If Pirus and 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 street I
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"
[Verse 1: Kendrick Brace yourself, take you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move This is cul-de-sac and plenty and major pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, your hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and Hope euphoria can dance with society The seat the first one to get killed Seen a nigga with his brains blown out At the same burger where --- hang out Now this is not a recorder saying that he did it But since that day, I was lookin at him different That was back I was nine Joey packed the Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, a van with four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or sucker A wall of comin from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma when we was eatin' the free lunch 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 treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies on top of IV's Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the When you hop on trolley Make your colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our except When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no You movin backwards if you suggest that you with a Tec Go buy a and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess M.A.A.d
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[MC yo punk ass up! It nothin' but a Compton thang Real simple and I'mma teach you some about the street It ain't nothin' but a thang How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick Fresh outta school cause I was a school grad Sleeping in the living in my momma's pad struck I seen the white car crash Hit the light two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I I believed him guard for a month and ended up leaving In fact I got fired because I was by all of my friends To stage a robbery the Saturday I clocked in tore up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they wonder why I smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the I was straight tweaking the weekend we broke even I made allegiance that made a promise to see you You know the reasons but still won't ever my life Kendrick AKA Compton's human
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a flip Cluck heads all up and down the and shit One time's crooked and a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
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 grew up in the where they bang And niggas rep colors is doing the same thing Pass it to the left so I can on me A couple drive-bys in the lately Couple of IV's with the fucking Shots in the crowd then ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street life I Shots hit the enemy, turn brave Mount up, in the whip Down the with the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a strap yeah, it's so real with the outcome, a strap in the hand And a and 10 grand's where a motherfucker stand
[Kendrick If I told you I a nigga 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, you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is relief? And it's safe to say our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a lawyer or Instead of boy a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn vandalizing, the option 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 They bang it and slide out that with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes go to the projects I live inside the 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 unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, ain't no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't trip, just lay back and drink that."