too
Gold towel under my feet clicking the fluke
With a thousand troops, Crip and Piru, nigga, woop, woop
Love I depend on, white doves I depend on
They flying through this endzone that meant on to vent on
So listen, homie, you miss me with that bullshit
I keep my distance, homie, I am on a higher pulprit
You cannot visit, homie
I mean the beauty of heaven is far for me not to exit
Its ike an anti-depressant, you see the vision, homie?
I mean this godly advice, fucking right
Even if you pinch me twice, yes I, keep dreaming
Lovely lullabies
I dont see another thing but starry skies
And louds of clouds beneath my wings and in the skies
As far as hazy as can see the sun will rise
And illuminate this life, this life
Oh why do I have to return to reality?
Oh why, this time Ill try
Ill try not to wake up from this dream
I’ll try not to wake up from this dream
I won’t wake up from this dream
I can’t wake up from this dream
I won’t wake up from this dream
I will not forget
Fixating the part of faith Ive never met
And explaining away the reasons as I slept
So beautiful here I wish I never left
I never know which ones a lie, this life
Oh why do I have to return to reality?
Oh why, this time Ill try
Ill try not to wake up from this dream
I wont wake up from this dream
I cant wake up from this dream
I wont wake up from this dream
I wont open my eyes again, Ill keep them shut
I wont open my eyes again, Ill keep them shut
I wont open my eyes again, Ill keep them shut
I wont open my eyes again, Ill keep them shut
To wake up from this dream
I won’t wake up from this dream |
Abazaba
You know we get in the studio and do what we do best
You know
Beautiful shit
But this time around I wanna do something different homeboy
You feel me my nig
Hop on them keys real quick my nig
Play some shit that my girlfriendll like
I aint tryna entertain these other hoes tonight
Play some shit that my girlfriendll like
Yea hahaha yea
This shit my girlfriendll like
I aint tryna entertain these other hoes tonight
Im playing shit that my girlfriendll like
Check me out
She say she love it when it sounds like this
She tell me Kendrick put it down like this
When I listen I wanna close my eyes
And feel your lips
Let your lyrics wrap around me and grab my hips
So enticing
On point like the helmet of a Viking
Kicking up dust like Im hiking
I aint calling a woman a bitch on this one
I be calling my woman so I could get some
She fresh off work and Lord knows it was hard
She take off her shirt and Lord knows that Im hard
Composing myself, tryna remain content
She had a long day and plus I know she wanna vent
Now she could talk about her boss and I can give advice
Or she could take the panties off and I could eat the
Fuck that, option number deuce
On the kitchen table while I play this tune
You know why?
This shit my girlfriendll like
I aint tryna entertain these other hoes tonight
Im Playing shit my girlfriendll like
Hahaha yea
This shit my girlfriendll like
I aint tryna entertain these other hoes tonight
Aba, this shit my girlfriendll like my nigga
Look
We be in the car, bumpin my latest jam
I recorded at the studio around 10 p.m
Its a club banger
Catchy hooks and 808s
I even threw a bridge on it just to play it safe
The first 8 bars, shes lovin the track
Even rewinding it back
Soon as the beat drop
The way she react she like Thats Hot
Til I start talkin bout how many hoes I got
How many I fucked
How many Ive misled just to get a nut
Like a squirrel, in pursuit of lunch
Uh
Though Im on some cliché rapper shit
I know she thinking are my lyrics that accurate
Shes so cool doe
Dont downplay her just to fuck up the mood yo
Shell still play it even though I sound rude yo
And disregards to the provocative records
One thing that I do know
This something my girlfriendll like
I aint tryna entertain them other hoes tonight
Im playing something that my girlfriendll like
Told you that my girlfriendll like
Other hoes tonight
Soul
This something my girlfriendll like too
Kendrick I got you
This a great idea
Thisll be my girlfriends joint right here
So Imma kick the shit she like
It seem right
Like a pair of jeans that fit tight
Around her cute booty
I like to hold her from behind in line
At the movies
Her body language gets read
Like a ruby
Cause she a work-a-art
No help from Julie
Imma beast and she such a beauty
I love her, she know that, I place no one above her
Far from an arc, but best undercover
Kodak moment every time we in sync
Like a iPod plugged to a USB
Its just you and me
I mean me and her
I mean her and I
Its plain to see, affirmative
So if you ever need me
You know where Herbert is
On her mind
Like she on mine
Uh
Play some shit my girlfriendll like
Cause I aint tryna entertain them other hoes tonight
She do music too, this shit my girlfriendll write
If she was me talking bout her
DJ
Play some shit that my girlfriendll like
I aint tryna entertain them other hoes tonight
I wrote some shit that my girlfriendll like
Now Im sho to get some cuddy |
Ladies and gentlemen! My man, Kendrick Lamar!
Livin in America
Thuggin in the trap
Livin in a groove
Watchin TV
Dedicated to the homies in the pen, hit me!
I done been through a whole lot
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
The Devil wanna put me in a bow tie
Pray that the holy water dont go dry, yay yay
As I look around me
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
But an enemigo never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
Uh, when you lookin at me, uh, tell me what do you see?
Ahh, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police
Uh, illuminated by the hand of God, boy think they high
Uh, one day at a time, sun gon shine
Everybody lookin at you crazy
What you gon do?
Lift up your head and keep moving
Or let the paranoia haunt you?
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company
What do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
How many times my potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises?
So I promise this, huh
Uh, when you lookin at me, tell me what do you see?
Ahh, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police
Uh, illuminated hands of God, boy dont seem shy
One day at a time, sun gon shine
When they say its a war outside, bomb in the street
Gun in the hood, mob of police
Rock on the corner with a line full of fiend
And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme
Ah man
Uh, dreams of realitys peace
Blow steam in the face of the beast
Sky could fall down, the wind could cry now
The strong in me, I still smile
Huh, when you lookin at me, uh, tell me what do you see?
Ahh, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police
Uh, illuminated by the hand of God, boy dont be shy
One day at a time, sun gon shine, everybody, hit me!
Oh man, hey check this out, this a real Compton thing goin on right now, ya feel what Im talkin bout? Ya dig that? Sometimes I just get a little bit beside myself, you know what Im talkin bout? This heres the return of Enoch, and we gonna do it to you like this, here we go: one, two, three, hit me!
And I love myself
I love myself
I love myself
I love myself
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, dont nobody call a medic
Ima do it till I get it right
War last night
Ive been dealing with depression, duckin every other blessin
I could never see the message, I could--
I could never take the lead, never bob and weave
Negative letting them annihilate me
Evident Im moving at a meteor speed
Finna run into a building, lay my--
Money in the ceiling lay my body in the street
Glory to the feeling of the holy unseen
Glory to the feeling of the holy unseen
Seen enough, make everybody scream, I love myself!
I lost my head
I mustve misread what the good book said
Oh woes keep me, its a jungle inside
Give myself again til the well runs dry
Ah man, ay, ay homie, I told you its a straight up Compton thing, ya dig what Im talkin bout? And this here is dedicated to the homies. Yall feel what Im saying? And sometimes I just get beside myself. The return of the Enoch is back, you hear what Im talkin bout?
Uh, Ive been lookin for you my whole life, appetite
For this feeling I can barely describe, where you reside?
In a woman, is it in money, or mankind?
Somethings got me losing my mind
Where you at? From the front to the back
Im lookin for you, I react only when you react
I thought I found you back in the ghetto
When I was 17 with the .38 Special
Maybe youre in a dollar bill, maybe youre not real
Maybe only the wealthy get to know how you feel
Maybe Im paranoid, ha, maybe I dont need you anyway
Dont lie to me, Im suicidal any day
I could be your advocate
I could speak for you if you tell me what the matter is
I could preach for you with the mighty tongue
Im the one, how can I, overcome
Negative energy while I give infinitely and survive?! |
The- the- the reason that Im breathin
Seeping heat, it gets me cheese, why Im eaten in Bad Season
Was deep in beef and was needing some beats to release in evenings
Instead of me being up and bleeding with thieves and heathens with keys and obstacles
Made it possible for the flow go to be profitable
Yo Techs audible, his inaugural prada popped and was plausible
God is so good for giving me music!
Liftin, gettin me through when I was fixing to lose it
Dudes hit Big Scoobs shit and reppin the blue tip
Fools skipped when Scoob scritch, we jumped in the 2 whip
Full clips for who stick the homie for true grit
My crew, thanks to music, we all living through it
Got me out of the ghetto, got me mucho dinero
In Cozumel, Mexico shorts and Jordans and a sombrero
This gift aint given from a devil, so settle
Come and get this rebel music thats hot as a kettle, pendejo
Saved my life, paid my lights, made my wife, say Bye Bye
Gave my night babes, I like preyed my mic
Would never fade, forever slayed, days I write
My cheddar raised up better, faze way high hyped
My musics one reason I always get to lay my pipe
The reason Tech N9na can comfortably say Night, night
Blessed me with original flow, so hey! Why bite?
I hear, I feel, I live, listen and learn
I like...
Yeah, I love
For real
And I need
To feel
Go and play it
Yeah, know what Im saying?
My love
Know what Im saying?
Automatic when I do this manually
Daily, monthly, annually
I get a step closer to being the coolest
Acoustic got me foolin and about to lose it, ooh, sh-
Jump in the grind, and my hom Mean Mike produced it
Thats music pahtna
Im just a poet with incredible rhythm
Words arranged will let you know he has incredible in him
I dont mean to toot my own horn, but toot toot, ha ha
I laugh because its easier than do ray mi fa sol la
Ti do, we know he go say what on that C Note
And he can pay a C Note with that B Note
Im talkin truth
And I got stories that I show you that its walkin proof
A thousand miles of it and I can show you what Im walkin through
Music aint a hobby, its an organ of my body that the creator provided back in January of 92
So dont you dare say good music skipped my generation
Your hatin aint nothin but motivation for these compilations
Oob!
Yeah, it feeds me
I need
To feel
You know what Im sayin
Its my thing
Go and sing
And I love
Yeah, go ahead
Music is my life
The reason why I write
Like Edgar Allan Poe on the beat, like a parasite
You thought a parachute made my flow just fall out the sky
Then you fell apart into a body part no one would buy
Nobody tried my limits cause theyre afraid of heights
The ambition, weak or gravity, let em die
I let you live until a nigga compose a rhyme
Then its like a rhino in your ass every time
Time and time again I treat my pen like The Pen
Bars harder than Pelican Bay and I been
Servin a life sentence since the day I was ten
Nine times outta ten you only ten songs deep before you leap
Into a pool of sharks then swim
Thats an analogy on the way I do casualties
And I do this shit casually, before the verse end
Ill be in the Hall of Fame with my picture framed, friend
And if it wasnt for my music I wouldnt be standing here!
If it wasnt for my music you wouldnt have nothing to hear, yeah
And I love...
I need it to live
Yeah, and I love it
Imma be quiet
Ssh
And I love it
Show enough love
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Wake up!!! |
I swear you people dont know Kendrick, you dont know him
But you say you want some more Kendrick, Im bout to show em
Everything inside this human being, Im still growing
Im a premature baby in this crazy life that we adore
Doors on the Lamborghini, I want em
Cant afford em so I tell the swap meet to clone em
I guess I really am a vanity slave
I guess my ancestors turning in they graves
Burning money when I get it, fuck a life savings
Overdraft bank statements, just to make a statement
When I put this fashion on, Im a fashion junkie
Picking cotton in the country, I bought this out the country
Whips and chains, whips and chains, Jacob know my name
He call me Kunta, you my brother, we come from the same modern world
Thats ya girl? I see she rocking Fendi
Try this on
If it aint upscale then you may offend me
Copping everything in sight, ignoring they sacrifice
Amnesia if I see the black visa in my hand tonight
I show my dick and then I swipe, thats a punchline
They was hot and I wore ice, thats ironic huh?
Word around town that Im all about the bitches
Word around town that I love my 26s
Word around town that I gotta stay paid
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
Its the Gucci cock and shoot
Found my swag but lost my roof,
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
See my Audemar tick, as my Audemar tock
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
Aw man videos got me wanting hoes
Appetite for flashing lights, all I can do is pose
A black male... on Melrose. I should get blackmailed
By my people hell rose, Niggas that aint had shit
For 400 years overcompensate by over accessorizing with gear
Man yall dont see my vision
I do it for the love of hip hop and the love of bitches
Am I a hypocrite cause everyday Im contradicting
I think of how Im living, then I watch How Im Living I know this cant be right
My conscience tell me to stay righteous
Its unlikely to see what I like and say I dont like it
Biggest dilemma my priorities ignoring me, I wanna move accordingly
But baby steps are premature remember?
Im flying to the south and Ill be gone til November
To see my family tree but this a shame Im yelling, out, timber
Word around town that Im all about the bitches
Word around town that I love my 26s
Word around town that I gotta stay paid
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
Its the Gucci cock and shoot
Found my swag but lost my roof,
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
See my Audemar tick, as my Audemar tock
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
Cold, oh so cold
How ironic he bought it then sold his soul
Is it masonic for your vice to take its toll?
The remote control is taking control
Lift up the doors
That Lamborghini I wanted come with a dumb ass model that in vogue
I like em both, Ill wife em both
Take these motherfucking Jordans off, put on my loafs
Cause nothing goes bad, everytime I wear
Im getting more ass, everytime I wear
They told me its a fad, everytime I wear
But should I give a fuck when it bring me more coochie?
This a young niggas pedigree, I pray the lord can better me
If not he bout to strike me down like this my third felony
The voices keep on telling me, Kendrick dont forget about us
I burned my wardrobe, hoping that I could live without it
Word around town that Im all about the bitches
Word around town that I love my 26s
Word around town that I gotta stay paid
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
Its the Gucci cock and shoot
Found my swag but lost my roof,
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave
See my Audemar tick, as my Audemar tock
Lord please forgive me Im a vanity slave |
24/7, 365, Kendrick Lamar is always right on time
Oh, you thought you had me all figured out?
Take it from the horses mouth, youll never understand me
I told you the plan B was to win your hearts before we win a Grammy
These days aint shit changed, different toilet - same shit
And I drunk a whole gallon of laxatives by accident just to shit on you has beens
Had it been for my past tense I wouldnt be rappin
But now Im here, GQ, man of the year |
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah, you come around, yeah
You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine
Worried bout those comments
Im way too numb, yeah, its way too dumb, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, I need the Heimlich
Throw that to the side, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah
When youre not around
When you throw that to the side, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah
7-1-3
Through the 2-8-1, yeah, Im ridin, why they on me?
Why they on me? Im flyin, sippin low-key
Im sippin low-key in Onyx, rider, rider
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah, you come around, yeah
You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine
Worried bout those comments
Im way too numb, yeah, its way too dumb, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, I need the Heimlich
Throw that to the side, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah
When youre not around
When you throw that to the side, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah
When Im pullin up right beside ya
Pop star, lil Mariah
When I text a cute game, wildness
Throw a stack on the Bible
Never Snapchat or took molly
She fall through plenty, her and all her ginnies, yeah
We at the top floor, right there off Doheny, yeah
Oh no, I cant fuck with yall
Yeah, when Im with my squad I cannot do no wrong
Yeah, saucin in the city, dont get misinformed
Yeah, they gon pull up on you
Yeah, we gon do some things, some things you cant relate
Yeah, cause we from a place, a place you cannot stay
Oh, you cant go, oh, I dont know
Oh, back the fuck up off me
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah, you come around, yeah
You ease my mind, you make everything feel fine
Worried bout those comments
Im way too numb, yeah, its way too dumb, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, I need the Heimlich
Throw that to the side, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time, yeah
When youre not around
When you throw that to the side, yeah
I get those goosebumps every time |
Soulo back up in this ho, man I hope the magnum fit
Soulo back up in this ho, man that pussy magnifique
Know I row the showboat, all aboard the penmanship
All I do is give you gifts, everydays December 25th
Everywhere you turn Im there ya bitch, tell your homie, tell your bitch
Bad to the bone, only thing stay when you go, is your skeleton
Why your grin so devilish, you gon go to hell for this
To hell with them to tell the truth I hope allah piss in hell on them
Ahah was a problem before momma gave me baba
Mind stay larger than an island, never been to the Bahamas
I was just a toddler in ninja turtle pajamas
I ain’t know the world was fucked up like vaginas
Now I dont give a fuck, now Imma live it up, now Imma pick it up
Now they wanna pay, now she wanna fuck, now he wanna hate
Heaven dont seem far from here, staring thru these Cartiers
After all these mothafuckin years nigga yea nigga
Man we breaking all the rules, Take that bullshit elsewhere
Welcome to America, die or pay for healthcare
Im tryna tell ya, we living in hell here
And if you agree with me, Let me get a hell yeah!
Hell yeah! Hell yeah!
Hell yeah! Let me get a hell yeah
Im tryna tell ya, we living in hell here
And if you agree with me, Let me get a hell yeah
Schoolboy back up in this ho, pussy, hoes and ash trays
Schoolboy back up in your ho, bitch might want my last name
Yeah, yeah, nigga blow this fire
High above hell, what the hell, nigga might bring hell
Roll with it uh, fuck with a nigga, ride with a nigga, learn with a nigga
Highway to hell, fuck with a nigga, ride with a nigga, burn with a nigga
Lil nigga with a gun and he gang bang, lil girl turn lost she a gang bang
No love so its fuck the world, got free and she fucked the world, damn
Goddamn girl, make a nigga wanna hurl
Throwing up signs, I done lost my mind, you know them caution signs
May have bought my grind, these drugs of mine, gamble with ya life
And Ill roll the nine, flatline, flatline, go to hell mothafucka, every shot divine
No back bone, weary spine, gotta keep ya head straight fore ya fall off
Me and Soul locomotives that hauled off, get up out the way or get your fame
Randy Moss, heaven in this fucking beer, swagging in these Cartiers
Especially after all these fucking years nigga yea nigga
Mothafuck the government, mothafuck the system
Mothafuck you, Im just living how I am living
Hiiipower, thats a nigga religion
til Jesus come back and he tell me something different
Solo back up in this ho, man I hope the magnum fit
Solo back up in this ho, I hope she dont tell my bitch
God damn Im so ignorant at the same time so brilliant
Cuttin up, cesarean, but keep it on the low, librarian
Still mobbin deep like Havoc and Prodigy
Tryna document an odyssey for every odd to see
Hell yea I know they trynna rewrite the constitution
Im still rollin blunts drunk as fuck stuck on stupid
Hell yeah Im bout that, you cant tell my nig?
Long term I got a legacy to leave my kids
How Im posed to live man, the reaper keep breathing down
The back of my neck and my landlord need a check, fuck
Hell yeah, Imma survive out here
Even if it mean flipping pies out here, yeah
Hell yeah Im on the top of my shit
Hell yeah her tonsils topple on the top of my dick, yeah
Hell yeah we been patrolin the game, watching the throne
Plotting on Jay and Kanye, Marshall and Andre
Lil Wayne, Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Wale
That bitch Nicki, J. Cole, Rozay
Soul!! Hell yeah
Hell yeah
H-H-H-Hell yeah |
Rollin’ in a broken Mitsubishi with no AC
And a couple stolen TV’s and a seatbelt for my safety
Play the passenger, I think it’s five years after eighty-
Seven, do that math, 92, don’t you be lazy
I’m looking out the window, notice all the essentials
Of a block party that stopped for a second
Then it rekindled like the flame from a trick candle
Everybody got dental insurance, ‘cause we bout to floss
You get the couch I sent you?
I heard that from a block away, probably had credentials
Of a scholar, but should not today
Them Dayton spokes was his to take
Refrigerators, barbecue pits, and Jordan kicks
They did invasions while helicopters recorded it
Hello, my Mr. Myiagi, I want them Kenwood Woofers
Say that you got me
If not, I’ll dig in your drawer for it
The swap meet was the bullseye like a Taurus is
Murder was the melody, you should know what the chorus is
You really telling me we can just get some more of it if we run out?
He said “Lil nigga, today the poor is rich”
Dont tell your mom that you seen a molotov bomb
And if she asks, just know that you have to lie
And son, don’t forget:
You from Compton
Brace yourself, I take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I’m slinging brick and moving cane
Cul de sac and plenty Cognac in major pain
Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that’s weighing on your brain
It was me, O-Boog and Yaya
Lucky, ride down Rosecrans
Ugly, waving yo hand out the window, brace yourself, uh
Warriors and Conans
Euphoria can slow dance
Society, the driver seat, the first one to get killed
Light skinned nigga with his brains blown out
At the same burger stand where hang out
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it
But ever since that day, I was looking at him different
That was back when I was nine
Joey packed a nine
Pakistan on every porch, it’s fine
We adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time
Sliding door, fuck is up?
Fucking shooting forth, if you aint walking up, you fucking punk
Picking up the fucking pump
Picking off you suckers, suck a dick
Die a sucker punch, a ball of bullets coming from
AK’s, AR’s, Aye y’all; duck
That’s what Mama said when we was eatin’ that free lunch
Aw man, god damn, all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in ‘94, fuck yo truce
Now crawl yo head in that noose
You wind up dead on the news
And no peace treaties just peace and BG’s appearing to prove
Bodies on top of bodies, IV’s on top of IV’s
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys
When you hop on that trolly, your color’s correct
Make sure each corporate knows they’ll be calling your mother collect
Now, what you expect?
My life is a threat
Good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Life or death, is you with me?
Tim Westwood, whats up |
Where are you going now?
Why are you slowing down?
Why, why, why?
Where are we going?
Why are we slowing down?
Where are you going?
We should be growing now!
Try and visualize how to get it right
But my visions so blurry
Tryna slow it down
Take us to the ground
But were always in a hurry now!
And if I could make this world spin a little slower
Then I would, and we could grow a little closer
I think we’re getting closer
Where are we going?
Why are we slowing?
We think we’re getting closer
Where are you going?
We should be growing now
Where are we going?
Why are we slowing?
We think we’re getting closer
Where are you going?
We should be growing now
So in conclusion
Sometimes we lose focus
Planning our whole demise
We’re getting the big picture and making it the wallet size
So to whats important in my life, I apologize
I hope to stay faithful, focused and sanctified
We all get distracted
The question is would you bounce back, or bounce back wards?
You wouldn’t know how to act or would you take action?
Thats just a part of life and if your visions impaired
Youll probably lose it all tonight
What’s going on Marvin, dearly departed?
Young Marta, Bar or Parker
Upon them all upon mighty days
But sweet alcoholic nights are feeling faraway
Son can only Skype with his pop, stop
He’s only feeling love from his mom
Got rocks in my stomach
I can feel my soul bleed, self-love
But I never want my son to be me, holla at me
So I pray until I feel it’s not working
I’m a showman on the surface
Either way, it’s perfect
You ever feel like the purpose aint worth it?
Well I do, I’m the poster child for young fathers working
I swear to god I wanna be free
And he just wanna be me
And I just wanna be him
I’m jealous and discreetly
I’m one of your own
I’m trying to raise a child
Still trying to raise me right now
Where am I gone?
Try and visualize how to get it right
But my visions are blurry
Trying to slow it down
Stay close to the ground
But we were always in a hurry now
And if I could make this world spin a little slower
Then I would, and we could grow a little closer
Where are we going?
Why?
Why are you going?
Why are we growing apart?
We should be growing together?
Right? |
Goddamn, look who just stepped in
The cat done drug up a wolf from the den, hey
Not long ago I was wiping his ass
Now hes a rich rapper wiping his ass with cash
It didnt take much for me to realize I was on my own
Moving through woods like Donkey Kong
I invented that classic rock soul
My momma was too inhibited with brothers and black crows
We got the dirty shit locked in the boon docks
Grain fed cattle means we gon shroom pop
Im in touch with my inner star, you watch
Ill stand up in Hollywood and spit moon rocks
Bitches wanna know the real Yelawolf, really?
All the whore will get to see is Catfish Billy
The world around my childhood was a crooked wall
I had to reach high to see above the weed fog
Pop a head on the crawfish and soak it dry
I pop your head if you talk shit, I bust your eye
You know Im southern, I got a grill and a dirty frown
Yall coming with me, Im the future in town
Its going down, Shady
What up? Lemme catch the beat
What up? Swag, swag, Based God I hear you
What up? Swag, swag, yeah, G shit
Westside, huh, look
Im beyond the most slept on, stepped on
Stepsons, father of rap songs, writing my wrongs
Writing in the book of psalms
This is the word, word to the holy Quran
Or whatever thats foreign to ya
I find it funny that you are embracing a storm, wait
Ring the alarm or wake up with a bomb through ya
Its Baghdad kids with bad dads, cops with bad badges
Big bullets, no My bads once them guns shoot ya
I said, Yo, I might go hard as the Mike Jordan
Lace up my Jordans and yellin out ISO
Ike Turner your idol, whip em and bruise em
Stick poison inside his pie-hole, sad that you knew him
We influence the heart of thousands, 999,000, but whos counting
Thirsty for success and we drink from the youth fountain
Big headed, tryna stay grounded like a delinquent in middle school clownin
Drownin MCs, they want life jackets
While we swim backwards we yellin Nigga, please!
Pay your respect or recognize the alphabet
You cant survive in a room full of gs
Coached by my uncle, Lil Mane, I resemble him
They tryna tilt the game and we killing all Thebes
Make em all blood, make em all bleed
Motherfucker die, put a ribbon in the sky
Till Stevie Wonder sing, king of all kings
Jokers and new jacks can get dealt with
Royal flush when I drop shit and say these things
Mad leaning on em cause half of these niggas Maybelline
All made up, bout to go dummy
On a dummy, what, what, treat him like a welterweight
And stuff him in some trunks, you fucking with a giant
Im Forest Whitaker sparring with some Forrest Gumps
What you want?
Look how good I look, man, its Lil B
Yeah, ayy, check this, uh
My nigga told me if I ever stop rapping
The game lost Jordan, trade him to the Magic
Exhibit Based not Exhibit C
Niggas couldnt see, let me part the sea
Part a part of me, nothing pardons me
You niggas arguably is worse than me
Get your whole squad, let me go hearse your team
Pop bullets in his back, make him work his knees
This is sick Im on top now
I remember in the hood I was locked down Oakland, Yosemite
Having YA dreams appearing right ahead of me
Now Im getting glad that you niggas aint ahead of me
And youll never be forgetting me
Hard drive, man, its all about the memory
Strapped with a vest screaming Motherfuck my enemies
Uh, have em moving like a centipede
Im the weed-man so you know I got the remedy
Plus Im a user, dope-fiend music
Plus Im a robber and I dare you suckas push me
Got the same pistol that they shooting—
Im too nice
Im the rawest rapper, Im done, Im done
Yeah
Nah, I aint done no faking but here come the H-game
We were the shit before the cake came
I hate lames, they get mad because we make change
And I aint even had to bake caine
But I keep the weight gain on the freight train
Fuck dope, Im on the kush and the haze game
In the streets I got a great name
Im a pimp cause I break dames
Play with my pay, I see my great danes
Pause, let the bass bang, huh
Trapping was cool till the J came
Then they found a couple tools and the ye, damn
Then niggas change colors like a fake chain
Prince of the South, hoe, you wont catch me without Dro
Im like T.I., pimpings in my genes, and aint talking bout Levis
I keep the kush and like the couch fold
And the toy like G.I. Joe
Bet a G I. blow
You pussy niggas wanna fight? I be outdoors
The devil stay right, Ali eat, yall close
Cause Im swinging the three plus three-five Os
We got chickens nigga E-I-O
What you seeing off a pound nigga, we see off Os
Catch me in the Lac with three broad, though
And I aint fucking with you niggas cause I see yall hoes
CyHi, lets get it
Good mills, ayy, ha-ha
XXL, baby, Freshmen, |
This, this, this
Should be played at high volume
Preferably in a residential
Life’s a bitch, life’s a bitch
But I’mma keep the pussy wet
I’mma keep the pussy wet
I’mma keep the pussy wet
I’mma keep the pussy wet
My dick hard, her pussy wet
And I’m born with my dick in the earth
You can tell me how much am I worth
I’mma die with my heart on my sleeve
Many die on their hands and their knees
And I’m takin’ whatever I need
And I’m raping the government fees
And you’re wasting your time
And I’m speaking my mind on whatever I think
And I think that I’m Richard Pryor
With priors of 32 fiends
And that means that I hear for higher
Tell me why are you starin’ at me?
Matta fact, man, your eyes is wired
You inspired by Kendrick the king
Maybe it’s ’cause I’m living my dream
Man, I sing what I’m living about
And the words that come out of my mouth
They requires a random routine
Of being organic granite
Then my access is granted
To represent the shit that I conceive
And I guarantee that I’mma bring
My mind, body, soul
And I sold all these records off bein’ myself
And I wish you can do the same thing, man
It’s easier than a stripper
Or tyin’ a baby shoestring, you stringing along
And really why you writing a song?
Your passion for music is never in sync
No secret societies guided me to the world of unseen
And they tell me life is a bitch, who gives a shit?
Youll get relief
I’mma keep the pussy wet
I’mma keep the pussy wet
My dick hard, her pussy wet
Imma keep the pussy wet
I came
I went
I came
I went
I came
I went
And I see that you envy of me
Enemigos don’t prosper
Better yet, they do die eventually
If I’m at the event you will leave
‘Cause you know and I know that
I go ham even if Muslims is seen
In my rearview I’m near you
But I don’t hear you, can you at least breathe?
With an oxygen mask, and
The masses keep saying I’m speaking for them
And if you can imagine my madness
Then you can see where I’ve been
And the places the Louis has been
And I swear I been doing this when
You was in pajamas, watching B-Barney and Friends
And you couldn’t harm me even with ten
Weapons of your choice riding in
Army tanks, you shot blanks
And I shot back, make your duplex bend
What the fuck you think? If I don’t think
Then I’m right back where the city sin
What the fuck you drink?
Thinking I can’t write these raps in the Lions’ Den
When I hear that you lyin’, then?
It’s murder she wrote, ain’t no hope
You go downhill, man, where’s your slope?
Get thrown downhill tied to a rope
Tell the world to put intervals
Man, I swear this the anecdote
And they tell me that life is a bitch
Who gives a shit when you know?
And I see that you envy of me
Don’t prosper, better yet, they do die eventually
Cause you know and I know that I go ham even if Muslims is seen
In my rearview I’m near you
But I dont hear you, can you at least breathe? |
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
He aint listenin
So you can talk to me, dont listen to him
A body like that aint hard to feed
Cause girl Ill eat you up
All in a couple of seconds
Girl Ill eat you up
Its when you realize youre in Heaven
Like howd you get there?
Baby what you doin in this chair?
