If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me down by the end of song Seem like the whole city go me time 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 your 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 and plenty Cognac and major pain Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, ride down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving hand out the window. Check yo self Uh, warriors and euphoria can slow dance with society The driver seat the first one to get Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains out At the same burger where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But ever that 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, a van with four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a or die or sucker punch A wall of comin from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what said when we was eatin' the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell broke You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up on the news Ain't no peace treaty, pieces up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the When you hop on that Make your colors correct sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our taxes When we in traffic and happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on 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 the street It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick Fresh school cause I was a high school grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I thought I him guard for a month and ended up leaving In fact I got because I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang signs get up laced in marijuana And they why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the I was straight the next weekend we broke even I made that made a promise to see you bleeding You the reasons but still won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA human sacrifice
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas mixing shit since the 80's loc sticks, butt nakeds Dip, make a nigga heads all up and down the block and shit One crooked and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm still in the Loc yeah cool The hood me under so I follow the rules But yeah like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep colors is the same thing Pass it to the left so I can on me A couple in the hood lately Couple of IV's with the fucking Shots in the crowd everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the life I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts turn Mount up, regulators in the Down the with the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, so real with the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's where a stand
[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 jump in the you say my intelligence now is great relief? And safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a lawyer or Instead of boy with a chopper that the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if they gossip, the Children of the They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, their body with toxins drinking and drive, hit the powder then 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 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 that got fucked up, what you it for? Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."