If and Crips all got along They'd gun me down 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: Kendrick "Man you from, nigga?" "Fuck who you know, you from, my nigga?" "Where grandma stay, huh, my nigga?" "This m.A.A.d I run, my nigga"
1: Kendrick Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine This is and plenty Cognac and major pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky down Rosecrans It got ugly, your hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can slow dance society The seat the first one to get killed Seen a nigga with his brains blown out At the burger stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But since that day, I was lookin at him different That was back I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on every porch is We adapt to crime, pack a van with guns at a time the sliding door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the fuckin' Pickin' off you suckers, suck a or die or sucker punch A wall of bullets comin AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma when we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell loose You killed my cousin back in '94. yo truce Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no peace treaty, just BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the sheets the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make your colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or be calling your mother collect They say the collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on dial, I guess M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
(static)
[MC Wake yo ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real simple and I'mma teach you lessons about the street It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick Fresh outta school cause I was a school grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the light pole two hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I thought I him guard for a month and ended up leaving In fact I got because I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang get thrown up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next we broke even I made allegiance that made a promise to see you You know the reasons but won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA human sacrifice
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas been mixing shit since the loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, a nigga flip Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One crooked and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the Loc that's cool The hood took me so I follow the rules But yeah that's like me, I up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep is doing the same thing Pass it to the left so I can on me A drive-bys in the hood lately Couple of with the fucking spraycan Shots in the crowd then ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave Mount up, in the whip the boulevard with the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a cause yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's where a motherfucker
[Kendrick If I told you I killed a at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you in the street With a basketball and 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 our next generation maybe can sleep With of being a lawyer or doctor of boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their body 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 that bitch 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 Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and that."