If and Crips all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of this Seem like the whole 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"
[Verse 1: Lamar] Brace yourself, take you on a trip down memory lane is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty and major pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and euphoria can slow dance with society The driver the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned with his brains blown out At the burger stand where --- hang out Now is not a tape recorder saying that he did it But ever that day, I was lookin at him different That was when I was nine packed the nine Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van with four at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you 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 what momma said when we was the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up on the news no peace treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the like the Isleys When you hop on 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 happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
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[MC yo punk ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real simple and I'mma you some lessons about the street It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh school cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the car crash Hit the light pole two 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 because I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a the third Saturday I clocked in tore up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine laced in And they wonder why I smoke now Imagine if your blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the weekend we broke even I made allegiance that a promise to see you bleeding You know the but still won't ever know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas been mixing shit since the loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, make a nigga heads all up and down the block and shit One crooked and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm in the hood Loc that's cool The hood took me under so I follow the But that's like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep colors is doing the same Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the hood Couple of IV's with the spraycan Shots in the crowd everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave Mount up, regulators in the Down the boulevard with the grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a strap yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a in the hand And a bird and 10 where a motherfucker stand
[Kendrick If I told you I a nigga at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent you seen in the street With a basketball and Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the Would you say my intelligence now is relief? And it's safe to say that our next maybe can sleep dreams of being a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if they gossip, the of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then this flame That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the is aim and They bang it and out that bitch with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes probably go to the I live inside the of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Angel Dust,
Nigga pass Dot the bottle, damn! You ain't the one that got fucked up, you holding it for? 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 and drink that."