If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me down by the end of song Seem the whole city go against me time 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: Lamar] yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major 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 can slow dance with society The driver seat the first one to get Seen a nigga with his brains blown out At the same burger stand where --- out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But ever that 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 four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or sucker 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 no peace treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner the sheets like the Isleys When you hop on that Make sure your colors Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother say the governor collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a and have 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 nothin' but a thang Real and plain I'mma teach you lessons about the street It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school I was a high school grad Sleeping in the room 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 Security guard for a month and up leaving In fact I got fired I was inspired by all of my friends To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And wonder why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next we broke even I made allegiance that made a promise to see you You know the reasons but still won't know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc sticks, butt nakeds Dip, make a nigga heads all up and down the block and shit One time's crooked and a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm in the hood Loc yeah that's The took 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 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, turn brave up, regulators in the whip Down the with the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, it's so Deal with the outcome, a strap in the And a bird and 10 grand's a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be Kendrick you seen in the street With a basketball and some Now & to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is great And it's to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a or doctor Instead of boy with a 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 body with Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder watch this flame 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 the belly 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 holding it for? Niggas always 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."