If and Crips all got along They'd probably gun me down by the end of song Seem like the whole city go me Every time I'm in the street I
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[Hook: Lamar] "Man you from, nigga?" "Fuck who you know, you from, my nigga?" "Where your stay, huh, my nigga?" "This m.A.A.d I run, my nigga"
1: Kendrick Lamar] Brace yourself, take you on a trip down memory lane This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or cocaine This is and plenty Cognac and major pain Not the sergeant, but the stress that weighin' on your brain It was Me, L Boogs, and Yan Yan, YG, ride down Rosecrans It got ugly, waving your out the window. Check yo self Uh, and Conans Hope euphoria can slow with society The driver seat the one to get killed Seen a light-skinned with his brains blown out At the same stand where --- hang out Now this is not a tape recorder saying he did it But since that day, I was lookin at him different was back when I was nine Joey the nine Pakistan on porch is fine We adapt to crime, pack a van with guns at a time With the door, fuck is up? Fuck you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you punk? Pickin' up the pump Pickin' off you suckers, suck a or die or sucker punch A wall of bullets comin AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck." That's what momma said when we was the free lunch Aw man, God damn, all hell broke You killed my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo Now yo head in that noose You wind up dead on the Ain't no treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve, on top of bodies IV's on top of Obviously the coroner the sheets like the Isleys When you hop on trolley Make your colors correct Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling mother collect They say the governor collect, all of our taxes When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no You movin if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I M.A.A.d
Q] "YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---
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[MC yo punk ass up! It ain't but a Compton thang Real simple and I'mma teach you lessons about the street It ain't but a Compton thang How we do
[Verse 2: Lamar] Fresh outta school cause I was a high grad in the living room in my momma's pad Reality struck I seen the car crash Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on and dashed My Pops said I needed a job I thought I him Security guard for a and ended up leaving In fact I got fired I was inspired by all of my friends To stage a robbery the third Saturday I in Projects up, gang signs get thrown up Cocaine in marijuana And they why I rarely smoke now Imagine if your first had you foaming at the mouth I was straight tweaking the next weekend we even I made allegiance that made a to see you bleeding You know the reasons but won't ever know my life Kendrick AKA Compton's human
[Mc Jeah Cocaine, Niggas been shit since the 80's loc Sherm sticks, nakeds Dip, make a nigga Cluck heads all up and down the block and One crooked and shit a nigga in Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's
I'm in the hood Loc yeah that's The hood took me under so I follow the But that's like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang And niggas that rep is doing the same thing Pass it to the so I can smoke on me A couple drive-bys in the hood Couple of IV's the fucking spraycan in the crowd then everybody ran Crew I'm finna slay, the life I crave Shots hit the enemy, hearts brave Mount up, in the whip Down the with the pistol grip Trip, we in the hood So loc, grab a cause yeah, it's so real Deal with the outcome, a in the hand And a bird and 10 grand's a motherfucker stand
Lamar] If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you me? Or see me to be Kendrick you seen in the street With a basketball and Now & Laters to eat If I all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat? Would you say my intelligence now is relief? And it's safe to say that our next generation can sleep dreams of being a lawyer or doctor Instead of boy with a chopper that the cul-de-sac hostage Kill them all if gossip, the Children of the Corn They vandalizing, the option of a lie, drown their body with toxins drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this flame That in his eye; this a coward, the concept is aim and They bang it and out that bitch with deposits And the on his head, the tithes 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 ain't the one that got fucked up, you holding it for? Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit. (Nigga, that no word.) Nigga, Shut up! Hey, Dot, you my nigga? Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that."