If Pirus and all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of this Seem like the whole city go me time I'm in the street I hear
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Lamar] "Man you from, nigga?" "Fuck who you know, you from, my nigga?" "Where grandma stay, huh, my nigga?" "This m.A.A.d I run, my nigga"
[Verse 1: Kendrick Brace yourself, take you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and pain Not the drill sergeant, but the that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your hand out the window. Check yo Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can slow with society The driver the first one to get killed Seen a nigga with his brains blown out At the same stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder that he did it But since that day, I was lookin at him different That was when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on porch is fine We adapt to crime, a van with four guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you fuckin' up the fuckin' pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a dick or die or punch A wall of bullets from AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said when we was eatin' the lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell loose You killed my cousin back in '94. yo truce Now crawl yo head in noose You wind up on the news Ain't no treaty, just pieces up to pre-approve, bodies 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 you're corporate, or they'll be your mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our taxes When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit no threat You movin backwards if you suggest you sleep with a Tec Go buy a and have 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 nothin' but a Compton Real simple and I'mma teach you some lessons the street It ain't but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh school cause I was a high school grad Sleeping in the living room in my pad struck I seen the white car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and My Pops I needed a job I thought I believed him Security for a month and ended up leaving In fact I got because I was inspired by all of my friends To a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in Projects tore up, gang signs get up laced in marijuana And they wonder why I rarely now Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the I was tweaking the next weekend we broke even I made allegiance that a promise to see you bleeding You know the reasons but still won't ever my life Kendrick AKA Compton's human
[Mc Cocaine, weed Niggas been shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, a nigga flip Cluck heads all up and the block and shit One time's crooked and Block a in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, Compton
I'm still in the Loc yeah that's The hood took me under so I the rules But yeah like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep colors is doing the same Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the hood Couple of IV's with the spraycan Shots in the crowd everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the life I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave Mount up, in the whip Down the boulevard the pistol grip Trip, we in the still 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 where a motherfucker
Lamar] If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, you believe me? Or see me to be innocent you seen in the street a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat If I mentioned all of my skeletons, you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is great And safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep With dreams of being a lawyer or Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the hostage Kill all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of living a lie, drown body with toxins Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch flame That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the is aim and They bang it and slide out that bitch with And the price on his head, the probably go to the projects I live inside the of the rough Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Angel Dust,
Nigga pass Dot the bottle, damn! You the one that got fucked up, what you holding it for? 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 back and that."