Lord mercy, Jesus Christ just nice, he just slice like a ginnsu Look at the life that I been We the last niggas alive, that's official
Lamar] Let me tell you when it all Game dropped Documentary and made plenty It was a classic album, but to that Guerilla Black and put the city on wax A lot of comparisons, we all was aware of them But that wasn't my M.O., I just he was dope Can't why Game would say his name in that manner Many years went by, still no legitimate Anyway, I put out a in 12th 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, to the barbershop to show off my skills Mike and Himey and some cat said I was real Himey was barber, the other cat made a statement Saying that Game was his partner, so I gave him my Said he'd it for him, hoping that I'd get my big break But got a response.. anyway This nigga named ?Pop Givs? to my school with a camera I freestyled on his DVD for a minute then It hit the streets, I was known as K. Dot from Man Hootie probably was the youngest out was poppin' But I didn't have a yet, Hootie had ? in me Until I met Top Dawg, Dave that he'd like to meet 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, his first mixtape Was skeptical homie at first because he knew where I 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 wrote his rhymes on Before Sidekicks became a modern day Same time our was generated from G Malone He had a song called 200, Lightnin, the streets loved it Said that Sony had gave him an budget Now that's a smart nigga, I'm tryna make my raps than life But not knowing how to market it 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 perfect our craft What the Next thing you know, we came across Lift Me Up It was a hit When I it But all we had was the instrumental and the But jump on it for certain, it was to smash Gave it to Julio, just to get his thing you know, the record was That was a good look, it set the on fire Niggas in Garden projects Watts Riot these rappers start hating, callin' up to the station 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 midst of the single poppin' and niggas tryna seek and I had a situation with Def Jam, Shit went sour Jay-Z left but they didn't care I was glad gave me respect See I was young, fast forward, hot dollah had the streets on Far as play, obvious, he got a lot Beefing' Daz Dilinger, Jay Rock spoke 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 with And a few other names like and Young, ya boy Did the freestyle and everybody's like, "Wow" Top Dawg niggas 'bout to make noise" Surely after Game took us on tour, I love you for But right that, we didn't see him no more G Malone came a smash hit with Akon Mistah FAB battled Nickel with napalm Then start to scream out the new West And claim that West legends don't want to see him at best I think that's just an excuse, because their music ain't Tell 'em that Ab-soul said it, they can quote him Then Crooked I came with Weekly, killin' the internet But he a threat since Deathrow, then Rocky came about And all I thought about was 2-11-2 It finally to look like the West was makin' moves Western Union had the whole block because of Snoop fact, Bad Luck was my favorite about the group Then ?Problem? off, another Compton native We both niggas, but Compton still ain't made it By this time, Jay Rock and All My hit the airwaves We almost got into major beef over Lil' Wayne That part I'mma out Theres certain things that the streets should know about Shout out to Bishop win that game, then had a with ? when I dropped C4 and had the critics mad at me Because they didn't see my views, grab the hottest out and re-do it That's a goddamn power stupid You foolish, don't know shit about war shit Theres mo' shit to to be the king 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 partners with The nigga finally me what he said He said he like it But the niggas "See, see, look at you, at you now, I tried to tell him you was tight" Nigga probably never even gave it to him and