If Pirus and all got along They'd gun me down by the end of this song Seem like the whole city go me Every I'm in the street I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Lamar] "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, take you on a trip down memory 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 stress that weighin' on 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 driver seat the one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains out At the burger stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape saying that he did it But ever since that day, I was at him different That was when I was nine packed the nine Pakistan on porch is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van four guns at a time the sliding door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or punch A wall of bullets comin AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said when we was the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the you hop on that trolley Make sure your colors Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be your mother collect say the governor collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit no threat You backwards if you suggest 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 Wake yo ass up! It nothin' but a Compton thang Real simple and I'mma teach you some lessons the street It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] outta school cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the living room in my pad Reality struck I seen the white car Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on and dashed My said I needed a job I thought I believed him Security 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 Projects tore up, gang get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they wonder why I smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke I made that made a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't ever my life Kendrick AKA Compton's sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing shit the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a nigga Cluck all up and down the block and shit One time's and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the Loc yeah cool The hood took me under so I the rules But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood where they 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 lately Couple of with the fucking spraycan Shots in the crowd 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 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 where a stand
[Kendrick If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the With a basketball and some Now & to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the Would you say my intelligence now is relief? And safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of a lawyer or doctor of boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if they gossip, the of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown body with toxins Constantly and drive, hit the powder then watch this flame That arrive in his this a coward, the concept is aim and They bang it and slide out that bitch deposits And the price on his head, the probably go to the projects I live inside the of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Dust, what
Nigga pass Dot the bottle, damn! You the one that got fucked up, what you holding it for? Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and that."