Couldnt let you sit there
You need help, somebody should get there
You see girl, time is like money
Both of which men love
Spend them both with me
=And then for sure youll know
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
Uh
Shes impressed by a fat boy
Cadillac, weed, pistol on his lap, boy
Home run hitter, thought I was a batboy
Search warrant for the crib, you better get a map for it
Paid for, meanin I aint gotta rap for it
She a alley oop, I tap it off the backboard
Hustlin, baby what you lookin for? Just ask for it
Blue Ferrari, Im the envy of the task force
Impeccable suits, as I run with my dogs
Pinkie rings and things that come with my wonderful job
Dogg pound niggas, and we came to fight
I was several million up before it came to light
Now they callin me the truest one to ever do it
Status symbol for the pimps, now enjoy the music
Smoked out like a player and you know the name
Break a bitch quick, really, biggest in the game
Maybach Music
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
I got... Rottweiler in tube sock
Pitbull... lock on your neck, kiss it and youll die
Boxer... you take mines off then hallelujah
Shando, count my blessings, spin around two times
Freaky... freak like its the 80s
Fuckin explicit, radio prolly say we
Should tone it... down with the clean version
Dirty... but in public youre like teen virgin
I like it... make me realize my vices
Enticin, flower bombin all on your privates
Private... meetin inside your bedroom
Head in that Maybach boomin, thank God for leg room
Its a trophy in that pussy, Imma cum in first place
Imma cum in first place, cum in, cum in first place
Im your D-O-double-G and I need more Pedigree
What it D-O? Puppy chow, Ive been grown and so off the leash, ho
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running
Baby, I come running
Baby, I come running
Just keep me coming
And I come running
Cause Im your dog
Baby Im your dog
So whenever you call
I come running |
Motherfucker this is Watts, California
Gangbang murder state
Shit, just the same old same old
Same fiends in the hood, chasing the best dope
Project hustling, chasing them pesos
Its a struggle everyday, man, you know how this shit goes
But my demeanorll never switch, cherry red beamer
Gangbanged the fuck out, red rag around the nina
No doubt, Im living it
Been claiming the set since the year found Snoop innocent
Slanging hard rock when the rap game was ran by Timberlands
The cortez is back, wheres my strap?
Lemme put a hole in em, and whats concealed in the black denim
Will rock em to sleep like I babysit em
I seen it all - loyalty, betrayal, envy
My close homie died in my arms
12 hundred project units under the sun
Aint about where you at, its about where youre from
Welcome to Watts, California
Where we aint scared to run up on ya
You aint prepared when it go down
You already dead right about now
Welcome to Watts, California
Where we aint scared to run up on ya
If youre prepared when it go down
Then you know its Jay Rock turn now
The homie told me, Put your feelings aside
But since I got signed I been feeling the Vibes
Niggas play the background and screw they face all day
Wanna walk in my shoes, wanna take my place
So at any given time they might take my life
So I take the .38 when I ride at night
Broad day, no exempt, niggas kill you when the sun is out
Make sure your gun is out or stay inside your mama house
Its that real, you dont feel me yet?
Fine, niggas, drop the beat and just let me vent
No mask on, fuck around and kill your whole squad
Be the last person you see before you meet God
Keep the rifle on top of the tripod
Aim art, if you live your body might need parts
Jay Rock, putting it down for Top Dawg
From the bottom to the top, we shooting straight to the stars
Welcome to Watts, California
Where we aint scared to run up on ya
You aint prepared when it go down
You already dead right about now
Welcome to Watts, California
Where we aint scared to run up on ya
If youre prepared when it go down
Then you know its Jay Rock turn now |
A nigga so goddamn stressed out
I feel like fuck everything right now
See Ive been broke too long, cant find a job to save my life
But Ill be damned if I give em my handout
See my pride is one thing I will not put aside
Im too proud to beg, Im sorry Left Eye
If I dont make it in life, motherfucker I tried
What? Uh
You ever feel like nobody never understands you but you?
Not your momma, your poppa, only person is you
Not your brother, your sister, the only person is you
You ever feel like nobody never understands you but you?
Nobody, nobody but you
So it feels like, like its only you
So Im feeling like I want to, I want to
I want to, I want to go so far from here
Very, very far from here
I need to, I need to
I need to, I need to go so far from here
Very, very far from here
It seems like, you cant win for losing
Whatever youre doing turns out to be what-are-you-doing?
Sick of pursuing, that your time will soon come
Nobody knows the position that you in
But its a million people out there thats going through the same thing
That feeling, hard to explain
When you just, just want to get away
Something like
You ever feel like nobody never understands you but you?
Not your momma, your poppa, only person is you
Not your brother, your sister, the only person is you
You ever feel like nobody never understands you but you?
Nobody, nobody but you
So it feels like, like its only you
So Im feeling like I want to, I want to
I want to, I want to go so far from here
Very, very far from here
I need to, I need to
I need to, I need to go so far from here
Very, very far from here
Away from it all
Take me out of Hell where only Heaven can visit
The smartest astronomers, they wont even see my vision
Im stuck on the studio couch now, thinking bout my daughter
Times is getting harder, another beat is slaughtered
Just press record or, seems like I need a mill to keep my shit in order
Instead of problem solving
From my hat to my shoes, spirit laced with pride
Set some shit aside to help me wipe my teary eyes
Reaching for the skies, pissing on a cloud
Shitting on a birds head, higher than a dread
As I fly through the galaxy, pain and the agony
Nothingness surrounding me, living my life
Though its better to write
Configuring my style to the streets, bring dark to the light
So how you feel? My nigga, I keep it real
A Schoolboy soon to be star, Mr. Lamar
So Im feeling like I want to, I want to
I want to, I want to go so far from here
Very, very far from here
I need to, I need to
I need to, I need to go so far from here
Very, very far from here |
Watch how I kill them with the funky rhythm
Embalming fluid fill em
Piranhas in em
Peep my persona as I
Get deep as Nostradamus
You stalling? Like the 89 I-I-Isiah Thomas
Im ballin, cut up your pajamas if you sleepin on me
I promise no peekin homie you tryin to confiscate the flow, I know
So, I switch it quicker than my bitches in mini skirts that want your attention
One thing for sure, they gon get it
Im cursed with the worlds negatives
Probably thinkin Im hurt but thats the only way I can live
More money, cash, drugs, got me feeling like Ace walking inside the club
Paid in Full, MOB license plates
38s slug hugging my waist like it had arms
Then I bear it so I guess it really does
No paper work on this marriage, but Im in love with life corruptions rather than life
Oh, you aint know? I need that
More money, more drugs I need that
More murder, more guns I need that, wondering how I live with the worlds negatives
This the last days my nigga
We livin in the life where crime pays my nigga
So all I can say is get paid my nigga
Money ,murder, or dope which one you love most?
Mamacita had a bangin body
Drove a black beamer, present from her baby daddy probably
He knew the nigga from high school
10th grade? they was cool, fell out over a dice game
She knew that but still wanted him to penetrate through that
Shorty wait, me and your man go way back
She said so what? He dont need to know what go on between us besides, I just wanna fuck
She blew his mind
Know what? we can exchange digits
Lets hook up later pay one of them hotels a visit
She seemed more than interested, more like desperate to be intimate
Either she this polite or his lucky night
Got the champagne sittin on ice
Room 112 fuckin all night then interrupted by her baby daddy and some niggas that he fuck with
Got him for everything, pussys a negative
Adam & Eve, he shouldve known
Oh you aint know? you need that
More pussy, more hoes you need that
Even if its dirty pussy you need that
Wondering how he lives with the worlds negatives
This the last days my nigga
We livin in the life where crime pays my nigga
So all I can say is get paid my nigga
Money ,murder, or dope which one you love most?
We livin in hell waiting on heaven but you dont know so
Might as well try to accept it, go with the flow oh
This life will never change
So Im gonna do my thing
Seems like we never see home, you know?
So we screaming
This life will never change
So Im gonna do my thing
Goes out to everybody that know about bad habits
And willing to accept them as a fatal attraction, what a reaction
Rolling with the punches that life gives us and end up like Ke$has
Liver cirrhosis, matches givin us cancer
Bitches givin us gono-rrhea
I promise to practice safe sex, momma, dont cry
They say the good die young but a crackhead live a long time
So I crack open a beer keg, take that bitch to the head
Sippin it slow hopin it prolongs my soul
And thats crazy yo
When heat is on, I put on a coat
Then take it off when its about to get cold
Ive adapted to my environment, murder environment
20 years worth of it so I gotta love it, you cant blame me
Negative energy, public pulled by evil string
As I open a bible I start to sing
Liquors invaded my kidneys
Got me ready to lick off momma forgive me
I cant be held accountable that negatives be gettin me down
Got me rolling with guys, making gs
Got me tellin lies that sound true come test me
This the last days my nigga
We livin in the life where crime pays my nigga
So all I can say is get paid my nigga
Money ,murder, or dope which one you love most?
We livin in hell waiting on heaven but you dont know so
Might as well try to accept it, go with the flow oh
This life will never change
So Im gonna do my thing
Seems like we never see home, you know?
So we screaming
This life will never change
So Im gonna do my thing |
Life make a nigga wanna yell out
Change for that fame, how some niggas turn sell out
Too old for my mama crib, Im tryin to get the hell out
Stayin out these cells but we working on that bailout
Help out, please. Sure is hard livin without cheese
Aint shit in my pocket only these house keys
They pray for a nigga but yet they doubt me
Thats why Im out getting higher than balconies
But no I wont jump, being broke is childish and boy Im grown up
My money runnin late tho so boy I wont front
When my paper finally make you should know Im gonna stunt
So, hard
My God, my life is such turmoil
Cant save me tonight cause times is hard now
I know you tell me dont let my guard down
I gotta get it my nigga
Never believe what they say
Man, I gotta get paid
Dawg its so damn amazing
How Imma shock the World
Imma shock the World
Hell naw I aint lying
Yea, I gotta get mine
Dawg it’s about time
So Imma shock the world
So Imma shock the world
Stare inside of the soul of Kendrick
While I stare inside the solar, system hopin I soak up
Enough game to play 3 systems with one controller and remain sane and remain unsober
Was closer to my dreams but reality actually told me hold up
No money in my jeans and my salary said you owe us
Cant pay them taxes, laid on that matress and feel colder than a polar bear
But this bear was in California
So I felt out a pocket and then a piece of lint fell out my pocket
A broke opportunist all in my optics
And you could see it even when Im Sleep
My screws loose, I hate when loose change fall in them seats
Because I need every dime like Magic Johnson
Or Hugh Hefner living in his prime
Prime example of youngin on his grind
This the life of a Compton nigga
I know the vanities of the world like the promise niggas
Thats why we crooked, in yo bushes where you find us nigga
You better scramble before you fold like an omelet nigga
This aint insomnic nigga and that means I dont need Busters to front on me
A Bible in my pocket Im walkin like its a gun on me
So when I catch a fade they know to put more than one on me
Fear no evil, I can still see Regals pullin up
Niggas tuck like a baby in fetal, position
If you listen you can hear the city needs you
Thats what my mind said
But my big head is tellin me that Im a black Beatle
Until my number is called and someone yell bingo
A shadow in the dark, park the coupe
Then recoup with the homeless in the park, Kendrick Lamar |
Im in the studio
All day all night
Cookin up the flow
Gettin my career right
As I should
Tryna get my mama up out the hood
So dont blame me if I hustle like Im broke
Cause all my life Ive been broke
Im K-Dot if you didnt know
Aiming straight for the top
Hub City beat
87 baby 87 Cudi screamin out Fuck the police
Bubble kush in the trunk, choppers in the front seat
Get your top peeled back, dont chitterchat, dont speak of me
I move low-key, I think like a double OG
Inside of an old school bumpin oldies
So high off life, that bitch I could OD
Die twice, and come back the same nigga
Lame niggas get up out of my lane nigga
Before the big rig come through and run over your brain nigga
Me propane niggas for their dividends
Forgive you innocent, Compton all of my uncles wore Pendletons
West Coast rider, bitch Imma ride her
Til the wheels fall off, buy more tires
Mmm, say hello to the new prince
Im high king behind black tint
Namean?
Im in the studio
All day all night
Cookin up the flow
Gettin my career right
As I should
Tryna get my mama up out the hood
So dont blame me if I hustle like Im broke
Cause all my life Ive been broke
Im K-Dot if you didnt know
Aiming straight for the top
Get the fuck out of my business
Because Ive been handling the fuck out of my business
Grinding got perfect attendance
Flyer than first-class and detention
Uh, been a winner since the beginning
And my records show, not even in the Guinness
What do you mean, am I finished? Im just getting started
But youre on the sideline like Vince Lombardi
Weezy, new born baby? and its my party
And Im kicking like a horse on the stick-shift Ferrarri
Like new cocaine, bright yellow dope?
Bright red flag like a red velvet rope
Open for criticism, there really isnt any room for criticism
When this shit is in Im in deeper than your pool, so I swim in towel-less
Bitch, I be and I been ballin
Im in the studio
All day all night
Cookin up the flow
Gettin my career right
As I should
Tryna get my mama up out the hood
So dont blame me if I hustle like Im broke
Cause all my life Ive been broke
Im K-Dot if you didnt know
Aiming straight for the top
Mmm, fuck em all, kill em all off
Send em off to the holy one
Put a hole in one, like miniature golf
Price on your head, and they trying to purchase
No matter the cost
Hand over the cloth
Cloth over the gun
Gun over your jaw
Bullet over your tongue
Stick my dick inside hip-hop and shortys sprung
Every time I get a chance to come over I overcome
Over the snare drums
They say, Who fucking with you if you the god MC?
I tell em none
Get it? I tell em none
Catholic nor Christian, holding the book of sums
In the back of my True Religions
Never passed the bar but
I aint got to study law
Just to judge lyrics
Mmm, I should be the judge of lyrics
Bang the gavel, give you a life sentence
Im in the studio
All day all night
Cookin up the flow
Gettin my career right
As I should
Tryna get my mama up out the hood
So dont blame me if I hustle like Im broke
Cause all my life Ive been broke
Im K-Dot if you didnt know
Aiming straight for the top |
Soundwave, I feel we, put together
Some of the most beautiful music my nigga
Real talk, feels so good
Lets get this money
I feel like rapping tonight people
Can I rap a little?
Dont be mad..
Cuz Im young and Im black and my hats real low
If you dont like my lyrics you can press fast forward
Look, why I always feel that Im hot?
Why I always feel I should drop another jewel
Like Martin on Blue Streak while you dudes get tattooed
With permanent scars, Im always bullying yall
Im always righteous to think that life is what you make it
Im always thinking of R&B bitches butt-naked
Im always on point, like a snitch on the go
But I never snitch my cars the only thing I towed on
Im always keeping it moving, middle finger up
Like I practice celibacy, I dont give a fuck
Just wait, Im at they heads like a toupee yeah
Its like that, your cranium never survive titanium bars
Harder than my dick when the tip gets licked, quick
Run for cover like winters here then listen here
K. Dot youll never shake me loose
Like a tied knot off the goose, you mad at me too?
Cause Im young and Im black and my hats real low
If you dont like my lyrics you can press fast forward
I cant front, I cant front sometimes I feel like..
Yo, why you always critiquing my shit
Why dont you hop on your own dick like Marilyn Manson
Im dancing with 2 brains, so if I got shot in the head
I wont die Ill just lose more game, propane walking
You could sell my words at an auction for the right price
And be rich your whole life, straight up
I wanna see the world by 35 but for right now Im Compton bound
Hit Rosecrans with a pocket full of dividends
Big truck speed through the light, run over civilians
Pimp cut bitch on my right, hat low like a stripper ass
When she hit the floor, doing my thing, why you complain?
Cause Im young and Im black and I rap like a nigga got a
Angel on his back, wait a minute I means business
You homosexual with it, I give you straight lyrics
Now thats an emcee, thats why you mad at me?
Cause Im young and Im black and my hats real low
If you dont like my lyrics you can press fast forward
Check me out..
What I write is a like a bomb device, press play
And you can die tonight
Shook ones dont exist whenever that K. Dot spit
Off the chain like fast pedaling while riding a bike
I gets my ride on, you ride too
But like Scion, now thats a damn shame
Im hogging up both lanes
Play your part, styles like Kevin Hart
Theyre so plain
Im choking while Im smoking on this strongest hocus pocus
Chocking with Punch
He sarcastic laughing cause I said that I can freestyle better than Kurupt
Now thats a statement that hopefully I can back up
See Kurupt is a legend, thats where I get my shit from
Straight lab rat, spit it once run it back
Like a punt return, they tell me wait my turn
So thats what Imma do, lay in the cut like a 2 shot Dillinger
Killing these niggas in high pursuit waddup |
I got so many theories and suspicions
Im diagnosed with real people conditions
Today is the day I follow my intuition
Keep the family close, get money, and fuck bitches
I double park the Aston in the red
My momma told me that Ima work myself to death
My girl told me dont let these hoes get in your head
My world been ecstatic, I checked the signal that read
Buzzin, radars is buzzin
Yah, yah, yah, yah
Yah, yah, yah, yah, mmm
If I gotta slap a pussy ass, Ima make it look sexy
If I gotta go hard on a bitch, Ima make it look sexy
Like pull up, hop out, air out, made it look sexy
They wont take me out my element
No, take me out my element
Interviews wanna know my thoughts and opinions
Fox News wanna use my name for percentage
My latest muse is my niece, she worth living
See me on the TV and scream: Thats Uncle Kendrick!
But its money to get, bitches to hit
Zeroes to flip, temptation is
First on my list, I cant resist
Everyone together now, know that we forever
Buzzin, radars is buzzin
Yah, yah, yah, yah
Yah, yah, yah, yah, mmm
If I gotta slap a pussy ass, Ima make it look sexy
If I gotta go hard on a bitch, Ima make it look sexy
Like pull up, hop out, air out, made it look sexy
They wont take me out my element
No, take me out my element
Im going to make it look
Ima make it look sexy, mmm
And they wont take me out my element |
Who can I make that them better right now?
Who, oh I know thatll make it better right now?
Who do I know thatll make em better right now?
Who do you know?
I just wanna feel liberated I, I, I
I just wanna feel liberated I, I, I
If I ever instigated I, I
Tell me who will never related, I
Annie, are you okay? Ooh, yeah
Annie, are you okay? Ooh, yeah
Do you like foreplay? Ooh, yeah
Do you go both ways? I really need confirmation
Your love is abomination, fucking you is like a bomb of nations
Area 51 in that pussy, ah
The president bout to cum in that pussy, ah
I got mind control, I got dick control
I reel em in for the fishing pole
I love legs like Robyn Fenty
Stretch them shits like limo Bentleys
Catch them tits with an open mouth
The interview up outta that Oprah house
You know I love it when its pokin out
You know Im thuggin even in the drought, you know him
I fuck around and crash a brand new Bugatti
In the mothafuckin lobby so you know Im in the building
Wont you kiss it, baby? Take a picture
I, I, I, I, Im killin em
Illuminati want my money and my body
Even Donny rollin by me, looking aggravated that I made it
Fuck you and your mama, nigga
I, I, I, I, I see the bitch in them, I got the Benjamin
I got the dividend, Im on my toes like Serena at the Wimbledon
Pie à la mode on a Monday for my woman-friend
Im in the mode of a mortal man
Im living in the orbit of deliverin
Sex in a cathedral, empty, Grand Marnier that I reload, ten Gs
In the hallway, she a Leo, Im a Gemini
Give me mine, genocide, kill em all, thirty times
Who can I make that them better right now?
Who, oh I know thatll make it better right now?
Who do I know thatll make em better right now?
Who do you know?
I just wanna feel liberated I, I, I
I just wanna feel liberated I, I, I
If I ever instigated I, I
Tell me who will never related, I
Why I fucked you this evening
At Southside, live for these things
By the way, how you feelin, forgot
I dont give a fuck about your family and that, oh
Back it up, back it up, oh oh
Back it up, back it up, oh oh
Back it up, back it up, oh oh
Back it up, yeah |
Reporting live, from Compton, California
North Cackalack
Now everybody just bow to the greatness, or die in the matrix
Youre hereby dating, my destinys waiting
My itinerary is very hectic
I break records on every record, Im truly reckless
Kendrick Lamar, no Audemar on my wrist
Its arthritis from holding it down bitch
Me and my down bitch, get busy
Im busy taking over, the world
With the weight of the world on my shoulder
My drive is not to be chauffeured
Im live, come to the harvest, welcome the artist
Whose lyrics out of the orbit, more than the hardest rapper
To hit the market and market myself as a shooting target
With offers that got me up in these offices often
Boo-yaa, who ya? No one, Ive done situated myself, I aint lying
Be sure to be friend cause my foes die five times
The good kid from the mad city
Holding a cereal box instead of a Glock
In a 1992 Cadillac that I got from my pops
Transmission slipping, but I aint tripping, swallow my pride
Pop in my tape and roll the window, down
Like Stacie homie when airing out endo
I wish a nigga would
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
Kendrick, show these muhfuckers how we rock
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
Big Pooh, show these muhfuckers how we rock
Yo, its evident, Im evidently your favorite
All I ask, open your ears and please savor it
The taste is un-acquired, quietly, been inspired
Im at a point in my life when I was getting tired
Now Im brushing off the dust
We dont need no water, fire burned it to the dust
Nigga grind hard, roaches turning into musk
People hear his pain, I consider that a plus
Im a grown man, so a few I have trust to Do the Right Thing
The Spike thing, consider me the in-between
The new regime taking over
Either we each others opposition or you soldier
Used to have the whole state of NC on my shoulder then I passed it
Off to the next, you unlucky bastard
Im getting drunk same time every year
To celebrate the life, Rosie no longer here
I swear
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
Kendrick, show these muhfuckers how we rock
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
Big Pooh, show these muhfuckers how we rock
Me and Big Pooh like the definition of a two-man city zoo
Even Zeus can get beat up from punchlines
When I kick it and pump mine, Ive got to be a prophet
Ive gotta make a profit big enough to have a thirty pound wallet
Im a Hub City representer, so Ive got to represent the
City like a District Attorney beatin the case for killers
Might walk around in gurney, this is my sickest winter
Since I had the flu and flew in the hospital with the shivers
U-P-S, I deliver
Little brown boy get the pick of the litter
No glitter, all guts, no glory
Station on repeat, they retread the same story
New niggas bore me, tryna progress to that old shit
Have a plate, that food for your soul tip
Drill it in your head, youngun its that real Hip-
Hop along fore you get your little ass whipped
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
Kendrick, show these muhfuckers how we rock
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
A yes yes yall, and you dont stop
Big Pooh, show these muhfuckers how we rock |
Starin’ at Marilyn Monroe’s silhouette
While smokin’ my first cigarette
Listenin’ to Marvin ask his father about his death
How you shoot a nigga out, then shoot a nigga out?
Dead bodies in my dreams, Bob Marley on my couch
Pass me the blunt, he was smokin’ when he died
You really think Elvis Presley committed suicide?
I don’t, it’s either kill or you be killed
Ten pints of blood per human, ain’t no refills
One thing about us humans, nigga, we kill
Turkeys, chickens, pigs, each other, fuck us, we will
Take a life, lethal injection or free will
Tookie got murdered by the pigs, fuck did he kill?
That ain’t none of my business, though
But I’m the type of motherfucker make it his business, so
Open the book and turn that page
It reads Arthur Ashe died from AIDS, no
That’s murder, nigga
Murder
Gunfire, death is so quiet, ask why, tell ‘em it’s
Murder
The sun rise then hide by grey skies, that cry sounds like
Murder
Murder, murder, murder, murder
Murder, murder, murder, murder
Malcolm X standing on that stage
It was staged for him to see that gauge
Murder, nigga
Doctor King outside that room
Who knew that he would die that soon?
That’s murder, nigga
JFK sittin’ in that drop
He waved goodbye, then they blew off his top
It’s murder, nigga
Diddy seen Big, and Suge watched Pac
They both was ridin’ passenger when they got shot, it’s murder
Who the fuck killed Michael Jackson, his physician?
He died slow in his music, you ain’t really listen
Now his daughter gettin’ slapped by his sister
And that’s probably gon’ kill they mama
So I’m sorry Ms. Jackson, I’m sorry Ms. Houston, sissy
Might shed a tear but ain’t no sissy
‘Cause Whitney’s sill with me
And her death kinda hurt a nigga
So let’s get back to talkin’ ‘bout murder, nigga
John Lennon got shot in the back
And Paul McCartney couldn’t do shit ‘bout that
‘Cause it was murder, nigga
Listen, this ain’t about you and me
It’s about Trayvon Martin and Huey P
And how they shot down Sam Cooke
Twelve years of school and it ain’t in one damn book
Lee Harvey Oswald ‘bout to serve a sentence
From the crowd comes a revolver
That’s murder, nigga
Gaspin’ for air, niggas cling on
Tryin’ to fight the inevitable, sing on
You hear that fat lady warmin’ up?
The end came without a warning, huh?
Them niggas real with them rags on
Niggas get killed ‘bout them flags, homes
The Game told you what the play was
So it don’t matter what you say, cuz
Say Blood, these niggas livin’ what they die by
You out here playin’ while these niggas doin’ drive-bys
If murder was the case that they gave Snoop
Then how the fuck you thinking they gon’ save you?
Them niggas played you, you doin’ stand up
You a comedian there, boy, put your hands up
Don’t turn this to a 1-8-7
I have you leanin’ on the stairway to Heaven
Spittin’ blood, these are tales from the hood
Suicide sound quicker, but a murder sounds good
Wish a motherfucker would try to play me like a toy
You get a bullet in your motherfuckin’ head, homeboy
The people sayin’ that a drug overdose killed Hendrix
They bullshitted, it was murder
Or a plane crash killed Otis Redding
That’s how they said it, but it was murder
The cops kill us at alarming rates
They point they guns at the ones they hate
If Bin Laden brought the World Trade down
Then how the fuck did he die just now?
Murder, murder
(Nigga, murder, murder, murder |
Alls my life I has to fight, hittas
Alls my life I...
Hard times like, Yeah!
Bad trips like, Yeah!
Nazareth, Im on one
Homie you on one
But if God got us
Then we gon be alright
We gon be alright
We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Huh? We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon be alright
Uh, and when I wake up
I recognize youre lookin at me for the pay cut
But homicide be lookin at you from the face down
What Mac-11 even boom with the bass down
Schemin, and let me tell you bout my life
Painkillers only put me in the twilight
Where pretty uh, uh is the highlight
Now tell my momma I love her but this what I like, Lord knows
20 of em in my Chevy, tell em all to come and get me
Everything I sow, so my karma come
And heaven no preliminary hearing, so my record
Tell the world I know its too late
Boys and girls, I think I gone cray
Drown inside my vices all day
Wont you please believe when I say?
Wouldnt you know
We been hurt, been down before
Hitta, when our pride was low
Lookin at the world like, Where do we go?
Hitta, and we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho
Hitta, Im at the preachers door
My knees gettin weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon be alright
We gon be alright
We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Huh? We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon be alright
What you want, you a house, you a car?
A piano, a guitar?
Anything, see my name is Lucy, Im your dog
Look, you can live at the mall
I can see the evil, I can tell it, I know its illegal
I dont think about it, I deposit every little zero
Thinkin of my partner, put the candy, paint it on the Regal
Diggin in my pocket, aint a profit big enough to feed you
Everyday my logic, get another dollar just to keep you
In the presence of your chico... ah!
I dont talk about it, be about it, everyday I sequel
If I got it then you know you got it, heaven, I can reach you
Pet dog, pet dog, pet dog, my dog, thats all
Pick back and chat, I trap the back for yall
I rap, I black on track so rest assured
I right my wrongs; I write til Im right with God
Wouldnt you know
We been hurt, been down before
Hitta, when our pride was low
Lookin at the world like, Where do we go?
Hitta, and we hate po-po
Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho
Hitta, Im at the preachers door
My knees gettin weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon be alright
We gon be alright
We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Huh? We gon be alright
We gon be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon be alright
Get back
Look I started from the bottom, at the very bottom
Mixin Hen with similac my momma knew I had a problem
I was jibbing for a bottom, putting quarter pieces in the black caprice and make it holla
No releasing me, I got the piece in me, I gotta
Keep the decency and make them TNT my product
Im a C-O-M-P-T-O-innovator, energizer
Inner-city bullet fly til that thing on auto pilot
I dont really care about the care abouts
All I care about is wearing out your upper body
When I catch ya, when I catch ya, walking out your parents house
Fourteen years old sound so raw making plays home boy
Big Ks and my big dogs
Never, ever, went straight home, boy |
Yeah, see, I know I can make a lot of money doing this, man
Its just the whole process that uh...
That Im having trouble with, you know what I mean?
I know you just, pretty much, you know
Get the water boiling, and just, uh, get a jar or something like that
Put it in the jar and just watch it you know bubble up and all that
Shame on him!
Lemme put my gloves on
And my scrubs on
Im the chemist thats whippin it in the kitchen
This here is not for the children
You need parental advision
If you wanna learn how to cook in the dope business
First you bargain shop
Look for the priciest chickens
I recommend that you pay Jorge a visit
Got it wrapped in saran
17.5 no, drop four grand, this is LA man!
Unless it be a drought
But homie if it aint, then it is somewhere else
Flip your hustle down south
Thats a whole other story though
Back to the lesson, hope youre takin down your footnotes, class is in session
Get your instruments
Grab some baking soda, a triple beam, a beaker
And a hanger you can stir it with
Split nine Os four ways in that 36
Place it on the triple beam
As hard as it may seem, its not that tricky
Say youll get it baby, just bear with me
Confidence before compliments
Now lets get busy
This is the procedure
250 grams of coke, 150 grams of soda
Place it in the beaker
Your water should be boiling by then
Grab a small cup and pour it in
Twist the hanger until its paper thin
Place the hanger in the beaker then give your wrist a circular spin
But hold on it gets tricky again!
As your hand rotate
Youre probably thinkin its safe
Until it starts to harden, slowing down the pace
The muscle inside your arm is makin your joints ache
Youre strugglin on the job, but dont lose faith
Wait...you got it back soft
Now pour some hot water inside the beaker jar
The work should rise to the top
Then pour some cold water on that
Thats when the dope should drop
Snatch the cookie out the jar, grab a razor from the cabinet
Place it on the cardboard, then chop
As soon as the razor hit the work, youre happy
Youre excited that the chemistry worked
This the fiends appetite
This bigger than life
You turned to Mr. Nino Brown in one night
You should thank me twice
Though you learned from a chemist who never moved a brick in his life
How ironic...hmm
Like most of you rappers
Aw I dont believe that man
Youre too professional with it man
Theres no way youve never done it before, you know what I mean?
That was too descriptive |
Bitch, Im in the club
With the homies, tell me whats good
Im tryna get these hoes single
And this is my single
Okay, what these niggas hollin bout?
