If Pirus and all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of song Seem like the whole go against me Every time I'm in the I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Lamar] "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: Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory 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 that on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and euphoria can slow dance with society The driver seat the one to get killed Seen a light-skinned with his brains blown out At the same stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder saying he did it But ever since day, I was lookin at him different was back when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on every porch is We adapt to crime, pack a van with four at a time the sliding door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or 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 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, on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make your colors correct Make you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our 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 dial, I guess M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
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[MC Wake yo ass up! It ain't but a Compton thang Real and plain I'mma teach you some lessons the street It ain't 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 the white car crash Hit the pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I a job I thought I believed him Security guard for a month and up leaving In fact I got because I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the third I clocked in Projects up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine laced in And wonder why I rarely smoke now if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke I made allegiance that made a promise to see you You know the reasons but won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, a nigga flip Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One time's and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm in the hood Loc that's cool The hood me under 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 couple drive-bys in the lately of IV's with the fucking spraycan Shots in the then everybody ran I'm finna slay, the street life I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave up, regulators in the whip Down the boulevard with the grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, it's so Deal the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's where a stand
[Kendrick If I told you I killed a at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be Kendrick you seen in the street a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you in the seat? you say my intelligence now is great relief? And it's to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the hostage Kill them all if they gossip, the Children of the They vandalizing, the option of a lie, drown their body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this That arrive in his eye; a coward, the concept is aim and They bang it and slide out that 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, you holding it for? Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, ain't no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."