If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me by the end of this song like 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"
[Verse 1: Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin or move cocaine 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, ride down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and euphoria can slow dance with society The seat the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains out At the same stand where --- hang out Now this is not a recorder saying that he did it But ever since day, I was lookin at him different was back when I was nine Joey the nine on every porch is fine 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 walkin' up you punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, a dick or die or sucker punch A wall of bullets comin AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said when we was eatin' the lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell broke You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in that You wind up dead on the Ain't no peace treaty, just BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies on top of IV's Obviously the coroner between the sheets the Isleys When you hop on trolley Make your colors correct Make sure corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect say the governor collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you suggest 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 Wake yo ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real and plain I'mma teach you some lessons about the It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school cause I was a high grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality struck I the white car crash Hit the pole two nigga's 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 fired because I was inspired by all of my To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang signs get up Cocaine in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight the next weekend we broke even I made allegiance that a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but won't ever know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a flip Cluck all up and down the block and shit One time's and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
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 hood where bang And niggas that rep is doing the same thing Pass it to the left so I can 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, hearts turn Mount up, in the whip Down the boulevard with the grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, a strap cause yeah, it's so real with the outcome, a strap 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 seen in the With a basketball and some Now & to eat If I all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is great And it's safe to say that our generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a lawyer or 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 living a lie, their body with toxins drinking and drive, hit the powder 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 on his head, the tithes probably go to the projects I live the belly 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, what you holding it for? always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? even trip, just lay back and drink that."