If and Crips all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of song Seem like the whole go against me time 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 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 down It got ugly, your hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope can slow dance with society The seat the first one to get killed Seen a nigga with his brains blown out At the same burger stand where --- out Now this is not a tape recorder saying he did it But ever since that day, I was at him different was back when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, a van with four guns at a time With the sliding door, is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or punch A wall of bullets comin AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now yo head in that noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no peace treaty, pieces up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the When you hop on that Make your colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be 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 backwards if you suggest 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!---
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[MC Wake yo ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real and plain I'mma you some lessons about the street It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick Fresh outta school cause I was a high school Sleeping in the room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the car crash Hit the light two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I a job I thought I believed him Security for a month and ended up leaving In I got fired because I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang get thrown up Cocaine laced in And they 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 made a promise to see you bleeding You the reasons but still won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's human
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas been mixing since the 80's loc sticks, butt nakeds Dip, make a flip Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One time's crooked and Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm still in the Loc yeah cool The hood took me so I follow the rules But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the where they bang And that rep colors is doing the same thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A drive-bys in the hood lately Couple of IV's with the spraycan in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave up, regulators in the whip Down the boulevard the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a cause yeah, it's so real Deal the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's 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 basketball and some Now & to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the you say my intelligence now is great relief? And it's safe to say our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac Kill them all if they gossip, the of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of a lie, drown their body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this arrive in his eye; this a coward, the concept is aim and They it and slide out that bitch with deposits And the on his head, the tithes probably go to the projects I inside the belly of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on 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, ain't no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? even trip, just lay back and drink that."