Reporting live, Compton California
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The good kid
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I'm tired of doing it
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the same way, gotta flip it before I ruin it
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Make it all make sense 'fore you put your two in it
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Opinions get thrown out the window with Ron Browz
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So turn me up loud so the world can hear
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And when your favorite rapper rapping you should cover your ears
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and go death, go death I said
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Go death and stay dead, a shot to the forehead to kill 'em
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But I ain't here for no ignorance
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I'm militant as Martin Luther King and a penalty
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Aiming for my dreams till a bullet bounce off
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one of my deep thoughts and hit a nigga in the spleen
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I've got in it my genes, you probably think I'm talking bout a pistol
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but I'm talking bout the blood of a warrior
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My nigga, what you worry for? I ain't tryna jock your swag
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I'm tryna better my craft and stay relevant, yeah
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[Chorus]
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As time flies, hope that I'm soaring
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Far from the boring, I'ma
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tell you why, it's important
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I'm not the boring, I'ma
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If I think and act like you do
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the world will die from not seeing something new
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And if I don't speak on how I feel
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the world will lose out on what's really real
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And if I should die before I wake
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I pray my music could take my place
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in the world... The Relevant
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I'd rather you call me that
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than a typical artist you call wack
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on a YouTube blog holding ARs and stacks
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of ones, but never could be the one
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to rally communities or lead a crowd of blacks
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Passion is too strong, I'm pissed off
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So there's a chance you get pissed on, R. Kelly was in the wrong
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But that don't make you an exempt
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That don't make you a no-go from hitting the fence
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You ain't a blood and damn sure you ain't a crip
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The crowd yell "hoe" but I ain't a pimp
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I'm me, I'm free as a five-finger discount
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See you on the flip side right after I dismount
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If I ever feel like I ain't pushing myself
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I'll find a cliff, then push myself off the edge
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like a barber at the tip of your head
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That's how I settle it, life or death if I ain't relevant, nigga
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[Chorus]
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So feel free to not mind me
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if you're used to boosters, drug dealers and shooters on wax
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Cause most of y'all niggas fabricate facts anyway
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I could easily cheat and let the four-four play like a two-on-two orgy
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But I've been there and it bores me
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Got to the point where it did nothing for me
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At forty I want to afford not to record bullshit in my story
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And I'm mad young, so I'd rather do it now before my career's done
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This is pain plus glory, victory is here
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If I cried, you could see strength and pride in my tears
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I do it for the kids
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I do it for the twenty-three hour lockdowns doing time in the pen
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And my pen is the only thing I got for Hip Hop to change the game
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and they'll remember my name as The Relevant
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[Chorus]
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The Relevant
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Kendrick Lamar |