[Intro: Lamar] Life in the city, life in the [?] for ya But we Only the strongest Life, in the city In the city and nigga's tryna the strongest survive
[Verse 1: Kendrick You ever been a victim of a prisoner inside your own mind? The bright lights of the street lights will you go blind Handicap senses, you was just an apprentice of watching niggas jump fences Now you in the and your hurdle was high enough to clear the tallest of clothes lines Talented when they closing in on behind of a young delinquent even stole a [?] At fifteen, middle walked out the precinct I mean the cycle continue The vital information and print on the menu So never read it even if a nigga lend you Money out my own pocket, to make it You'll attend to Be on them corners stop signs and a nine Cause times out of ten, MAC 11's cry And twelve died and if anyone divides The six that carried you eventually lose they story
[Hook: Honeycutt] When the night falls anything can We just pray we it out alive We all make it to the top one day Success is a street only one way But we all wanna it Just try your to survive
[Verse 2: F.A.B] (You all see a dead body?) Well, me across the train tracks angry and insane Blacks They crack Candles burn where they were at And bottles get poured where they hang at Close, I you truth in this [?] Dead homies added to swears truth is in question Like "Man I think he lying or he put on someone" If I known you ten years, got the to say we cousins I'm from the city of homes, and often I was home alone And started smoking cause daddy was scared to smoke alone Section 8 policies, Top Ramen and sunflower June got kill't he ain't wanna lose his Wallaby's atrocities, no one is safe There's no religion that can save you, say goodbye to faith Whether you Muslim or a Christian, Baptist, Jewish or Adventist, or non-religious Put survival on your Cause....
[Hook: Kobe When the night falls anything can We just pray we it out alive We all wanna it to the top one day Success is a only going one way But we all make it Just try your to survive
[Verse 3: CROOKED] You walked in apartment and saw father on the carpet With a belt wrapped around his arm and a scarf under his And a shoved in his bicep Earlier this morning you him His habits are something you couldn't digest You cry saying "I just...Don't see you die" Now you tryna dissect the fact that he opened his eyes yet You on his body and you started thinking I could perform CPR, jump start his heart if beating But his pulse started to His region depleting as you given him part of your breathing He and gone and you had a bad feeling when you was heading home Now it's etched in stone, you've been alone So you grabbed his gun, chrome all pearl, aw nah girl Put it to your head, thinking, fuck everybody like a call girl in a small Then back but it didn't clap...damn
[Hook: Kobe When the night falls anything can We pray we make it out alive We all wanna it to the top one day Success is a only going one way But we all make it Just try best to survive