[00:01][00:37][03:05][03:21][03:37][03:47] [00:15]One two, one two, one two.. [00:26]Turn the headphones up Ali [00:28]One two [00:31]You mix with Dre, right? [00:37]Turn the headphones up [00:38]When the whole world see you as Pac reincarnated [00:40]That’s enough pressure to live your whole life sedated [00:43]Find the tallest building in Vegas and jump off it [00:46]But I could never rewrite history in a coffin [00:48]So I’m talking to God, “Can you wash all these demons off me?” [00:51]This last year I’ve been quite similar to Aaliyah [00:53]Control my own destiny, only rapper that steered [00:56]A G5, g’s give high-fives to me and say, “Kendrick, just persevere.” [01:00]The presents of being rare [01:02]As I lay in this four corner room staring at candles [01:05]Thinking, “How can I make an example for this generation of Compton?” [01:09]My biggest fear is not feeling accomplished [01:11]Or turning back to that same accomplice [01:13]My past life was a child with no act right [01:14]Trying to smile in a room of killers, turn into a crash site [01:18]Influenced by ****** that spoke the gang culture fluent [01:20]Assuring that some blossom early and some truant [01:24]Thank God for the album I idolized [01:26]It’s dark and plus hell is hot, that’s the start of this crazy ride [01:29]Two young ******, me and Dave inside the garage [01:30]And thought we was Jay and Dame [01:31]Thats the lane that we tried to drive [01:34]Truthfully, I just started rappin’ to get away [01:36]I never thought that your favorite rapper would want a verse [01:39]My ***** got hit 25 times with a K [01:42]Make the decision, ride the beat or ride in a hearse [01:44]Now Punch is my mentor, Top Dawg is the coach [01:47]Jay Rock is my older brother, I was there when he wrote [01:50]His name on his record deal, we had figured the coast [01:52]Would live on a pedestal, once the **** hit the store [01:55]Find ourselves scrambling, tryna figure it out [01:57]Soul told me that the record shop ’bout to go in a drought [02:00]Q ain’t got a place to stay, and ’bout to sleep on the couch [02:02]We eating off each other tray, the dollar menu amount [02:05]Meanwhile the coast going hard at each other [02:07]The younger rappers had wanted some of the OGs’ comfort [02:10]But I ain’t need it [02:11]I never screamed out the ‘New West’, I didn’t believe it [02:14]They brought each other down, I was planning out my achievements [02:17][02:55]I need to separate myself to stand out [02:20][02:57]I need a better way to take your fans now [02:23][03:00]I need to kill you ************* dead [02:24][03:02]Three hollow tips aimed at your head [02:26][03:06]I’ll be damned if the chopper jam now [02:28][03:06]And we never asked for no hand out [02:30]In the midst of it all I recall a called when you said how [02:33]We could never resolve in The Hall of Fame [02:35]And I’m with the trial with a Bible and a rifle [02:37]I play the game as I plan blow [02:39]Hollaback at me, ***** [02:40]And if they said I’m the one, why you asking me, *****? [02:43]Cause When the whole world see you as Pac reincarnated [02:45]That’s enough pressure to make you just open the Book of David [02:49]And pray to God hat make it or live your life in the matrix [02:51]Cause falling off is a sickness, I heard that it’s quite contagious [03:08]I’ll take you back to that pack of Black & Milds in my hand now [03:10]In the midst of it all was cooking with pots and pans out [03:12]Looking forward as four of us are forced to form a new clan now [03:16]Fast forward as I wait in line for this passport [03:18]The homies was still poor, was working at Jansport [03:21]Whoever thought that Rosenberg would mention me to Dre? [03:23]Even Vanessa from XXL had told him to press play [03:26]And there goes my fate, now I’m on stage with Snoop [03:29]Gave me the torch and I ran with it in high pursuit [03:32]Rapped with my forefathers, even record with Gaga too [03:34]Lyricist of the year, **** am I supposed to do? Rock [03:37]Laughing at you ****** out there who thought we was flukes [03:40]Exaggerated **** that we had rapped had came true [03:42]Thought I was aggravated, when Warner had let me loose [03:45]I was honest, see they was haunted when Mike Jones didn’t recoup [03:48]Cool, cause ****** won’t outdo us in the booth [03:50]Even when my album leak, fans still buy it for proof [03:53]I came, I saw, I conquered [03:56]No shame, I blame all of this on Compton [03:58]Thinking about when Sherane tried to set me up [04:01]Cold game, full circle, they set up her [04:04]I put my life in these twelve songs, my fight in these twelve songs [04:06]The fight to ignite any wrong or right that I prolong [04:09]The story was short film, the glory of him and them [04:12]The worry of mother who don’t recover when baby killed [04:15]The trial and tribulations, the newer Miseducation [04:17]The view of body wasting, you knew somebody who didn’t make it [04:20]The angry, the adolescent, the reason I ask this question [04:23]Will you let Hip-Hop die on October 22nd?
