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Kendrick Lamar
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feat. Punch
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[Intro]
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They felt like they were laying tracks, for the generation to come. I think my mother knew that freedom wouldn't come in her lifetime, just like I know it won't come in mine. It's a matter of, either we stay like this or somebody sacrifice, somebody laying tracks, so we can stay in a 360 degree. Deadly circle, somebody used to break out and risk, you know losing everything and being poor and getting deep down. Cause someone has to do something, had I had a father, had I had some of these opportunities. I would be able to handle my mother more
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[Verse 1: Punch]
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I was taught never trust a nigga, far as you can see him
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Teach a nigga how to fish, as apposed to try'na feed him
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Look a man in the eyes, that's the best way to read him
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Cause faces they change, but point of views remain
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I got a strange feeling, that I'm a lil bit different
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Beyond the customs and tradition of a project living
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My Korean war vet, grandfather's affliction
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Was stress and I inherited his heart condition
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And Van Arthur's addiction, was heroin needles
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Petty hustling, d'evils, that street men lust
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So I'm mixed with that lethal combination but trust
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I've only scratched the surface, what's underneath this verse is
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The feeling of a young boy lost, without a purpose
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Still waters run deep in the street we were submerged in
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Police lurking, try'na catch a nigga serving
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He ain't going back to jail, so he bust a verse
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[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]
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This is for my everyday young nigga
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It don't really matter where you from niggas
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Before you leave the house, kiss your moms nigga
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Cause you don't know when that day'll come nigga
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Cause only Lord knows that I know how you feel
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What we gotta do just to live
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Is try not to get our cap peeled, try not to get your cap peeled
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[Verse 2: Punch]
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It's hard to get to know me, unless you hear between bars
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Tortured soul self contained on my childhood scars
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I was involved from a far, affected by the street laws
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Concrete walls, not even earthquakes could shake them brick walls
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Nickerson garden projects this is me y'all
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Where Dope dealers have it all and then freefall
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Caine numbs the pain up and down the ghetto seesaw
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The voice of the youth, they hear me and they see y'all
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They don't see a diamond in the rough, they see flaws
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They should see how we was raised and they would be in awe
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Against all it gets hard not to kill niggas
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It's like a full-time job not to grab the semi-auti
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And go kamikaze on somebody who plotting
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Probably on my body laying lifeless, ungodly sacrifices
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To the streets, this is the trinity
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Money malice and murder the hood's deity
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[Hook]
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[Verse 3]
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They say the average black man only lives to 25
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Well I made it past that and a nigga still alive
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Which means I'm in the red, I'm indebted to death
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That's the wages that sin pay, I'm still tracing my steps
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Leaving my footprints in the sand, the concrete rose
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That grew on infertile land and blossomed to a grown man
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My only fear is pops holding moms hand
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Dripping tears on my casket, I refuse to let it happen
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By any means avoiding the city traffic
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Shooters got the green light, they blocking your right of passage
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A young kid turned savage, city madness
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A picture painted on the street's canvas, excuse my brashness
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I'm trying to live to see past this
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Staring at the world and my rear view past tense
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In no particular fashion, I'm on borrowed time I'mma grind with a passion
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[Hook]
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[Outro]
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Generation to generation to come
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They won't come in mind
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Sacrifices, sacrifices, sacrifices
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Deadly circle, deadly circle
Kendrick Lamar - Best Rapper Under 25
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