If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me 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: 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 crack or move cocaine This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride down It got ugly, waving your out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and Hope euphoria can dance with society The seat the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga with his blown out At the same burger where --- hang out Now this is not a tape saying that he did it But ever since day, I was lookin at him different That was when I was nine packed the nine Pakistan on porch is fine We adapt to crime, a van with four guns at a time With the sliding door, is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or punch A of bullets comin from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell broke You killed my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up on the news Ain't no peace treaty, pieces BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of on top of IV's Obviously the between the sheets like the Isleys you hop on that trolley Make sure colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling mother collect They say the collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and tragic happens, 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 but a Compton thang Real and plain I'mma teach you some lessons about the It nothin' but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school cause I was a high school 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 and dashed My Pops I needed a job I thought I believed him guard 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 I clocked in Projects up, gang signs get thrown up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was tweaking the next weekend we broke even I made allegiance made a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still ever know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, butt Dip, a nigga flip Cluck heads all up and down the block and One crooked and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm still in the Loc that's cool The took me under so I follow the rules But yeah like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep is doing the same thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the lately Couple of IV's the fucking spraycan in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street life I Shots hit the enemy, hearts turn Mount up, in the whip Down the boulevard with the pistol Trip, we in the still So loc, a strap cause yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a strap in the And a and 10 grand's where a motherfucker stand
[Kendrick If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you me? Or see me to be Kendrick you seen in the street a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat If I all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is great 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 their body toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder watch this flame That arrive in his eye; a coward, the concept is aim and They bang it and slide out that bitch with 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 ain't the one that got fucked up, 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 and drink that."