[00:01][00:37][03:05][03:21][03:37][03:47] [00:15]One two, one two, one two.. [00:26]Turn the headphones up Ali [00:28]One two [00:31]You mix with Dre, right? [00:37]Turn the headphones up [00:38]When the whole world see you as Pac reincarnated [00:40]That’s enough pressure to live your whole life sedated [00:43]Find the tallest building in Vegas and jump off it [00:46]But I could never rewrite history in a coffin [00:48]So I’m talking to God, “Can you wash all these demons off me?” [00:51]This last year I’ve been quite similar to Aaliyah [00:53]Control my own destiny, only rapper that steered [00:56]A G5, g’s give high-fives to me and say, “Kendrick, just persevere.” [01:00]The presents of being rare [01:02]As I lay in this four corner room staring at candles [01:05]Thinking, “How can I make an example for this generation of Compton?” [01:09]My biggest fear is not feeling accomplished [01:11]Or turning back to that same accomplice [01:13]My past life was a child with no act right [01:14]Trying to smile in a room of killers, turn into a crash site [01:18]Influenced by ****** that spoke the gang culture fluent [01:20]Assuring that some blossom early and some truant [01:24]Thank God for the album I idolized [01:26]It’s dark and plus hell is hot, that’s the start of this crazy ride [01:29]Two young ******, me and Dave inside the garage [01:30]And thought we was Jay and Dame [01:31]Thats the lane that we tried to drive [01:34]Truthfully, I just started rappin’ to get away [01:36]I never thought that your favorite rapper would want a verse [01:39]My ***** got hit 25 times with a K [01:42]Make the decision, ride the beat or ride in a hearse [01:44]Now Punch is my mentor, Top Dawg is the coach [01:47]Jay Rock is my older brother, I was there when he wrote [01:50]His name on his record deal, we had figured the coast [01:52]Would live on a pedestal, once the **** hit the store [01:55]Find ourselves scrambling, tryna figure it out [01:57]Soul told me that the record shop ’bout to go in a drought [02:00]Q ain’t got a place to stay, and ’bout to sleep on the couch [02:02]We eating off each other tray, the dollar menu amount [02:05]Meanwhile the coast going hard at each other [02:07]The younger rappers had wanted some of the OGs’ comfort [02:10]But I ain’t need it [02:11]I never screamed out the ‘New West’, I didn’t believe it [02:14]They brought each other down, I was planning out my achievements [02:17][02:55]I need to separate myself to stand out [02:20][02:57]I need a better way to take your fans now [02:23][03:00]I need to kill you ************* dead [02:24][03:02]Three hollow tips aimed at your head [02:26][03:06]I’ll be damned if the chopper jam now [02:28][03:06]And we never asked for no hand out [02:30]In the midst of it all I recall a called when you said how [02:33]We could never resolve in The Hall of Fame [02:35]And I’m with the trial with a Bible and a rifle [02:37]I play the game as I plan blow [02:39]Hollaback at me, ***** [02:40]And if they said I’m the one, why you asking me, *****? [02:43]Cause When the whole world see you as Pac reincarnated [02:45]That’s enough pressure to make you just open the Book of David [02:49]And pray to God hat make it or live your life in the matrix [02:51]Cause falling off is a sickness, I heard that it’s quite contagious [03:08]I’ll take you back to that pack of Black & Milds in my hand now [03:10]In the midst of it all was cooking with pots and pans out [03:12]Looking forward as four of us are forced to form a new clan now [03:16]Fast forward as I wait in line for this passport [03:18]The homies was still poor, was working at Jansport [03:21]Whoever thought that Rosenberg would mention me to Dre? [03:23]Even Vanessa from XXL had told him to press play [03:26]And there goes my fate, now I’m on stage with Snoop [03:29]Gave me the torch and I ran with it in high pursuit [03:32]Rapped with my forefathers, even record with Gaga too [03:34]Lyricist of the year, **** am I supposed to do? Rock [03:37]Laughing at you ****** out there who thought we was flukes [03:40]Exaggerated **** that we had rapped had came true [03:42]Thought I was aggravated, when Warner had let me loose [03:45]I was honest, see they was haunted when Mike Jones didn’t recoup [03:48]Cool, cause ****** won’t outdo us in the booth [03:50]Even when my album leak, fans still buy it for proof [03:53]I came, I saw, I conquered [03:56]No shame, I blame all of this on Compton [03:58]Thinking about when Sherane tried to set me up [04:01]Cold game, full circle, they set up her [04:04]I put my life in these twelve songs, my fight in these twelve songs [04:06]The fight to ignite any wrong or right that I prolong [04:09]The story was short film, the glory of him and them [04:12]The worry of mother who don’t recover when baby killed [04:15]The trial and tribulations, the newer Miseducation [04:17]The view of body wasting, you knew somebody who didn’t make it [04:20]The angry, the adolescent, the reason I ask this question [04:23]Will you let Hip-Hop die on October 22nd?
