[Jay Rock]
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Yeah, Los Angeles, 'Welcome to the Terrordome'
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City of Satan, angels can't even get along
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No lie, my town covered in darkness
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Hoping that the sun just shine on us
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Rolling up the kush, now I'm letting my mind wander
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into another place, I ain't tryna go down under
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Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it
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Shit never fair, strays hitting the innocent
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The good die young where I'm from and it's sad to say
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that somebody gotta die today
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Tomorrow's never promised, but we living for the moment
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Nigga, time never stops, it just keeps on going
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Crackers just gave my young nigga four life sentences
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Twenty-five times four, nigga, do the math
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And the hood never have witnesses
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cause if we did, then them shots gon' blast
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[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
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As I reflect, I start realising I wanna
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Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends
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This ain't the way my life bout to end
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So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
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Give 'em something my people sure to feel
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Give 'em something that I know is all the way real
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[ScHoolboy Q]
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Just waking up, mind playing tricks on me
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Got the fifth on me, gotta take a risk homie
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Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me
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Keep it real, I could take you down the list homie
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Be a tradition, see these Chucks be a mission
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Burner be the fuel to the flame, the key to the ignition
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If you banging, be serious
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Boys run up in your pad, point-blank, period, moms ain't hearing it
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Niggas said cuz [?] got blasted
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Oh well, give a shit, shouldn't half-assed it
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Only time you with it, when your niggas all tripping
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Caught your ass slipping, now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping
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Riding through the city in lights, living it trife
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Wrong intersection, ready to fight
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Hopping out with my own agenda, who the contender?
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Better hope this motherfucker jam (blahh!)
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[Chorus]
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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Uh, as I'm hearing the first and second verse
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I try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song
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I want to tell Rock and Q to go to church
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But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long
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I stare at the world from a righteous point of view
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and realise a crisis coming
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Novocain couldn't numb it, the pain is unbearable times two
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Let's rally a team, summon, and school the youth
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How you feel about it?
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[Ab-Soul]
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Man, I feel the same way as you
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It hurts my soul, like a needle piercing through the bottom of my shoe
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And if you behind bars
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Hold your head, pause
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And if you in close range with a nigga with a gun in his waste
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I pray the intervention is divine
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I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in Heaven
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But earlier than expected, what the Hell?
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[Chorus]
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Shadow Of Death
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| Jay Rock |
