If and Crips all got along They'd probably gun me by the end of this song Seem the whole city go against me Every time I'm in the I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Lamar] "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 trip down lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your hand out the window. Check yo Uh, warriors and euphoria can slow dance with society The driver seat the first one to get Seen a light-skinned with his brains blown out At the burger stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But ever that day, I was lookin at him different That was back when I was Joey packed the Pakistan on every porch is We adapt to crime, pack a van four guns at a time the sliding door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you walkin' up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, a dick or die or sucker punch A of bullets comin from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said when we was eatin' the free Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo in that noose You up dead on the news Ain't no peace treaty, just BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner the sheets like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make sure your correct Make sure corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect They say the collect, all of our taxes except When we in and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you suggest that you sleep a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a 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 and plain teach you some lessons about the street It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta cause I was a high school grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My said I needed a job I thought I believed him Security for a month and ended up leaving In fact I got fired because I was by all of my friends To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine laced in And wonder why I rarely smoke now Imagine if first blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we even I made allegiance that made a to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't ever my life Kendrick AKA Compton's human
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing since the 80's loc sticks, butt nakeds Dip, make a flip heads all up and down the block and shit One time's crooked and Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm still in the Loc yeah that's The took me under so I follow the rules But that's like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas rep colors is doing the same thing it to the left so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the hood Couple of IV's with the fucking Shots in the crowd then ran I'm finna slay, the street life I crave Shots hit the enemy, turn brave Mount up, in the whip the boulevard with the pistol grip Trip, we in the still So loc, a strap cause yeah, it's so real Deal the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 where a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a at 16, would 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? you say my intelligence now is great relief? And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can With dreams of a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper hold the cul-de-sac hostage them all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the then watch this flame That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the is aim and They bang it and slide out bitch with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes probably go to the I live inside the belly of the Compton, U.S.A. Me an Angel 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 unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, ain't no word.) Nigga, up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."