Catastrophic K-Dot, bet I bring them dollas out
Talk that shit, potty mouth, walk that shit, pep stroke
Guarantee yo girl, get sliced like Kimbo
Bitch, Im in the club, homies blowin indo
Turned up, throwin up signs to the ceiling roof
Sipping on that hundred proof and Im dressed in Gucci too
And these hoes jock a nigga so I holla, What it do?
Where you at? Bitch, Im in the club
With the homies, tell me whats good
Im tryna get these hoes single
And this is my single
Where you at? Bitch, Im in the club
With the homies, tell me whats good
Im tryna get these hoes single
And this is my single
Move somethin, move, move somethin
Got these stacks full of hundreds with an icon woman
On my left, my right, my right, my left, Im throwed
Beyonces, two Halles and three Keyshia Coles
Wait a minute , can I pop my tags?
Can I do the fool? Can I swing my rag?
Im a Hub City maniac, bitch, get it right
Bartender, hurry up, put them bottles on ice
Bitch, Im in the club
With the homies, tell me whats good
Im tryna get these hoes single
And this is my single
I got a hundred dollas on me
Baby girl, I know you wanted
All righty I might be in some loafers or Nikes
Faded blazer or white tee, either way she gon like me
I get it crackin for no reason at all
Lookin you see that I ball like a pupil thats soft
And I can tell you dont have what I have
Which is a lot of juice, motherfuck swag
Where you at? Bitch, Im in the club
With the homies, tell me whats good
Im tryna get these hoes single
And this is my single
Where you at? Bitch, Im in the club
With the homies, tell me whats good
Im tryna get these hoes single
And this is my single
I got a hundred dollas on me
Baby girl I know you wanted
I got a hundred dollas on me
Baby girl I know you wanted |
Ali, mix it
Ha ha ha, Lady G, Whaddup?
Ha ha ha, Bad Love, Whaddup?
Ha ha ha, ha...
I spaz out til I pass out
There’s clarity in my vulgarity for a sass-mouth
Your parody’s not funny
Apparently you aint nothing but industry crash dummies
As long as the lord love me, I’m good
I could: be the best rapper but I’d rather be the answer that capture the violence that coincides in my hood
I should: stick a fork in this music business
But I’m too deep in it like pussy on my penis
Devil’s kitchen in Phoenix; that’s the heat that I’m bringing where the shade at?
I’m L.A. radio and good music, boy, I don’t play that
Ugh, Walking a thin line from thinking like Einstein
And rhyming like Rakim in ’89
Don’t wanna pack a nine just a mind full of wisdom
Like a man 99 years old locked in prison
Don’t freeload on my vision
Get exposed like an R&B ho with a sex tape hidden
I’m always for the business, forever you can feel it
Whether you Crip blue or a nigga that hemorrhage
My penmanship is like me and Langston combined to the hip
And my hip to the hop don’t stop as I rock
I got a buzz like a shot of Palmer Sun
And the women fall in love as they fall in my crotch
Now understand that I’m all that you’ve got
Give me chance, give me ears, give me hearts, give me props
Hear the difference? I’m cool like that
Oh, you spit? Well the retarded drool is back
See, I’m the author of the authors, the father of the Austin Power fajja
Who can bust like a charter, why bother?
I know a jealous serpent is a burden to my life
But still I carry on like luggage on a flight
The realness in my bones is the DNA to life
I can give you insight only if you’re in sight
I’m looking past y’all like a fastball - strike!
And I aint even tryna give it my all - yikes!
I’m comfortable enough to go and chill out with a Huxtable
You couldn’t see my pedestal, because you’re afraid of heights
Cloud 9, where you can find
Me in my dime like Roosevelt in his prime
Wait til I’m in my prime
The moon and the stars will align on my Louis V. belt like Orion
To whom say he cool: but the irony is I could hold the bottom of an iron with the bottom of my palm
I say so much, so little all action, no talk like a mime throwing up gang signs
It’s not all about punchlines, I don’t do that
I’m a Jaguar; you’re just a new cat, now move back
Kendrick Lamar on the radar for success
Aiming for the top like an AR aimed at your neck
I can never digress, ‘less I get demoted to death
Even then I’ll be the best still, like a petty theft
I will: conquer my biggest dreams
Once you open the cage, I bet that I’ll spread my wings
Nipsy got street cred, Jay Rock got street cred
And all I got is bad credit, big ears and big head
But still they’ll feel me, cause we all ate cereal
Humped our mommas friends daughter while they bump the stereo
Backflips on shopping carts, free lunch at the park
Watched Power Rangers after school; here we go
I’m so Comptonized, I will never compromise
For no faulty ass A&R or CEO
We aint what you think and you think we’re back
But we’ve been here for decades, and I vouch for that
Open your mouth for that, speak well like a great debater over iChat
Get your other eye cracked
I don’t rap, I-Iraq and declare war
I enjoy watching enemies blood pour
I came up lower middle class, not poor
So don’t feel sorry for me, I don’t need y’all to love me
I need y’all to feel me
And if you feeling froggy to leap, then feel free
My feeling’s all aside, my pride is deprived
By the ultimate prize Imma get when I see your suicide |
There, there, baby
Its just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
There, there, baby
ItS just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
Three women raised me
Famous Footwear paid me not enough to blow up
But showed up cause I aint fuckin lazy
And teachers thought I was dumb or crazy, or both
With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z, I slumped
In my chair and my grades, my head wasnt raised
Being fly was priority to the lowest
I would stand on my desk just to see the world in a different way
The dead society of a poet—homie, Im focused
But theres somethin that a dude cant prove
I mean, fam, I was damn near invisible at school
So I banged for a minute cause all my niggas was Crippin
Just me and my two of my dudes, Blue Man Group
Had dreams of doing things they say that you cant do
Cause everything aint black and white, less you chew bamboo
So I was after big bills like a toucan do
All the while, my mom askin why Im truant at school
She said:
There, there, baby
Its just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
There, there, baby
ItS just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
Ugh, so why aint I go to college?
My mamas ultimatum, made me say that I know I got it
My niggas said Vs buggin
Stay on your computer software, debugging
But we holding hardware cause we thuggin
Now they in the traphouse with some guns that they done borrowed
And all this snow, I call it Infant Sorrow
With plans to reach the end even if I had to start slow
Sold CDs in the mall, making dough like Sbarro
Then I left the hood, like, Fuck it, dont need the cargo
They banking I dont do well, and I dont mean Fargo
But even when you leave, somehow, it still try to follow
Baby brother took a charge harder than LeBron and Rondo
Trying to keep his head up while his eyes are in the Bible
Cause they say a mind thats idle is a devils toy aisle
My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol
I looked at him, told him, Sit down, this information is vital, look
There, there, baby
Its just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
There, there, baby
ItS just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
Living my life like Im living right
In the midst of a fire pit, the gangbanging and violence
Is the sweetest song, and I roam with the heart of a violin
Dont violate my patience Im waiting... to kill a man
As I stare at the ceiling fan, as a fan of these wicked streets
If I gotta eat, I steal like a metal piece
Im screamin out, Fuck the police
Im dealing my cards with Jokers on em
You can disown him or stone him
Im throwing them rocks back with the fury of bullets
You couldnt live your life for the moment
When Im foaming at the mouth and my sharpest of teeth showing
Im in the back of a black Buick finna black out, like February—
Aint thats how Blacks do it, right?
I cut off my ears before I hear your advice and vice versa
Im screaming for help as loud as I can, but thats not working
Im working them corners like blueprints
Then caught a L on my first offense
The judge threw the book at me and said this:
There, there, baby
Its just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up
There, there, baby
ItS just textbook stuff
Its in the ABCs of growin up |
I am a sinner who’s probably gonna sin again
Lord forgive me, Lord forgive me
Things I don’t understand
Sometimes I need to be alone
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
I can feel your energy from two planets away
I got my drink, I got my music
I would share it but today I’m yelling
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
Look inside of my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich
Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exist
I can feel the changes, I can feel a new life
I always knew life can be dangerous
I can say that I like a challenge and you to me is painless
You don’t know what pain is
How can I paint this picture when the color blind is hanging with you
Fell on my face and I woke with a scar
Another mistake living deep in my heart
Wear it on top of my sleeve in a flick
I can admit that it did look like yours
Why you resent every making of this
Tell me your purpose is petty again
But even a small lighter can burn a bridge
Even a small lighter can burn a bridge
I can feel the changes
I can feel the new people around me just want to be famous
You can see that my city found me then put me on stages
To me that’s amazing
To you that’s a quick check with all disrespect let me say this
Im trying to keep it alive and not compromise the feeling we love
Youre trying to keep it deprived and only co-sign what radio does
And Im looking right past you
We live in a world, we live in a world on two different axles
You live in a world, you living behind the mirror
I know what you scared of, the feeling of feeling emotions inferior
This shit is vital, I know you had to
This shit is vital, I know you had to
To die in a pitiful vain, tell me a watch and a chain
Is way more believable, give me a feasible gain
Rather a seasonal name, Ill let the people know this is something you can blame
On yourselves you can remain stuck in a box
Imma break out and then hide every lock
Imma break out and then hide every lock
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I am a human who’s probably gonna fault again
Lord forgive me, Lord forgive me
Things I don’t understand
Sometimes I need to be alone
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
I can feel your energy from two planets away
I got my drink, I got my music
I would share it but today I’m yelling
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe |
Jumping off the front porch with a new approach
Dont approach me with the bullshit
I remote to a location where the broom sit
Here I go street sweeper Monday through Friday
If not go we can catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Pulling up and hopping out
Shell, catch it poppin out
And I aint never been a Tom or a Jerry
Pussy or a Rat, pussy on my nutsack
Carry plenty Kenny tats, give me that, give me plenty fetti
Federales on my back, pack them in the cemetery
Send a scary hit out on your messenger
Im ignorant to wrestle a gorilla in the center of an Acura Integra
Im pissed off, so I piss off rooftops
Drinking through a straw, fuck a rent-a-cop
Im hot, Im napalm when the beat slap like eight palms
And I wear eight charms, every airport alarm
Go off till they tackle me, what I do wrong?
Nigga it aint bout the chain, nigga you the fucking bomb
Bomb on a bitch nigga then his bitch later
Put the tips on the bitch, nigga you a fucking waiter
I dont even want a favor, I just want a fair one
And its like that till the sheriffs come
Jumping off the front porch with a new approach
Dont approach me with the bullshit
I remote to a location where the broom sit
Here I go street sweeper Monday through Friday
If not go we can catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Droop-E, look
Problems we solve them, bout that action
One less sucker nigga, thats subtraction
His boss is, factors on the team
Real niggas, no actors on the team
Not you, who Droop? He a good dude
Put him in a bad mood, he turn you into goon food
Im in the party, feeling like me
S-I-C-K with TDE
Your bitch want sex and my ear like wax
And this Landy got her ready to get it hit from the back
She shows up chump, salute give daps
Get your face flat, you dont want that
Get your nose tapped, you dont want that
Get your life fucked up all over a batch
Get cropped, get chopped on your head like a barber shop
Have it out in the parking lot
Jumping off the front porch with a new approach
Dont approach me with the bullshit
I remote to a location where the broom sit
Here I go street sweeper Monday through Friday
If not go we can catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Stay turned, super charged up, stoned
Ghetto pass never revoked
Mouthpiece faster than a speedboat
Keep it one hundred like a C-note, pea coat
Po-po tryna decode lingo
Not drunk but Im finna be hella twisted
Lifted like a toilet seat, grown ass kid
My bitch always telling me, I aint shit
She hate me, but she love my dick
Trapper factor macker having money like a rapper
Bumping local talent pulling up with the blabber
Patna wanna challenge cause my pockets hella fatter
But he gone be unlucky like walking under a ladder
Put hands on a man, fuck unity
Aint nothing between us, but space and opportunity
Never been a sucker, never been a lame
Stay in your lane, you cant see me like a stealth plane
Jumping off the front porch with a new approach
Dont approach me with the bullshit
I remote to a location where the broom sit
Here I go street sweeper Monday through Friday
If not go we can catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade, catch a fade
Where you from Droop-E?
Where you from Kendrick?
Aye 40 where you from though?
Who bring it to their front door?
And where they get their game from?
And where they get their slang from?
And where they get their strains from?
And where they get their grapes from? |
Pardon my Bohemian ways
I know I act like I be stuck in a Bohemian daze
You said you love me, so dont rush me
Love is patient and now you gotta trust me
To take form, like the canvas of the Grand Canyon
Product of a beautiful storm or an unborn
Carried just below the heart
Quietly preparing for his start
Let me Michelangelo my Sistine Chapel
You know they say Rome wasnt built in a day
And diamonds need a while before they hit the display
So I guess I see myself in a similar way
Im paced, like my momma in the kitchen whipping
Always mixing up and fixing
Begged her for a taste and she said it wasnt ready
She stir it up slow and she cook it up steady
This is not a race track, living in the ASAP
Im just trying to do it justice when it play back
Sometimes I gotta stall the BPM
So I can weave these dreams and polish up these gems
In the end, I got love for the show biz
But sometimes you gotta stop and smell the roses
Keeping up with the Kardashians and Joneses
Nah, I take my time and compose this
They say greatness get better with time
They say concrete roses hard to find
Sit inside my room, and let these thoughts bloom
Its a secret garden in my mind
Flower child
Okay, buffering, creativity suffering
When you bustlin hustlin for the numbers and
You missed the journey if you climbed too fast
The beauty of the struggle when it comes to pass
Amateurs swear they need a balancer
I want that legendary like excalibur
Chasing calibers liberated as a bachelor
Traveler, never falling victim to these calendars
Rough draft after rough draft
No staff, perfecting on my abstract craft
And now they calling me celebrity
Only thing I give a damn about is my integrity
They play the game like checkers when Im talking bout chess
Tryna do more when Im talking bout less, I stress
Quantity aint always quality
So let me formulate my prophecy
When the lights get low and you notice I am the sun
The winter time was snow but only little you know
I will still breathe, give me the keys
Im resuscitating the game, see me in CPR
My name is a gun cocked, gun shot
Dead and I wont stop
Gun cocked, gun shot
Head in a pine box
With a dozen roses, hold this with a gift card
Gun cocked, gun shot
Flowers on your mommas yard
They say greatness get better with time
They say concrete roses hard to find
Sit inside my room, and let these thoughts bloom
Its a secret garden in my mind
Flower child
They say greatness gets better with time
So why expedite my prime?
See Im just a lilac tied to the earth
Exuding the fragrance of light and birth
So respect my photosynthesis
My petals, my stems, full of nourishing flow
You thought this was a love song, but no
I just need you to let me grow |
Its alive, its moving
Its alive, oh its alive
Its alive, its alive
Its alive in the name of god
Now I know what it feels like to be god
Im not a newcomer, Im a new wonder elite
K-Dizzle
I rap with a Pyrex in the projects
Im crack in a pot, Im a prospect
Im a pirate on a dock full of dope
I can dissect any rapper
You could vote for the Lochness
You cannot test no key in the Tesla
Bitch I ride like a freight train parked outside
And my young niggas came with the extras
Its alive |
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Every member of raps Mount Rushmore dropped new albums in 2013—Kanye, Jay Z, Drake, Eminem—but it was another MC altogether who stole the crown, and he did it with just a handful of verses: Kendrick Lamar, the latest—and possibly greatest—rapper to come straight outta Compton.
We are 10,000 feet above Compton in a private jet, and Kendrick Lamar is explaining to me what happened to him yesterday, when he vanished. We had a plan: Kendrick was going to give me a guided, cue-the-G-funk-synth Star Maps tour of his neighborhood, the one he still more or less lives in, starting at his parents house a couple of blocks from his old high school, Centennial High, near the corner of Piru and South Central. Instead, he went AWOL. The whole day, no one from his label, Interscope, or Top Dawg Entertainment, the baby Death Row Records that originally signed him, could track him down. Kendrick was gone.
It turned out he was sitting shivah for a murdered friend he calls his little bro—a kid from a neighborhood where friendship is defined primarily by neighborhood. A few weeks earlier, Chad Keaton, 23, had been wounded in a drive-by shooting very close to Kendricks parents house. He held on for a month but ultimately died of complications from the gunshot wounds.
So today, here on board this Challenger 300 seven-seater, en route to New York Citys fall Fashion Week, a destination filled with people Kendrick isnt sure whether he wants to impress or fuck with, hes telling me about Chad. It all happened when I was overseas, he says. I had to talk to him over Skype on the hospital bed before he passed.
Its been a strange year. When it began, Kendrick was already regarded as something of a messiah among rap nerds—one of the best rappers ever to come out of the place that has produced many of the best rappers ever—and since then his legend has spread fast.
It actually began late last year, when Kendricks major-label-debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city,dropped, to universal acclaim. The album—about a day in the life of nerdy Compton teenager K.Dot and his homeys as they run around in his moms minivan chasing that crazy-ass girl Sherane—is practically a black Ulysses: a portrait of the rapper as a young man, simultaneously a drive-by deconstruction of gangster raps violent tropes and a celebration of its signature, slow-rolling sound. On good kid, Lamar is our embedded correspondent, spitting triple-time confessionals from a part of the country most of us had forgotten once the rap scene found a fresher inner city to fetishize. Hes the games most linguistically cerebral MC, but also its realest—the one who finds the most vivid way to tell a story about his unemployed buddies trying to rope him into robbing some dudes house—and its this polarity that makes listening to King Kendrick feel like youre putting on the illest 3-D glasses in hip-hop. The music nods at influences far beyond the West Coast—Beach House samples, Dungeon Family lushness—but throughout, his voice stays singularly focused on a twenty-block radius around Central Avenue and Piru Street:If Pirus and Crips all got along Theyd probably gun me down by the end of this songGood kid, m.A.A.d city sold an industry-shocking 241,000 copies its first week and went platinum this summer. Then, in August, Kendrick snuck a sixty-four-bar Trojan horse into his buddy Big Seans song Control—a guest spot on a song that didnt even make the final record. After Big Sean goes on for a while about drinking champagne in Detroit, Kendrick wakes up the entire hip-hop universe, calling out nearly every single young rapper in the game: Drake; A$AP Rocky; J. Cole; Tyler, the Creator; even Big Sean himself. The dude slaps Sean on his own song. He also proclaimed himself the king of New York, which to certain East Coast ears sounded like a Greek dude strolling into Troy and dropping a deuce on the tomb of Hector.
Control leaked on YouTube late in the day on August 12; for a solid week, it was the biggest story in music. Just a few weeks after that, Kanye announced he was touring solo for the first time in five years and that his opening act would be Kendrick Lamar.
Kendricks career momentum has created a dissonance that must look surreal from 30,000 feet. Chad Keatons memorial service was held just before Labor Day weekend; Kendrick attended, then flew straight to a show in Alaska. Next it was on to Vegas to perform at a pool party. He only made it back to the set to grieve for a single day, the day we were scheduled to talk. It can be complicated and confusing, Kendrick says of his life right now, funerals for murdered friends one day, private jets to fashion parties the next. From my perspective, its not just Im famous—I still live in this world. And when someone back home needs something, I still gotta get that phone call.
Its clear the emotions are still raw. Kendrick is a small guy, just five feet six, and with his black hood pulled up over his head, a chain around the outside of his sweatshirt, it felt like I was talking to a wizened rap Jedi. After about an hour of questions, I gave him a break, and he lay down on the couch to rest. Just kind of curled up with his back turned.
A bit later, I saw a tweet from him to his 2.4 million followers pop up on my phone: When the cameras stop rolling, it doesnt mean real life will follow. Instantly it had fifty-six retweets. After one minute, 600. After two minutes, 1,000. Then he tweeted a picture of Chad: Rest N Heaven my Lil bro. Watched u become a man. U fought bro. The city stole yo life, but not your legacy.
On the night of the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, just as the heat over Control was peaking, I tailed Kendrick through the backstage maze at Brooklyns Barclays Center. At one point, he ran into Drake, and they wrapped each other up in a big hug. It was their first encounter since Kendrick called him out on Control, and of all the slaps in that verse, this one felt the most personal, because Drake had helped break Kendrick, handing the kid not just a verse but an entire song on his second album. After Drakes VMA performance of Hold On, Were Going Home, Kendrick made his way back to the greenroom, crooning the hook: I got my eyes on you.... He caught mine and smiled. You watch, he joked, Im going to be singing by my fifth album!
I asked if this meant things were cool between him and Drake. He paused. Pretty cool. Shrugs. And I mean, I would be okay if we werent.
A month later, it became apparent that things between Kendrick and Drake were definitely not cool. After Drakes new album dropped, he gave a pair of interviews in which he sounded wounded by the Control thing: You cant just say that and then see me and be like, Yeah, man, whats up?—pretending like nothing ever happened. Seemingly in response, during the BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher a few weeks later, Kendrick freestyled: Nothing been the same since they dropped Control / and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.
I got Kendrick on the phone after the BET taping, and he admitted to being surprised by Drizzys public lash-out—Control named names, sure, but at its core it was a backhanded tribute to the peers Kendrick actually gives a shit about. Most of them took it in that spirit. Not Drake. Yeah, I guess he took it as a dis, Kendrick said, downplaying talk of a beef. But he was also clear that he doesnt look up to Drake, doesnt see him as any kind of creative influence. When I asked if Drake was a mentor or a role model, he replied quickly, No—peer. If anything. We all peers.
When Kendrick Lamar was 21, 2Pac appeared to him in a vision. Before you roll your eyes, Lamar wants you to know that hes not the hermit-on-the-edge-of-the-Nitrian-Desert, vision-seeing type. He knows how this sounds.
I was coming from a late studio session, sleeping on Moms couch. Im 26 now—it wasnt that long ago. I remember being tired, tripping from the studio, lying down, and falling into a deep sleep and seeing a vision of Pac talking to me. Weirdest shit ever. Im not huge on superstition and all that shit. Thats what made it so crazy. It can make you go nuts. Hearing somebody that you looked up to for years saying, Dont let the music die. Hearing it clear as day. Clear as day. Like hes right there. Just a silhouette.
The visit from Pac changed Kendricks connection to the world he was chronicling in his music and compelled him to think more carefully about who was listening to it. It wasnt just about money, hoes, clothes, drinkin, he explains. I mean, I come from that world, but at the same time, I started to realize that theres people out there that cant really connect to that lifestyle. Theyre in the struggle.
Much of Kendricks music now is an attempt to transcend his ravaged world without separating himself from it in judgment, about somehow gaining control over his households chaos—some of his uncles were Crips, and his father was reportedly a Gangster Disciple in Chicago before moving to Compton—and over his neighborhoods warped commitment to adolescent pride. Its an ethos that extends to his crew. They have a seriousness of purpose, a rigorous discipline that can feel slightly monastic at times. Kendrick doesnt smoke weed or drink booze. In the time I spent with him, I never witnessed anyone roll even the thinnest spider leg of a jay, nor did I see Kendrick so much as glance at the many, many girls around him. When I ask OGs why theres so much division in the streets—nobody never really knows, he says. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.
A few hours after the VMAs, we were back in Kendricks hotel room and everybody was in a lull, staring at cell phones, waiting for news about afterparties. A plan coalesced to hit a party being thrown by Diddy at the Dream Downtown hotel. But one of Kendricks Top Dawg boys leaned back and said, Aw, man, I cant go to no club.
Kendrick spoke up.
We have to go.
Look at you! We have to go. Youre never we have to go.
You know me, Kendrick explained. I only go when theres a point. Usually the point is just niggas drinking. But walking through the club the week after I released the Control verse? Thats a point!
Twenty minutes later, Anthony Top Dawg Tiffith, basically TDEs Suge Knight, asked if I had had a fun day. I said that I had and that I was surprised by their discipline. You guys seem so calm, I said.
Well, Tiffith told me, were going to have to call it a night with you, because we about to get uncalm. You understand.The gossip from Diddys Ciroc Amaretto Launch Party/VMA Afterparty sounded like it fell out of a massive tear in the mid-90s West Coast-East Coast time wave. Bloggers breathlessly recounted a surreal scene at Dream: booths packed with hip-hop illuminati—Jay, Bey—mouths agape as a wasted Diddy, incensed by the King of New York boast, attempted to pour a drink over Kendricks head, only to be thwarted by Jay Z acolyte J. Cole, who was kicked out in the ensuing chaos. Naturally Kendrick himself refused to corroborate any of this. It was all love at that party, he told me on the private jet.
After we land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, I catch a ride with Kendrick into Manhattan. His show tonight is a New York Fashion Week kickoff party in Chelsea thrown by industry doyenne Jenné Lombardo, and in the car he goofs around, imagining the horror he and his Compton homeys could inspire: We invited Kendrick Lamar, not K.Dot and them Piru niggas.
By the end of his forty-minute set, the crowd is pretty fucked-up. Theres chronic in the air; models are tottering in their heels. When Kendrick launches into the call-and-response for Swimming Pools , a song about his familys dark relationship with chemical dependency—Head shot. DRANK. Sit down. DRANK. Stand up. DRANK—a wraithlike six-foot blonde with a white veil dances around a little coven of models. There is something demonic about the scene: Kendrick recounting his fever dreams about the grim consequences of decadence while presiding over a decadent Fashion Week party.
Its hard to guess how scenes like this will change Kendrick and his music. Sometime in January, he will step into Top Dawgs booth again, and he expects to be just as surprised as the rest of us by what comes out. I dont know, he says. It depends on where my emotion is. How angry Ill be, or how happy Ill be, or how confused Ill be.
At one point on good kid Kendrick raps, I can feel the changes / I can feel a new life / I always knew life can be dangerous. The biggest change in Kendricks life is the inversion of raps consummate observer becoming the observed. How will all eyez on him affect his art? Because hes already 10,000 feet above Compton, and rising. |
I guess you could say, Its not easy
I guess you could say, You live and learn
I want yall to all em, I paid my dues
And when its all said and done, I did it my way
Ohhhhhh
As the city lights up the night I feel soooo good cause I did it my way
And I knowwww that Im just livin the life of girls and gold
And I feel so good cause I did it my way
Nights bright like Vegas
The life of girls and gold is so contagious
I been cold
Took the C-O double M road
Hangin out the windows
Reachin for the world as the wind blows
The crescendo of my career loud in your ear, ear
Im proud to be here, now that we here
This year, you could find me at The Cosmopolitan
Holdin bottles, never bottled in
Probly with Chicagoans
And theres black girls modellin, lookin for a followin
Attitude is tolerant, Im married to the game like Solomon
These rings represent the dreams we got from the old folk
Yearnin for The Gold Coast
My soul spoke things that was necessary
Found forever in ways that are legendary
And through the drama, I stuck to my commentary
Now that everyday man say that Comm is every-where
Ohhhhhh
As the city lights up the night I feel soooo good cause I did it my way
And I knowwww that Im just livin the life of girls and gold
And I feel so good cause I did it my way
I used to dream of risin now I see it clearer
How surprising, Im admiring that mirror
Im inspiring the finer things in life
And your time is slowly expiring, youre crying me a river
Thats ironic because she have a river as well
I like to swim in it like Olympians, Y-S-L
And some Timberlands, high as hell
A ceilin is an understatement, I burn through it, prove its a fire drill
Fire hoes, bad bitches fire hoes
Fire then re-hire hoes
Her entire crew is tired of the liars that you runnin by her
I can see you, hoe
Plenty priors of a fuck nigga, nigga, I suppose
I can fly her, put her in attire of designer clothes
Dayton wires on the Chevy, why are you not tolerable?
Dont you know they already fuck me, Im a made man
Maids in the mansion, clean em up out here
Ohhhhhh
As the city lights up the night I feel soooo good cause I did it my way
And I knowwww that Im just livin the life of girls and gold
And I feel so good cause I did it my way
Common
Kendrick
Lloyd
Good cause I did it my way
And I knowwww
Hit-Boy
Drama
And I feel so good cause I did it my way |
These streets is jurassic, cowards get asthmatic
Astronauts hover throughout the atmosphere, that the ghetto burb
Pull up on the curb , smoke a nigga then dip
Its the immaculate, verbal assassin, strangle your perfect etiquette to an accent
This is Jesus of Nazareth
Spittin gold policies to a world unknown
In a cherry Low-Low with four zones of weed, no sticks no seeds
Prestigious when I post safe through fifty states, beneath the speed
Can corral the largest crowds, mosh pit with a big dick
Screaming bitches aint shit, she gobble gobble for hours I jumped in the shower
I dismantle, devour, hardest Emcees softer than Clam chowder
No challengers can compete, theyre childish and weak, detrimental
Hazardous hazard to instrumentals, intertwined with God and Frankenstein
Im kurupted!
Im kurupted!
Gimme a hundred Gs for every Emcee I drop to their knees
Verbically useless, oh you got the Juice? Ill squeeze you juiceless
Catch you, hang you from many nooses
Been the truth since, Snoop and the pound was fuckin over ruthless
Young and Im ruthless, twenty-one with twenty-one guns, shottys thats looted from Pac, lyrical cyclops
Lazer-in em on paper and fraudulent friends, bitch yous a bitch in disguise and bitches get ten
Bullets to their midsection, Mr. Lethal injection in a regal higher than church steeples, I swear to god
Count your lyrics in a jar, Imma pterodactyl tearin ya squad, like pardon me in Terrance Martin in Aston Martin
Cannibal co-existing with the coldest, that means Im the sickest, and Theraflu wont do
Whenever Im kicking the wickedness, explosive, syntagmatic, smokin like the barrel of this tech aimin at ya neck
Im kurupted!
Im kurupted!
Im from C-O-MP-TO-aNy nigga can get it, the little homie strapped and he with it
At the Avalanche swap-meet
Blunt longer than Rosecrans, Ill grab the devil then slow dance
Practice trigonometry, practice my aim on rooftops eating pastrami sandwiches, you are counterfeit
Worthless beats and verses surfaced. West Coast with a big scope kill all Yall Its Top Dawg, TDE, CPT
Quick to tell a bitch jump on my dick A.S.A.P
Complete havoc, compulsive disorder, rhyme addict -- Slaughter
House is full of Joey, Joells and Royces for ya
Live from the area code of Three-One-Oh
Laughin all the way to the bank with three Elmos
Three six-fos, One bottle of Goose, Im the truth, you could put your hand on the bible and shoot
Im Kurupted!
