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[00:15]One two, one two, one two..
[00:26]Turn the headphones up Ali
[00:28]One two
[00:31]You mix with Dre, right?
[00:37]Turn the headphones up
[00:38]When the whole world see you as Pac reincarnated
[00:40]That’s enough pressure to live your whole life sedated
[00:43]Find the tallest building in Vegas and jump off it
[00:46]But I could never rewrite history in a coffin
[00:48]So I’m talking to God, “Can you wash all these demons off me?”
[00:51]This last year I’ve been quite similar to Aaliyah
[00:53]Control my own destiny, only rapper that steered
[00:56]A G5, g’s give high-fives to me and say, “Kendrick, just persevere.”
[01:00]The presents of being rare
[01:02]As I lay in this four corner room staring at candles
[01:05]Thinking, “How can I make an example for this generation of Compton?”
[01:09]My biggest fear is not feeling accomplished
[01:11]Or turning back to that same accomplice
[01:13]My past life was a child with no act right
[01:14]Trying to smile in a room of killers, turn into a crash site
[01:18]Influenced by niggas that spoke the gang culture fluent
[01:20]Assuring that some blossom early and some truant
[01:24]Thank God for the album I idolized
[01:26]It’s dark and plus hell is hot, that’s the start of this crazy ride
[01:29]Two young niggas, me and Dave inside the garage
[01:30]And thought we was Jay and Dame
[01:31]Thats the lane that we tried to drive
[01:34]Truthfully, I just started rappin’ to get away
[01:36]I never thought that your favorite rapper would want a verse
[01:39]My nigga got hit 25 times with a K
[01:42]Make the decision, ride the beat or ride in a hearse
[01:44]Now Punch is my mentor, Top Dawg is the coach
[01:47]Jay Rock is my older brother, I was there when he wrote
[01:50]His name on his record deal, we had figured the coast
[01:52]Would live on a pedestal, once the shit hit the store
[01:55]Find ourselves scrambling, tryna figure it out
[01:57]Soul told me that the record shop ’bout to go in a drought
[02:00]Q ain’t got a place to stay, and ’bout to sleep on the couch
[02:02]We eating off each other tray, the dollar menu amount
[02:05]Meanwhile the coast going hard at each other
[02:07]The younger rappers had wanted some of the OGs’ comfort
[02:10]But I ain’t need it
[02:11]I never screamed out the ‘New West’, I didn’t believe it
[02:14]They brought each other down, I was planning out my achievements
[02:17][02:55]I need to separate myself to stand out
[02:20][02:57]I need a better way to take your fans now
[02:23][03:00]I need to kill you motherfuckers dead
[02:24][03:02]Three hollow tips aimed at your head
[02:26][03:06]I’ll be damned if the chopper jam now
[02:28][03:06]And we never asked for no hand out
[02:30]In the midst of it all I recall a called when you said how
[02:33]We could never resolve in The Hall of Fame
[02:35]And I’m with the trial with a Bible and a rifle
[02:37]I play the game as I plan blow
[02:39]Hollaback at me, nigga
[02:40]And if they said I’m the one, why you asking me, nigga?
[02:43]Cause When the whole world see you as Pac reincarnated
[02:45]That’s enough pressure to make you just open the Book of David
[02:49]And pray to God hat make it or live your life in the matrix
[02:51]Cause falling off is a sickness, I heard that it’s quite contagious
[03:08]I’ll take you back to that pack of Black & Milds in my hand now
[03:10]In the midst of it all was cooking with pots and pans out
[03:12]Looking forward as four of us are forced to form a new clan now
[03:16]Fast forward as I wait in line for this passport
[03:18]The homies was still poor, was working at Jansport
[03:21]Whoever thought that Rosenberg would mention me to Dre?
[03:23]Even Vanessa from XXL had told him to press play
[03:26]And there goes my fate, now I’m on stage with Snoop
[03:29]Gave me the torch and I ran with it in high pursuit
[03:32]Rapped with my forefathers, even record with Gaga too
[03:34]Lyricist of the year, fuck am I supposed to do? Rock
[03:37]Laughing at you niggas out there who thought we was flukes
[03:40]Exaggerated shit that we had rapped had came true
[03:42]Thought I was aggravated, when Warner had let me loose
[03:45]I was honest, see they was haunted when Mike Jones didn’t recoup
[03:48]Cool, cause niggas won’t outdo us in the booth
[03:50]Even when my album leak, fans still buy it for proof
[03:53]I came, I saw, I conquered
[03:56]No shame, I blame all of this on Compton
[03:58]Thinking about when Sherane tried to set me up
[04:01]Cold game, full circle, they set up her
[04:04]I put my life in these twelve songs, my fight in these twelve songs
[04:06]The fight to ignite any wrong or right that I prolong
[04:09]The story was short film, the glory of him and them
[04:12]The worry of mother who don’t recover when baby killed
[04:15]The trial and tribulations, the newer Miseducation
[04:17]The view of body wasting, you knew somebody who didn’t make it
[04:20]The angry, the adolescent, the reason I ask this question
[04:23]Will you let Hip-Hop die on October 22nd?