[Intro: Lamar] Life in the city, life in the [?] for ya But we the strongest survive Life, in the city In the city and nigga's survive Only the strongest
[Verse 1: Kendrick You ever been a of being a prisoner inside your own mind? The bright lights of the street lights will you go blind Handicap your senses, you was just an apprentice of watching jump fences Now you in the Olympics and your hurdle was enough to clear the tallest of clothes lines Talented when closing in on your behind of a young delinquent even stole a [?] At fifteen, fingers walked out the precinct I the cycle just continue The vital information and fine on the menu So you'lla never read it even if a nigga you out my own pocket, to make it right You'll attend to Be on them corners with stop signs and a Cause nine times out of ten, MAC cry And twelve died yesterday and if divides The six that carried you eventually lose lives story
[Hook: Kobe When the night falls anything can We just we make it out alive We all make it to the top one day Success is a street only one way But we all wanna it try your best to survive
[Verse 2: F.A.B] (You all see a dead body?) Well, follow me across the tracks Where angry and Blacks They slang Candles burn they were slain at And bottles get poured where they would at Close, I you truth in this [?] Dead homies added to swears when truth is in Like "Man I he lying or he put that on someone" If I known you ten years, got the right to say we I'm from the city of broken homes, and 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 cause he ain't lose his Wallaby's atrocities, no one is safe There's no religion that can save you, say goodbye to your Whether you Muslim or a Christian, Baptist, Jewish or Adventist, or non-religious Put survival on your Cause....
Kobe Honeycutt] When the falls anything can happen We just 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 Just try your to survive
[Verse 3: KXNG You walked in apartment and saw your on the carpet With a belt wrapped around his arm and a scarf under his And a shoved in his bicep Earlier morning you warned him His addict habits are you couldn't digest You cry saying "I just...Don't see you die" Now you tryna dissect the fact that he hasn't his eyes yet You collapsed on his body and you started I could perform CPR, jump start his heart if beating But his pulse started to His cardio depleting as you given him part of your breathing He dead and gone and you had a bad when you was heading home Now it's etched in stone, you've left alone So you grabbed his gun, handle 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 the night falls anything can happen We just pray we make it out We all make it to the top one day is a street only going one way But we all make it try your best to survive