If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me down by the end of song like the whole 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 slingin crack or move This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and pain Not the drill sergeant, but the that weighin' on your brain 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 can slow dance with society The driver the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned 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 that day, I was lookin at him different That was back I was nine packed the nine Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van with four 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 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 broke loose You my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo truce Now yo head in that noose You wind up on the news Ain't no peace treaty, just up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner the sheets like the Isleys When you hop on trolley Make sure your correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling mother collect say the governor collect, all of our taxes except When we in traffic and happens, that shit ain't no threat You backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a on speed dial, I guess M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
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[MC yo punk ass up! It ain't but a Compton thang Real simple and I'mma teach you some lessons the street It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick outta school cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the room in my momma's pad struck I seen the white car crash Hit the light two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I a job I thought I believed him Security guard for a month and up leaving In fact I got fired I was inspired by all of my friends To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke I allegiance that made a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but won't ever know my life AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been shit since the 80's loc sticks, butt nakeds Dip, make a flip Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One time's crooked and a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the Loc that's cool The hood me under so I follow the rules But that's 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 in the hood lately of IV's with the fucking spraycan Shots in the crowd then 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 hood So loc, grab a strap yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a strap in the And a bird and 10 grand's 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 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 now is great relief? And it's to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a lawyer or of boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their body toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch flame arrive in his eye; this a coward, the concept is aim and They bang it and slide out that with deposits And the price on his head, the tithes go to the projects I live inside the belly of the Compton, U.S.A. Me an Angel on Angel 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, lay back and drink that."