If Pirus and all got along They'd gun me down by the end of this song Seem like the whole city go me time I'm in the street 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: Kendrick Brace yourself, I'll take you on a down 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 drill sergeant, but the stress that 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, and Conans euphoria can slow dance with society The driver seat the one to get killed Seen a light-skinned with his brains blown out At the same burger where --- hang out Now this is not a recorder saying that he did it But ever since that day, I was at him different That was back when I was packed the nine Pakistan on every is fine We adapt to crime, a van with four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' punk? Pickin' up the fuckin' Pickin' off you suckers, a dick or die or sucker punch A wall of comin from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma when 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 that You wind up on the news no peace treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies IV's on top of the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys When you hop on that Make sure your correct Make sure corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our except we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat You movin backwards if you suggest you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and 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 simple and I'mma you some lessons about the street It ain't but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school cause I was a school grad Sleeping in the room in my momma's pad Reality I seen the white car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's out on foot and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I thought I him Security guard for a month and ended up In fact I got fired I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang signs get up Cocaine laced in And wonder why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the I was straight tweaking the next we broke even I made allegiance that made a to see you bleeding You know the reasons but won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's human
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been mixing shit since the loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a nigga Cluck heads all up and down the block and One time's crooked and Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm in the hood Loc yeah that's The took 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 colors is the same thing it to the left so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the lately Couple of IV's the fucking spraycan Shots in the crowd everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the street I crave Shots hit the enemy, turn brave Mount up, in the whip Down the boulevard with the pistol Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a cause yeah, it's so real Deal the outcome, a strap in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, you believe me? Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you in the street With a basketball and some Now & to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the you say my intelligence now is great relief? And it's safe to say that our next maybe can sleep With of being a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the hostage Kill them all if gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown their with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then this flame arrive in his eye; this a coward, the concept 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 live the belly of the rough Compton, U.S.A. Me an Angel 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 even trip, just lay and drink that."