[Verse 1: Nipsey Look, my nigga is dedication, this is anti-hesitation This a real nigga celebration, a don blonde declaration Fifty-Ninth and Fifth Ave, granny's house with vanilla the remedy, the separation, 2Pac of my generation Blue in the fuckin' Matrix, red rose in the gray pavement black nigga trapped and he can't change it Know he a genius, he can't claim it 'Cause they left him no to explain it He so he get faded But deep down he know you can't fade him How long should I stay How long 'til opportunity preparation? I some real nigga reparations 'Fore I run up in bank just for recreation
Nipsey Hussle] Dedication, work plus 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', It's dedication,
[Verse 2: Kendrick I my whole life thinkin' out the box Boxin' homies three on one, got DP'ed but I ain't on me, here I come, brrt, spin around the block They blurped on me, said I ran a stop sign but a lie I spent my whole life staring at the Playin' Sega, smokin' sherm, mama playin' spades Catchin' vapors, grandma said I'd get Jordans for my grades That's my baby when she my heart broke a hundred ways I spent my whole life tryna make it, tryna it The cycle of a man divided, tryna break it You take a loss, shit don't cry about it, just it Minor setback for major comeback, my favorite 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 from the streets to black Level four, livin' and give in to false imprisonment Listen close my nigga, it's bigger than deuces and my nigga elementary we close my nigga, yeah, straight like that I give you the game, go back to the turf and give it right For generations we been dealt bad hands with bad Prove your dedication by hoppin' out Am's I'm at the politickin' 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] 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 set's not Lock us behind but can't tame us Used to be 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, the world, now my life crackin' Cook the books, it back so it's no taxes Royalties, publishing, plus I own I'll be damned if I slave for some crackers I was mappin' out, I hit the heights backwards out the eighty-five in Reebok classics Ran a couple just to get established To it happen, you got to have it
[Chorus: Hussle] 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 It's