Protect ya neck cuz they comin' for sets, respect, split your onion No sympathy, ain't no love when you in these streets just get something I just load up and start dumpin' on enemies I'm head hunting You see this game we play come from uncles that raised me in ComptonĪsk me what I have accomplished I don't know I don't have conscience We drink and smoke marijuana, want us to change our ways? Uh-huh "Mama he's dead," the next morning I toasted up with my homies Police radio signals sayin' that a 187 land on your corner I'ma back em down like Shaq with this black 2-2-3 in my handīetter pray that this chopper jam like a radio single, man Then jump back in that mini van, double back to his block and blam I ain't backing down for nothing
Kill him where he stand and stand over him, shake his hand I look in the mirror, I'm trendy enough? Wrong
If my hair is cut, if my diamonds is crushed If my clothes is new, if my ride is plush We're birds that reserve in the charismatic sky
We killed the facades, we feel free to fly With your world where your girl and your kids reside This song's 'bout a young boy that's gone wild inside.What's your's and mine's, the gold, the green My focus hold these thoughts and dreamsĬontrol this pen (look over your shoulder).Is my life coincidental or just God willin'? I analyzed on how a saint can play the villain So today I laid in my bed, stared at the ceilin'Ĭlosed my eyes, then asked myself how I was feelin'.As quoted in " The Gospel According to Kendrick Lamar" in Vanity Fair (2018-06)Īll lyrics written by Kendrick Lamar.And it’s not only mine it’s so many other individuals.’ And I wanted to tell that story. and people shooting each other outside the door. And at 4 P.M., we’d be having a house party ‘til 11 P.M. I would wake up one morning, and it would be cartoons and cereal and walking back from school. What gives me an advantage in my upbringing is the duality of seeing one of the most beautiful moments of me being 6 years old, to the most tragic moment of being 13 or 14, and make that connection so the person can really see the conflict.As quoted in " The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone ().What we’re doing in the city of Compton and how the world is just so much bigger than the city of Compton. It just gave me a whole other perspective on where I’m from. You hear about the land and you hear untold truths about it, and now you’re old enough to witness it yourself. just felt like a place where I belonged.