If and Crips all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of song Seem like the whole city go me Every I'm in the street I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Kendrick "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: Kendrick Brace yourself, I'll you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that 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 Hope euphoria can slow with society The driver the first one to get killed a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out At the burger stand where --- 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 packed the Pakistan on every porch is We to crime, pack a van with four guns at a time With the sliding door, is up? Fuck you for if you ain't walkin' 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 momma said when we was eatin' the free Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no peace treaty, pieces BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies on top of IV's Obviously the coroner between the like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make sure your colors 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, shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you suggest that you with a Tec Go buy a chopper and a doctor on speed dial, I guess M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
(static)
[MC Wake yo ass up! It nothin' but a Compton thang Real and plain I'mma teach you some lessons the street It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school I was a high school grad Sleeping in the living room in my pad Reality struck I seen the car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and My Pops said I needed a job I thought I him guard for a month and ended up leaving In I got fired because I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the third I clocked in Projects tore up, signs get thrown up Cocaine laced in And they why I rarely smoke now if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we even I made allegiance that a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't ever my life Kendrick AKA human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing shit the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a flip Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One crooked and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm in the hood Loc yeah cool The hood took me under so I follow the But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood they 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 lately Couple of IV's with the fucking Shots in the crowd then ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts turn up, regulators in the whip Down the boulevard with the pistol Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a cause yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a strap in the 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 you seen in the street a basketball 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 to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With of being 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 this flame That arrive in his eye; a coward, the concept is aim and bang it and slide out that bitch with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes probably go to the I live inside the belly of the 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 holding it for? Niggas always acting and shit. (Nigga, ain't no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? even trip, just lay back and drink that."