Lord have mercy, Jesus He's nice, he just slice like a ginnsu at the life that I been through We the real niggas alive, that's official
Lamar] Let me tell you it all started Game dropped Documentary and plenty enemies It was a classic album, but prior to Guerilla debuted and put the city on wax A lot of Biggie comparisons, we all was of them But that wasn't my M.O., I thought he was dope Can't understand why Game would say his name in that Many went by, still no legitimate answer Anyway, I put out a mixtape in grade Hub threat, minor of the year, DJ Dave And his designed, put together the music Put it out to the people, the said I was stupid With the flow, went to the to show off my skills Mike and Himey and some other cat said I was Himey was barber, the other cat made a statement Saying Game was his partner, so I gave him my tape Said play it for him, hoping that I'd get my big break But never got a response.. This nigga named ?Pop Givs? came to my with a camera I freestyled on his DVD for a then after It hit the streets, I was known as K. Dot Compton Man probably was the youngest out that was poppin' But I didn't a home yet, Hootie had ? in me Until I met Top Dawg, told Dave that he'd like to Me at the studio, me freestyle for an hour Told me come back tomorrow, but I came in a hour Jay Rock was in the booth, recording his first Was skeptical homie at first because he where I stayed But we got over that, heard the beat, a rap Did our first collaboration on the Nephew He got months later, Warner Brothers We started on his album, he his rhymes on paper Before Sidekicks became a modern day time our buzz was generated from G Malone He had a called 200, White Lightnin, the streets loved it Said that Sony had him an unbelievable budget Now that's a smart nigga, I'm make my raps bigger than life But not knowing how to it right Turned on the Only cat he knew from the West Coast was playin' was And by then this buzz was tremendous In the lab, me and Rock tryna perfect our What the fuck? Next thing you know, we came across Me Up It was a hit I heard it But all we had was the instrumental and the But jump on it for certain, it was to smash Gave it to Julio, to get his opinion thing you know, the record was That was a good look, it set the coast on Niggas in Garden projects Watts Riot Then these rappers start hating, callin' up to the Ask why they record playin', what you niggas complaining, about? was funny to us tho Niggas hate to see a from the bottom come up, yo In the of the single poppin' and niggas tryna seek and destroy I had a situation with Def Jam, Shit went sour after Jay-Z left but didn't care I was glad gave me respect See I was young, fast forward, hot dollah had the on lock Far as play, obvious, he got a lot Beefing' with Daz Dilinger, Jay Rock on it Which in my opinion, I didn't the shit was impo'tant But that's a whole 'nother story, we hit the lab Game And a few other names like and Young, ya boy Did the freestyle and everybody's like, "Wow" These Top Dawg niggas 'bout to noise" Surely Game took us on tour, I love you for that But after that, we didn't see him no more G Malone came with a hit with Akon Mistah FAB battled Royce with napalm Then everybody start to out the new West And claim that West Coast legends don't want to see him at I think just an excuse, because their music ain't tight Tell 'em that Ab-soul it, they can quote him twice Then Crooked I with Hip-Hop Weekly, killin' the internet But he been a threat since Deathrow, then came about And all I thought about was Ab-Soul It finally started to look like the West was moves Union had the whole block boomin' because of Snoop Matter fact, Bad was my favorite about the group ?Problem? took off, another Compton native We both Compton niggas, but Compton ain't made it By this time, Jay and All My Life hit the airwaves We almost got into some major over Lil' Wayne That part leave out Theres certain things the streets only should know about Shout out to win that game, then had a fight with ? That's when I C4 and had the critics mad at me Because they see my views, grab the hottest album out and re-do it That's a goddamn power move You foolish, don't know shit about this war Theres mo' shit to wanting to be the of the coast shit
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[Outro: Lamar] So two ago I finally run into the nigga I gave my mixtape too And said he was with Game The nigga told me what he said He said he didn't it But the like "See, see, look at you, look at you now, I tried to him you was tight" Nigga never even gave it to him and shit