Load up the Pro Tools and press three
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Studio filled with Jack In The Box and Pepsis
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Niggas watchin' WorldStar videos, not the ESPYs
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Laughin' at B. Pumper, stomach turnin', I get up and proceeded to write somethin'
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Ab-Soul in the corner mumblin' raps, fumblin' packs of Black & Milds
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Crumblin' kush 'til he cracked a smile
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His words legendary, wishin' I could rhyme like him
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Studied his style to define my pen
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That was back when the only goal was to get Jay Rock through the door
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Warner Brother Records, hope Naim Ali would let us know
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Was excited just to go to them label meetings
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Wasn't my record deal, but still, I couldn't believe it
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Me and Rock inside the booth hibernatin'
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It was simple math, if he made it, that mean I made it
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Everything I had was for the team, I remained patient
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Grindin' with my brothers, it was us against them, no one above us, bless our hearts
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Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby, just relax and ride)
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If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)
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Free your thoughts and watch them fly
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Use your heart and not your eyes (Mm-hmm)
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My nigga Dave had a champagne Acura
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A bunch of instrumentals I freestyled in the passenger
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That nigga wore several hats, a producer, a manager, director, and DJ
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A hothead squabblin', Bloods, Pirus, and Keeways
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For this little thing of ours we called TDE
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I watched you take some penitentiary chances to say the least
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Remember in the county building with MixedByAli
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We tried to freak the system just to make a couple ends meet
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That's my nigga for shit sure
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He brought Q over, but Q didn't rap, but he learned from our inspo
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We split Louisiana chicken riverboat specials
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Sleepin' next to 02R consoles to be our refuge
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He was homeless and I left home
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Q said, "Dot, you won't be slept on, you the nigga to bet on" (Use your h?)
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Top had given us dominion in the home he lived in
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Hopin' that we see some millions, God bless our hearts
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Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby, just relax and ride)
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If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)
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Free your thoughts and watch them fly
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Use your heart and not your eyes
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Punch played Phil Jackson in my early practices
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Strategies on how to be great amongst the averages
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I picked his brain on what was ordained, highly collaborative
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RET pushed the label the same, amongst the savages
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Moose kept my name in the function that he would run in
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TEEZ kept the vultures away from me that was comin'
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Sounwave let me borrow his clothes for shows as a hype man
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To cook up in this room 'til the night ends
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Time flies, I'm carryin' debates of a top five
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Buryin' my opps and allies
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But I'd done a half job communicatin' feelings of being stagnant
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Life was gettin' bigger than just rappin'
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The business, what I was lackin'
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Top used to record me back when it was poor me
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And now we at the round table for what assures me
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I guess my motivation was the yearnin' for independence
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Poured everything I had left in the family business
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Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a Black exec'
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I jog my memory, knowin' Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me
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Creatively, I moved on with new concepts in reach
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Top, remember all them sessions we would strategize
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To hit the streets, then come back, record three records? Ah
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To tell the truth, it fucked me up when D-Man passed
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The motive was the condolences, but the pride crashed
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I had to bypass old mythologies I had
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Put my heart on display like it was an iMac
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To all my young niggas, let me be the demonstration
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How to conduct differences with a healthy conversation
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If that's your family, then handle it as such
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Don't let the socials gas you up or let emotions be your crutch
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Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost
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Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart
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Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby, just relax your mind)
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If you got time and I got time (Yeah, yeah)
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Free your thoughts and watch them fly
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Use your heart and not your eyes (Mm-hmm)
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heart pt. 6
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| Kendrick Lamar |
