[Kendrick Lamar]
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One time
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Reporting live, Compton, California
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Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?
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Like you never get right? Sort of like a black sheep
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Back down, backing out your dreams like some bad sleep
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Chasing for the win but you never win the track meet
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Oh, what a cold world for a broke nigga, it's bitter
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and life's a bitch, don't hit women so I bit her
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I struck enough pain, let her know I wasn't playing
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I was so (Sincere) like Nas' first name
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And back, they'd tell me, it's very difficult to see twenty-five
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and if I survive I probably wouldn't sell it
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My opportunities are low because my brown complexion floats
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in the ghetto, rather in some heals like Giuseppe's
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They want me unemployed, until I hit the streets
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for filling voids of broke D-boys selling weed
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Fucking up my prestige, till I live with the blues
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B.B. King or the neighbors of Snoop
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[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser) {uncredited female}]
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That's why I'm in the club like fuck it though
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They say it's only one life, life, life
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And if you say I can't live comfortable
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I'ma tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
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So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass
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Celebrate the very day that I get past
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(Through the barbed wire)
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{We are, we are fighters
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We are, we are true
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Through the, through barbed wires
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We will, will break through}
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So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass
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Celebrate the very day that I get past
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(Through the barbed wire)
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?
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Like you never did right? Sort of like a black sheep
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Tryna get away from the world stereotype
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Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny
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She desperately in need of some inspiration, see what the people saying
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She gon' have a baby, then flee from her education
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At the age of sixteen, credit card scam schemes
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See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality
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She will never get by, no how, no way
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Welfare recipient, property of the state
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Housing, Section 8, corner store, prostitute
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The owner bout to prosecute, the niggas tell her that she cute
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Hoodrat trashy, six baby daddies
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and this baby daddy is new to the family
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Chilling in pajamies, waiting on the first
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Fast-forward, spilling drinks on her fur
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[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser) {uncredited female}]
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That's why she in the club like fuck it though
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They say it's only one life, life, life
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And if you say she can't live comfortable
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She gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
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So while she up in V.I.P. pouring Merlot in her glass
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Celebrate the very day that she get past
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(Through the barbed wire)
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{We are, we are fighters
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We are, we are true
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Through the, through barbed wires
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We will, will break through}
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So while she up in V.I.P. pouring Merlot in her glass
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Celebrate the very day that she get past
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(Through the barbed wire)
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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Have you ever felt like you finally got life?
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You finally got right? No longer a black sheep
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Living off your (dreams) like Christina uh-Milian in the front seat
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of a convertible, eloping to get married
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What a feeling of overcoming the odds
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It's like you just hit the lottery, my God
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There must be a God, cause golly
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you done made it through the fight while squabbling, Ali
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Now your lifestyle's looking up and you escaped the crooked cops
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and you ain't have to kill a nigga just to make a couple bucks
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And she ain't have to go and fuck on everybody for a dollar
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Making good decisions, got an independent business mind
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And both of y'all are steady grinding, doing it the legal way
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Just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day
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But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth
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You must have joined the Illuminati just to ball out
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[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser)]
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In the club like fuck it though
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They say it's only one life, life, life
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And if you say they can't live comfortable
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They gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
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So even if you overcame doubt and your living ain't bad
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Know it's some barbed wire that's always in your path
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(Through the barbed wire)
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| [Ken |
