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Sitting in the studio thinking about which mood would go |
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right now, freestyle or write down, whatever |
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And still I come up clever, I just need to free my thoughts and Lord knows that I know better |
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but I ain't perfect I ain't seen too many churches or know them testament verses |
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You should either hear me now or go deaf |
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or end up dead, die trying and know death |
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Might end up dead, swallow blood, swallow my breath |
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Fuck a funeral, just make sure you pay my music respect nigga |
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I mean that from the bottom of my heart |
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You see my art is all I have, and victory tastes sweet |
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even when the enemy can throw salt |
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Still knock 'em out the park like a fucking tow car |
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Let bygones be bygones, but where I'm from |
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we buy guns and more guns to give to the young |
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I'm living the life of a nigga trapped nigga |
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inside the system, all you envision is trap niggas |
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My uncle doing life inside prison, he wasn't wrapped too tight |
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He told me rap about life, not rap, niggas |
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That's why I'm shaking my head when you rap dissing |
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My stomach start turning, my nerves get to twitching |
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I start evaluating, then my final intuition |
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is that you wishing a come up, would just come up |
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We used to beefing over turf, fuck beefing over a verse |
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Niggas dying, motherfuck a double entendre |
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And this is Compton, lions in the land of the triumph |
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Wrap Saran our defiance, ban our alliance |
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Put burners in the hands of the black man |
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One hood with twenty fo'-fo's like a cloned Kobe Bryant |
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You probably heard I wanna be heard and wonder who I am |
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You probably even listen to "Faith" and think I know Zion |
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But really I'm just caught in the loop of understanding the truth |
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because it seem like it's always clashing with science |
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I got a big fear of flying |
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My future so bright I'd probably go blind before I blink twice, I ain't lying |
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I swear to God half of y'all just don't know Kendrick |
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The school of hard knocks, we was the first ones in attendance |
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You walking down the block, he got shot, you wouldn't know I witnessed |
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You just mind your bidness |
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You just turn your head, kneel down, and then tie your tennises |
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It's kinda scary ain't it |
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You can't act like no bitch, that only got Tyler Perry famous |
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Just let me explain this, why you pick up that stainless? |
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Cause your pops wasn't anxious to see you when you hated him |
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so much, you probably had your burner tucked in graduation |
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Said if you see him on them bleachers then you kill him, facing |
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twenty-five to life with a murder charge |
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Your enemies was the prey, and now you pray to God |
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I pray these bars get farther than Compton |
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And if my record never break I still won't break my promise, I promise to keep it honest |
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Secret society, all we ask is trust |
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and all we lack is communication like service sucks |
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The people scared of annihilation when Kingdom Come |
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And I'm like, the Kendrick Lamar O.D. in less than a month |
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Alright? Gotta keep it pushing |
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Can't let the government tell me how my future looking |
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I'm on Rosecrans & Central trying to duck the central bookings |
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If the fucking pigs get behind me then you know I'm bucking, never will I surrender |
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I've been a warrior when I came out of my mom's placenta |
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In the gutter lane like I'm Master Splinter |
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How splendid, I guess my project had did it |
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Got all these niggas approaching their mixtapes different |
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They said seven tracks, I said fifteen |
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Called it an EP, they said I'm tripping |
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But little did they know, I'm tryna change the rules |
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that we've been confined to, so the corporate won't make decisions |
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Uppity bitches, handling bidness |
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Killing our dreams, stealing our vision |
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Out in Haiti adolescents barely have a home |
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In L.A. everybody think they fucking on |
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Hop on Twitter, perpetrate, we doing big shit |
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Who we hanging with, and bragging about the iPhone |
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I swear to God, most y'all cats just don't know Kendrick |
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You barely know yourself, so I guess most of y'all should be offended |
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Ain't doing this for my health, I'm just trying to purchase my momma them businesses |
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Occupy my time with riches, justify my time, ambition's |
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just to coincide, just to go inside, books we idolize while we living |
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Look the mastermind, took the master's mind, just the perfect time, just to mastermind |
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Just to master grind with precision, look the mastermind, took the... |
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We wuld like to call this an appreciation tape |
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for those who recognizedthe Kendrick Lamar EP For this is the Kendrick Lamar O.D. |
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Because of you, we are Overly Dedicated |