See a lot of yall get real disrespectful, real comfortable, not recognizin ya legends
West Coast legends, Young Gotti
I black out like Howard University when I verbally turn into Hercules hurtin these Emcees early and urgently urkin my nerves searching for certain certified nouns and verbs on the verge of vigorous victory. Kurupted |
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Uh
The ground risin , the sun fallin
My day is cool , my nights yawnin
Uh, aint nothing else to do but—
Move at the speed of light! Aye! Im takin flight
Yeah, NASA left behind
Im so beyond, somewhere with Megatron
Im super gone, you cant relate to him
And, um, let me free my mind
Uh, I see it all
The galaxy, she want my all
Uh, feel like its childs play
Now through a Milky Way , fulfill my destiny
As I cooperate my record plays
My record spins, nigga; whirlwind
Yeah, I see it all;
Become a star—tryna shine through the fall
Ah
See you in the mornin
Take off, nigga, Im time zonin—tell em Im sky high
Going, going, goin
Up there, nigga, Im time zonin—tell em Im sky high
Im sky high
Nigga, Im sky high
See you in the mornin
Going, going, goin
The ground risin , the moon fallin
My nights cool , my days yawnin
Uh, aint nothing else to do but—
Move at the speed of light
We travel like a comet, supersonic, just watch out for God, accelerate
Movin at the speed of light aint no thoughts of me usin brakes
Inhalin gravity, excel the Hubble
Check my levels, check my levels, turn me up, turn me up
What the fuck? Got your bitch, she on my nuts, on my nuts
All because a nigga cool, man, I swear she act a fool
Man, you know I keep it real —man, for reals
Man, you know Im super ills , went to Pluto gave it chills
Man, I swear, need no appeals , risin from my heels
With no ceiling or a ground, prolly never comin down
Yeah, I see it all ;
Become a star —tryna shine through the fall
Ah
See you in the mornin
Take off, nigga, Im time zonin—tell em Im sky high
Going, going, goin
Up there, nigga, Im time zonin—tell em Im sky high
Im sky high
Nigga, Im sky high
See you in the mornin
Going, going, goin
My turbo boostin, my jetpack cruisin
Get jet lag when I come back to these fuckin humans
I could put planet Earth in a canister
Then continue my crater search, with Captain Kirk
Look at my verse, you seein signs?
You hearin signals deciphered from District 9
No fuckin rapper-cypher when meteors flyin
The meters are flyin but Im way faster
Run away bet I catch ya, fire like striking matches
Im higher with martians laughin in spaceships as stars is crashin
Hover above the masses, a massive attack were mixin
Kendrick Lamar with magic, pull rabbits from hats—
Niggas—wanna hop on track—bitches—wanna hop on dick—
Damn! Is that a fuckin blimp?! No, O-M-G, thats him!
A shootin star hangin over a new eclipse
Hangin over a big dip, when my music flip, nigga, Im sky high
Shit
See you in the mornin
Take off, nigga, Im time zonin—tell em Im sky high
Going, going, goin
Up there, nigga, Im time zonin—tell em Im sky high
Im sky high
Nigga, Im sky high
See you in the mornin
Going, going, goin |
Waterfront
Sunshine
A little weed
A little red wine
Then come
The 5-0
Citation
Its illegal
We just wanna party
We dont mean no harm
Dont wanna hurt nobody
But they make it so hard
We just wanna party
Just wanna rock all night
Dont wanna hurt nobody
No need to be uptight
Its a crime
Its a crime
Its a crime
Its a crime
Backyard
Tunes right
Girls dancin
In the moonlight
Then come
The one time
Regulation
Gotta pay the fine
We just wanna party
We dont mean no harm
Dont wanna hurt nobody
But they make it so hard
We just wanna party
Just wanna rock all night
Dont wanna hurt nobody
No need to be uptight
Its a crime
Its a crime
Its a crime
Its a crime
Pour up another shot of Hennessy, my tendency to start the party with
Probably hit that Bob Marley, I aint with that Molly shit
Represent my nigga, bang your hood
Bloods and Crips in the same building, its all good
Im looking at this pretty fine thing rolling with her friend
Hoping I can make her mind change, jump inside my Benz
Let me get it cracking
Conversation turn to plenty sexual frustration
Fuck-faces looking at her, hard to not be impatient
Oh, really though?
You drink? You smoke?
Get a case, get a 1/8, fly high not coach
G5, sit back Ill drive, let me know
On the couch, on the bed, on the floor, say go
Say when, in the wind, we go
We toast to the game, no games, we both really grown
Im saying, you playing, I mean, I dance
To my own beat, to the beat now flip your hands and
Let the smoke burn, let the smoke burn in your vein
When its your turn hit it twice then say my name
Say my name, say my name, I appear like Candyman
Dark chocolate, vanilla, I tell you this is Candy Land
This is Candid Camera, theres no pauses allowed
They dont understand us because we wont turn it down
Middle fingers in the air, this is truth and double dare
300 drunk muthafuckas in the holding cell
We just wanna party
We dont mean no harm
Dont wanna hurt nobody
But they make it so hard
We just wanna party
Just wanna rock all night
Dont wanna hurt nobody
No need to be uptight
Its a crime
Its a crime
Its a crime
Its a crime |
Yesterday my nigga had told me his brother died
A day before that his homeless uncle was cold outside
A week before he seen the cancer in his mothers eyes
Two weeks before that, couldnt pay his rent cause he lost his job
A month before that he lost the custody of his daughter
Six months before that her mother said she wont see her father
And this before he did a year when them charges brought up
I shook my head, turned around then found a $100
I dont know why You keep blessing me
I dont know why You keep blessing me
I dont know why You keep blessing me
I dont know why You keep blessing me
I dont know why, I dont know why, I dont know why
Yesterday I invaded privacy of a home
The day before that my partner had fronted me a zone
A week before I had loaded bullets inside that chrome
Two weeks before that I shot them bullets and he was gone
A month before that I cursed my mother then slammed the door
Six months before that I hit my woman, she hit the floor
I stormed out then seen a black Honda Accord
Them hollow tips missed me then hit that little boy
So today I laid in my bed, stared at the ceiling
Closed my eyes then asked myself how I was feeling
I analyzed on how a saint can play the villain
Is my life coincidental or just God willing
I came to grips, jumped up, and looked out the window
See my nigga had that same little boy that didnt know
Bullets is nameless, I guess this is meant for
Me to give them a $100 then trash my pistol
Now I know why You keep blessing me
Now I know why You keep blessing me
Now I know why You keep blessing me
Now I know why You keep blessing me
Now I know why, now I know why, now I know why
So I can bless you
So I can bless you
So I can bless you
Lord help me
Cause I need You
I know this weed is burning
And Im on drink number two
But its all to soothe the pain from this
Cold, cold world
Sometimes I think You can help me
But this bus here is temporary
So Im talking to You
This sick world will drive a sane man crazy
Birds dropping out the sky, daughters having their fathers babies
And this the news I hear
When my god kids, nieces, and nephews turn a year
I wonder, will it get better
A little cheddar, when will it get better
But the risk of thats cash will
Make last years Christmas gift be, my last
But somehow You keep blessing me
But somehow You keep blessing me
But somehow You keep blessing me
But somehow You keep blessing me
But somehow, but somehow, but somehow
If I just keep the faith
I know Youll be right there
Sometimes it may not seem that You are there
But Youre there
I feel Youre there
Youre everywhere
And I thank You for
Protecting me in these streets
From danger seen and unseen
I never know
What happened the night
I wasnt there
Something told me leave so I left
It was the next morning
Three got shot after the club
All listening to that small voice
Oh you saved my life |
Yo, this ya man Wiz Khalifa, yo LA Leakers, where the fuck did y’all find this one?
I had that one zipped up with the good shit
Everyday I try to escape the realities of this world
So I tell a disc jockey “press play” while I press up on a girl
In the midst of the smoke in the air
The reflection of lights that glare
She’ll be out of control like a hydroplane in plain sight I might have to stare
And that’s power steering, a power trip will see my appearance
Pile of hundreds all on a prowl like vampires in the darkest dungeon
Speakers bumpin’, drinks is pouring
We in the house, we paid the mortgage, tyrannosaurus
That’s real big, pop my collar, pop that lid
Flashin’ lights, model types, vixen show me much love
Put the bottles on that ice, drink like we supposed to
Fire burning, heads is turning, all I see is energy
So eventually we’ll do this til the sun come up
We’ll do this til the sun come up
Smoke like this til the sun come up
We’ll do this til the moon is dropping day break watching
Then do it again
Some people stay home and sleep, me I go out at night
All seven days of the week, I live the party life
I got my dogs with me, you can bring some of your friends
We going hard til the sun come up and do it again
I got a drink in my hand they playing my favorite song
This girl that’s dancing on me aint got no panties on
And she gonna come back to my hotel, don’t tell
Anyone about us, I’m here to party all night
Flashin’ lights, model types, vixen show me much love
Put the bottles on that ice, drink like we supposed to
Fire burning, heads is turning, all I see is energy
So eventually we’ll do this til the sun come up
We’ll do this til the sun come up
Smoke like this til the sun come up
We’ll do this til the moon is dropping day break watching
Then do it again
Come to my section
And down some of this liquor
Then tell me what it hit for
Gon be some things I don’t remember
So take some camera phone pictures
Come to my section
And down some of this liquor
Then tell me what it hit for
Gon be some things I don’t remember
So take some camera phone pictures
Flashin’ lights, model types, vixen show me much love
Put the bottles on that ice, drink like we supposed to
Fire burning, heads is turning, all I see is energy
So eventually we’ll do this til the sun come up
We’ll do this til the sun come up
Smoke like this til the sun come up
We’ll do this til the moon is dropping day break watching
Then do it again
Hol up, hol up, hol up, hol up
Where the fuck did yall get this record from, homie? |
Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad
It was a struggle every day not to regret your past
Feeling cursed like you never ever get your swag
And you was speeding down the highway when your threshold pass
When you cried all your tears out
And one page of your diary can tell you what your year ’bout
That’s a lonely place
My mama said “Son, why such a lonely face?”
Because the pressure’s on me
Plus I feel like Bill Murray trapped in Punxsutawney
Dr. Phil told me that I can sell crack or hit the army
Look at where we live at
Tell me you don’t hear that
Tell me you don’t feel that
Show me to the way out
Tell me when pastor Raphael gon’ reveal that
If not, man I’m outta here
I’m just a sleep walking robot that’s outta gear
I stick my nose out the water to the sky for air
Lama sabachthani
I’m trying to see light but the devil trying to blind me
The grim reaper walking with his shovel right behind me
Trying to introduce me to the untimely unkindly
I Walk the line finely like Johnny Cash
But I keep getting visits from the ghost of the past
So I spark another L then I go to the pad
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad
I’m a thinker not a drinker but still I hennessy drag
Alcohol numbs the pain like with novacane stabs
In your arteries pardon me but my city go mad
Via Compton California, corners with coroners and karma on em
Colors corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted crip & piru’s cripple the city
Triple the crime, Bible nor the Qur’an can save
Welcome don’t be afraid, your city similar right?
Where the choppers kidnap the night and police silence your rights
Stare at the sky wonder will you live to see 25?
I’m 22 at 20 I knew I was against the odds
This kid named Jonathan was monitorin’
His momma & sister, his older cousin he honoured him
Anonymous bodies on his burner was astonishin’
To Johnny he might have been a modern day rider then
He walking outside again, he see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a mac 11, now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem, what’s his cousin to say now?
He wanna be from the hood that he’s from and thats one
More gangster under the family tree, took em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy, rocking matching t-shirts that says “the hood made me”
No love just spread slugs thats the policy, the leader and the prodigy
Now shorty do-wap, holdin a ou-wap, hanging with rah rah’s with blah blah’s
That sit on the block catching fades, hitting licks, going on missions with lunatics
A 9th grade menace thugging for 6 months, smoking like 6 blunts
An hour the power of banging, he was walking… 3 Gun Shots
Little Johnny
I think you’ll find, sir, that there will come a time
When black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
As other humans are intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
Then the black man will think like a black man and he will feel for other black people
And this new thinking and feeling will cause black people to stick together
And then at that point you’ll have a situation
Where when you attack one black man, you are attacking all black men
And this type of black thinking will cause all black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also will bring an end
To the brutality inflicted upon black people by
And it is the only thing that will bring an end to it
No federal court, state court or city court will bring an end to it
It’s something that the black man has to bring an end to |
Sail
Sail
This is how I show my love
I made it in my mind because
I blame it on my A.D.D. baby
This is how an angel cries
I blame it on my own sick pride
Blame it on my A.D.D. baby
Sail, sail, sail, sail, sail, sail, sail, sail
Uh huh, Kendrick Lamar
I look in the mirror and nothings familiar I stare
I look in the mirror and nothings familiar I dare
For you to say that youre familiar with character which this I have
Mental is riding a big yellow cab
Telling the driver to press on the gas
Yell at them until I get there
You could just love me and leave me alone
Im warning you though if you love me you never go wrong
We can explore heavy feelings of breathing mother natures air
Feelings of knowing Im rather rare
But theres a reason for all of my madness the gladness I am that youre here
Sail, sail, sail, sail, sail
This is how I show my love
Let my soul sail before Im washed up
Gotta drop down thank God above that Im high enough to give the sky a touch
Maybe its my A.D.D. Im on the move like a real estate agency
Century 21, 21st Century bare the birth of my history there can only be one
This how I show my love
Let my soul sail like Miss Aiko
Sacrifice my life just to free the people the Jesus sequel
So many admire us cause they cant see through our iriss
I got an eye for her, I got an eye for her, I got three eyes
I need three brides
Sail, sail, sail, sail, sail
La la la la la la oh!
La la la la la la oh!
Sail, sail, sail, sail |
Im the type of nigga that get sexy on a bitch
VVS Presi’ on a bitch
Put respect up on my name, ho, Im heavy in this bitch, yeah
Im the type of nigga that get sexy on a bitch
VVS clarity stone, Presi’ on a bitch
And Im feelin like the hand of God blessed me in this bitch
Put respect up on my name, ho, Im heavy in this bitch
I just won seven Grammys, girl, you gotta fuck me
And I got a song with Beyoncé, you love me?
Poppin wheelies on the freeway, Im a stuntman
Got the city goin crazy, look at what you done man
We just havin’ fun man, T-O-P the gun man
D-O-T was on his level, vibin’ in the function
100K for a walkthrough, why you talkin to me?
Starin’ at a dead president, they be talkin to me, but look
Im the type that get sassy on a bitch
One thing I cant stand is a messy lil’ bitch
And a lotta yall niggas undercover male groupies
105 with the window down, bumpin Fugees
Doing what I want, yeah, Im filthy
Ima flex hard til it kill me
Handsome, say she wanna fuck me cause Im handsome
Im the type that get sexy on a bitch
Put respect up on my name, ho, Im heavy in this bitch, yeah
Handsome, say she wanna fuck me cause Im handsome
Big chillin with my foolies and we all cool
Hit em with the whole foolie, we dont argue
You aint hoppin out on the mission, man, thats awful
You aint countin money, checkin chicken, man, thats awful
And I got a car full of them female fossils
Lil baby actin fool with it, take a jaw full
I be drippin sauce too, I done took a loss too
I done fell on my pocket, thats just what a boss do
Aint nothin to a full-time player on the deep end
Always on the deep end, Im ballin on the deep end
My acebooncoon say they callin on the deep end
Ima pledge to this whole dollar with allegiance
But Ima get sassy on a bitch
Hit em with the wam-bam, break a levy on a bitch, yeah
I lift my shirt up, then I do my dance
I can manage for the cameras somehow
Doing what I want, yeah, Im filthy
Ima flex hard til it kill me
Handsome, say she wanna fuck me cause Im handsome
Im the type that get sexy on a bitch
Put respect up on my name, ho, Im heavy in this bitch, yeah
Handsome, say she wanna fuck me cause Im handsome |
His eyes bloodshot red
I watched him as he took a fifth of Henny to the head in memory of his brother
Reminiscin on them playing Sega with each other
He was hurtin, I could see it, plenty tears, no Kleenex
I stood by his side because that was my homie
Gave him a hug, some of his brothers blood got on me
Clinchin his fist on some angry shit
Stood up, sat back down on the curb and asked me who they be hangin with
I wasnt sure, so I gave him no answer
But I was sure that he had him a blammer and wanted war
Revenge, what do you say to a good friend
That just lost it and grabbin choppers out of the closet?
I tried my best to make him re-neg
But he was like, My nig, this feelin is more than personal
I stood down
He hopped in a four-door Honda Accord
Before he bent the block, he said, K-Dot...
...You wouldnt understand
(These streets can turn a kid to killer in minutes
Not by choice, but forced to be a menace
Can someone just pray for me, oh woe)
Or, at least, try to understand
(The city pressure
The AK-47, twin MAC-11s
The Desert Eagle shotty and the Smith & Wessons
Pray for me, oh woe)
Corners become monuments for the dead
Candles on the pavement, postcard read
Rest in peace, the yellow tape blockin off the streets
A baby mama yellin at the police
But you dont understand
You figure that were just a bunch of niggas but the picture heres a story untold
See, this wasnt in our plans
Babies from the late 80s wasnt born crazy, we was raised that way
Put that Malcom X book down, then raise that K
Complete chaos when we off X pills and St. Ides
Look the devil in the face, from a sane eye
Cast the spell on you like Akeelah and the Bee
Every killer in the street is a teen with a corrupted mind
Substance, time, is no longer an issue
We dont have it, so pass the tissue
Then close the casket, kiss the momma when you can
And tell her you understand, but you dont understand
(These streets can turn a kid to killer in minutes
Not by choice, but forced to be a menace
Can someone just pray for me, oh woe)
And, hopefully, youll understand
(The city pressure
The AK-47, twin MAC-11s
The Desert Eagle shotty and the Smith & Wessons
Pray for me, oh woe)
He came back fifteen minutes later
He said, Dot, I went on one, do me this favor
Dump these guns in a safe place, let nobody see you
This as critical as it gets, my nigga, I need you
I said, Alright, so what happened?
Seen a few niggas slippin and I just started clappin
I didnt care who I was hittin
Thats wild shit, but anyway, I got you
I love you nigga make sure you hit me up by tomorrow
I woke up the next mornin with a cold
Allergies got me sneezin and wipin my nose when it was leaking
Checked the medicine cabinet, lookin for some DayQuil
But all I seen was some Aspirin, sjust my luck
I got up, went to Rite-Aid
Hopin that the pharmacy department had the right aid
I bought it and left
Walked to the parking lot, thats when I seen the faces of death
Said they was lookin for my man, with a chopper in they hand
Prayin it would jam, but you dont understand
(These streets can turn a kid to killer in minutes
Not by choice, but forced to be a menace
Can someone just pray for me, oh woe)
Im tellin you, do you understand?
(The city pressure
The AK-47, twin MAC-11s)
Huh? Do you understand?
(The Desert Eagle shotty and the Smith & Wessons
Pray for me, oh woe)
Its like
Its a revolving door
That Ive been a part of
My whole life
Fucked up, right? |
Better off without you
Better off my baby
Better off without
Better off my baby
And Im better off without you
Better off my baby
Better off my baby
Better off without you
I waited for you mainly
Cant believe you made me
Oh lord of daydreams
Leading on the maybes
And why you would treasure me
Search for you and rule me
Close sits on nothing
Why we should be killing
Sorrow, sorrow
Crossed hearts
Im better without you, yeah
Im better without you, yeah
Every
Is only half full in your thoughts
You get no better now
Patiently, cause youre so heavy in my heart
I could do better now
Im with you
Im with you
And you want me
I can choose my own
I know I can do better
Love is life and life is love, I like to love
Every part of you, the party life can never do enough
So many obstacles the possibilities are breaking up
Can move in hospital with that extra patient you got me stuck
Ill play the prostitute if youve got the patience to pimp me
But you never put me on the strip, put it on then you strip
Put it on your fingertips and Ill kiss it off
You better not kiss me goodbye, Test my faith and kiss the cross
Im trying to go there, take you slow there if its alright
Tell me that you care, baby, we could share a full life
Truth and double dare that I do repair broken hearts
Cupid shot me in the dark, stupid I didnt play my part
Ask for your forgiveness, if its worth it I can serve a purpose
If Im st.. st.. stuttering because Im nervous
Tell me that you love me still, promise that Im staying still
Honesty is all I need, honestly, we can build
The stakes are full now
Still, wait for you
Im better off with you , yeah
Im better off with you, yeah
Every
Is only half full in your thoughts
You get no better now
Patiently, cause youre so heavy in my heart
I could do better now
Im with you
Im with you
And you want me
I can choose my own
I know I can do better
Im with you
I cant choose life
I could do better, better now |
Real rap, I knock rhymes right off of your skull cap
You cant see me when I step into the booth
Your wish list, K.Dot, yeah Im the truth
Stuntin, youd better get your broom
Cause Im flying with witches and were going to the moon
With this album, debut at that
Im so fly I might float with the bats
Yall know the most
Biggie and Pac, they behind me as my ghosts
Cause you think they write for me when I step into the drop
My shit is so sweet, candy flavored, no youre not
Skeletons in my closet
And no, you cant get up off it
This the freestyle, trick or treat
Halloween, better come with me, Im sweet
Pumpkins, smacking them across they head
And Im pokin eyeballs out on the web instead
He gonna gonna keep going
Baby, sex tape killed me
Ye, ye, Im so fly, right now Im so high
Matter of fact oh we talking about the hurricane
Im talking about New York, I pray for yall, know what I mean
I dont want that to happen, cuz if so I might just start rapping
Kim Kardashian, Wiz did that ass in
Coming straight from Compton, I thought yall know
I aint gonna look at the cards yet, cause Im bout to flow
Matter fact, this the perfect part to talk about them Lakers
Everybody thats disrespecting, yall the fakers
We gonna keep going, off the top of the dome
Mavs, yall gonna go home
Teach yall to come back to my city
Shrink you, G
Five times, four times, thats the repeat
Obama, we aint gonna talk about Ritt Momney
Because hes whack, fugazi, fugazi
I dont need to talk about the flow that Im in
If you gonna vote, vote for Obama
Hes gonna win, fo sho
And we gonna keep on going
Off the top, we just gonna keep on flowing
We gonna get back to this little punk, hes crap
Mitt Romney, show em how to rap
Matter fact, this freestyle is just dedicated to him
Youre homeboys right now with Slim
Your chances, youre not gonna win
You need to go back to where you came from, boy
Its the ruler of the game
Obama, vote now homeboy, hes got change
Whats up |
Jay Rock checking in, you niggas checking out
When I grip the pen, thats how it is when Im on the mic
Im the Peoples Choice
The streets never lie
I paid dues so Im self made
And if you got something shitty to say
You get slept or slayed
Haters in the shade
They running they mouth
They steady talking till the gun in they mouth
Go ahead and chit chat
Thats when you hear the click-clack then its all over
Too late to bleed, squeeze then flee
Bleed the streets, bleed the beats
True story
Im straight gutter, all guts
No glory
You niggas whack with them same raps
Yall bore me
Youre all killers and dealers
With scrilla like Kobe
Cut it out, you rappers papier-mache
K. Lamar my nigga, go ahead and take em away
I said we dont wanna hear that weak shit no more
My flow China white
Like a sheep in the snow
I go deep as the Bible, I could debate with the pope
And you rappers go down hill
Like a ski on the slope
I been a boat with Papi
But I aint trying to cop no work
Im trying to cop me the boat and some more property
I told Rock
We gotta be more then just a commodity
Make the whole name and entity to infinity
Yall want me off the juice, no grenadine
Could stop me from thinking presidential like the scattered brains of Kennedy
After I shot, duck down
So the crowd wont witness me
Now, could somebody locate Mr. Shakur?
And tell these Tupacs, they two shots, away from two blocks
Of being neighbors with the Almighty Lord
I put your best material in, then fast forward
Kendrick, signing off
Im sure your signatures forged, boy
They say Im headed to the county and they said its for a murder
In a zone like a touchdown
No need to be turned down
Catch a fade, mandatory
Walk up in the dorm room just me and my heart
Let it start
Where you from?
I bang back
Start pushing back the rack
So I guess its time to scrap
Run that, Look
I Whooped his ass for an hour
Made his nigga have to drag him in the shower
Survival techniques from the streets dont apply in here
Just barbarious niggas wholl try your fears, ruthless
Little church choir and Hells fire
And lemme see you sing your ass out of this one
Smashed out a victim
Shouldve kept push ups in your routine
Eating tuna for your protein
Most niggas turn scary, fags get buried
Snatch a mothafuckas commissary
Dont worry Im a gangster
Look
First name Herbert
Last name Steven
Dont call it my government
Cause I dont know none of them
As far as rap
Im running it like Im getting robbed
Target wasnt quite my target
Thats why I quit my job
These niggas better hop on board
When my ship sets sail and I sell a few records
Sipping Guinness and set a few records
Enough is never enough
I gotta do extra
I gotta go the distance
I gotta prosper, I gotta put my mamacita
In that big casa
I gotta be the
Realest if not the illest to spit a verse
God MC, Pick a church
Hallelujah
Dont let the curly hair fool you
My hair aint quite wool
And my feet aint bronze
And its inadequate thinking I used to run Nazareth
Imagine if this hoodie was a crown of thorns
You wish you had the stamina to go that hard
Get your punchlines up, then maybe we could spar
Your lyrics should make a point, then maybe we could score
Then maybe I could show you how three met-a-four
Metaphorically speaking Im more indecent
Then papa bear getting distracted enjoying his porridge, peep it
In a war, I rip a warrior to pieces
Make a Domino effect, like Im delivering pizzas
And if that aint a fact, then neither is Jesus
Black-lipped bastard
Puffing on a pasture
I hit a chick till she holla like she caught the Holy Ghost
Then I passed her, holy smokes
I bring disaster to every quote
You a Shasta to a Coke
Im a master
Sensei with a pen raised
Build up bricks, just to break
In the dojo blowing do-do
And to be frank
Im so hot I make the snow flake
On any day
Ab-Soul, now you know mane |
And this is for the homies
Im talking bout the swap meets, Rollie
Chain-wearing niggas with the white tee
Baby tell the truth, yeah you know we...
Somebody get ready to pass me the hit of that endo, Im tryna get blown
Im tryna get turned up like the fifteens in my Cadillac Brougham
Looking for E.T. to phone home
Tadow, the flavor I kick reminisce the good days
Thinking back when we used to run in the swap meet for the Rollie chains
Pro Club t-shirts, whiter than Anglo-Saxons
Make it a 1X-Tall, crispy with the cotton fashion
Thats fashion if you come where Im from
Compton California, One love to the murder capital under the sun
Young niggas running around the street with heat bigger than me
But I dont trip, I still dip like salsa to a chip
Rolling down Rosecrans to scoop up my man, A-Mack
He talking about some foolishness on how we can pick up on some hoes, believe that
And so I scooped him round 3:30, Telling me its all good
Tiger Woods, Now we looking for the birdy birdies
Stopped at the sto to get some rubbers
Pulled up on the breezies, Well what do you know? I think they love us
And this is for the homies
Im talking bout the swap meets, Rollie
Chain-wearing niggas with the white tee
Baby tell the truth, yeah you know we got it going on
And if you feel good
Raise your hands high and throw up your hood
Represent the city like you know you should
I want to make sure that you understood we got it going on
We got it going on
We got it going on
We got it going on
We got it going on
As I continue my day, quite copacetic
Headed to my mommas house to see what them greens are talking bout, hungry as hell
Had the right grub, I bail, need some gas
ARCO station on Avalon, a relative hit me up as he rolled past
We used to stand in line for Jordans, excited we got em
Rocking platinum FUBU jeans with rubber bands tied to the bottom
Throwback jerseys, Chamberlain and James Worthy was two of my favorites
I might pull out the green Larry Bird on special occasions
But anyway Im steady coasting, smoking on that Hiroshima
Ashtray got a million roaches, Im focussed but feeling good
The homies hanging on {?} and Monte Carlos
Impalas and Tahoes, shoot something nigga, break that fifty
Im grabbing the city like Im supposed to
Making my presence felt like Christmas day, what can I say?
Every vocal is spoken with the wisdom of a G
If you cant relate then please have a seat
So, wherever you located, wont you let it be known
And put on for the soil of which you was grown
I put on like brand new Chuck Taylors
While giving you cuts like fresh tapers
Im such a fool with it, go nuts
You bullshitting like Tuck, the bounce then untuck
The bounce then throw up, a rare jewel, you duck
Take em to school I must, this for the cool in us
This aint for you, so what?! |
Wait, wait, wait
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop, yeah
Gang shit , on God
Your bitch , no drawers
My debut gold , I ball
Hit that , so long
Chick like whips, I skrrt off, race
Money talk shit, I aint heard yall, ayy
Brand new tits with her shirt off, ayy
Nigga pop shit, might earn me case
Mama in the hood, like, Calm down, woah
Tryna move her out to a compound, oh
Moved on up, nigga signed that road
Top nigga, Top Dawg, top nigga, top
My pocket , on swole
My bitch , thats gold
Wrist game , thats rogue
She wan fuck? , for sure
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop, wait, wait
Fuck being conscious, money and profit, I been on dollars
I need deposits, I need my mama laced up in Prada
I been impatient, lookin for statements
Cartier bracelet, I aint have nathan
Now I been wavin, pushin Mercedes
You gotta pay me
Ill be rich when dust all settle
Fam be rich and dont got pedal
I cant leave where Im from, the ghetto
Bucket under leaks when it rain, the ghetto
I cant leave where Im from, I promise
I cant not have chain or diamonds
I cant not bank account all commas
I cant, I cant, I cant
Look, you gon , pay me
Fuck you , pay me
She wan fuck? Say please
Bring friend , maybe
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop
Show stop , show stop |
Boarding completed Id like to welcome you aboard flight number F2B3
Our scheduled flying time will be four hours and twenty minutes
And we will be cruising at an altitude of thirty-three-thousand feet
At this time we would like to acquaint you with some of the features
Relax and breathe normally
Uh, coming down like Im uphill
Hogging both lanes better than a bus will
She tell me that my head bigger than a bus wheel
But it dont matter cause she still gon let me fuck still
I mix a little bit of Kendrick with some L.A. weather
Then step out like Chicago in its finest era
You niggas begging for attention, doing extra-extra
Downgrading yourself, you get an F for effort
Ha-ha, I let the world know
I chose to keep to myself and let the world go
And if you dont like a nigga, then let your girl know
So she can be curious on Twitter looking me up
Im laid back with a bad one, you aint never had one
Ass so fat that it tipped over the Aston
Speeding on the 1-0-5 till the fucking badge come
Hello to my wittiness, Im Cadillacs grandson
And Im a trip
Ever since an understudy man Ive always been a trip
Mama tell me that she love me but she know her son a trip
Baby open up your ears, you aint heard it like this
Sounwave drop the beat, I lock the flow down
Now all the way to the moon we bout to go now
I got enough of the mojo to go around
So pack your bags and tell him you going out of town
Cause Im a trip
Landing on another runway, fly with me
Or die tryna fly, a shot-down Frisbee
Shout out to Black Hippy, nigga we on
Like we never been off, straight shots of Patron
Im give yall the business to give yall some business
Pussy aint shit, I can give yall some bitches
Clean off her sports bra, she clean off my dishes
Then wear off the Kangols, hood rats, I hate those
And she know what this is, hey lil mama
Seen your pretty ass around the way lil mama
But why you always in somebody face lil mama?
