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