Hood Politics

Song Hood Politics
Artist Kendrick Lamar
Album To Pimp a Butterfly

Lyrics

[00:01.280]
[00:02.620] K dot pick up the phone nigga Every time I call
[00:06.020] it's going to voice mail
[00:07.140]
[00:10.020] Don't tell me they got you on some weirdo rap shit
[00:13.520] nigga No socks and skinny jeans and shit
[00:20.880]
[00:28.950] Call me on Shaniqua's phone
[00:30.560]
[00:35.560] I been A-1 since day one you niggas boo boo
[00:38.160] Your home boy your block that you're from boo boo
[00:40.950] Lil hoes you went to school with boo boo
[00:43.650] Baby mama and your new bitch boo boo
[00:46.370] We was in the hood 14 with the deuce deuce
[00:49.110] 14 years later going hard like we used to on the dead homies
[00:52.310]
[00:54.330] On the dead homies
[00:55.260]
[00:58.130] I don't give a fuck about no politics in rap my nigga
[01:00.800] My lil homie Stunna Deuce ain't never comin' back my nigga
[01:03.430] So you better go hard every time you jump on wax my nigga
[01:06.260] Fuck what they talkin' bout your shit is where its at my nigga
[01:08.940] Came in this game you stuck your fangs in this game
[01:11.150] You wore no chain in this game your hood your name in this game
[01:14.070] Now you double up time to bubble up the bread and huddle up
[01:16.970] Stickin' to the scripts now here if them benjamin's go cuddle up
[01:19.730] Skip hop drip drop flip flop with the white tube sock
[01:24.710] It goes "Sherm Sticks burn this"
[01:27.870] Thats what the product smell like when the chemicals mix
[01:30.160] 50 nigga salute out the Compton zoo with the extras
[01:33.410] El Cos Monte Carlos Road Kings and dressers
[01:36.090] Rip Ridaz P-Funkers Mexicans they fuck with you
[01:38.970] Asians they fuck with you nobody can fuck with you
[01:41.580] I been A-1 since day one you niggas boo boo
[01:43.580] Your home boy your block that you're from boo boo
[01:46.420] Lil hoes you went to school with boo boo
[01:48.640]
[01:49.160] Baby mama and your new bitch boo boo
[01:51.830] We was in the hood 14 with the deuce deuce
[01:54.520] 14 years later going hard like we used to on the dead homies
[01:57.800]
[01:59.740] On the dead homies
[02:00.660]
[02:03.580] Hopped out the caddy just got my dick sucked
[02:06.140] The little homies called they said "The enemies done cliqued up"
[02:08.940] Oh yeah? Puto want to squabble with mi barrio?
[02:11.620] Oh yeah? Tell 'em they can run it for the cardio
[02:14.320] Oh yeah? Everythin' is everythin' it's scandalous
[02:16.970] Slow motion for the ambulance the project filled with cameras
[02:19.740] The LAPD gamblin' scramblin' football numbers slanderin'
[02:23.010] Niggas name on paper you snitched all summer
[02:25.250] Streets don't fail me now
[02:26.560]
[02:27.480] They tell me it's a new gang in town
[02:29.220]
[02:30.490] From Compton to Congress
[02:32.760]
[02:33.380] Set trippin' all around
[02:35.010] Ain't nothin' new but a flow of new DemoCrips and ReBloodlicans
[02:38.190] Red state versus a blue state which one you governin'
[02:40.850] They give us guns and drugs call us thugs
[02:42.510] Make it they promise to fuck with you
[02:44.280] No condom they fuck with you
[02:45.600] Obama say "What it do?"
[02:46.830]
[02:49.030] Obama say "What it do?"
[02:50.120]
[02:56.820] Obama say "What it do?"
[02:58.010]
[02:59.000] I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo boo
[03:01.500] Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo
[03:03.740]
[03:04.310] Lil hoes you went to school with, boo boo
[03:07.000] Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo
[03:09.720] We was in the hood, 14 with the deuce deuce
[03:12.440] 14 years later going hard, like we used to on the dead homies
[03:15.760]
[03:17.670] On the dead homies
[03:18.570]
[03:21.090] Everybody want to talk about who this and who that
[03:23.700] Who the realest and who wack or who white or who black
[03:26.490] Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin'
[03:29.330] Motherfucker if you did then Killer Mike'd be platinum
[03:31.980] Y'all priorities fucked up put energy in wrong shit
[03:35.030] Hennessy and Crown Vic my memory been gone since
[03:37.700] Don't ask about no camera back at award shows
[03:40.200] No don't ask about my bitch no don't ask about my foes
[03:42.910] 'Less you askin' me about power yeah I got a lot of it
[03:45.770] I'm the only nigga next to Snoop that can push the button
[03:48.160] Had the Coast on standby
[03:49.610] K Dot what up? I heard they opened up Pandora's box
[03:51.900] I box 'em all in by a landslide
[03:53.670] Nah homie we too sensitive it spill out to the streets
[03:56.310] I make the call and get the coast involved then history repeats
[03:59.100] But I resolved inside that private hall while sitting down with Jay
[04:01.900] He said "it's funny how one verse could fuck up the game"
[04:04.260] I been A-1 since day one you niggas boo boo
[04:07.200] I remember you was conflicted
[04:08.440]
[04:09.770] Misusing your influence
[04:10.990]
[04:12.190] Sometimes I did the same
[04:13.440]
[04:14.800] Abusing my power full of resentment
[04:16.480]
[04:17.640] Resentment that turned into a deep depression
[04:19.480]
[04:20.840] Found myself screaming in a hotel room
[04:22.850]
[04:24.350] I didn't want to self-destruct
[04:25.750]
[04:27.170] The evils of Lucy was all around me
[04:29.030]
[04:30.760] So I went running for answers
[04:32.090]
[04:33.520] Until I came home
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[04:36.220] But that didn't stop survivors guilt
[04:37.870]
[04:39.580] Going back and forth
[04:40.420] Trying to convince my self the stripes I earned
[04:42.550]
[04:44.120] Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was
[04:46.610]
[04:47.470] But while my loved ones was fighting
[04:48.820] A continuous war back in the city
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[04:51.620] I was entering a new one