Embarrassing yourself, get off the stage
Nigga, I gotta be that nigga
If I aint, I gotta beat that nigga
Curtesy of Paulas oldest son, pay homage
Or pay attention, open your eyes and hear knowledge
And Im a trip
Ever since an understudy man Ive always been a trip
Mama tell me that she love me but she know her son a trip
Baby open up your ears, you aint heard it like this
Sounwave drop the beat, I lock the flow down
Now all the way to the moon we bout to go now
I got enough of the mojo to go around
So pack your bags and tell him you going out of town
Cause Im a trip
Gi-give me that, gi-gi-give me that
Thats how I get at em when I look at a shoe rack
Penny for thoughts, mine start at a few racks
So I can live on a hill just off a few raps
I want to live in a space that none of yall can visit
That might be outer space, the Jupiter district
I quadruple my vision
If you dont see it then youre dead with your eyes open
Ive seen bullets hit the wheel, left his ride smoking
On some Compton shit
Somebody thatll ride or die, thats a Compton bitch
You see my city is the city of Lamar
Itll take twenty years fore a nigga see them all
The swap meet dumping, the sawed-off pumping
The tree for the low, dont you know, Paul Bunyan
Im on cloud nine, I can see rain coming
So if Im out my mind, people dont say nothing
And Im a trip
Ever since an understudy man Ive always been a trip
Mama tell me that she love me but she know her son a trip
Baby open up your ears, you aint heard it like this
Sounwave drop the beat, I lock the flow down
Now all the way to the moon we bout to go now
I got enough of the mojo to go around
So pack your bags and tell him you going out of town
Cause Im a trip
How was your flight Mr. Lamar?
Good, hope to see you next time |
Bitch, yeah, ha
Compton most wanted, haunted by the ghost of the dead
Climbing out the casket, with a bullet in the head
All blue, all red, smothers every corner
Catch em while theyre young like the symptoms of pneumonia
Good ol California, killa California
Where the violence lives, and the peace remains homeless
Killers off the leash, at the mouth, they be foaming
Mad dog mad dog, my goonies be some mad dogs
Im in the booth zoning
Like 28 grams, of the good yams
Fiends line up in the morning
Im cloning, greatness
My words made of fire like Im rhyming about satan
I could burn through some braces
If I had em
This is the return of the dragon
Im not talking about, Bruce Lee
Im talking about, true heat
And it look like you got cold feet
Step into the flame and I might rekindle your name
Point blank range, as I take aim, at success
Put a bullet in the brain, then one more, in the chest
Im not thinking about no vest, that is not a factor
I rip through that like I rip through a rapper
Im not a rapper, I am a raptor
Dinosaur climbing on, everything that I perform
Mayhem, chaos, they pray i, fall
Victim of a fight, which is a gunslinging brawl
But Im all in all aware, that Im rare
Like a flying saucer hovin through the air
Kendrick dont have a spare, meaning theres
No two alike, you can bet it, and I guarantee Im right
Like a freeway exit, I hope you get the message
Before your T-Mobile lose service
And don’t log off AIM on purpose, you nervous
Aint you, Im ready to spank you
Discipline the disobedient hang em like Willy Lynch
Dont fuck with me
Im a furnace, burning, turn this mothafucka inside out like
Daddy mac, mac, daddys back with a brand new bag
And Im talking about, mo money pussy and pistols
Students please get out your pencils
Im about to break down the principles of the game
Dont complain because, it could be much worse
Whenever you took an L, know that, you could be taking a hearse
Ask you first, dont trust no skirt because bitches are the biggest liars
You playing with that you playing with fire
Burn
Straight from the belly of the beast
Break it to the police
Said he put it on me
Im a ride til my wheels fall off with a G
Ride with the P, 89 creep
On him like a ninja, you entered the warzone
Your home Get bombed on, like an iraqi, and the policy
A guerilla warfare, that nothing is fair
We playin for keeps, no food no sleep
Im a warrior the coroner going to have to come and get him
Put him under the streets, and I guarantee
I hit em where it hurts, Im a lurk where he sleeps
His alarm clock beep, I be right there
Gun then knife, dead kids, dead wife
Dead bedrock head shot, Im a hit him twice
Then clear out the block, until theres no mo life there
Top dawg ENT, bitch we right here
We aint runnin
We be gunnin
Niggas talk alot but they dont say nothin
Chop em up, slice em up, he a cooked onion
Shake em down, break em down, throw em in a dungeon
Dont wanna brawl with 5-6 hog
Im a beast when I bark, every skyship fall
Ground shall break, part the seas and the greatest lakes
Anarchy is taking place, turn gorillas to bathing apes
Im a gorilla in every state
Your opinion dont mean shit mind yo business
Before I give your mind a business
Ask matadors I aint bullshittin
Bitches
Bleh bleh |
My nigga, do you have a gas can?
Its just been a long ass day, man
All I need is a gas can
Im finna head over there and Imma be right back
(Fuck what you doing, man?
Knocking on the door extra hard and shit like you just stressed out or something)
My nigga, I dont even know where to begin, dog
Look, I woke up this morning feeling fucked up
What else is new? Like God be like, To hell with you
To tell the truth, I aint been to church in like three or fo
Years, not months, have mercy on my soul
Threw on the wife-beater, put a fitted on my skull
Took a long ass piss, grabbed my shades and hit the door
I had half a blunt left from last night
I lit that bitch up like a lightbulb and got right
Started to orchestrate my day like a maestro
I should hit the lab, I got verses like the Bible
I heard hip hop need revival
Its been camouflaged like the mascot for Geico
In that bullshit, I took another pull quick
My mind flooded like a fucking swimming pool is
Went back in the house, raided my moms refrigerator
But everybodys on a diet and my stomach aint quiet
I said, Fuck it, hit the shower like a jackpot
The weed got my teeth off-white like crack rock
Toothbrush from the 99 cent store
I got a million dollar smile, it dont make sense though
Threw on my army fatigue shorts and a T that say Peace Not War
Now everybody eyeing me
I dont know if I need an iron or its the irony
And by the way, Im at the gas station now
But not to get gas, just another black and mild
Shit this half a half a tank gon have to last until Monday
And its Tuesday, the bitches still want me like a bouquet
I hit my nigga Agent, he want to roll up two Ls like Cool J
Im like, Alright, cool, Jay
But I gotta be at work by 3, its midday
I cant go in smelling like weed, he said, Okay
Stop by the cheap tobacco store, two swishers for a dollar
And when he meet me, we finna get high, like a greeting
He told me, Drop five, I said, I got you next time
Long story short, I bumped my head on cloud nine
And Im chilly chill even when its hot outside
Rode to the studio rather blasted
I spit like a dragon thatll leave a fan flabbergasted
Thats when my gas and my check engine light
Clicked on at the same exact time I signal right
And that aint right, I got shit to do today
Cause any day you could be attending my eulogy
Got to the studio when everybody left
I saw a note that read, We went to go work on Detox with Weezy F
My fault nigga, I actually came up with the idea to write that
It was funny at first but
A day in the life
Of mister soul brother number deuce
Damn he nice
Im thinking if you only knew
You could fuck with it or middle fingers up to your whole crew
Tell em the regular nigga said it and that it
A day in the life
Of mister soul brother number deuce
Damn he nice
Im thinking if you only knew
You could fuck with it or middle fingers up to your whole crew
Now its 2:58 and Im running late for work
Running meanin stuck in traffic cause the Home Depot is finna jerk
I been in the same position before
Manager said it better be my last time, but it wont
I clocked in around 3:10 and Im wishing I didnt
Cause UPS just brought in this big ass shipment
And for those that dont know, I work at a record store
And I make hot records
Finished the inventory then I logged on Myspace
I had one download and bout 16 plays
5 friend requests from sucka MCs making a name
I signed out and had to question my aim
This old-timer walked in and we got to talking about Eric B and Rakim
And the perm on Al Sharpton
Osama bin Laden, Obama in the office
And he looked me in my face and said Im destined for fame
Told him I do music, he like, Whatever you do, do it
And dont blink, the moment you close your eyes, youll lose it
Word to wise, that was some great advice
That I took like I stole it, then my head sort of swollen
I guess thats why I shits on em like a cleansed colon
Told the rest of the shoppers we finna be closing
I locked up like Akon and hit the street
Its 8 PM, and I aint had shit to eat
All day, KFC, snackers a dollar each
Bar-b-que and nacho cheese
I bought 4, ate 3, gave one to Top Dawg
I wouldve had one for Punch but he moved like a sloth
Im back at the studio now if I lost ya
And everythings straight, you can thank great posture
Hit my lil momma up cause Im trying to cut
But she on the rag and I dont mean a bandanna
She told me come through, she gave me head like Rihanna
And I deserve a standing ovation for my swagger
Chuck the deuce, headed for the car to finish off the night right
But it wouldnt start
Laugh it up nigga, laugh it up man
Shit aint funny man, thats why I need that damn gas can
Shit nigga I aint got 5 dollars to put in!
Whatever man, bullshit dog, keep laughin
(Tryin to save that extra dollar for that menu
For the McDonalds menu nigga aint gotta cut all the time
Nigga you gotta put the whole 5 in it)
You gon shoot me 5 or what? Fuckin bastard |
Greetings people
Youre now rockin with the best
Hub Citys threat
Minor of the year
K.Dot
I know the hoods been waitin, right
Imma stop being stingy
Imma share with yall
Whoever thought young Kendrick would spit, so ignorant
Make street disciples go and get a membership
Streets revival like Creflo Dollar hustlin on the strip
This is church
Advise you to purchase it or copy the worst
Yall rhymes sloppy, I rhyme properly
I jam pack Monopoly dollars by puttin 100% in every verse
Add 10% more and what do you get
A skinny nigga manipulatin the innocent
I have no sense, ever since the Rodney King riots
Mind militant, nigga dont try it
Try to hold the peace, for I promote violence
Yall dont rap
Yall make a lotta noise like sirens
So Im here to shut shit down
The four pound decorate your city
Make over your town
Im not Diddy, but still a bad boy
Til the reaper come get me, follow me now
Where no man has stepped, no man has repped
No man can withstand all the nights Ive slept
Under my sheets, no life, thinkin bout death
Fuckin with me, you just might lose your breath
Ill take you to them pearly gates
Them golden streets
Plus a cute little casket so your body can sleep
The Hub City shit is me
Do you believe
Its Kendrick the God |
You never knew a plug, plug, plug, a plug like this
Sophisticated gangsta, watch me thug like this
Snatch your, uh, in a club like this
Seven zeros, need my pub like this
Stuck in a rock in a hard place
I am thinkin I wont bump yall up, well, I am
I got to get my thing off
My style come from Devin the Dude, Kurupt, 2
And James Brown with his fist crossed
I fluctuate the vocals like Prince Rogers
Whoever thought a billionaire come out of Compton?
Multiply simple logic, its rules you can follow
If Dre aint motivation, I dont know who is
Gift and a curse, maybe them shoes is too big
Or maybe Im too pessimistic to know Im gifted
Chasin hood rat brownie points and bullshittin
I dropped the four on em, scrapin, hopped a four on em
Grab my dick and pour on em
Yeah, homie, Im still talkin that whoop-de-whoop
Hoppin out on my enemies, I know who to shoot
Back when my homies where I need to be
Such a familiar sceneries, I smell the gun smoke
I watched a homie watch his son smoke
I seen the sun set on my set
I seen one Ru and one Loc, one slip and one played him close
Everythin subject to change
Nowadays, the Compton Crip car kill each other
Faster than an opposite color
Homies whack out everythin, youre dead, homie
Its your mother, your uncle and brother
If God was a Loc, hed probably had one comin
Damn, thats fucked up, I guess it is
When you cant trust not a soul inside these streets
I made a video out there in Copenhagen, so the homies can see
To let em know its more than just Pamela Lee
They said, Good looking
Paused the video the moment his phone ring
That fast dollar was his only problem
No matter how many times I showed him the Eiffel Tower
The block was home and Africa was too far for power
Then I knew
And you dont and you dont and you dont
And you dont and you dont and you dont
And you dont and you dont and you dont
And you dont and you dont stop
This feelin is unmatched
This feelin is brought to you by adrenaline and good rap
Black Pendleton ball cap
We dont share the same synonyms, fall back
Been in it before Internet had new hacks
My innocence limited, the experience lacked
Ten of us with no tentative tactic that cracked
The mind of a literate writer, but I did in fact
You admitted it once I submitted it wrapped in plastic
Remember scribblin, scratchin diligent sentences backwards
Visitin freestyle cyphers for your reaction
Now I can visit a stadium, pack it the fastest
Gamblin Benjamin benefits, sittin in traffic
Spinnin women in cartwheels, linen fabric on fashion
Winnin in every decision
Kendrick is master and mastered it
Isnt it lovely how menace has turned attraction?
Pivotin rappers, finish your fraction, runnin pure magic
Thank God for rap, I will say it got me a plaque
But whats better than that? I know everything
I know everything, I know myself
I know morality, spirituality, good and bad health
I know fatality might haunt you
I know everything, I know Compton
I know street shit, I know shit thats conscious, I know everything
I know lawyers, advertisement and sponsors
I know wisdom, I know bad religion, I know good karma
I know everything, I know history
I know the universe works mentally
I know the perks of bullshit, that isnt meant for me
I know everything, I know cars, clothes, hoes and money
I know loyalty, I know respect, I know those thats hungry
I know everything, the highs to lows to groupies and junkies
I know if Im generous at heart, I dont need recognition
The way Im rewarded, well, thats Gods decision
You know, they know that from Compton School District
I give it to the kids, don’t gossip ‘bout how it was distributed
I, I, I know how people work, I know the price of life
I know how much it’s worth, I know what I know and I know it well
Not to ever forget until I realized I didn’t know shit
Big Boy, what’s up?
I don’t give a butt about no politics in rap
My little homie Stunna Deuce ain’t never comin back
So I got to go hard every time I jump on wax
Bump what they talking ‘bout, this here is where it’s at
Look, I came in this game, I stuck my fangs in this game
I wore no chain in this game, my hood, my name in this game
Now I double up, time to bubble up the bread and huddle up
I’m stickin to the scripts like, “Yeah, em Benjamins can cuddle up”
I skip, hop, I drip-drop, I flip-flop with them white tube socks
It go sherm sticks, watch me burn this
That’s what the chronic smell like when them chemicals mix
Fifty-homie salute, I’m out to Compton Zoo with the extras
El Cos, Monte Carlos, Road Kings and dressers
Rip Ridaz, P-Funkers, Mexicans that eff with me
Nobody can eff with me, tell yall to eff with me
Jumpin out the Caddy, uh, just got my dick sucked
The little homies called
They said, The enemies done cliqued up
Oh yeah? Puto want to squabble with mi barrio?
Oh, yeah? Tell em they can run it for the cardio
Oh, yeah? Everythin is everythin, its scandalous
Slow motion for the ambulance, the project filled with cameras
The LAPD gamblin, scramblin, football numbers slanderin
Homie’s name on paper, you snitched all summer
The streets don’t fail me now, they want to put the game in town
From Compton to Congress, it’s set trippin’ all around
Ain’t nothin new but a flow of new DemoCrips and ReBloodlicans
Red state versus a blue state, which one you governin’?
They give us guns and drugs, call us thugs
Tell me they profit to fuck with you
Nobody can fuck with you, Obama said, What it do?
Can I get one more?
Everybody want to talk about who this and who that
Who the realest and who wack, who white or who black
Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin’
Motherfuck if they did, then a niggad be platinum
Y’all priorities are fucked up, put energy in wrong shit
Hennessy and Crown Vic, my memory been gone since
Don’t ask about no politician at award shows
No, don’t ask about my, hoes, no, don’t ask about my foes
Less you askin me about power, yeah, I got a lot of it
I’m the only nigga next to Snoop that can push the button
Had the Coast on standby
“K. Dot, what up? I heard they opened up Pandora’s box”
I box ‘em all in, buyin land stock |
Baby you understand me now
If sometimes you see that Im mad
Dont you know no one alive can always be an angel
When everything goes wrong, you see some bad
But Im just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please dont let me be misunderstood
As soon as the beat drop
Within two bars, you already said Im hot
They savor, my fruits of labor
My flow is sweeter than strawberries, oranges, and apricots
God-dammit I raised the standards of the status-quo
To go against me you gotta be more than professional
You got to go extra hard like an erection with no protection
And I be fucking all these bars
We be sexing Im a nympho
For the instrumentals, all right, I admit it
Matter of fact I got a hot date tonight, real rap
Take this and take that from the machine
Got this money up, with no caffeine
Prepare me is Kerosene struck by a bunch of lightening
You looking at me then your sight seeing
And what that means is that this human being is fly, dont try to duplicate
Im authentic, I see you scoping my style like forensics, that is foul
Tech! Leave em by the benches
Im just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please dont let me be misunderstood
I see the future better than your computers
Apple software got the next 10 years scared Im Fred Krueger
Rugers on my hip, terminate all intruders
Leave them dead inside the sewers
Shoulda coulda knew I was a murderer
Burning up the very sun, the rapture
The god is back, they said hed come, but I came faster
Im not an actor, if you play Denzel, youll be thrown through a windshield
The nine merely is handheld, the AK is hands on
Now the battlefield I can land on one thousand mines and dont blow up because Im the bomb
Inside your CD deck, duck for cover, guard your neck, I demand respect
If I never see a check, at least I got these rap niggas in check
Preach Tabernacle fetch the holy bible if Im lying
King of my jungle, swear to remain humble, keep my vision tunnel
Because I dont need to get sidetracked, my producer name is Soundwave and he gives me beats by the batch
Im just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord please dont let me be misunderstood
My flow cold, like Aspen
I love to show off when Im in that Aston
Look I act a ass, but Im not jack
A east side nigga I can get you popped at
A hundred rounds nigga stop that
You cant make that ass sit or flip-flop back
Im too gutta nigga top that
This is lyrical homicide, not rap
So dont get it misunderstood
Say my name on your bars, shit Im in your hood
With 45 goons 45 shugs
Chase your ass upstairs throw you of your roof
I see you big dogs, all I hear is woof
Loud talk, no bite, you niggas is puss
Im off that bubble kush, thinking about life
Or how to make a mill and spend it all in one night
I just might...
...Snatch your bitch if she got a great appetite
For the top dog catalog, that means everybody
Several bodies on the shoty dont make it eight rappers
Damn I hate rappers, dont call me that
If you called it how you seen it you would call me real rap
I dont fabricate shit, all I do is keep it real
Eat, sleep, and take shits wipe me down if you will
Hold up, big truck, lurkin with the monster grill
Four fifteens I got beat like Emmett Till
Put me in my g-mode schooling every hot-head
Tell them about the g-code, like eskimos
My arms froze, popsicle
Observing the game, Im so official |
Woo!
Shoutout my hustlers, I mean
Everybody hustlers
You feel me
Look, look
I said, wake up, open up shop, get your hustle on
Selling pills straight out her crib, and break into another home
Tryna get in and out, get his double-double on
This aint my story that Im singing nigga, but this is another song
This probably your uncle song
Probably your big brother song
Your father or your mother song
I understand your circumstance so in your head theres nothing wrong
How you could blame how we behave?
If we paid and we aint getting loans
You dont know whats going on
If you aint live to see this shit I cant describe
Taking chances so they survive
This all happens just to take a life
In the end it was all for bread
And use the heat just to make it rise
Not sure how to raise a daughter
But they know to raise the price, so what you goin through
Tell a nigga what you going through
I could probably relate
I could probably be late
And still be on time for you
I could probably spit mind for ya
If you dont wanna tell your story
Its the same as yours, I hustle early in the morning
I said, wake up, open up shop, get your hustle on
Selling pills straight out her crib, and break into another home
I understand your circumstance, so in their heads, theres nothing wrong
But they dont know whats going on
They dont know whats going on
Wake up
I know only, trapped in the belly of the beast and its hungry
If I cant lay up in the streets I feel lonely
If I gotta break up with the streets I feel lonely
Yeah you got your car, yeah you got your gold
Your money dont fold but your mama still at home
Fam dont want your dirty money
You look clean, but your mother sad
Your girl felt neglected, now your daughter got another dad
Local block hustler, my father was a customer
Moms used to watch him buy his weed then she would cuss at him
Only for the weed, he felt free from that subtle bust
Moved back and it was primetime
And now Im on my prime time
But hustler turned pimp, doe
He was getting pimp dough
Now only selling his dope
But now he selling nymphos
Not so cautious about how he sells
Made his way to county jails
Now he lonely in them cells
How he feel
It was probably hell
He got out, but on that same shit
I guess when you loyal to yourself then you cant switch
But how can you blame kid
Dont know what he was goin through
Cause hustle is his bread and butter
He dont want no other food
But I wake up, open up shop, get my hustle on
Wake up early in the morn
Make a couple records, getting reckless on these records
Til these fuck niggas respect it
Go and get it, make a difference
Wake up with a new perspective, motherfucker
Wake up
I know only, trapped in the belly of the beast and its hungry
If I cant lay up in the streets I feel lonely
If I gotta break up with the streets I feel lonely
Justify the love of mine
For life of crime, my life and times
Is hard at times
I fall a time, like all the time
And then I dream for baller time
And then the clock rewind, and I
Wake up
I know homie
I know homie
Wake up
I know only, trapped in the belly of the beast and its hungry
If I cant lay up in the streets I feel lonely
If I gotta break up with the streets I feel lonely
Justify the love of mine
For life of crime, my life and times
Is hard at times
I fall a time, like all the time
And then I dream for baller time
And then the clock rewind, and I
Wake up
I know homie
I know homie
We aint chose this type of living, its what we gotta do
Part of niggas hear us cripping and drop out of school
Selling drugs or they pimping like some prostitutes
Living in a nightmare, Pinching is what you gotta do
Wake up
Hello?
Rise and shine, nigga
Bro, what you need, bro
What you on nigga? You tryna hit up the mall?
Hit up the mall? Nigga, I got like five dollars. I dont got no job
And I know you broker than me bro so what you mean
Yeah, thats why I said hit up the mall nigga what you talking about
Get your ass up man, lets roll |
Ha haaa Ha haaa, yeah
Aww man, man, damn
One more time, yeah
Remix, remix
My life is full of lust, things will never be the same
Guess I should just keep that shit moving and accept the change
Im a rapper dawg, Im bout to cop a chain
Iced out, Veggies shining maybe then youll know my name
Shout out my homies on it, specially from California
Man I be killing tracks, twenty years old writings on it
I got the connect, its time to get a lick
I put my niggas on then we generating checks
This slow as a cancer, I need a sponsor
Or go to Averys college and try to be a scholar
But the thing about it, got no dollars got no knowledge
I pray God help me prosper, keep me from imposters
I applied to school just so I can have some options
I need a couple mil, Im trynna do it big
If I never get my chance least you all know I live, I live
Peas and Carrots, thats my niggas
We blew up, you a eyewitness
My broad put his finger on her trigger
If any of you niggas come try and get us
But only call upon the shit you want
She lookin good and she got a donk
Im a take her down and then wake her up
And then let her know that I had enough
Rollin round the city with the homies in the Fo Do
Number 9 Jays matching perfect with the polo
Boxing out haters in my city like ?polo?
Girls with seven Ds, double Ds taking photos
Grab them cameras, let you know you aint dealing with no amateurs
Ask your girl, bet shell tell you all about my stamina
On the grind to the come up
Name through the city got me buzzin like a liquor but I never pick a blunt up
Fly chicks all in the whip, you will never be ?
But she really just admiring the come up
Funny what these chicksll do when you making moves
I had em propped for Veggies, picked em up right after school
This pimpin nigga
Gems drop, better listen nigga
Chasing all these hoes will leave you cold
Better pay attention nigga
Flashing lights, lavish nights
If I hit it once, Imma hit it twice
Cold game
Do it for my niggas trynna maintain
Got girls blowin like coal train
Throw a couple in the air like Soul Plane
Ridin roun town, mo change, mo steelo
New girl with me, but I keep it on the dlo
All these things goin down, what you think she with me for?
Look like she from Rio, sweeter than Tampico
Hit the eastside, the hoes call me Domasito
Crenshaw nigga, from Vernon ave up to Pico
We just getting money, I barely got time to eat though
Josh thats my people, Carrots get all the freaks though
Ridin Round Town, Im in the back while shes driving
Take me anywhere you wanna go, just surprise me
A lot of niggas hating, Im just now realizing
Your girl legs I will be dividing
Her pussy be open, my dick just be hiding
We just on the coasters, my niggas be riding
Everywhere Im going, girls be so excited
I went to your showing, no hoes got invited
Come put out the beat, that shit got ignited
My vodkas from Poland, Im not the politest
I might grab your ass, I know you finn to like it
I told you I cant drive bitch, police done took my license
So I be Just...
Ridin roun town, mo change, mo steelo
New girl with me, but I keep it on the...
And they all wanna feed my ego
When they wanna lay up in the front seat do
With the feet up, Beep Beep in the Regal
Baby hurry up, Skeet Skeet she go deep throat
Then Im rolling in the wind, Chi Town
Top down in the summer time, brand new number 9s
I be lovin that crap like its Cee-Lo
They be lovin my crack man Im Nino
She know that I see more C notes than you
Give me Chemo, home sick and I need help
But I hardly medicate myself, I doctor everything that I do
Ive been the one, since I was one
This game I got, it weighs a ton
These bitches go, these bitches come
She scream some more every time she cum
Orgasms and a lot of Champagne
Back spasms and diamond rings
Diamond cut, nigga its no cut
When I yell HiiiPower, TDE Gang
Im ridin round, Im ridin round
The corner from success, and I made a left
Then I got it right, now fuck your life bitch Kendricks next
Im talkin dick in the whole world
Your Ex and your new girl
Shit you nothin new girl
Theres better bitches than you girl
As I ride around, Im right around the corner from success
Then I made a left and got it right
Now fuck your life, my dick is wet. Pause
Hold up man this my song, let me take it back real quick for yall
Its young Veggies
I prefer to just get the dome
Little niggas was at home
I was grindin 4 years on my own
Dont act like you cant see a nigga
In your past life you cant be a nigga
You can have an approach, make a lot of money
In the end you still gonna be a nigga
To the government, my covenant
Got attitude no Eazy-E
Po pos aint seeing me
Four shows and I need some tea
Young and going through puberty
But in high school man I made the Gs
My legal grind gon take me far
Im a porcupine Ill stab a heart
I shine hard off my heart
Gimme me the light like Sean Paul
Shell drop it low for this young nigga
Girl you should be askin to run with us
Baby girl Im just one nigga
I can only chill and have fun with ya
Big dreams make big figures
Ill wrap the city like big tigger
Im ridin round and Im gettin it
Going down and Im livin
In life you always get a choice
And I chose the right at that wisdom
Gone
Ridin roun town, mo change, mo steelo
New girl with me, but I keep it on the dlo
All these things goin down, what you think she with me for?
Look like she from Rio, sweeter than Tampico
Ah, the swagger
Dollar after dollar
Keep a bad chick with me
And I always pop my collar
If she ever got a problem
Get rid of her ass to solve it
Smash her at night
Then I kick her out in the morning
SWAG!
Swag
Swag |
I woke this mornin undecided
My demons takin over my life, yeah
Sooner or later its a family divided
These patterns gettin hard to hide, yeah
They say I should be satisfied
They tell me I got the world, but thats a lie
I wished the way I feel could be pacified, sometimes
I wish I was somebody
Anybody but myself
Oh, I wish I was somebody
Anybody but myself
If I told you Im bout to break would you look at me different?
Character out of place, would I lose your attention?
Let me know your intentions, cause lately I been watchin everybody
Its apparent that transparency never seen monotony
Got off of tour, lookin for closure
Mixin emotions of bein grateful and feelin like some of yall gettin over
Whats a puppet on stage, singin and dancin ablaze?
But trading his worth, distorted by the money thats made
A slave with a verse, I feel like Prince Rogers
I feel liberation is free, I feel I should miss the Oscars
Are you celebrating me as the artist or just a profit?
A question I have for the ones around me thats turnin toxic
My lungs been heavy from all the smokescreen boobytraps
Reminiscin on what it was, and knowin that this aint that
I vision a rock in a hard place
Hope my daughter isnt born with a piece of my heartbreak
You know stress carries on and your kids reap the mistakes that you made
And I admit that I can be dismissive if I cant relate
And I admit that I only commit to start playin games
And I admit that Im bad at talkin myself out of shame
But whos to blame when the crowds stop cheerin and they passin dirty looks?
I now understand that Ill never be understood
Isolation didnt work for me
Socializing didnt work for me even
Prayed about it, didnt work for me
You cant cure this disease
The pain too traumatic for relief
Pull up the curtains, let the audience see
I wish I was somebody
Anybody but myself
Oh, I wish I was somebody
Anybody but myself |
I was sitting on the couch reading yellow paper
A letter in reply, 7 days later after I wrote em
Stay strong, keep your faith in God, what I told him
Hoping that hes listening
Said that they tried to give him like a hundred years
What a coincidence, I was bumping some Plies
I can taste the salt from my tears
As the water had start to flood on my eyes
I know it gotta be hard being 21
Doing time in the pen and your Grams old
Your brothers getting older
And the streets is getting colder
And your hoping that hes focused to stay on the right road
Sleeping in a cell, its been 30 weeks
Aint recieved any mail
Its cold and the hole stinks
And you cant even blink without niggas testing your life
As I read every word that you write, I can only imagine
Jason Keaton, I can only imagine
Lifes about decisions man
Its in your hand and you got it
Just take control if you can
Its in your hand and you got it
Sitting on the couch, that was my Uncle Bobby
After he just got out, 15 years to count
Havent seen the world in so long
Havent seen a girl in so long
And before the sun came up, he was gone
Like a fiend off the best rock
Trying to get his life together, or what not
Typed his name in the system and they couldnt find his identity
Got it straight, got a place, found some serenity
Found a job, found his Mothers grave site, found a 40 ounce
Then he found God, then he bounced, then he found a new chick
Two kids, wide hips, found something in her we didnt see
Found this spot in Pasadena and shack with her, an investment
Then found guilty, somebody had yelled domestic
Violence on my Uncle, was working with two strikes
Only out a year, now facing life
I can only imagine
Thats fucked up
I can only imagine, Uncle Bob
Lifes about decisions man
Its in your hand and you got it
Just take control if you can
Its in your hand and you got it
Sitting on the couch, thinking about the ratio
Of blacks in prison as compact in prison
When blacks pack with minorities
System grab more of these 18 year olds
18 year sentence with no parole
The state wont oversee
They make the term severe, a conspiracy?
