If Pirus and Crips all got They'd gun me down by the end of this song Seem the whole city go against 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 grandma stay, huh, my nigga?" "This m.A.A.d I run, my nigga"
1: Kendrick Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down lane This is not a rap on how I'm crack or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major Not the drill sergeant, but the that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride down It got ugly, waving hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and Hope euphoria can slow dance with The seat the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga his brains blown out At the same burger stand where --- out Now this is not a recorder saying that he did it But since that day, I was lookin at him different That was back when I was packed the nine Pakistan on every 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 walkin' up you fuckin' punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, a dick or die or sucker punch A wall of bullets comin AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said when we was eatin' the lunch Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my back in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no peace treaty, just up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the you hop on that trolley Make sure colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother They say the governor collect, all of our taxes When we in traffic and tragic happens, shit ain't no threat You movin if you suggest that 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 yo punk ass up! It nothin' but a Compton thang Real and plain I'mma you some lessons about the street It ain't but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh school cause I was a high school grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the white car Hit the pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I thought I him Security guard for a and ended up leaving In fact I got fired because I was by all of my friends To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang signs get 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 weekend we even I made allegiance made a promise to see you bleeding You know the but still won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing shit since the loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, make a flip Cluck heads all up and down the block and One time's and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the Loc yeah that's The hood me under so I follow the rules But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the where they bang And niggas rep colors is doing the same thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the hood of IV's with the fucking spraycan Shots in the crowd then ran Crew I'm finna slay, the life I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave Mount up, in the whip Down the boulevard the pistol grip 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 where a motherfucker
[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 With a 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 dreams of being a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that the cul-de-sac hostage them all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of a lie, drown their body with toxins drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this flame That in his eye; this a coward, the concept 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 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 got fucked up, what you holding it for? Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, ain't no word.) Nigga, up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."