Kendrick Lamar - M.A.A.D City (Feat. MC Eiht)

If Pirus and Crips all got along
They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street I hear
YAWK YAWK YAWK YAWK
Man down
Where you from nigga
Fuck who you know where you from my nigga
Where your grandma stay huh my nigga
This mAAd city now run my nigga
Brace yourself I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine
This is cul de sac and plenty Cognac and major pain
Not the drill sergeant
but the stress that weighing on your brain
It was Me O Boog and Yaya
YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans
It got ugly waving your hand out the window
Check yo self
Uh warriors and Conans
Hope euphoria can slow dance with society
The driver seat the first one to get killed
Seen a light skinned nigga with his brains blown out
At the same burger stand where hang out
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it
But ever since that day I was lookin at him different
That was back when I was nine
Joey packed the nine
Pack to stand on every porch is fine
We adapt to crime pack a van with four guns at a time
With the sliding door fuck is up
Fuck you shootin for if you ain't walkin up
You fuckin punk pickin up the fuckin pump
Pickin off you suckers suck a dick or die or sucker punch
Or warn the bullets comin from
AK's AR's aye y'all Duck
That's what momma said
when we was eatin that free lunch
Aw man God damn all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in '94 Fuck yo truce
Now crawl yo head in that noose
You wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty just pieces
BG's up to pre approve bodies on top of bodies
IV's on top of IV's
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys
When you hop on that trolley
Make sure your colors correct
Make sure you're cornbread or
they'll be calling your mother collect
They say the governor collect all of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens that
shit ain't no threat
You movin backwards
if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec
Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial I guess
MAAd city
Man down
Where you from nigga
Fuck who you know where you from my nigga
Where your grandma stay huh my nigga
This mAAd city now run my nigga
If Pirus and Crips all got along
They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street I hear
YAWK YAWK YAWK
Wake yo punk ass up
It ain't nothin but a Compton thang
Chyea
Real simple and plain
I'm a teach you some lessons about the street
It ain't nothin but a Compton thang
Chyea
How we do
Fresh outta school cause I was a high school grad
Sleeping in the living room in my momma's pad
Reality struck I seen the white car crash
Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed
My Pops said I needed a job I thought I believed him
Security guard for a month and ended up leaving
In fact I got fired because I was inspired by all of my friends
To stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in
Projects tore up gang signs get thrown up
Cocaine laced in marijuana
And they wonder why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth
I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke even
I made a legion then made a promise to see you bleeding
You know the reasons but still won't ever know my life
Kendrick AKA Compton's human sacrifice
Cocaine weed
Nigga's been mixing shit since the 80's loc
Shine sticks buck nakeds
Make a nigga flip
Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit
One time's crooked and shit
Block a nigga in
Alondra Rosecrans Bullis
I'm still in the hood
Loc yeah that's cool
The hood took me under so I follow the rules
But yeah that's like me
I grew up in the hood where they bang
And niggas that rep colors is doing the same thing
Pass it to the left so I can smoke on me
A couple drive bys in the hood lately
Couple of IV's with the fucking spraycan
Shots in the crowd then everybody ran
Crew I'm finna slay the street life I crave
Shots hit the enemy harsh turn brave
Mount up regulators in the whip
Down the boulevard with the pistol grip
Trip we in the hood still
So loc grab a strap cause yeah it's so real
Deal with the outcome a strap in the hand
And a bird and 10 grand's where motherfuckers stand
If I told you I killed a nigga at 16 would you believe me
Or see me to be innocent Kendrick
that you seen in the street
With a basketball and some Now and Laters to eat
If I'm mashing all of my skeletons
would you jump in the seat
Would you say my intelligence now is great relief
And it's safe to say that
our next generation maybe can sleep
With dreams of being a lawyer or doctor
Instead of boy with a chopper
that hold the cul de sac hostage
Kill them all if they gossip the Children of the Corn
They realizing the option of living
a lie drive they body with toxins
Constantly drinking and drive
hit the powder then watch this flame
That arrive in his eye this a coward the concept is aim and
They bang it and slide out that bitch with deposits
And the price on his head
the tots probably go to the projects
I live inside the belly of the rough
Compton USA made Me an Angel on Angel Dust what