Thats what I call it, its full of shit
A toilet can help quick, the government help?
No, just put us on death row
Just give us some more guns, then give us some more coke
Then give us another chair, then give us some more rope
Then hang it like right there, yeah
Its justice for all but 90 percent unfair
Care? No
Alcatraz was purchased by a white man
For 5 grand, with intentions to expand
More prisons
So these correctionals aint for rehabilitation
They for grossing a bigger business
Imagine
Were being used
Imagine
The truth shall be told
Lifes about decisions man
Its in your hand and you got it
Just take control if you can
Its in your hand and you got it |
My people dont love me
Why we hate each other?
Why we kill our brothers, why we hurt our mothers?
My people dont love me
We can love one another
We should stick together because were all we got
My people dont love me
Why we ride on another, need to love one another
We all we got
My people dont love me
I said we all we got, I swear to God dog we all we got
My people dont love me
This whole worlds spillin senseless killing
Universe beyond evil, one topic to serve
Be my black people, we be missing the point like Shaqs freethrow
Sean Taylor, life gone because of haters
A nigga he known tried home invasion, went wrong
Bullet penetrated his leg, femur bone
Days later, wake arrangements, flowers to be catered
That was so impatient, take him from the next man
Cause he aint got the will to hustle like he can
Niggas would rather steal than think of a righteous plan
To get residuals, kill for dividends
This life is critical, we living in a time where
9-year olds tote 9s
Turn 10, its Mac 10s and coke lines
I wonder why successful black man gotta die from a black man
My people dont love me
Why everywhere I go I got to accumulate some hate?
My people dont love me
Genocide all we know shit, we basically in the KKK
OK-K-K, Im trying to make my cake
But every time I turn around you take it from me
Black people dont love me
Hate each other we do each other wrong
Thats why today, black people lets love we
Cant be a positive black role model
Leading the future with no haters to follow
Now thats fucked up, if I ever wanna see
Success, I gotta see death? Be famous for what?
He aiming for higher learning, you aiming to shoot him down
He flying straight, you wanna u-turn him
You burn your brothers bridges
His accomplishments making way for your children
Still you dont compliment, inconsiderate black pride
No never been, never win, gotta lose
Thats the slope thats for the black heritage
We play the fool better than comedians
Disobediant dude no respect, ethics
I refuse to be a statistic
But changing my community dont seem realistic
Show me an African American doing right
Ill show you one that will kill his ass tonight
My people dont love me
Why everywhere I go I got to accumulate some hate?
My people dont love me
Genocide all we know shit, we basically in the KKK
OK-K-K, Im trying to make my cake
But every time I turn around you take it from me
Black people dont love me
Hate each other we do each other wrong
Thats why today, black people lets love we
We stuck together back in slavery days
Martin and Malcolm them dudes paved the way
The bullshit we doing, I know theyre turning over in their graves
The shit need to stop today
Yeah the die for the cause, some like Jesus for us
To become better people, think about it
We used to run from the KKK
But now we running from our brothers that be holding them ks
Man, never thought thered be days like this
Cant trust your homies that youre hanging with
Damn shame, why you kill a nigga over a chain
When you could get up on your hustle and get the same thing
United we stand tall, divided we all fall
Lets leave this bullshit behind yall
On the real, the envy and the hate need to stop
Black people we all we got
My people dont love me
Why everywhere I go I got to accumulate some hate?
My people dont love me
Genocide all we know shit, we basically in the KKK
OK-K-K, Im trying to make my cake
But every time I turn around you take it from me
Black people dont love me
Hate each other we do each other wrong
Thats why today, black people lets love we
Yall better wake up and smell the coffee
We all we got man
Its black on black killing each other man it needs to stop
Real talk
Black people need to smarten up
We all we got |
Two tears in a bucket Ill cry with ya, huh
But I can never lie with ya
I can never afford not to afford
I can never put my plans to the side with ya
I can never see a red light
Like a deer with a head light
I freeze up when I re-up
See I really have patience
If you relatin, only the moment to complete us
Why you hate to work for it
The reason why I never went to work for it?
See a nine to five was so jive turkey
But when Thanksgiving came that check didn’t hurt me
You plead the fifth, I read the fifth amendment
We both criminals with bad intention
They say time heals all
But if I could short cut my success motherfunk all yall
Whats up
Brothers be like
George, aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
I was hard when I started
Ill be hard when I get through
For example if I had to sample some funk like you
Would I be funky too?
And another thing
It aint so hard, it aint so strange
If I could be funky like you
If I could be funky like you
Brothers be yo like
George, aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
He was hard when he started, said he going to be hard when he get through
He was hard he started, he going to be hard when he get through
By the way I treat her
You know if I need her
See, Dr. Funkenstein
Thats my spiritual leader
Some suckers dont like it
Cause Im a psychic
And if you tricks dont like it
Hoe, you can dyke it
Its that self-made Kool-Aid
Look what red and blue made
Turned OShea into N.W.A
Triple OG, aint never sold a key
Aint never did time, they still respect mine
Ask all the niggas, on the main line
Who they favorite, and what hes made with
Playboy, I aint nothing to play with
Im dangerous when it come to using this language
Me and star child, we talk to strangers
All the real hoods are ready to bang this
You might not understand if you came from Cambridge
Im flesh and blood, thats hard as stainless
Yeah yeah
Its good to be hard
Its good to be hard, homie
But damn
Its hard to be good
Its hard to be good
Brothers be like
George
aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
I was hard when I started, Ill be hard when he get through
Brothers be like
George, aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
I say, I was hard when I started, gon be hard when he get through
Brothers be yo like
George
aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
He was hard when he started, and hell be hard when he get through
George, aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
He was hard when he started, and hell be hard when he get through
He was hard when he started, and he gon be hard when he get through
Aint that funkin kind hard on you?
Aint that funkin kinda hard
Yeah
Aint that funkin kind hard on you?
Since when did the funk become
Shit, aint
Aint that funkin kind of hard on you?
See, Dr. Funkenstein
Two tears and a bucket
Aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
Aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
Two tears and a bucket
Aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
(Never, never stop, no, no
Never stop, no, no)
Aint that funkin kinda hard on you?
(No, no
Never stop
No, no, no
Never, never, never stop)
Brothers be like
George, aint that funkin kinda hard on you? |
I remember, being young, dumb, looking for the next thrill
Angry adolescents, three things on our minds
Money, murder and you
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
Bring yo girls to the crib, maybe we could solve it
Picture perfect, uh huh
And I paint a perfect picture, my intentions to get richer
But I aint tryna split the profit with ya
Every pocket on me bleeds, Im a selfish ass nigga
Mmm, deuces up, black coupes is us
Or maybe the white on white, Ku and Klux
Head all in the bathroom
Beg for it, Ill be back soon
Fuckin problem, fuck your problems
I got my own but one aint a dollar
I got five phones for five different reasons
London, Tasha, Mya, Keisha
Courtney, blue-eyed devils with no Visas
Overseas, high heels, wine and pizza
Overdosed on bad bitches, I swear
One on both arm but need two pair, I beast
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
Bring yo girls to the crib, maybe we could solve it
Yeah ho, this the finale
My pep talk turn into a pep rally
Say she from the hood but she live inside in the valley now
Vacad in Atlanta, then she goin back to Cali, mmm
Got your girl on my line, world on my line
The irony, I fuck em at the same damn time
She eyeing me like a nigga dont exist
Girl, I know you want this dick
Girl, Im Kendrick Lamar
A.K.A. Benz-is-to-Me-Just-a-Car
That mean your friends-es need be up to par
See, my standards are pampered by threesomes tomorrow, mmm
Kill em all, dead bodies in the hallway
Dont get involved, listen what the crystal ball say
Halle Berry, hallelujah
Holla back, Ill do ya, beast
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
I love bad bitches, thats my fuckin problem
And, yeah, I like to fuck, I got a fuckin problem
Bring yo girls to the crib, maybe we could solve it |
I cant be stopped
Its payday and Im in the candy drop
So for real, Candy Rain flooding your spot
Firestone tires hot, burning the block
For petes sake Im a heatwave melting your dot
My ship sail, so I should move units and quick
The whip trail like a mixed, variation of chips
So when I dip, its kinda ironic
And all I do is hotbox Hydro, call it a carpool
Im from the west, where the Tecs is drawn like Cartoon Network
Wetshirt, a marksman will become my ex expert
Welcome to school fools, dont get an F for effort
Top Dawg money gang, winter fresh, sunny chain
Bad bitches
Angry paper, got mad riches
Who the fuck you think youre up against? Come again?
Shades darker than the bitch, but I see you niggas
And I, see you niggas, wouldnt wanna be you niggas
Welcome to the C4
I got the bombs and the rental
Meet me on Central, and Rosecrans
Goddamn, Im the man, for life
The left coast, bitch get it right
Welcome to the C4, got the bombs and the rental
Its Top Dawg
They call me Rock, boy
Shit I came a long way from selling rocks, boy
Bout my cash money, you can call me hot boy
I throw shots, guns clap, like an encore
Bs up, hoes down, thats right blood
Cant be street sweepers, get your ass mopped up
Damn, Im in a 2008 something
Sitting on chrome buttons, nigga no bluffing
Hit a club, all eyes on my neck
Got $20,000 worth of diamonds on my chest, nigga
Fuck VIP, Im on the floor chunking up my sets
Twisting fingers with my niggas, blowing swishers, sipping liquor, till Im pissy, fucking bitches, its so easy
Get the name, tell them the telly nothing but pipe in their belly
.380 keep it on my waist like a celly
K.Dot bout to bomb on you niggas, get ready motherfucker
I keep a big loaf of the toast, be careful when the toaster pop
Hashbrowns and all, shooting out tater tots
Around 8 oclock I let it go for 8 a pop
Taking off wigs like Im working at a beauty shop
Im getting money, most success what Im achieving
Being broke is childish and most of these rappers teething
Still whipping the stick-shift, bottles pop, big sips
Green hash in the back, something to make my heart skip
You aint seen a dresser thats fresher and keep it ghetto
Had a gat utter, sing to you; Reuben Studdard
See my team rougher, yall fat; cream puffer
Your broad serve the whole squad, call her clique fucker
Start to thinking that Im the best, just sort of speaking
More than decent, and fucking something thats Puerto Rican
Im cool as ever, not concerned about the weather
Getting every dollar, Im steady stacking my cheddar
Hard as ever, yall cats soft as a feather
Super clever, outdoing me? Nigga never
Try to fuck me out my cash, dawg Im no pussy
Got big cajones, my nigga you cant douche me
Look, hard as a rock, look, yo Im hard to smash
New in-dash, bump loud, speakers blast
Heard a couple of your songs, your whole shit was trash
Fucking over the game, your whole squad is ass
Yeah, I tell em, I tell em, bang, bow, pop the man shit
As a young whippersnapper, been toting guns in my pants
Niggas bitches, niggas snitching, yeah they taking the stand
Cause a nigga on the block moves a couple of grand
Coming in wild, with 32 guns, and 10 guys, 3 Puerto Rican bitches, and a couple of 9s
Shit, BO never stopping, cause the flow is a headache, and my swag is a Oxycotin
Its Top Dawg money gang, 20 grand verte chain
Bentley GT, 3 pieces, nigga fuck a raise
Hustle like Im broke man, advise you to do the same
Nigga rob me? Better knock it off man
Shit, these niggas teddy bear soft
They pull up to new coupe, watch me fucking knock their top off
Bone marrow falling off, Mr. Swag dance, still lean, to the left, when they taking my pants
Try to play this MC like he was light, cause you can get it worse than Harold did at that red light
Pimping 24/7 like the day to the night
Now you mad cause your girlfriend giving head right
Moving through the block like a centipede
No rooftop, who hot? Imma show them where the antifreeze
I hit the dealership, and tell them hand me keys, like a grand pianist
Damage anything said, then landing on top of your bitch, oops I tripped
Im clumsy like Michelle Williams, or Jaleel White
I feel like a Predator, and none of you Danny Glovers are ready for, Alien tactics
The god is back, theyre on their knees praying like a mantis
As I perform like Santa Clause
Pause TVs in the Phantom
Bitches on my left and my right like I pant them
Dancing on the coast, emerging from the smoke
Pimping in my blood, tell doc to check my pulse
They knew that was K.Dot the gemini, with another cut like a Samurai
Anything else is uncivilized
Fucker |
Uh, me and my niggas tryna get it, ya bish
Hit the house lick: tell me, is you wit it, ya bish?
Home invasion was persuasive
From nine to five I know it’s vacant, ya bish
Dreams of livin life like rappers do
Back when condom wrappers wasnt cool
I fucked Sherane and went to tell my bros
Then Usher Raymond Let It Burn came on
Hot sauce all in our Top Ramen, ya bish
Park the car, then we start rhymin, ya bish
The only thing we had to free our mind
Then freeze that verse when we see dollar signs
You lookin like a easy come-up, ya bish
A silver spoon I know you come from, ya bish
And thats a lifestyle that we never knew
Go at a reverend for the revenue
It go Halle Berry or hallelujah
Pick your poison, tell me what you doin
Everybody gon respect the shooter
But the one in front of the gun lives forever
And I been hustlin all day
This-a-way, that-a-way
Through canals and alleyways, just to say
Money trees is the perfect place for shade
And thats just how I feel, nah, nah
A dollar might just fuck your main bitch
That’s just how I feel, nah
A dollar might say fuck them niggas that you came with
That’s just how I feel, nah, nah
A dollar might just make that lane switch
Thats just how I feel, nah
A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich
That’s just how I feel
Dreams of livin life like rappers do
Bump that new E-40 after school
You know, “Big Ballin With My Homies”
Earl Stevens had us thinkin rational
Back to reality, we poor, ya bish
Another casualty at war, ya bish
Two bullets in my Uncle Tony head
He said one day Ill be on tour, ya bish
That Louis Burger never be the same
A Louis belt will never ease that pain
But Ima purchase when that day is jerkin
Pull off at Churchs, with Pirellis skirtin
Gang signs out the window, ya bish
Hopin all of em offend you, ya bish
They say your hood is a pot of gold
And we gon crash it when nobodys home
It go Halle Berry or hallelujah
Pick your poison, tell me what you doin
Everybody gon respect the shooter
But the one in front of the gun lives forever
And I been hustlin all day
This-a-way, that-a-way
Through canals and alleyways, just to say
Money trees is the perfect place for shade
And thats just how I feel, nah, nah
A dollar might just fuck your main bitch
Thats just how I feel, nah
A dollar might say fuck them niggas that you came with
Thats just how I feel, nah, nah
A dollar might just make that lane switch
Thats just how I feel, nah
A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich
Thats just how I feel
Be the last one out to get this dough? No way!
Love one of you bucket-headed hoes? No way!
Hit the streets, then we break the code? No way!
Hit the brakes when they on patrol? No way!
Be the last one out to get this dough? No way!
Love one of you bucket-headed hoes? No way!
Hit the streets, then we break the code? No way!
Hit the brakes when they on patrol? No way!
Uh, Whats on a young niggas mind, ya bish?
Benjamins and killin time ya bish
The quickest way to make the quickest pay
Even if its doing crime, ya bish
Dreams of livin life like rappers do
But for now I guess this sack will do
They told em money the root of all evil
He hugged the devil the moment he seen em
It go Halle Berry or hallelujah
Pick your poison, tell me what you doin
Everybody gon respect the shooter
But the one in front of the gun lives forever
And I been hustlin all day
This-a-way, that-a-way
Through canals and alleyways, just to say
Money trees is the perfect place for shade
And thats just how I feel |
I had no idea who you were
Should have took my time
And opened my eyes
I had no idea who you were
Should have took my time
But my love was blind
You was caring, you was sharing, you was thoughtful, you was sweet
You was upliftin, you was different, you was commited, you was me
You was supportive, you was honest, easy going
You had promise, that youd never break a promise
You was life, you was free, from the bull shit
... I think
I had no idea who you were
Should have took my time
And opened my eyes
I had no idea who you were
Should have took my time
But my love was blind
You was insecure, jealous hearted, slight retarded
I was nauseous, I was marching back and forth, and you was forcin me to forfeit
Female fraudulent, you female doggin it
Its like extortion on my heart and shit
I probably fell for it, cause you was gorgeous
Now your course, done ran its courses, and of course you know Im exhausted
Time you know I surely lost it
Should of been wiser, should of been cautious
Should of been tighter with my game
I chose a dame that chose to entertain drama and what remains
Is hate, so fuck your fucking name
You fake and live in a hall of shame
Materialistic, egotistic, thirsty bitches
Open house, and mouth for niggas to stick they dick in
Thought you was different, but you wasnt
Take that back, I wish I would of just fucked with your cousin
Ass was fat, but never mind that
We out here fussin, fightin
Ask your friends to give advice, but they just like you
Clashing like some titans, could have broadcasted on pay-per-view
Promise that you never break a promise, should I trust you?
Now you only go for condoms, on late nights just because you, with the bull shit
I had no idea who you were
Should have took my time
And opened my eyes
I had no idea who you were
Should have took my time
But my love was blind |
Im looking at the flashy lights and wonder, the price and number
Enticed by the glamorous ice, I wanna
Unite with the Hollywood twice, my concertll look like yours
And I wanted more than I could ever imagine, even a kicked-down door
So you can hear that Im rapping, see, I can hear encore
Struck by the fame bug, been fighting the same drug
The feeling that caned us in vain, its tough love
Please help me, please help me
Im on my knees, please help me, need you to tell me
Aint nothing bigger than you, I thought a Benzd do
But nothing bigger than you, aint nothing bigger than truth
And truth be told, the totem pole
Of non-believers just made the cattle blow
But I can see ya, even when my visions impaired
Youre many moons away, but still youre right here
You wont find him drinking under tables
Rolling dice and staying out till three
You wont ever find him being unfaithful
You will find him, youll find him next to me
You wont find him trying to chase the devil
For money, fame, for power, out of greed
You wont ever find him where the rest go
You will find him, youll find him next to me
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
You will find him, youll find him next to me
When the moneys spent and all my friends have vanished
And I cant seem to find no help or love for free
I know theres no need for me to panic
Cause Ill find him, Ill find him next to me
When the skies are grey and all the doors are closing
And the rising pressure makes it hard to breathe
When all I need is a hand to stop the tears from falling
I will find him, Ill find him next to me
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
I will find him, Ill find him next to me
When the end has come, the buildings falling down fast
When we spoiled the land and dried up all the sea
When everyone has lost their heads around us
You will find him, youll find him next to me
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
You will find him, youll find him next to me
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
Next to me, ooh
You will find him, youll find him next to me |
Cardo got wings
Its work on the phone
Tell my mama that I might not make it home
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers
I said its work on the phone
Somebody tell my mama I might not make it home
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers
If thats your real nigga, he gon slide for you
If thats your real nigga, he gon die for you
You aint gotta question when its brackin
Just point me in the direction when its action
Day ones in the sandbox, from breakin through them padlocks
To burners in the stashbox, your whole hood mascots
My whole hood mad Watts, thats gang, gang, gang
We politic, on missions, dont hang, hang, hang
We got bad bitches too, huh, and they blast bitches too, huh
And they shoot the fair one too, huh, we can take it there too, huh
Niggas win some and lose some, just went half on a new drum
Summertime is overdue huh, double back when the news come
Its work on the phone
Tell my mama that I might not make it home
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers
I said its work on the phone
Somebody tell my mama I might not make it home
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers
Back door, back door, East Side, we go back door
What you wanna act for? You get what you ask for
Ballin in the game now, East Side, we go back door
Nothing is the same now, motherfuck the task force
Came up and I went back, changed up, never did that
If its taped off, yeah I did that, blew a half a mil, yeah, I did that
On the blade, girl, is you with that? Ten toes on the pavement
Sell your soul in the Days Inn, shacked up like a caveman
Troopers on deck, secure the bag, we plant the flags
So what we on next? What we on next?
Rock bottom from the NGs, handguns on the ten speed
RIP to my dead homies, loyalty is all we need, yeah
Its work on the phone
Tell my mama that I might not make it home
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers
I said its work on the phone
Somebody tell my mama I might not make it home
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers hoppin in this bitch, poppin in this bitch
Me and my troopers |
Hey little heartache, skipping out of town
And let’s stay out of trouble, you make it look good
Hey young heartache, you’re looking kinda charming
On the cul-de-sac, where nobody comes looking
Hey, little heartache, turn us on the highway
Let’s get into trouble, you make it look good
Hey young lover, let’s live on the Broadway
Take me to the Bridge but be sure to come look
Hey young heartache, you’re looking kinda charming
On the cul-de-sac, hope nobody comes looking
Hey, young lover, turn us on the highway
Let’s get into trouble, you make it look good
And there ain’t nobody loving me, down
The way you make me go places I forbid
And the spaces I should have known
And there ain’t nobody breaking me down
The way you make me go places I forbid
And the spaces I should have known
Hey little heartache, won’t you leave your mark
In corners of the dark where you make it look good?
We’ve taken this too far
But let me play the part where you should’ve stayed put
Hey, little heartache, turn us on the highway
Let’s get into trouble, you make it look good
Hey young lover, let’s live on the Broadway
Take me to the Bridge but be sure to come look
Hey young heartache, you’re looking kinda charming
On the cul-de-sac, hope nobody comes looking
Hey, young lover, turn us on the highway
Let’s get into trouble, you make it look good
In the late week, I was in London
I really wanna get into something
Bus way too cold
And I don’t wanna feel that numbness
And I just had a show, and I wanted you to go
But you had one too, I was wondering
Are the time gods on my side?
If so, God, press that button
Stuck on a tall-ass bus
Like 14 bunks and I can’t even sleep
And I hate getting drunk so I don’t got a cup
But I’ve got James Mason on repeat
I’m tryna stay on that good thing
You know?
Whatever song Heaven would sing
You know?
Broken up Alphabets
How can I get this convo to stay comprehensive
When the service is never working
And the Wi-Fi is out commission
And I’m not short with you on purpose
I’m a man of just few words
If you like to chat, then in fact
My job is to make sure you’re heard
Ms. Chatty — I’m like one message from calling a taxi
Exactly, I’ll catch a cold but as long as you match me
It’s actually a troublesome world when you think about it
So admit it, we both could look good with it if you’re the stylist
Hold up…
Digga-da digga-da digga-da da
Digga digga digga da digga da da
You stay in that dank lounge, Imma sit an decide
And P.S., the Olive Oils always love the Popeyes, I guess
I guess… |
I sit on the studio couch
Ask myself, what the fuck am I thinking about?
Thinking bout living without the past and the present
A Dr. Dre record, imagine, I drift off, 600 seconds
10 minutes exact, letting my mind explore
K. Dot had turned Curious George
You know, off the hardship is what Im curious for
Like what if Pac had never looked left to holla at broads?
Before he turned right to get them shots through the door?
They say Suge did it, but he was in emergency clinic
So hed risk his own life to get someone else killed
But in the process, get injured, it dont make sense
Its like the Da Vinci Code, trying to solve the crime of these rap souls
What if B.I.G. never did it big?
Never went to L.A., would it make a difference in them bullet-holes?
Would it make my flow more persistent?
Would it raise up the bar of competition? Who knows
Who told Nastradamus baby momma was fucking with HOV?
Would the battle be less interesting if it wasnt personal?
If Jay wasnt intimate, thered probably be less people listening
People thinking its a publicity stunt
What if he partnered with Jay and still didnt blow?
Hip-hop would really be fucked
Something like Milli Vanilli
Nothing different, quite similar
Filling up my mind capacity
Thinking about Martin Luther, on the balcony
What if the shooter-
Better yet, what if Malcolm on the side?
Killed two birds with one stone, both wouldve died
Now lets rewind
Before we go, can you imagine?
Picture years with your mom
Can you imagine?
Hang her picture in the sky
Can you imagine?
Call emergency, Ive been dreamin all my life
Imagine if Tookie was a Blood? Look, no disrespect
But would there be more Bloods than Crips sets?
Dominating the population of
L.A., Orange County, the Valley, and back up to the bay?
Matter fact, imagine if we didnt really start this gangster shit
Yall wouldnt have nothin to spit
No drive-bys, no flags stickin out pockets
No N.W.A. dudes, just rappin like Cre Cru
Imagine if Mike Concepcion walked on his own two
Feet no paralyzed, would he be alive?
Or would he been lost his life to the streets?
No match, no cars in that driveway
What if Freeway Rick never was a kingpin?
On this L.A. strip, would these rap niggas use his name?
Nah, what if rap niggas never had rap?
Would they try to fall back on this drug game?
These rappers ass backwards
Now these rappers getting caught with the cocaine
But to smoke, not to slang
Imagine that people not knowing these rap niggas insane
Just think about it
Before we go, can you imagine?
Picture years with your mom
Can you imagine?
Hang her picture in the sky
Can you imagine?
Call emergency, Ive been dreamin all my life
Imagine life without death, would you even feel alive?
Your people that passed, what if they never died?
Imagine seeing your mom cry, tears of happiness
Knowing her son safe, and she aint lose him to this madness
The street living, what if the crack epidemic
Never reached the projects and destroyed our buildings?
Turned most of us to killers, innocent victims
Imagine if heroin didnt affect our system
They say drug money funding the labels today
What about the drug money thats funding the C.I.A.?
Imagine if they really tried to fix these streets
Would they start in the hood, or executive suites?
Where the real criminals meet, and principals beef with me
You could possibly live without heat
Imagine if Al Gore had won that election
Would the Twin Tower buildings still stand erected?
Imagine the penal system without witness protection
Would there be these many cowards on the stand telling?
I dont know, Im just speaking my mind
Lost in my own soul, Just press rewind and imagine |
Look, tell me what you really wanna see
I had the greatest experience shooting that video, What’s it Gonna Be?
I had to say it wowing, my heartbeat started pounding
Walked on the set while she got dressed
In cock rings on her outfit
Janet, why you doing this to me?
At the time I couldn’t believe we both were starring in this movie
Youre in my video, you know a nigga loved it
I spent 2.4 million on the fucking budget
All my jewelry flooded, see how the kid was on?
First rap nigga album you’ve ever featured on
And I was weak in the Lord, despite the things we said
My first words to Hype Williams is “I can’t believe this dream”
Shot a solo scene, I tried to make mines better
But I love when we shot together, and we rubbed up on each other
But I’m a little jealous, Tip, your tongue went in her mouth
In that Poetic Justice movie, from what I can account
You know what we be ‘bout…
Any time, huh?
Any place, baby?
Now, you know, at the time, I was really
I really had my crush on shorty, man, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I was in love with shorty since she was
Penny and all that on Good Times and shit, you know what I mean?
Ayo, Kamaal, you’s a fucked up dude for doing that to me, man
You broke my heart with that, man
Come on, Buss, you know how many dudes say that to me? Like…
Once a day, girl, truly
We grew up with her through the lens of a camera
Didn’t have much, but dare said I’m having her
Shorty was the joint, here’s my case and point
Me and ‘Pac rollin’ L’s in the trailer
Both of us get to scheming how to nail her
First movie about to come out in the theater
Pleasure principle, butt to the makeup truck, so ill I gave her my code
We kissed, I took her control, we swapped as all the film rolled
A marathon, we kept this good thing going, sunset, the moon, it came on
In my mind it would prolong
Listen, the scene was deaded, but I wanted my own edit
Me and Justice kissing keep it going, two pros with credit
A memorable summer in ’92 out in Cali
When I got back up top my niggas asked about the fatty
And did I smash her madly, to that I had to answer
Negative, but I’d give anything to be her dancer
A captivating lady, I used to be her baby
Good Times, they never fading
Look back and celebrate Poetic Justice
At any time, and any place, I don’t care who’s around
At any time, and any place, I don’t care who’s around
In the thunder and rain, you stare into my eyes
I can feel your hand moving up my thighs
In the thunder and rain, you stare into my eyes
I can feel your hand moving up my thighs |
Been ready
Jay, I been ready
HOV, I been ready
They say patience
Everybody wanna know why my game plan so strong
Cuz I aint gotta think with a light bulb on
Nigga I eat, sleep, and shit rap; I never relax, been a busybody since I was born
Is he really fucking with Sean?
I reply, His pick, I would take a tool on.
Dolce brown nigga, Im right now, you aint gotta wait later
Where the CD at? Put it in the disc player
Tell ho ride to it, I do it like none other
K-Dot, definition of a young motherfucker with a problem
Future of the West Coast I am
And thats real tough
Southern California, Angels, AKA LA Sharks
Make comparisons when I seen him duck
Man you think What was to Pac and Big, before?
And that was before
I picked up a pen, and when I did, my thumb and my index sore
And then I started writing with it
Found that it flows better, like a Venice Beach sea shore
He dont wear the same clothes as yall
He is cut from a different cloth
Ya boy is cool, but Im a different frost
Like igloo, every time I come off
Every time I take off
Pandemonium when I take off
They hanging on the wing of that G4
30,000 feet and still wont fall
Why you do that for?
Why you had to sell out that store
You made my record sales come up short
My reply is that it aint my fault
Blame God
I cant wait when its my time
No I take that back, cuz I got time
I know that patience is virtue
But that being said, you got time before I hurt you
No lie
I cant wait when its my time
No I take that back, cuz I got time
I know that patience is virtue
But that being said, you got time before I hurt you
No lie
When the lights get dark
And every body quiet, know its my part
I might start a riot
The main event
Bulletproof under that black tent, you cant shoot through shit
I never played the bench
Star Point Guard
Never pass up money, Im a ball hog
Touch anything I get my hands on, into pushin like Ray Charles
I never had no flaws
Ooos and Ahhs after every bar
Take your bitch, then give her back
For no reason for, just because, yall actin hard
Im bein myself
And I got some plastic under my belt, so rest assured
You dont want your moms thinkin bout pullin that hospital cord
Went from a Honda Accord, to a Bentley Azure
Back seat got a flock of broads
And I aint gotta say to kiss it, just like Sure
Momma gon clean or fix it
Use Terrific, Easter Brum????????
All it need is a little season on
Who said a veteran cant be so young?
