[Kendrick Lamar]
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Lifestyles of a kid that never had shit
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Living off that bad shit, that shoot shit, that stab shit
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Rock a flag and don't give a fuck about U.S. flag shit
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George Bush got some nerve, fuck a war, we tryna serve
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motherfucking eight-balls till we live at the pool hall
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and knock billiards out of business, ya bitch
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That's my surroundings in Compton, have common sense
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Smell death in the air round here, that's a common scent
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You know the gunpowder
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You when your homie barely blink he just done powder, only at seventeen
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You know the common statistic inspired by Hoop Dreams
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Now hired by street schemes of getting blood money
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I try my best to stay focussed and hope the city love me
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Pray it's not lust, cause if it is I'll be dead in a month
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Lord forbid, for the good kid, they took his life
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She want her baby back like a cooked rib, but that's just life
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where I'm from
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[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
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If there's a shining star
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Hope my city's not too far
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So we can live again
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See, where I come from it's hard
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Hope all over we can start
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So we can live again, so we can live again
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[CurT@!n$]
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I seen this youngun on the train, I had to pick his brain
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He said he on his way uptown to get a brick of 'caine
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He said he needed a come up cause selling nicks was lame
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He needed a change, so I gave him fifty cent
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He looked at me like I was crazy, I said listen man
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I'd rather give you my last to see you live again
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Just cause you change what you pitching don't make the difference
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You gotta get off the mound and put the game down
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Petty thoughts could keep your brain down
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I leave you with that jewel, go get the chain now, and put it together
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See, coming up we ain't have shit to keep our mind focussed
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I love Mike, but it was a hassle trying to buy Jordans
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My nigga hustled all day in front of the corner store
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to get a pair, and niggas killed him right in front of the mall
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Huh, so all that hustling for nothing then
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I threw my pair on the light pole because of him
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like, fuck it man
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[Chorus]
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[ScHoolboy Q]
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Tryna move forward, though it never stops
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A mother's son dead, was killed by some kids, popped shots
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They back and forth
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Murder for murder, the beef recycled is vital
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No idols, bunch of 'em read bibles
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Allies that turned to rivals, niggas turned street disciples
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Smokers get high as Eiffels
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Addicted to being fiends cause of Feds, as we pledge to let our plague spread
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Tiny this, and if it that they banging back
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as they a-dapt to being black, straps and gang tats, look
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Rats get mouse traps, can't afford tuition
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But hit a lick, I bet I earn crack, I heard that
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Looking at the sky, just hoping that a light will shine
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Daylight saving time all the time on this block of mine
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All the time with this Glock of mine
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Swear to God man it ain't a rhyme, I grind for a piece of mind
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Co-sign
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[Chorus]
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[Excerpt of Black Ice performing on Def Poetry]
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"When you look at my brothers, what's your first impression?
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Does the sight of us leave you guessing, or do you understand the stressing?
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The aggression, the look of no hope on my niggas' faces
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like the Lord overlooked us when he handed down his graces
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You see embraces fall short on the numb tips of street entrepreneur fingers
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Stuck on the walls of the project halls where the coke smell still lingers
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External blingers is all we can be, cause on the inside we've been given nothing to shine on
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And a gig is harder to get than coke, so niggas get they grind on
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cause the TV tells us, aim high nigga, make all goals lateral
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But see that takes paper that we don't have so niggas put they souls up as collateral
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Now, some niggas reclaim 'em, some blame 'em, make an excuse to sell 'em
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But when a nigga goes from not doing to doing, what can you tell him?
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Not to be a nigga? Shit, I gots to be a nigga, that's how I pay the bills
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and I'ma do that whether I got to sling this coke or exploit these rhyme skills"
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[Chorus]
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Live Again
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| Schoolboy Q |
