[Verse 1: Nipsey Look, my this is dedication, this is anti-hesitation This a real celebration, this a don blonde declaration Fifty-Ninth and Fifth Ave, granny's house with vanilla This the remedy, the separation, 2Pac of my Blue pill in the fuckin' Matrix, red rose in the gray Young black trapped and he can't change it Know he a genius, he can't claim it 'Cause they him no platforms to explain it He frustrated so he get But down inside he know you can't fade him How long should I stay How long 'til meet preparation? I need real nigga reparations 'Fore I run up in bank just for recreation
[Chorus: Nipsey Dedication, hard work plus The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm done I'm done waitin', told you that I playin' Now you hear what I been sayin', dedication, look
[Verse 2: Kendrick I spent my whole life out the box Boxin' homies three on one, got DP'ed but I drop Chirp on me, I come, brrt, spin around the block They blurped on me, said I ran a stop but that's a lie I spent my whole staring at the stage Sega, daddy smokin' sherm, mama playin' spades Catchin' vapors, grandma said I'd get some for my grades That's my baby she died my heart broke a hundred ways I my whole life tryna make it, tryna chase it The cycle of a black man divided, tryna it You take a loss, shit cry about it, just embrace it Minor setback for major comeback, that's my My nigga L said you do a song with Nip, K. Dot he a better I he a man first, you hear the words out his lips? About flourishing the streets to black businesses? Level four, yard livin' and give in to imprisonment close my nigga, it's bigger than deuces and fours my nigga Since elementary we close my nigga, yeah, like that I give you the game, go back to the turf and give it back For generations we dealt bad hands with bad plans Prove dedication by hoppin' out Grand Am's I'm at the premiere politickin' Top, Nip, and Snoop Damn, Pac watchin' the way we grew, from
[Interlude: Kendrick If it ain't congratulate then it look like If it congratulate then it look like what, Nipsey? up!
[Verse 3: Hussle] This entertainment, it's for niggas on the slave ship These songs just the spirituals I swam them waves wit Ended up on shore to their I the example I set's not contagious Lock us behind gates but tame us Used to be stay safe, now it's stay 'Cause ain't no point in defense nigga That's why I dove off the end nigga, without a life jacket Couple mil, tour the world, now my crackin' the books, bring it back so it's no taxes Royalties, publishing, plus I own I'll be damned if I slave for some white I was this out, I hit the heights backwards Hoppin' out the eighty-five in Reebok Ran a marathons just to get established To it happen, you got to have it
[Chorus: Nipsey Dedication, hard plus patience The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm waitin' I'm done waitin', told you I wasn't playin' Now you hear what I sayin', dedication It's