I sound better than half yall on
Damn K. Dot, let me see your arm
I aint gotta do a show, my jewels perform
I aint gotta do a show, my jewels perform
Princess cut looks stupid dumb
Eyes close shut, all I see is dollar signs
And I wont get enough till Im layed in the grave or hand cuffed up bout one time
No Lie
Blame God
I cant wait when its my time
No I take that back, cuz I got time
I know that patience is virtue
But that being said, you got time before I hurt you
No lie
I cant wait when its my time
No I take that back, cuz I got time
I know that patience is virtue
But that being said, you got time before I hurt you
No lie |
Yo, Ab-Soul brother number two
What it do, Tony Touch knock beats like I knock boots
Propaganda when I step to the rest of ya
You know they make it bigger then what it is in particular
Kendrick Lamar the modern day Malcolm
Humble and modest but these margins can move a mountain
I moshpit on the beat and leave the mark of a thousand marksmen
Clearing the street and killing rappers with talent, preach
Yes I said talent, Kendrick aint scared of yall, can’t even spell competitor
Lord is my witness
I remember asking artists in streets how they did it
The only features I got is was this handsome face I was getting
How ironic, playing Sonic was the shit like a colonic
Now we vomit over these beats while critics pay homage
This is too street like my 23 summers in Compton
I go so deep, like my dick in your bitch hope the condom never do leak
2 seats, one car, all you hear yes daddy and snapped bras
High salary blow jobs, high calorie rap bars not me
My sweet 16 probably need a school ID
And usually I be, the dominant victor
You know what time it is nigga
Affirmative Action, you fact or you fiction?
I’m a slain cracker from being insane
Pop a vein when I write this shit
I’m think on the shit, Im vain and I think you’re a bitch
A female poodle under some homos voodoo, sucking the industrys dick
We catching bodies, fades in the hotel lobby, fuck your security
And thats at the Ritz-Carlton
My impuritys probably your best asset
I spit acid, hit your block and crumble your address
Leaving them stagnant
This is torture when I tort-ya, or escort you
Out the building where ex-convicts with all sorts of
Permeant handshakes, your man can’t stick to the script with handpaint
Popping your lip then popping the clip then popping your van, wait
We keep the piece, but want the peace
Said I was Malcolm to your belief whats up
Aww man they let a gangsta in here
Awhuh, Looking for hoes who gon strip down to there swim wear
Aww, Since I got older n made an escape from our family
Niggas been causin casualties for any sucka or super sweater
Say they can handle me huh
I feel assaulted like, fuck around and get charged with battery
Awwhuh, Energized, Blue ball Im high as wings, we fly to find the things
On fire, Im carousing, n kick it like soccer teams, who spit it as precise as him
Awhuh, got a dirt job for that, uhhh, yo, choppa that hoes a beam,
Everybody focused on this animal
So one who push the envelope, the remedy the antidote
Mix the Henny and the Coke
Sell the tree and the dope, rain sleet and the snow, do we sleep? Hell no
I Pop a tag and pull up in a Elco
Bag a bitch at Elco, run up in her tailbone
Grindin cuz I sell mo, hotter then that hell boy
Fresher than an altoid, see me in them tabloids
Actin like a damn fool, running from them bad boys
Keep a Will Smithon Wessen
Big shell out my weapon, hit you like an astroid, get high wit androids
Im outta space wit this shit
Pass the L to Elroy. I aint took a L boy
I aint never lost nigga. big heat on me blood
Click defrost nigga. Lookin at a boss nigga
Fuck you an yo boss nigga, Iron on me ever see a hunnit play golf nigga
Get chastised for your raps with mad lies
See mathematically I divide you academy
Multiply the digits, spend it foolishly on women n Benzs
Jewelry or new Benzs, two or three
Who but me cool as Lupes CD
Or cooler then the Shade when its 80 degrees
You wouldnt qualify if you had 80 degrees
There aint a place or a horse that stay stable as me
You..
Feeling like a motherfucking animal
Hannibal Lechter of 2012
Elected to execute every rapper that has excelled
If music your calling
Then you balling, pick up yourself
If a nigga said he could see me
Bet he told you in Braille, fucker
Put you on front street, then buy some bread
Nigga you lunch meat, shouldve worked at Subway instead
Goliath couldnt bare my triumph
Im a leader, walk behind me as I walk through Zion
Swinging swords like Im sparring with a Spartan
Watch they face drop when the beat drop
I drop a real jewel like a Martin, fool
Me and curtains ballin like peewee kirkland callin em kirk franklin
Stomp em, leave em hurting
No judgement for a plaintiff
They tried to find me guilty for spitting filthy as O.D.B
But Ive been O.D. since 03
Thats March 14th, my first recordings
I kicked its like sweet chin music on Chuck Norris
Look, Look, Look, Look, Look, Look, I tell em
Im just an average black man, gotta take a stand
If I dont I will fall short, gotta have a plan
I dont know my destiny, Lord knows Im stressed, but he woke me up this morning, its good to say Im blessed
In this game we call life, gotta know the ropes
If you dont you get tangled, strangled till you choke
People think they know, think they know whats really best for me
They say that I aint swaggin enough, I bought necessities
They sai that I aint rapping enough, I need some concepts
Man they listening slow, or they too deaf
Shit I got what it takes to be a star
As soon as Im on man they wanna shut me off
Shining with the sun here they come with there clouds
But I aint giving up shit Ive been runnin for miles
If you ask around, they say Im the one in the town
Jay mutha fuckin rock, knock a shit down
Look, Look, uh, they say lifes a gamble
Im just glad that Im winning, ya Im glad that Im winning
Uhh, They say lifes a gamble, huh, but Im glad that Im winning
Shit Im just glad that Im winning
All these niggas cant fuck with anybody in my circle
Squares take a pair to this shit we droppin right
Im extra high, Im extra right
Now Im freestyling like what the fuck is up, fuck me up
Where the blunt at, can we smoke in here
Say Ab-Soul wheres the blunt, can we smoke it here
Got some mo weed, Hennessy, bitches in here
Im bout to fuck her, her, n then in the couch right there
You see how we do, right off the top no glasses
Just me n uhh, Kendrick Lamar, we...
After non sense, Im live and direct with a dead compass
On my way to Carson from Compton, steady mobbin
You know my squadrine, Black Hippy
All I need is a pack of Black & Milds n an ounce of sticky but I aint picky
Black lip bastard, black T lets back track
Malcolm X was a government scene, Black causality, Black
Thats too deep, and Im the bomb
Thats like C4 on the sea floor
Fuck wit A.B. n you can see more
Soon as I touch this money, Im an act of Eeyore
And as soon as Leor puts up a couple mill
Im a drop a classic album, put up a blunt n chill, get the deal
Its Ab-Soul actin an ass, bout to cop a number 22 at Jack in the Crack
At the crack of dawn, I know Im a lab rat, Im up at the early morn
Morning the formula to be as big as Madonna with my raps
Call me what you want just dont call me ignorant
I figure since Im in it I should be the biggest in it
I even grew my hair out out get a little image
And for the record Im mixed but what ever you wish
Ab-Solo Black lips, black polo,
Uh ohh, blowing dodo in the dojo |
Yea thats right you better walk away
Go on and walk away cause Imma burn this motherfucker down
King Kong aint got shit on me
Running them ghetto streets, I aint cooking up nothing
But I got the tea kettle on side of me, that metal on side of me
I dare you to follow me, Im double daring you to follow me where the drama be
His momma in debt, so she cant pay the funeral fee
So wherever them candles at, thats where the funeral be
Kids dont get sleep, guns keep em up real late
Walk in the school, shells laying on the concrete
Take em to school, show and tell, for that final grade
She gave him a F, I say that young boy deserve a A
Cause she never slept where he slept, or seen ricochet bullets rip
Through his cousins face, ripping his face off
I aim the fifth straight, concentrate like Im playing golf
Im Tiger Woods with a gun in my car, I keep one in my car
And keep a bitch with implants, so she keep one in her bra, boom
Shit, make room for the lil bastard
The flyest nigga you seen on centennial campus
The eight ball tucked in my jeans while Im getting patted down
They didnt know I had it on me, stupid security
No one securing you, if Im gon touch you
If I dont like you, the Mossberg pump love you
I take that back, it probably just wanna go and fuck you
Go with you, then dump you inside the coneal confortable
Defending my belt, depending on nobody but myself
Unless you talking bout money, I need yo help
I need some help, they say that my screws is loose
Like handlebars on mongoose, this is true
You tough rappers, Im talking to you
He aint on no used to shit, but you see his face grew
He say that he fabulous, but really dont have a clue
That he just a puppy living in this zoo
Shit, whoo, with that said, you should know I am the truth
The truth hurts, you should feel pain when Im done with this verse
Im done.... psyche, I aint finished
Ever since the first grade, been bad with the run-on sentence
I never sat the benches in the game of life
I played the whole forty-eight minutes, Christ
I rap with precision and lyrics, is grandma nice
Im cooking up something, you want you a slice? Then get it
Im holding my stomach, Im shitting, Im farting
On any rapper thinking Im in his vision, is you retarded?
The CL got my head spinning awkward
Bought it last month, bout to put it up for auction
Im not rapping, Im talking powerful
And for that dirty money, boy, the Macll shower you
The Mac disintegrate, and then devour you
The magll forget you, regurgitate and sour you
I world trade you niggas, north and south tower you
Steroid, my authority overpower you, the industry aint affording me
They might as well just give me my money and start ignoring me
Cause yall niggas boring me, yall aint making no dollars plus no cents
I swear, yall niggas foreign to me, foreigners
I tell you what, go and tell it to the coroner
Killing em whenever my performance come
When I do it, it wont be nothing right after Im done
When I ruin niggas careers, put you niggas in tears
Get you pom poms, you better off, cheer for me
Shit, the new money is here for me |
Chyeah , chyeah, chyeah, chyeah
Brrat, black
Yeah
Get it
As we proceed
To give you what you need
T-D-E
Hah, hah
Omega
Black Hippy came through to switch flavors
Wake and bake, no taters
Pa-pass me the ketchup, Ill homestyle fry em
I was born in Zion, I defeated the Lion
Soul made of iron, yeah, Soul made of iron
Nah, nigga talking how you cant fold when you trying
Strive for triumph
Survive by any means necessary even if it means dying
Fuck the world, missionary ; Malcolm got popped
Obama got in office, and Im still on the block
Aint shit changed, the grinding never stops
Call it progress, and the reason why the chicks always fall in our nest
Two niggas getting high, flying objects Yes!
We got next, now forever the Hippy is black interrogated by
Instrumentals that give me a rhythm
Put the maize together and blaze , hey
See, this is how we do
Would say I thought you knew, but that would not be true
In fact, ve Q
And like all of you teachers thus far
Im passin you, ooh
Black Hippy, Black-bla-b-b-bl-Black Hippy
Black Hippy, Black-bla-b-b-bl-Black Hippy
Black-bla-b-b-b-bla-b-bla-b-bla-b-bla-b-b-b-Black Hippy
Please fix your face
We building up so much anticipation
We finna shock the nation, oh shit, oh shit
Constipation
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes, fuck bitches, fuck hoes
We finna shock the nation, oh shit, oh shit
Constipation
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes, fuck bitches, fuck hoes
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes
Activist
Rebel without a cause
Full clip left you stiff like a mannequin
Hit him in his temple, left him at the Taj Mahal
What you on? Im on some other shit
Feeling like I stepped off the mothership
We sabotage the government
CIA gotta evacuate when we done
The state troopers would call off the shooters at dead run
Its going down I said
Boogie down Bronx
Bumping Biggie like
Two side call it Twenty-two
Im twenty-two and I rap like twenty zoos
Mm, straight animal
Ace Ventura couldnt find no cure
So raw probably bite off the face of Hannibal
Protein shakes, acid, and manure
Black Hippy
Black Hippy, Black-bla-b-b-bl-Black Hippy
Black Hippy, Black-bla-b-b-bl-Black Hippy
Black-bla-b-b-b-bla-b-bla-b-bla-b-bla-b-b-b-Black Hippy
Please fix your face
We building up so much anticipation
We finna shock the nation, oh shit, oh shit
Constipation
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes, fuck bitches, fuck hoes
We finna shock the nation, oh shit, oh shit
Constipation
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes, fuck bitches, fuck hoes
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes, fuck bitches, fuck hoes
Fuck bitches, fuck hoes |
ArtRAVE
Hands up, hands up, hands up, hands up
Hands up, hands up, hands up, hands up
Hi, I want to come and make peace with you
But they wont let me
No, they wont let me through
I dont mind if they a-arrest me
Cause Im wearing my Versace
Why cant we just put on a smile and a buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz?
We all might be sick
Whether its at first or after a few drinks
Were gonna unite, dont think
Prepare, I descend from the East
Im from Jakarta-a-a
Were PARTYNAUSEOUS
Cause moi seem to have some problem with ya
Prepare, I descend from the West
My name is Lady Gaga
Were PARTYNAUSEOUS
Cause moi seem to have some problem with ya
Prepare, I descend from the East
Im from Jakarta-a-a
Were PARTYNAUSEOUS
Cause moi seem to have some problem with ya
Prepare, I descend from the West
My name is Lady Gaga
Were PARTYNAUSEOUS
Cause moi seem to have some problem with ya
Nod if you wanna make love with the enemy
Roll it up, baby smoke it up til were high
In a way, exhausting
Were problem solving
Drink til shes attractive
Were PARTYNAUSEOUS
Talking bout diplomatic
I brought my plastic
Making that peace attractive
Were PARTYNAUSEOUS |
Tonight, were gonna get badder
Youre gonna get wetter
Were gonna take our time
Not tomorrow, no, tonight, well love
Yeah, she got that shit that make you kill a nigga
Crack that last bottle, Ill kill it with you
Pour my feelings out and spill it with you
Thats a no-no, but what he dont know
Never hurt him, so just desert him
I find it hard to believe that he aint pullin your weave
No, Im kiddin, Im knowin my dick is different
He kept his distance, I kept comin over and stayed persistent
You bitin your lips, toes twitching and she crinching
Steamin up the bathroom til we left it a sauna
I beat it up and now you usin my tee as pajamas
Your friends tried to warn you about me, even your mama
But you said youd deal with the consequence, even if it was karma
But how can I complain when you give me insane brain?
Like you graduated with honors, you probably hate that Im honest
But, fuck it, Im going all out
You should too, good things dont last forever, I thought you knew
Tonight, were gonna get badder
Youre gonna get wetter
Were gonna take our time
Not tomorrow, no, tonight, well love
Now dont you no worry about that
Whatever you want, Im on that
So dont hesitate, girl, when you lonely
Baby, dont worry, we know that I got you
Now here we go again, from the bed to the floor again
I hear your phone on vibrate and I know its him
But thats what happens when that kittys in the lions den
You start lying and changing places
You mightve been, I mightve been too aggressive
But it was far from desperate
I mean, the swag I got, just know its half the effort
They tryin to toot my own horn
But, shit, I sworn that I swarmed up in it, stamped and fingerprint it
Left the coupe tinted when you played the passenger
Dont be passing up til we finish
What we started, you with it? Im with it
Then lay your seat way back like it was vintage
While I hit the highway and slowly puff on this spinach
Camouflage emotions got your feelings wide open
Im hoping you come to grips
At least before you provoke em to trip
But thats inevitable, and if I put you on a pedestal
That means Im fuckin you on a chair
Tonight, were gonna get badder
Youre gonna get wetter
Were gonna take our time
Not tomorrow, no, tonight, well love
Now dont you no worry about that
Whatever you want, Im on that
So dont hesitate, girl, when you lonely
Baby, dont worry, we know that I got you
Now that I got you about they thinking out you
I want to stop and I dont want you to stop that
Ow, we in a phase, oh, I cant wait
Cause waters dont label you, oh, no, no
Im from, came from the bottom, so just get on top of that
How about with the top back with your top back?
Take that off, uh, ooh, ooh, break that off more, more
Tonight, were gonna get badder
Youre gonna get wetter
Were gonna take our time
Not tomorrow, no, tonight, well love |
I return before tables get turned
It’s my turn, spur of the moment
They re-produce my sperm and try to clone it, stand firm
Bumping The Firm, Phone Tap, I’m on it
I slaughter every opponent to bits of components, potent
You can’t fuck with the horse power, your woofing too much
Y’all bout to hoarse coward, as soon as I buss, pause
You put your hands on a broad and telling me you can brawl
You thought you saw me when you saw Saw, frightening
More reckless than a paisa driving without a license
Hittin’ your new truck then leaving you hiking
They said no, the industry let it go
I cracked the window then hit the back door like trick dices
Stickin’ and movin and movin’ and stickin’ the prices
Uppin’ the ante before Im a antique, can promise you hear me clear
Even if you eat 3 ears with Tyson
Rippin’ the panties but bootin’ the wammys
They dyke and I’m liking them all, I’m siftin’ through panties
Haters’ll spike it
Voicing opinions but holding laryngitis
But I don’t hear ‘em, I’m a winner by law
Track em down like the subway when they sub-par
Sub-zero everytime I jump in the synagogues
Send the angels, send the God
I can make you look hard, I know
I just let the thoughts take its toll
More sentences than level four of y’all, Bogard
Go hard, black tar, concrete, Tom Vick times Papi Mason times 3
Uncle Toms need Tums to stomach atomic bombs
Or die from my Wizardry
RZA, GZA, Method Man
I’m a killer B, killer! Be killed, make your embassy yield
This is not your cup of tea, and oh
They say waters run deep, dive in, Bermuda triangles
And you will see us, we must leave dust behind
Emcee’s duck, deduct, revenue declined
When we touch down like a Running Back’s grind
Can you keep up and keep us safe for keepsake
That aint safe
Compton! |
What’s happening y’all? It’s Terrace Martin, ay, so check it out
I got three microphones, three of the dopest emcees, a drum machine, two turntables and a mixer
That’s all we need man, we’ll pass the first mic to Kurupt, yeah
Im the militant military
Bald eagle, squeezer, Caesar, Ebenezer
I am the worst
Thats what my bitch told me after I took her purse and shook her down
Looking for a pound in that purp, bitch
Im scandalous, I poke you like deer antlers, cancerous
Cause I aint got no time to play
When I ask you a question, answer is the lie where you lay
Lay where you die, never wake up die where you lay
Its hard to survive nigga or the high where you stay
Im important like the Pope, Im the king of New York
Im live from South Central, Im a Muslim on pork
Kurupt the worlds fetish, they feen and scratch
Im multiplied by twenty thousand fiends and crack
You add me to music and the fiends react
Everybodys addicted, turning bodies to liquid
I love your style but I hate your vibe
I dont want your wife but your bitch is mine
Murder methods of mayhem, tap or dap up the great
Arsenic rapper, sodium cacodylate
Wizardry, misery, young Merlin
She’ll love me, I make her walls fall like Berlin
You ever heard of a murderer, well you must of my nigga
Im a mixture between Big, Snoopy and Jigga
I spit meat cleavers, Im saucy as Picante
My wifes a diva like Beyonce but hood like Shante, motherfucker
I run amok on busters
They call me Kurupt, forget that, I fuck you up
I sizzle these motherfuckers in the inkling of a second, murder method
Ay yo, where my Compton homeboy at? Kendrick Lamar, haha, yeah
Kurupt, let me erupt
Like flammable gases under the Earth’s crust
My flammable passion can get the Earth crushed
It’s 2012 once I unveil lyrics that can derail a train of a subway entrance
Say I bust like Jerome Bettis and that’s a must
Offended the best, magnum on my dick defending my flesh
Seven holes like a clarinet
Clarify your worthiness or foresee funeral services
Affirmative action pop up on your furnishing
Unfortunate future for us to fly free under God’s firmament
Me versus whosever’s dead, that’s God’s tournament
Kendrick the Arthritis, hand that hates to write this
What’s good, I’m in your hood like workers of Midas
Purpose is to be righteous
But my Malcolm X is extra’d out like a crip yelling his hood out when he fighting
I never seen a key, all I seen was a triton
I’m always kicking up dust, I’ve never been hiking
I’ve always had a licence for this hip-hop
Influenced by the rap that vocally said they killed cops
I’m riding on E with a bitch that pill pop
Now that’s the irony that I give you when the zip lock
Bag and sell it at doo wop, after that pass the doo wop
Lick a few shots for the few blocks that we on
For ain’t no beat that’s flawed or unique so please don’t try to Xerox
Copy written, niggas bitten
My style since I was backflipping
Inside canals, LA gears with the laces missing
Me Against the World in the background, mama had gave me bowl cut in the kitchen
Big cousin became a statistic, I chose the right flows and remained consistent
Voila, now they got me, haha
Expectations is high, Compton or Bed-Stuy
To them skinny niggas in the Chi bumping Common
But the only thing in common is crime and more violence
I play a little game, you say you fly, I’m over fly
I’m the pilot that’s left on the plane, cloud nine
That’s where I’m at with it
Punchlines till your jaw dented
Catapult your Buick till your car spinning
Watts up, Bad Lucc
Believe me, I’m Martin Luther and Jeezy
Hard to shoot and they need me
Created from a grain of sand that’s rolled up in a rizla
First time I met the RZA, I reminded him of GZA
Back then I was a cold little nigga painting pictures
Avalon did that, six pack
Raised by them killers that’ll never bring them kids back
Tiny Archibald on the dirty side of law
I was inches from that building till my bitches tucked the raw, I’m lawless
Hell to the supreme, I should beam that beamer for gleaming
And blame it on that lean cause I’m leaning
The movie is rated R, Shady, huh
Dick off his lady friends in a Bentley, huh
You ain’t seen us in a while, jack
Rastic, I’m god and a buggy is a mousetrap
You’ll become about that, big homies ain’t out yet
Youngins run the city or the biddy like I’m about that
Sharpen my tools, step out the kitchen homie
Young Drake from kitchen told me that street shit is what they missing from me
Is so I’m outside with the Eastside
Sound of the piece and the heat flies
Flat fleece, the fleece bang when niggas get DP’d at beef time
Warren, no Griffin
You listen, you’ll be held accountable to what I’m spitting
I’m Johnny Cage with Timberlands mean I come with me
You got the blogs, I got the streets
I guess we even, not really
I’m cut from a different cloth, rappers pissing them off
Serving drinks out of gun stores, cocktails is Molotovs
I’m bored crazy in a booth, if I don’t get that coupe soon
I swear to God I’ll turn Hip-Hop Awards to a saloon
Move, make way for the fat kid with an attitude
If I batter you, I cook that last meal to faggot food, on mama’s dough
You sugar puffs and honor rolls
I’m angus like, Genghis Khan in my video
You can’t stop it though, from P.F. Changs to Pappadeaux
I eat a nigga up like Dominos, yeah
Yeah yeah, ay so there you have it
Terrace Martin
Kurupt, Young Gotti
Kendrick Lamar, Compton stand the fuck up
Bad Lucc, Watts stand the fuck up, you feel me
Crazy Toones, South Central, what up hood?
I’mma get the fuck outta here, man I’m done, man let the shit talk man |
Im on some other shit
Yeah, me too?
Im on some other shit
Yeah, me too
Im on some other shit
Yeah, me too?
Im on some other shit
Yeah, me too
What you on my nigga?
Im on some other shit
So what you on my nigga?
Im on some other shit
So what you on my nigga?
Im on some other shit
Ha ha
Black Hippy
My mind traveling through different dimensions
One of the reasons why they tripping off the rhymes that Im kicking
Like a Sensai with a black belt, Im that felt
Give yo ass some pretty wings
I handle Macs well
Arm less sergeant salute me
,Ab-Soul-Loutley
On some other shit leave the booth full of dookie
Off the head like a noogie and my lifes like a movie
Play your role while I roll another doobie
To smoke
We got em high catch another quote
Look in my eyes, never lie boy Im on my toes
Like a Korean with nail polish you niggas know
Acting like you dont oh fo sho
Tell em soul!
Ha ha!
You know we out your galaxy
An astrologist couldnt find a better analogy
Actually we the last of a dying breed
Living life like its prophecy entirely word up!
Black Hippy
Thats all I need to get busy
Turn your music to a Frisbee
Then make your bitch frisk me
You be holding rifles hoping that someone will like you
Searching for a pill like the late Michael
Thats dead wrong
Um...Keep my heart strung
Still fucking hoes like an off drum
Sound of a kitty cat
And its still a rap beat
How you feel on that
Well Ill sell our music and make moves in the 50 states
The irony is Im in Compton with foreign plates
Bumping Angel Milk, homie play your part
I be coming down, you coming up short like an Asian bill
Um....I think I need to get my shit together
But whatever still flyer than the weather
Feeling myself so much
Im sharp I need more tunes to sever
And my polos made of leather cuz
Black Hippy
Killing the game oh yes I am
Bringing the pain as I am
Youre just a sweet potato in the pan
Top Dawg is the label when its written on my shoulder
Top notch on my hand, Ill be such till its over
Say hello to the man in demand would ya?
They say when you hot then the fans will come
So if I say Im cold then thats an antonym
You cant stand it huh?
Uh, yo yo
I freak a beat like a nympho when I speak
And so a syllable is like a sex between the sheet
And you can buy your vowel if you show em the receipt
To prove that my bars are a hundred grand large
My futures so bright you can see it in the dark
With the blindfold on the hindsight of a blind dude
Im not cocky Im just confident fucking raw
Before I knew what a condom is K. Lamar |
Youre the one who gets my heart to race and my arms to sweat
Youre the one Id risk my life and waste it on a bet
Temptation sweet, I taste it
That casino waitress, drinks sedated
You the one I want, you the one I want, face it
You the one I want on a one-on-one basis
You can see my weakness, a week is not long enough
I need every season and this the only reason
You the one I want, you the one I want
Leave it all on the table even if they catch me cheatin
Doin blackjack, twenty-one, twenty thousand in it
Probably twenty more before Im done
If gamblings a sin, then Im rollin dice with Lucifer
To make sure I aint losin you
Thats what a craps shooter does, Im bankin on the win
Bankin on the last, vacant from the job that I had
Life savings in my pocket
If I never make it back, then I had the option of takin a risk
So before I slit my wrist, Im a cash in on this last poker chip
You can bet
Ooh, Vegas, baby, ooh, Vegas, baby
Ooh, Vegas, baby, I was scared of you
Ooh, Vegas, baby, youre Vegas, baby
Youre Vegas baby, I was scared of you
Youre the one whos got me drinkin wine until Im fallin down
Youre the one who keeps the slot machines spinnin around |
Yeah, Los Angeles, Welcome to the Terrordome
City of Satan, angels cant even get along
No lie, my town covered in darkness
Hoping that the sun just shine on us
Rolling up the kush, now Im letting my mind wander
Into another place, I aint tryna go down under
Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it
Shit never fair, strays hitting the innocent
The good die young where Im from and its sad to say
That somebody gotta die today
Tomorrows never promised, but we living for the moment
Nigga, time never stops, it just keeps on going
Crackers just gave my young nigga four life sentences
Twenty-five times four, nigga, do the math
And the hood never have witnesses
Cause if we did, then them shots gon blast
As I reflect, I start realizing I wanna
Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends
This aint the way my life bout to end
So Im quick to grab on my pen and
Give em something my people sure to feel
Give em something that I know is all the way real
Just wakin up, mind playing tricks on me
Got the fifth on me, gotta take a risk homie
Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me
Keep it real, I could take you down the list homie
Be a tradition, see these Chucks be a mission
Burner be the fuel to the flame, the key to the ignition
If you banging, be serious, boys run up in your pad
Point-blank, period, moms aint hearing it
Niggas said cuz lil nigga got blasted
Oh well, give a shit, shouldnt half-assed it
Only time you with it, when your niggas all tripping
Caught your ass slipping, now Im stepping up my crip and steady dipping
Riding through the city in lights, living it trife
Wrong intersection, ready to fight
Hopping out with my own agenda, who the contender?
Better hope this motherfucker jam
As I reflect, I start realizing I wanna
Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends
This aint the way my life bout to end
So Im quick to grab on my pen and
Give em something my people sure to feel
Give em something that I know is all the way real
Uh, as Im hearing the first and second verse
I try to analyse the feeling thats felt in the song
I want to tell Rock and Q to go to church
But thats a hypocrite because I aint been in so long
I stare at the world from a righteous point of view
And realize a crisis coming
Novocain couldnt numb it, the pain is unbearable times two
Lets rally a team, summon, and school the youth
How you feel about it?
Man, I feel the same way as you
It hurts my soul, like a needle piercing
Through the bottom of my shoe and if you behind bars
Hold your head, pause
And if you in close range with a nigga with a gun in his waist
I pray the intervention is divine
I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven
But earlier than expected, what the hell?
As I reflect, I start realizing I wanna
Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends
This aint the way my life bout to end
So Im quick to grab on my pen and
Give em something my people sure to feel
Give em something that I know is all the way real |
When I jumped off the porch I was forced into last resorts of a temper gone short
And, of course, when that took its course, hoarse when yelling out
Demons that fought inside of me taught society how to rejoice
Killers on side of me, privacy obviously was lost
For a piracy of the streets and my Odyssey
Caught a bullet that probably destroyed...
A good kid in a mad city, slightly annoyed
I walk down the street with no heat and run into beef when I’m just a vegan
Reeking the scent of a saint, sinners smell it then start squeezing
Pellets tumbling straight at my melon, apparent reason...
Because my cousins cuzzin a Blood
That was Blooding in public and Kendrick seen with him last weekend, cousin
But you aint no kin to me, probably Kendrick Im Kennedy
Assassinate my character, shoot as your remedy
Fair enough I got enemies but I don’t bang
But thats the repercussion like when your cousin’s cuzzin a blood
And you’re by yourself at the Compton parade
Good Kid
M.A.A.D City
Life or death
Is you with me?
Wassup |
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Rock got it, Rock came from rock bottom
Now Im on top, pocket full of guacamole in it, no lie
The windows on the Continental tinted
Cocaine colored, its a dope ride
Them dope boys outside
Gangbangers, crack heads and hood rats
Drug paraphenelia inside that back pack
If you want it we got it, thats where them goods at
Nickerson Gardens, project parties
Chronic, Hennessey, dro, Bacardi
Guns, enemies that come through, spark them
Throw em in a dumpster; you loved one, you lost him
I dont dance I just boogie a lot
No dress code I just wear a hoodie a lot
White tee under that back against the wall
West coast rocking to the beat, now Im telling yall
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Whatever you want to call it
For the weed heads or for the alcoholics
Now this can be some OG low-rider music
Or you could twist your fingers up and gangbang to it
Look, I know some bad ass bitches that go hard on it
Addicted to that sex, they be traveling in packs
They be off that X, and theyll let you fuck fast if you got some cess
I aint gon lie about it
I aint bullshitting, come to my block boy
Welcome to Hells kitchen, we bring that heat to you
Too much of a real nigga not to see through you
Wet him like faucet, bullet sink through you
They speed through you, they eat through you
Two lullaby burners, let em sing to you
The harmony of it is pleasure to your ears
You got to love it you got to hate it
I got to be my hometown favourite
Watts representer, say hello to your mayor
Everybody put them Ws in the air
May I show you the plan I lay out
My disc will never play out, I tell yall to
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Whatever you want to call it
For the weed heads or for the alcoholics
Now this can be some OG low-rider music
Or you could twist your fingers up and gangbang to it
Swing your elbows and Taylors, the shell-toes
Kush blunts all in the air, I smell lows
Compton swap meets to freaks on Melrose
This is California, killers on them corners
From Long Beach to Inglewood, Hollywood
Back down, them gangsters will be on you
Block hot as a sauna, uh
We in the club, zonin, Patronin
My knuckleheads roamin, they on and we on it
Its jerkin, poppin, brackin, whatever you want to call it
Whats happenin, we smashin, crashin your hood
My nigga whats good?
