If Pirus and all got along They'd gun me down by the end of this song Seem like the whole go against me Every time I'm in the street I
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[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"
[Verse 1: Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and pain Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, waving hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can dance with society The driver seat the first one to get Seen a light-skinned nigga 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 That was back when I was Joey packed the on every porch is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you walkin' up you fuckin' punk? up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or sucker A wall of bullets from 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, 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 corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect say the governor collect, all of our taxes except 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
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[MC Wake yo ass up! It ain't nothin' but a thang Real and plain teach you some lessons about the street It ain't nothin' but a thang How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick Fresh school cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the living room in my pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and My Pops said I needed a job I I believed him Security for a month and ended up leaving In fact I got fired because I was inspired by all of my To stage a robbery the third Saturday I in Projects up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they wonder why I smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was tweaking the next weekend we broke even I made allegiance that made a promise to see you You know the reasons but still won't ever know my AKA Compton's human 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 block and One crooked and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the 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 colors is doing the thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the hood Couple of 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 the boulevard with the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, a strap cause yeah, it's so real Deal the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 where a motherfucker stand
[Kendrick If I told you I a nigga at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent you seen in the street With a and some Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, you jump in the seat? you say my intelligence now is great relief? And safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if they gossip, the Children of the They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their body with Constantly drinking and drive, hit the then watch this flame That arrive in his eye; 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 inside the belly of the Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Dust, what
Nigga Dot the bottle, damn! You ain't the one that 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 my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."