If Pirus and Crips all got They'd gun me down by the end of this song Seem like the city go against me Every time I'm in the I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Lamar] "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"
1: Kendrick Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip memory lane is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope can slow dance 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 lookin at him That was back when I was Joey the nine Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van with guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't up you fuckin' punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a or die or sucker punch A of bullets 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 broke loose You killed my back in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo in that noose You wind up on the news Ain't no peace treaty, just BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of on top of IV's Obviously the coroner between the like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make your 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 and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you suggest that you sleep 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 some about the street It ain't nothin' but a thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school I was a high school grad Sleeping in the living in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and My Pops said I a job I thought I believed him Security guard for a and ended up leaving In fact I got because I was inspired by all of my friends To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang get thrown up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke I made allegiance that made a promise to see you You know the reasons but still ever know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, make a nigga Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One crooked and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm in the hood Loc yeah cool The hood took me so I follow the rules But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the where they bang And niggas that rep is doing the same thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A drive-bys in the hood lately Couple of IV's the fucking spraycan in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm slay, the street life I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave Mount up, regulators in the Down the boulevard the pistol grip Trip, we in the still So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, it's so Deal the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 where a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the With a basketball and Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is relief? And it's safe to say our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a or doctor of boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder watch this flame That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the is aim and They bang it and slide out bitch with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes probably go to the I inside the belly of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on 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, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and that."