Staying sucker-free, just as well as you should
I pull up in that motherfuckin big-ass truck
What the fuck? Im on
Where your bitch? She gone with a real nigga
I hop up out that ho asking how you feel nigga
I press blood; throw your sets up!
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Poke your elbows out and swing like this
Whatever you want to call it
For the weed heads or for the alcoholics
Now this can be some OG low-rider music
Or you could twist your fingers up and gangbang to it |
Mic check Ali
The mic dont sound right
Even the shooters can get shot, get shot quick
Even the shooters can get shot
Even the shooters can get shot, get shot quick
Even the shooters can get shot
Uhh
Tell em I got plenty arson to sell em
Heat by the fleet displaying it very seldomly
I write till I ignite my cerebellum
Close to the pen like I had 3 felons
Come from a city where niggas show no remorse
And a corpse is just another hommy taking its course
Of course my dream was to play in the Final Four
Till the twelfth grade came and I was only 54
So now Im a graduate looking to get hired
My pops knew a security job he inquired
But ignorance is bliss, thats what I was told
I stopped, dropped and rolled when somebody yelled fired
Now there goes another black boy unemployed
With a lot of free time which means hes vulnerable to run into a lot of crime
I wrote it in my rhymes
And when I left the porch this is what I realized
Even the shooters can get shot, get shot quick
Even the shooters can get shot
Even the shooters can get shot, get shot quick
Even the shooters can get shot
These streets aint none to play with
It could get outrageous
Got burners, .45s and gauges
That could really get outrageous
So Im thinking to myself, whats next?
My security job only got me like 2 checks
My pops disappointed, told me Im fuckin up
Irresponsible and I need some growing up
I told him I would go back, knowing I wouldnt go back
Working a 9 to 5 is something I couldnt stomach
Surrounded by the violence
All the goons and the goblins
With 99 problems I still kept it 100
These streets can be rather manipulating
Especially when youre black and just turned 18
So whats a kid to do, when your fresh out of school and the negatives of the world constantly following you?
Not to mention a local henchman, copped a sheriffs part like terrorists
Osama with badges that talk arrogant
That boy 15 and he holdin a .45
30 years apart, 30 years before he realized
Uhh
Soon as the beat drop, I bet some heat pop
On a block close to you like a relative
You sippin Belvedere while these niggas plannin to rob Mr. Belvedere
Yeah Im a good kid tryna stay righteous as Martin Luther but it seems like all of my friends eventually become shooters
And niggas bangin on you is something that youll get used to
You can either fight back or run home and grab your ruger
Whatever you do just make sure youre willing to do it
Being too indecisive can get you killed inside your Buick
Cuz you stopped at the light, 5 minutes from midnight
With no tinted windows that nigga surely had shot through it
You tell me you listening, but you dont hear the music
Call you Billy Hoyle when turmoil was near
This is the realest right here
When I lost my very first job
My pops said why?
I said I couldnt aim for the sky
Cuz even shooters can get shot
These streets aint none to play with
It could get outrageous
Got burners, .45s and gauges
That could really get outrageous |
The only way Ive been practicing my whole life is to be responsible for what I do. I dont know how to be responsible for what every black male did. I dont know. Yes I am gonna say that Im a thug, thats because I came from the gutter and Im still here
Im a mothafuckin thug, I hate payin taxes
Just hate it, Im tryna fuck a couple actresses
If I dont got it Ima make it
Still dont got it, Ima take it
Run that shit, take your shit, thats what I wont do
Out here doin what I want to
Nigga you do what you can
Thats the difference, Im a mothafuckin man
Im a man, nigga, and as a man I dont take that
I dont do Versace, thats that gay shit
Yeah I said it, Im a thug
Im a thug, nigga, guess I need a mothafuckin hug
Well dig my mama up and tell her give me one
Lotta niggas say theyre real, Im the realest one
Im the realest, this exactly how Im feelin, bruh
Aint no chillin, bruh
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Its all about the Benjamins
Nigga, fuck George Zimmerman
How its pistol versus hand?
Take your whoopin like a mothafuckin man
Pussy, damn, how hard can a kid hit?
And why them local rappers aint did shit?
Lil Wayne said, Fuck the Heat
Same local rapper niggas wanted beef
Fun, brother versus brother
No hesitation when you face the same color
None, Im sayin what the fuck you niggas stand for?
Guess its lost in the South, Jim Crow
Still Im shootin in the gym
Thinkin back, shit I couldnt hit the rim
Nigga you should see my game now
If its a fully, nigga aim down
Let the gun work
Super clean but Ive done dirt
Talked the shit until my tongue hurt
And I dont run from skirmishes, nigga
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Sometimes I look in the mirror and ask myself what Im scared of
How dare the media portray me this way, I can hear the
Crowd screaming, the weirdest of chants, they all in my ear-a
Artist of era, role model, I cant
Its like Im a parrot, apparently Im markin the dance
I seen done with the devil, such a ghetto romance
How many niggas fall victim, looking at you trapped in the system
Mentally they kept you in prison, and you wont get out, no one visit
Open up your mouth, no one listen, you in denial, nigga
Im in denial with you, I dial dead homies numbers off this liquor
Time and time again I find myself inside the cerebellum
Of several felons, Orions belt couldnt live in my world
I seen tigers, lions let loose and spooked, Im next door to Earl
I guess I rely on Jesus to save us before I refer
The madness, my neighbors witness ski masks
The masses dont know
Im packin this four and harassin your ho
Antagonizin the business you love the most
See the difference to my approach is a forty ounce at the store
If a forty bounce, to get low
I never learn, Im hard-headed
The corporate world dont like it, but I said it
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Im a mothafuckin thug
Look in my eyes, what do you see?
God Orion lives in me
Look in my eyes, what do you see?
God Orion lives in me
Thug, thug, all I ever was
Look around, all I ever done
Thug, thug, all I ever was
Look around, all I ever done
Thug, thug, all I ever was
Look around, all I ever done
Thug, thug, all I ever was
Look around |
Compton Kendrick, something splendid
Yeah Im in this B-I-itch
No I.D., I be a G, exclude every other alphabet
Every time I D.I.P., I need all of my Ruffle chips
Duffle bag full of Frito Lay, itll be okay
Dont call OJ because Im on some killer shit
K Dot in his killer whip
K Dot with his killer dime broadcasted on Channel 9
Lay back, let my seat recline
Rolling like 2 miles per hour
I was with success, I dont know where yall were
You see its funny how I do this thing
Throw em in the pond cause these pawns wish they knew this king
Say they word is bond like Double 07s service team
They be head servicing, get off my dick
I lay it down so cold, you would swore that I was half Eskimo
In bucket seats below zero
Oh its me, Im showing out, I get it crackin
They never fill my void when Im absent
Every time I come through, through, through, through
They be on it so thirsty, thirsty
Hoes they be boppin so thirsty, thirsty
Haters they be watching so thirsty
Yeah, you too, too, too
You be on it so thirsty, thirsty
Hoes they be boppin so thirsty, thirsty
Haters they be watching so thirsty
Why you always acting funny
Aint never got no money
You say you dope, but yous a dummy
Lying to the hoes and your homies
About youre doing this and that
Saying always who ya with
Nigga, you thirsty
Nigga, yous a bitch, bitch, bitch
See all the time that you spending
Runnin round town, pillow talking and hating on me
You need to stop talking bout me
Cause your bitch want a guy like me
And you wanna be me, but you cant cant
And you aint, aint, aint
Man you niggas forever thirsty
Doing suicides in the desert in Albuquerque
Im a fundraiser for Kanye
Cause I got them good bars, but I aint selling Hersheys
Emperor like Xerces
Niggas say they players but aint never had a jersey
King James, Im a legend way before my thirties
Sent from the heavens, Im a reverend to you clergies
I swear I do you dirty
Covered in that purple got me feeling like Percy
Harvin, got these rappers starving at my mercy
No disrespect to Terrace Martin
But I run circles round these tracks like Kentucky Derby
You see me with a white bitch, you swear Im fucking Fergie
Putting money in a safe, look like Im stuffing a turkey
Plus the way that I be dressing got your girl down south
Like the state that I be repping
She slurps me, til Im dehydrated
Elated, blowing on this 3-5, faded
New clothes, you never see my Levis faded
Bitch Im buzzing like a bee hive, East Sides greatest
Now Im working with producers
That I never thought that I would work with in the future
Underground cause my verse is in the sewer
Thirsty ass niggas, theres beverages in the cooler
Loser! |
La da da, the look of lust, yo, yo
Pleasure is a must
Im sleeping here with lust, scenes of ménages with Asian massages
Sin is the sin of my apartment
She can feel the rhythm as I give her my guitar licks
Mmm... She never knew I was an artist
I play the instrument well in a dark lit room
Please baby gal dont pause this groove
Ever seen a flower in a darkness bloom?
I know you never have, love
And we all got is lust, we dont have love
I think this song started in the bathtub
Then the melody continued to a back rub
You told me your homegirl can play the sax, love
Well show me if she can play my notes perfectly, youre making me a fan
In between your smiles were the sounds of our whispers
As Im looking down such a bountiful picture
I look at her, then look at you
And both of you make such a beautiful muse for this music
But this is not a Mozart movement, but baby girl keep your composure
Im not done with composing, its the look of lust
The look of lust is in your eyes
A look that you cant disguise
Say she hate it when Im super faded
Know that homie notice her body rather her conversation
Rushing, lusting sexual favors when the hours chasing
Midnight at 2 pm, a vampire in Jordan laces
Prey on the blood of the promiscuous
Panties on the premises, pantry full of condoms
Fuck your conscious, lets get intimate
She said, Baby boy slow down
You know I move with diligence
You think that Im a ho now and strip me from my innocence?
Hmm...She was older, she was colder than the rest of em
Lurking over my shoulder, temptation getting the best of her
So much... I never knew how to touch a real woman
Kendrick I want you to make me feel something.
Pulled down my pants and then she glanced at me with a smirk
Repeatedly shook my hand I said, Whats wrong should I kiss it first?
I can do that I wont complain
She said, That aint a problem Im wet
But first you gotta fuck my brain like a surgeon
Get your mental working
Like a 9 to 5, before we get it live and close the curtains.
I thought a massage was all I need
Now proceed if its worth it
Or leave if its urgent
For you to rendez-vous, I know your needs have a purpose
Cause I have feelings too
And you have feelings, but thats only in your teeth when theyre hurting
I started laughing
She pulled my card like pitty-pat
Pity the fool for any kitty-kat, its the look of lust
The look of lust is in your eyes
A look that you cant disguise
Oh the look of lust is saying so much more than words could ever say
Walking through the streets, I met a palm reader
She told me I was wise beyond my years
Says Ive been here before, well I guess that Im just here for more of the lust
Will she keep this on the hush? I like the ones that never blush
Uh-uh, yeah, now you seduced by the serpent
Wine on your lips, Im close enough to know that thats as fine as it gets
Im in too deep and Im diving for dinner
She lets me know that shes a synchronized swimmer
Blind-folded heckling, you cant see her
But Im guessing that shes got the look of lust
Uh-uh, yea
The look of lust is in your eyes
A look you cant disguise |
Let your fears go and catch your blessings, yeah
Let them hoes know you dont do messy, yeah
Screensaver on because they dry snitch
Caption on your post saying You my bitch
Tell me that youre leery
Tell me you gon get in trouble
You dont want the city
You dont want em all to judge you
Ex-man said he caught a fair case
Young bull slid in for the Segway
I touch down, smokin dope on the daily
Come here lil baby, know youre birthday ready
Ill turn you out if you want, if you let me
Dont save face, dont save face
Your friends go, yeah, your friends throw salt on you
Your friends go, they gon hate and say what not to do
But friends go, if its you then who you lyin to?
Dont save face, dont save face
I want you here, then whats your heart gon say?
I want you here, baby, dont walk away
You know for real, I would go out my way
When we gon slide?
I wanna build wit you, I wanna vibe
Sleepin on explosives, everything live
Ima get you open, one day at a time
Put that on God, man, I put that on God
Wont you meet me out?
I touch down, smokin dope on the daily
Come here lil baby, know youre birthday ready
Ill turn you out if you want, if you let me
Dont save face, dont save face
Your friends go, yeah, your friends throw salt on you
Your friends go, they gon hate and say what not to do
But friends go, if its you then who you lyin to?
Dont save face, dont save face
I want you here, then whats your heart gon say?
I want you here, baby, dont walk away
You know for real, I would go out my way
When we gon slide?
I wanna build wit you, I wanna vibe
Sleepin on explosives, everything live
Ima get you open, one day at a time
Put that on God, man, I put that on God |
Nobody pray for me
Even a day for me
Waaaaay
I remember syrup sandwiches and crime allowances
Finesse a fella with some counterfeits, but now I’m countin this
Parmesan where my accountant lives; in fact, Im downin’ this
DUSSÉ with my boo bae tastes like Kool-Aid for the analysts
Girl, I can buy yo ass the world with my paystub
Ooh, that pussy good, wont you sit it on my taste bloods?
I get way too petty once you let me do the extras
Pull up on your block, then break it down: we playin Tetris
A.M. to the P.M., P.M. to the A.M., funk
Piss out your per diem, you just gotta hate em, funk
If I quit your BM, I still ride Mercedes, funk
If I quit this season, I still be the greatest, funk
My left stroke just went viral
Right stroke put lil baby in a spiral
Soprano C, we like to keep it on a high note
Its levels to it, you and I know
Bitch, be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Bitch, sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Sit down and e humble
Bitch, sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Who dat fella thinkin that he frontin on Man-Man?
Get the fuck off my stage, Im the Sandman
Get the fuck off my dick, that aint right
I make a play fucking up your whole life
Im so fuckin sick and tired of the Photoshop
Show me somethin natural like afro on Richard Pryor
Show me somethin natural like ass with some stretch marks
Still will take you down right on your mamas couch in Polo socks
Ayy, this shit way too crazy, ayy, you do not amaze me, ayy
I blew cool from AC, ayy, Obama just paged me, ayy
I dont fabricate it, ayy, most of yall be fakin, ayy
I stay modest bout it, ayy, she elaborate it, ayy
This that Grey Poupon, that Evian, that TED Talk, ayy
Watch my soul speak, you let the meds talk, ayy
If I kill a fellaa, it wont be the alcohol, ayy
Im the realest dude after all
Bitch, be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Bitch, sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Be humble
Sit down and e humble
Bitch, sit down
Be humble
Sit down
Bitch be humble! |
As my mind drift and then split
Like the middle of a spliff, I begin to catapult off
The cliff of the unknown
I got a feeling in my funny bone that were not the same
Just antonyms of another age
My soul flock with the carefree
Words of the wise, I spoke a hundred times like a gold D
Haha LMFAO
I hate yall but I spread love like mayo
Then spread slugs
My brain matter is a brain phantom
See my vision, or my visionll stare at ya
This is the future if I say so, you copping fitted caps
Im about to go and cop a halo
The God of rap and I mean it, and I play football with Mars
And marbles with Pluto and Venus
Witness the genius, I interact with the inner city villains
That enters your system like a computer hack
Then give you dap |
Uh
Yeah
Kendrick Lamar
Uh
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad
Im a thinker not a drinker but still I Hennessey drag;
Alcohol numbs the pain like where Novocaine stabs
In your arteries, pardon me but my city go mad
Via Compton California, corners with coroners and karma on em
Colours corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted Crips and Pirus cripple the city
Triple the crime, Bible nor the Quran can save;
Welcome, dont be afraid, your city similar right?
Where the choppers kidnap the night and police silence your rights;
Stare at the sky, wonder will you live to see twenty-five?
Im twenty-two, at twenty I knew I was against the odds;
This kid named Jonathan was monitoring
His momma and sister, his older cousin, he honoured him;
Anonymous bodies on his burner was astonishing
To Johnny, he mightve been
A modern day rider then
He walking outside again, he see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a MAC-11 now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem, whats his cousin to say now?
He wanna be from the hood that hes from and thats one
More gangster under the family tree, took em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy, rocking matching T-shirts that says The hood made me
No love, just spread slugs, thats the policy, the leader and the prodigy;
Now shorty doo-wop, holding a oowop, hanging with rah-rahs
With blah-blahs that sit on the block catching fades hittin’ licks
Going on missions with lunatics, a ninth-grade menace
Thugging for six months, smoking like six blunts an hour;
The power of banging, he was walking from...
Little Johnny
I think youll find, sir, that there will come a time
When black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough
To think for themselves as other humans are intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
Then the black man will think like a black man and he will feel for other black people
And this new thinking and feeling will cause black people to stick together
And then at that point you will have a situation
Where when you attack one black man, you are attacking all black men
And this type of black thinking will cause all black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also will bring an end to the brutality inflicted upon black people by
And it is the only thing that will bring an end to it
No federal court, state court or city court will bring an end to it
Its something that the black man has to bring an end to |
When I jumped off the porch
I was forced into last resorts of a temper gone short
And, of course, when that took its course
I was hoarse from yelling out
Demons that fought inside of me taught society how to rejoice
The killers on sight of me, privacy obviously was lost
And the fraud piracy of the streets in my odyssey
Caught a bullet that probably destroyed
A good kid in a mad city, slightly annoyed
I walked down the street with no heat
And run into beef when Im just a vegan
Reekin’ the scent of a saint, sinner smell it then start squeezing
Pellets thats tumblin straight at my melon, apparent reason
Probably was because of my cousin cuzzin’ a blood
That was bloodin in public
And Kendrick seen with him last weekend, cousin
But you aint no kin to me, stead of Kendrick, Im Kennedy
Assassinate my character, sure thats your remedy
Fair enough, I got enemies but I dont bang
But thats the repercussions like
When your cousin is cuzzin’ a blood
Then you’re by yourself at the Compton parade, he said:
Aye, look, homie, I gang-bang
A gang member, Im active, I do my thing
I do my stuff
I’m really from the sect, tho
And if you is or aint, I still need to know
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
I seen em from afar then I seen a piece of my jaw
Like on the ground, you know the sound
When you hear the people in awe
Sympathetic cause they like seeing you
Tryna fight back at a pack of piranhas
I promised three of ’em, beat the black off my back
And pajamas was almost needed
I shouldve went to sleep and seen some sheep
When I greeted the pavement
Got up and seen the shock on their faces
Like damn it, he made it
My luck in the palm of a cherry bomb
And they waitin to blow up on me
My homies are not alarmed
Then I heard someones firearm
Make a sound like it waved around my direction
Im guessing this is the part where my heart
Expected to drop in a second, look at the faults
Ive made in the shortest amount of time
And in back of my mind Im like this the loss Ima take
My fate was distraught
A cape and some superpowers cant save me
Im probably pushing up daisies
Before I can make my way to the car
Cross cancel and right before I seen
The black glove raisin the handle, he said:
Aye, look, homie, I gang-bang
A gang member, Im active, I do my thing
I do my stuff
Im really from the sect, tho
And if you is or aint, I still need to know
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Bitch, Im bustin back, Ima borrow my uncles strap in a minute
Jump in a Civic then wear that bitch on my lap
I was timid but now Im tempted
And tenants alert me on where you at
Im a menace when Im offended, relentless, I will react
Then somebody said the dispatch
Of an officer, got his mind made on offn ya
Thats a fact when youre black and undeveloped
Youre profiled as a felon
Im bailin down Boulevards with my basketball and a backpack
Gym shoes and my nap sack
Hair nappy, my ball cap backwards
And then I look back, strobe lights on my tail pipe
Turned left then I turned right
Turned deaf cause the sirens is loud
As the colors of pink and yellow on Wesley Snipes
Pray to God I dont get sniped
Pray to God that the sunlight stay shining for 30 more minutes
Hope that a witness around when Im bout to cut off the engine
Vengeance of hatred is what Im facin
Even though being a criminal aint my memo
But this is what he said when I dropped the window:
Aye, look, homie, I gang-bang
By the time you hear the next shot, youll learn that L.A.P.D. is the biggest gang
I do my stuff
Im really from the sect, tho
And if you is or aint, I still need to know
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay
Where you from, where you stay or where your grandma stay |
Ughh
Yeah
Kendrick Lamar
Ha ha haha HA
This feels like, right in front of the freeway
And when Im done this should be in front of a DJ
I watch whack rappers put their soul on Ebay
Then expect excellence knowing their effortless
I dont have a preference, I dislike all
Say you run the globe? Well more like a disco ball
I spread love as well
Little nigga, big dreams, can bear-hug a whale into a lobsters tail
Ugh
Evacuate premises, raps sinister suspicious
The pastor stand back, the bible is open, the words have been spoken
The moon and the stars align with the bars
The broads are snapping their bras in broad day
Cops meeting their quota running for arcades
The three initials on the pistols printed all Ks
The end is almost near, inferior of nothing
Superior is an option and my synopsis is that Im Frank Sinatra
On the roster, top running
Running races with my own shadow
Look in the mirror then I start to battle
Now a pyru is a crip, nor a pyrus just a value that is sure to be heard
Like a fuckin sheeps cattle, niggas got some nerve
Talkin bout they move birds
Only thing I move now is a noun and a verb
I am now on the verge of telling the real story
Of a Compton native in the city that kill for me
Cus you fabricated the realness
The county building and the county children on food stamps
Glorifying street cred, talkin about whoop whamp
But thats never the case
Just a good lawyer who can sever the case
Recording live from the city where the skinny niggas die and the semi bullets fly
Drinking Remy out bottle till the pain run dry
Like a desert
Once the Desert Eagle ride by, what you reppin?
What you reppin my nigga, you got a weapon?
Well I got a profession my nigga
Its called hip-hop since Pac was on gridlock
Me against the world every hour, every second my nigga
You want something, get something
I could start a career AND I can end one, Im H1N1
UGH
Straight-A student who flow stupid
Real raps get permanent income, UGH
Beats and bars
Kendrick Lamar
Maestro whattup?
Ha ha haha |
Soul brotha, number after one
The brightest out the bunch, compare me to the sun
Skinny as a motherfucka, probably skipped lunch
Hungry with the same appetite as Big Pun
They say Im too much, I ask how come
Theres no one else with opposable thumbs with such a touch
You help a nigga once and hell probably forget it
You help a nigga twice, youre officially his crutch
I understood this back when I was just a young lad
Couple lies and a couple lines in my notepad
My composition wasnt even competition
Now Im dropping shit in the booth more than the pot I piss in
And might I mention
I dive in the pool of violent piranhas
You find another guy with my description
My prerogative is simply to annihilate you simply
I got fired from my job, but I gets busy
And I aint tryin to ask for more than I deserve
So understand when I say I need a million today
You blend in like chameleon
But I stand out, like I exited the building
Fuck yo feelings, Im just sayin, you aint nothin like Ab, nigga
Were night and day like Meek Mills and Mac Miller
Im sippin Remy watchin Martin droolin over Gina
If I had the opportunity Id turn her out, like Tina
But not like Ike, Id take a much different approach
Roll in a river til she hit them high notes
No disrespect, Im just a nut, tryin to get some cash
Yous another nigga in my way, tryin to get some scratch
Im tryin to get to San Tropez, or somewhere close to that
All cause I heard Jay say it in a fuckin rap
Now make that ass clap, I know this aint that type of song
But I get pussy too, they only like me for conscious songs
Whatever that means, I swear Im so aware
But I wear shades everyday, my vision gotta be impaired
Plus you would think they found me in Korea somewhere
And Im just another nigga, like Farrakhan with curly hair
If I told you I killed a nigga at sixteen would you believe me
Or see me to be just a angel thats easy to please
Angled a company by a gang of niggas that squeeze
Once their marks are your tire marks, thats the fuckin mark of the beast
I try so hard to follow God
You know, anointed oil, plant some Bibles in the front yard
Rebuke at the turmoil
My dreams of being like Jordan are spoiled
My temperature high that it boiled, til your homicide is good for you
Im loyal to my feelings, I try to stay righteous and cordial
But these feelings are twenty-twos a producer, new Zoo
These gorillas they let loose at 2:45 on 245 street
Colt 45 and shoot, walkin outside and slippin like Kenneth Coles
On a slab of grease, body found in a pothole
Forks, white tees just to cover up his long nose
And that bitchll hang to my knee like a dress
I confess Im depressed
I suppose Im more than likely infest my best in the Lima
Hop out, gun your ass down in front of your mama
I try to follow God like Bishop
But when they see that you bitcher, prepare for a ditch of
Dirt, I give you a list of families that hurt, but oh well, fuck it, thats life
And thats the color your son chose to put on tonight
So in self-respect, just know I say its a honor
Hop out, gunnin us down in front of your mama, uh
Like kindergartners my visions bothered
By vigilantes that harbor on street corners
Try your hardest to harvest bundles of weed on ya
The starving, the speed on ya
Stampede on ya, impede on your pockets that peed on ya
Dreams of us livin lavish in fabrics of fine linens
Spinnin, established with women, dinin and laughin
But this environment got us violent, ready to crash
Into society, take the drivers seat, hope youre fastened
Your seat belts twice when I rolled them dice, I crap
So many times I could build casinos from scratch
Too many daps you might receive from the things you achieve, relax
Thats what my mental say, but my physicals been detached
Im on some other shit, like fuck the government, Im higher rankings
Where the mothership? I made the covenant that I was changin
But my luck has been quite disgusting when reality tainted
Where the fuck you been? Left him face down like he was plankin
In a cold world where old girl and a home boy got a motive
You could bitch, girl your tribulations, that sensations insultin
Got a wifey or mistress, nigga which one you indulgin?
Regardless of who you pick
Know lifes a bitch when you aint focused, nigga |
...and this is WTOP Radio and Im your host DJ Turn-Up
I dont turn down nuttin but my collar
I aint turnin down no money
And I aint turnin down no mothafuckin fade
Now bitch if youre pushin up the street with your orangutan-lookin ass, take some advice and bang SZA ya flat-foot bitch
Itchin for a climax lasting past 11:30
Do you got it like that, do you really got it like that?
Itchin for a purpose, I cant seem to scratch the surface
I aint got it like that, do I really got it like that?
You keep talkin bout time, I got none
You can find me where
The sun dont never end and the waves dont part
You dont pay enough of my rent, dont start
I got big dreams and you got quick scheme to get rich quickly
And I dont wanna waste another hour
Really need to take another shower
Dirty for you
Big business, big booty bitches, black on black Benzs
Backing out the back to back my engine, backpack with gats in it
Backflip my dollars and bend Impalas, my arm whistling
Palm flipping, middle finger, fuck yall, I let it linger
Plush wall and marble floor, ghetto Commodore singing
Tours for my whores swinging, on my heart swore
I pour plenty more semen, or explore cunnilingus
Dummy tore through that boy for pointing fingers
Honey youre a PS4, my game change seasons
And my name explain visas, I defame your name easy
We aim and keep squeezing, bitch my lane say no treason
My chains say no cubic, all yall look stupid
Big dog, three phone call log stupid
Im Chris Paul, West Coast, All-Star stupid!
The mantra, the holy trinity, baby your sponsor
My concert and your facility, via del Compton
And Watts finest!
Now this that big shell fishscale
BMX on the ramp with the fishtail
Pegs on the front, we gon get there
We four deep at a swap meet, dont need a 5th wheel
This bitch steal whoever if situations get real
This that fresh out the bounty, bustin knuckles
Get buckled if you ever try to knock the hustle
Show your hands, watch how I shuffle
And show you why they hate more niggas than Uncle Ruckus
Rollin up that boondock, some call it moon rock
Gotta keep that bass in my step, dope in a tube sock
Gotta do what I do to remain on
So all a nigga need is good love when I come home
Cause the babys gotta eat, baby the rents been due lately
And I just caught a hot one, I aint tryna go too crazy
Fugazi, not me, me and my niggas not sweet
Give you thug passion, how you walkin around knock-kneed
Im the silver bullet movin at top speed
Show you how to get it and get away with it scott-free! |
Ok now shorty had yellow
Shorty eyes brown
Shorty so gold
And so is my crown
Baby color me red
Shorty code red
And so is my flag
Purple in my bag
And shorty hair black
And so is that card
That I got in my bag
How could I go Hard from my girl in fact
I could take a ball from the world
Since the president black
I went and bought a black pearls
Like damn
And she gonna wanna see lil wayne go
She just wanna bonnafie lil wayne boe
Now or later cause me and her gonna create art together
Ohhhh
She wanna do it has we do it all night
I never blew it hurt my lung
I only look nice
See the wall black and I dress all white
Yeaaa
Mama says she love it when Im color coordinated
So I pull up in a maroon coupe with maroon laces
In my Supras I maneuver like
MacGyver when its time to ride
Say she always feeling blue
When he telling white lies
Rain on her window pain
All she see is grey skies
Told her hit this purple
Maybe this will ease your mind
Im rocking purple lable
Check out my shirt design
Perfect with her purple kisses
Slack track number eight
From The Dream maybe this is something you aint neva see
Put you in a real world
Take you out that green screen
Sippin on pink panties
In the stretched limousine
They takin off pink panties
When we hit the room please
Dont confuse me for no murderer like Norman Bates
But Im about to kill it
Pull out the yellow tape
Im guessing Im a criminal
You caught up in my web
Like a brown recluse
K. Dot is a color never seen boo
She love it when Im flamed up
Valet park the Red Lamborghini at the Grand Lux
Grammys with the red tux
She a red bone
Red manicure
Red hair
Think I like her
Might wife her in some red airs
Walk her up my red stairs
Headed to the red room
She gone yell code red once I jump in that womb
Red diamonds on my wrist, red diamonds on my neck
Give yo ass a blood bath, if you ever disrespect
Red lobster, you a small fish walking thru my set
Red beam, Im aiming from the roof of my projects
She know that Im gangster, she read that Im a prospect
Eatin red beans, shittin on em, Where the flys at?
Red in my pupils and thats just from the contact
She wanna blow up Im a show her where that bomb at
So baby ride with the red flow
Her face turned red soon as I said lets go
Yea Ohhh
Ohhhhhh
Ohhhhhhh Yeahhhhh
Ohhhhhhh Ohhhh Ehhhhhh
Hahaha Thats right baby
Im gone |