If Pirus and all got along They'd probably gun me by the end of this song Seem like the whole go against me Every time I'm in the street I
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[Hook: Lamar] "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] yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm crack or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty and major pain 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, waving your out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can slow dance with The driver the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga with his blown out At the same burger stand --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder that 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 porch is We adapt to crime, pack a van four guns at a time With the sliding door, is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, a dick or die or sucker punch 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 hell broke You killed my cousin back in '94. yo truce Now yo head in that noose You wind up dead on the 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 the Isleys When you hop on that Make your colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother They say the collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, that ain't no threat You movin backwards if you that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a 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 lessons the street It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] outta school cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the living in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the pole 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 I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the third I clocked in Projects tore up, gang get thrown up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next we broke even I allegiance that 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, a nigga flip Cluck heads all up and down the and shit One time's crooked and Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm in the hood Loc yeah that's The hood me under so I follow the rules But yeah that's me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep colors is doing the 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 in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street life I Shots hit the enemy, hearts turn Mount up, in the whip Down the boulevard with the grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, so real Deal with the outcome, a strap in the And a bird and 10 grand's where a stand
[Kendrick If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the With a and some Now & Laters to eat If I all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat? Would you say my now is great relief? And it's safe to say that our generation maybe can sleep With of being a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the hostage Kill all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, 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 bang it and slide out bitch with deposits And the on his head, the tithes probably 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 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."