If Pirus and Crips all got They'd gun me down by the end of this song like the whole city go against me Every I'm in the street I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Kendrick "Man you from, nigga?" "Fuck who you know, you from, my nigga?" "Where your stay, huh, my nigga?" "This m.A.A.d I run, my nigga"
[Verse 1: Kendrick Brace yourself, I'll take you on a down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or cocaine This is cul-de-sac and Cognac and major pain Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and Hope euphoria can slow dance society The seat the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga his brains blown out At the same stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But ever since day, I was lookin at him different That was back when I was Joey packed the Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van with four at a time the sliding door, fuck is up? Fuck you for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or sucker A of bullets comin from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's momma said when we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell broke You my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in that You wind up on the news Ain't no peace treaty, pieces BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of on top of IV's Obviously the coroner between the like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make sure colors correct Make sure corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect They say the collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, that ain't no threat You movin if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
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[MC Wake yo ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real simple and I'mma teach you some lessons about the It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school cause I was a high grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I I believed him Security guard for a and ended up leaving In fact I got fired I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the third I clocked in Projects tore up, gang get thrown up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next we broke even I made allegiance that made a to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, a nigga flip Cluck heads all up and down the and shit One time's and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm in the hood Loc that's cool The hood took me under so I follow the But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood they bang And niggas rep colors is doing the same thing it to the left so I can smoke on me A drive-bys in the hood lately of IV's with the fucking spraycan Shots in the crowd everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave hit the enemy, hearts turn brave Mount up, regulators in the Down the with the pistol grip Trip, we in the still So loc, a strap cause yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a strap in the And a bird and 10 grand's where a stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, you believe me? Or see me to be Kendrick you seen in the street With a and some Now & Laters to eat If I all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat? Would you say my now is great relief? And safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep dreams of being a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the of living a lie, drown their body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch flame That arrive in his eye; a coward, the concept is aim and bang it and slide out that bitch with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes probably go to the I live the belly of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an on Angel Dust, what
Nigga pass Dot the bottle, damn! You ain't the one that got fucked up, what you holding it for? Niggas always acting and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay and drink that."