If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me down by the end of this Seem like the city go against me Every time I'm in the street I
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: Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty and major pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, your hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can slow dance with The seat the first one to get killed Seen a nigga with his brains blown out At the same burger where --- hang out Now is not a tape 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 With the sliding door, is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a or die or sucker punch A wall of bullets from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's momma said when we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell loose You killed my cousin back in '94. yo truce 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 between the sheets like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make sure your correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother They say the governor collect, all of our except we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you that 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 yo punk ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real and plain I'mma teach you some lessons the street It ain't but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the white car Hit the light pole two hopped out on foot and dashed My said I needed 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 third Saturday I in tore up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke I made allegiance made a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing shit the 80's loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, make a flip Cluck heads all up and down the and shit One crooked and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm in the hood Loc yeah that's The took me under so I follow the rules But yeah that's me, I grew up in the hood 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 hood Couple of with the fucking spraycan in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street life I Shots hit the enemy, turn brave up, regulators in the whip Down the boulevard the pistol grip Trip, we in the still So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, it's so Deal with the outcome, a in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's where a motherfucker
[Kendrick If I you I killed a nigga at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you in the street With a basketball and Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, you jump in the seat? Would you say my now is great relief? And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can With dreams of a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that 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 body with drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch 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 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, ain't no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and that."