If Pirus and Crips all got They'd probably gun me 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 grandma stay, huh, my nigga?" "This m.A.A.d I run, my nigga"
1: Kendrick Lamar] Brace yourself, I'll take you on a down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move This is cul-de-sac and Cognac and major pain Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your hand out the window. yo self Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can slow dance society The driver the first one to get killed Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains out At the same burger stand where --- out Now this is not a tape recorder saying he did it But ever since that day, I was lookin at him was back when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van with guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you punk? Pickin' up the fuckin' 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 my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo truce Now crawl yo head in that You up dead on the news Ain't no treaty, just pieces 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 colors Make sure you're corporate, or be calling your mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our except 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 on speed dial, I guess M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
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[MC Wake yo ass up! It nothin' but a Compton thang Real and plain I'mma you some lessons about the street It ain't nothin' but a thang How we do
[Verse 2: Kendrick Fresh outta school I was a high school grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the light pole two hopped out on foot 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 by all of my friends To stage a robbery the third Saturday I in Projects tore up, signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your blunt had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next we broke even I allegiance that made a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's sacrifice
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas been shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a nigga Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One time's and shit Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm still in the Loc that's cool The hood me under so I follow the rules But yeah that's me, I grew up in the hood 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 lately Couple of IV's with the spraycan Shots in the then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the life I crave Shots hit the enemy, turn brave 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 bird and 10 grand's where a stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a at 16, would you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the With a basketball and Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, you jump in the seat? Would you say my now is great relief? And it's safe to say that our next generation can sleep With dreams of being a lawyer or Instead of boy with a chopper hold the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if they gossip, the of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, their body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch flame That arrive in his this a coward, the concept is aim and They it and slide out that bitch 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. made Me an on Angel Dust, what
Nigga pass Dot the bottle, damn! You ain't the one that got fucked up, what you holding it Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, ain't no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you good my nigga? Don't trip, just lay back and drink that."