[Verse 1: Hussle] Look, my nigga is dedication, this is anti-hesitation This a nigga celebration, this a don blonde declaration Fifty-Ninth and Fifth Ave, granny's house with vanilla This the remedy, the separation, of my generation Blue in the fuckin' Matrix, red rose in the gray pavement Young nigga trapped and he can't change it Know he a genius, he just claim it 'Cause they left him no platforms to it He so he get faded But deep inside he know you can't fade him How long I stay dedicated? How long 'til opportunity meet I need some real reparations 'Fore I run up in bank just for recreation
[Chorus: Nipsey Dedication, work plus patience The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm waitin' I'm done waitin', told you that I playin' Now you what I been sayin', dedication dedication, look
[Verse 2: Kendrick I spent my whole thinkin' 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 life staring at the stage Playin' Sega, daddy smokin' sherm, playin' spades Catchin' vapors, grandma said I'd get Jordans 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 man divided, tryna break it You take a loss, shit cry about it, just embrace it Minor for major comeback, that's my favorite My nigga L said you do a song Nip, K. Dot he a better crip I said he a man first, you the words out his lips? About flourishing from the streets to 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 and give it right back For generations we been dealt bad hands bad plans your dedication by hoppin' out Grand Am's I'm at the premiere with Top, Nip, and Snoop Damn, Pac the way we grew, from dedication
Kendrick Lamar] If it ain't congratulate it look like hate If it congratulate then it look like what, Nipsey? up!
[Verse 3: Hussle] ain't entertainment, it's for niggas on the slave ship These songs just the spirituals I swam against them wit Ended up on shore to their I the example I set's not contagious Lock us gates but can't tame us to be stay safe, now it's stay dangerous 'Cause no point in playin' defense nigga why I dove off the deep end nigga, without a life jacket Couple mil, tour the world, now my life Cook the books, it back so it's no taxes Royalties, publishing, plus I own I'll be damned if I for some white crackers I was this out, I hit the heights backwards Hoppin' out the eighty-five in Reebok Ran a marathons just to get established To make it happen, you got to it
[Chorus: Hussle] Dedication, hard work patience The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm waitin' I'm waitin', told you that I wasn't playin' Now you hear what I been sayin', dedication