If Pirus and all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of song like the whole city 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 you on a trip down 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 drill sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your 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 society The driver the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga with his blown out At the same burger stand where --- out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But since that day, I was lookin at him different That was when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on every is fine We to crime, pack a van with four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't up you fuckin' punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, a dick or die or sucker punch A wall of bullets from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what said when we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo Now crawl yo head in noose You up dead on the news Ain't no peace treaty, pieces up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner the sheets like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make sure colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or be calling your mother collect They say the collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no You movin backwards if you suggest you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and a doctor on speed 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 simple and I'mma teach you some lessons 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 pole two nigga's out on foot and dashed My Pops said I a job I thought 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 Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, signs get thrown up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the I was straight the next weekend we broke even I made that made a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't ever know my AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas been mixing shit the 80's loc sticks, butt nakeds Dip, a nigga flip heads all up and down the block and shit One time's and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm still in the Loc yeah cool The hood me under so I follow the rules But yeah that's like me, I 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 fucking Shots in the crowd then ran I'm finna slay, the street life I crave Shots hit the enemy, turn brave up, regulators in the whip Down the boulevard with the pistol Trip, we in the still So loc, grab a cause yeah, it's so real with the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I a nigga at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the you say my intelligence now is great relief? And it's safe to say that our 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 They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the is aim and They it and slide out that bitch with deposits And the price on his head, the probably go to the projects I live the belly of the rough Compton, U.S.A. Me an Angel on Angel Dust, what
Nigga pass Dot the bottle, damn! You ain't the one that got fucked up, what you holding it Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."