[Verse 1: Hussle] Look, my nigga this is dedication, is anti-hesitation This a real nigga celebration, a don blonde declaration Fifty-Ninth and Fifth Ave, granny's house vanilla wafers the remedy, the separation, 2Pac of my generation Blue in the fuckin' Matrix, red rose in the gray pavement Young black trapped and he can't change it he a genius, he just can't claim it 'Cause they left him no to explain it He so he get faded But deep inside he know you can't fade him How long I stay dedicated? How long opportunity meet preparation? I need some nigga reparations 'Fore I run up in your bank for recreation
[Chorus: Nipsey Dedication, hard work patience The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm done I'm waitin', told you that I wasn't playin' Now you hear I been sayin', dedication It's dedication,
2: Kendrick Lamar] I my whole life 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 blurped on me, said I ran a stop sign but that's a lie I spent my whole life staring at the Playin' Sega, daddy smokin' sherm, mama playin' Catchin' vapors, grandma said I'd get Jordans for my grades That's my baby when she died my heart broke a hundred I spent my whole life tryna make it, chase it The cycle of a black man divided, tryna it You take a loss, shit don't cry about it, just it setback for major comeback, that's my favorite My nigga L you do a song with Nip, K. Dot he a better crip I said he a man first, you hear the words out his About flourishing from the streets to businesses? four, yard livin' and give in to false imprisonment Listen my nigga, it's bigger than deuces and fours my nigga Since elementary we close my nigga, yeah, straight that I give you the game, go back to the turf and give it back For generations we been dealt bad hands with bad Prove your dedication by hoppin' out Am's I'm at the premiere politickin' with Top, Nip, and Damn, Pac watchin' the way we grew, dedication
[Interlude: Lamar] If it ain't congratulate it look like hate If it ain't congratulate it look like what, Nipsey? up!
[Verse 3: Nipsey This ain't entertainment, it's for on the slave ship These songs just the spirituals I swam them waves wit up on shore to their amazement I hope the example I not contagious Lock us behind gates but can't us Used to be safe, now it's stay dangerous 'Cause ain't no point in playin' nigga That's why I dove off the end nigga, without a life jacket mil, tour the world, now my life crackin' Cook the books, bring it back so it's no Royalties, publishing, I own masters I'll be damned if I slave for some white I was mappin' this out, I hit the heights Hoppin' out the in Reebok classics Ran a couple marathons to get established To make it happen, you got to it
[Chorus: Nipsey Dedication, hard work patience The sum of all my sacrifice, I'm waitin' I'm done waitin', told you I wasn't playin' Now you what I been sayin', dedication It's