If Pirus and Crips all got probably gun me down by the end of this song Seem like the whole city go me Every time I'm in the street I
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 down lane is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine This is and plenty Cognac and major pain Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your hand out the window. Check yo Uh, warriors and euphoria can slow dance with society The driver seat the first one to get Seen a light-skinned with his brains blown out At the same burger stand --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder saying he did it But ever since that day, I was at him different That was when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on every porch is We adapt to crime, pack a van with four guns at a With the sliding door, is up? you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the fuckin' 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 when we was eatin' the free Aw man, God damn, all broke loose You killed my cousin in '94. Fuck yo truce Now yo head in that noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no peace treaty, just BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of IV's on top of Obviously the coroner the sheets like the Isleys When you hop on that sure your colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our taxes When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no 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 nothin' but a Compton Real and plain I'mma you some lessons about the street It ain't nothin' but a Compton How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school cause I was a school grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed My Pops said I a job I thought I believed 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 Cocaine laced in And they wonder why I smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you at the mouth I was straight the next weekend we broke even I made allegiance that made a to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's sacrifice
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing shit the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a nigga heads all up and down the block and shit One time's and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the Loc yeah that's The hood took me so I follow the rules But yeah that's me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas rep colors is doing the same thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the lately Couple of with the fucking spraycan in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave hit the enemy, hearts turn brave Mount up, in the whip the boulevard with 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 where a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I a nigga at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is great And it's safe to say our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a that hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, their body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the then watch this flame That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the is aim and They it and slide out that bitch with deposits And the on his head, the tithes probably go to the projects I inside the belly of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Angel Dust,
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 my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."