[Intro: Lamar] Life in the city, in the city [?] for ya But we Only the strongest Life, life in the In the city and nigga's survive Only the survive
1: Kendrick Lamar] You ever been a victim of being a prisoner inside your own The lights of the street lights will make you go blind Handicap your senses, you was just an apprentice of watching jump fences Now you in the Olympics and hurdle was high enough to clear the tallest of clothes lines Talented when they closing in on your Life of a delinquent even stole a [?] At fifteen, middle walked out the precinct I mean the cycle continue The vital and fine print on the menu So you'lla never read it if a nigga lend you Money out my own pocket, to it right still attend to Be on them corners stop signs and a nine Cause nine out of ten, MAC 11's cry And twelve died and if anyone divides The six that you eventually lose they lives story
[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 try your best to survive
[Verse 2: F.A.B] (You all wanna see a body?) Well, follow me the train tracks Where angry and Blacks They crack Candles burn where were slain at And bottles get poured where would hang at Close, I give you truth in [?] 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 to say we cousins I'm from the of broken homes, and often I was home alone And momma started smoking cause daddy was to smoke alone Section 8 policies, Top Ramen and sunflower June got cause he ain't wanna lose his Wallaby's atrocities, no one is safe There's no that can save you, say goodbye to your faith Whether you or a Christian, Baptist, Jewish or Adventist, Atheist or non-religious Put on your wishlist Cause....
Kobe Honeycutt] When the night falls anything can We pray we make it out alive We all make it to the top one day Success is a street going one way But we all wanna it try your best to survive
[Verse 3: CROOKED] You in apartment and saw your father on the carpet With a belt around his arm and a scarf under his armpit And a shoved in his bicep Earlier morning you warned him His addict are something you couldn't digest You cry saying "I just...Don't see you die" Now you tryna dissect the that he hasn't opened his eyes yet You collapsed on his body and you thinking I could perform CPR, start his heart if it's beating But his pulse to weaken His cardio region depleting as you given him part of your He dead and gone and you had a bad feeling when you was heading Now it's etched in stone, you've been left 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 Then pulled back but it clap...damn
[Hook: Honeycutt] When the night falls can happen 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 wanna it try your best to survive