What's your life about Enlighten me Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet There's fire in the street fire in the swisher Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister Just get a sip of this elixir Before they crop us out the picture I've never seen a crop circle But I've cops circle the block I puff squares But I swear one day I'ma stop my nerves itch On the brink of my career While my peers struggle for employment Can you hear these screams (Uncle Sam ain't no killing me) One two three four grams and a fifth of Hennessy A bad bitch f**k the penitentiary Section 80's babies blame Ronald Reagan We raising hell Lord forbid The homie got wet so we tryna soak it in The president is black but you can't vote for skin You vote for the better man Come to our show you can see the diversity Unify the people they gon' peep it universally We might not change the world But we gon' manipulate it I hope you participating Aiyyo Dot won't you let these cats know We knew we'd be here like back in '04 Started HiiiPoWeR 'Cause our generation needed a generator And the system made to disintegrate us And all we do is assist 'em We're not victors we're victims The bigger picture isn't developed yet Like what if kids were celibate Or what is Tammy came across a real man Who didn't play games like chil-dren My nigga cheated on his girlfriend With his girlfriend's girlfriend let the world end And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve And the extraterrestrial presence as well (Odd Future's aight) but our future's not That martial law shit drop we gon' all get got So keep that question mark on your face Eat your fast-food use your fluoride toothpaste Hide your feelings from the public Work your lil' nine-to-five Don't forget to pay your tithes And thank God you alive (HiiiPoWeR) And on another note We focussed like the Hubble Telescope 'Soul Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam) Life is a traffic jam Life is a traffic jam Life is a traffic jam Life is a traffic jam (ready to go) Life is a traffic jam (ready to go) Life is a traffic jam (ready to go) Life is a traffic jam Life is a traffic jam I wrote this because I was ordered to People say I speak for generation Y Why lie I do Section 80 your son will play me if radio won't Daughters that just turned one To twenty-one listen to Kendrick For instance What's your life about Enlighten me Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet Take out that student loan And pay off your college degree And do exactly what you see on TV True story Hmm can you repeat that for me 'Soul What's your life about Enlighten me Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn The time is now my child come on See a lot of y'all don't understand Kendrick Lamar Because you wonder how I could talk about Money hoes clothes God and history All in the same sentence You know what all them things have in common Only half of the truth if you tell it See I spent twenty-three years On this earth searching for answers Till one day I realised I had to come up with my own I'm not on the outside looking in I'm not on inside looking out I'm in the dead f**king centre looking around You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man That's an analogy for the way the world make me react My innocence been dead So the next time I talk about Money hoes clothes God and history All in the same sentence Just know I meant it and you felt it Cause you too are searching for answers I'm not the next pop star I'm not the next socially aware rapper I am a human motherf**king Being over dope ass instrumentation Kendrick Lamar Now f**k 'em up Terrace ('Soul ) I watch this fire that we're gathered around And see that it burns similar To the fire that burns inside you Section 80 Section 80 babies A generation of bliss and disobedience No they can't control us no they can't control you No they can't control us but we control each other We build our own world If you don't leave with nothing else tonight You will leave with knowing yourself You will leave knowing you represent Something that's bigger than all of us Or our family Heart honor and represent This is you this is me and we are HiiiPoWeR