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[00:00.77]M.A.A.D City (Feat. MC Eiht) - Kendrick Lamar
[00:02.78]If Pirus and Crips all got along
[00:04.47]They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
[00:07.09]Seem like the whole city go against me
[00:09.09]Every time I'm in the street I hear
[00:11.52]"YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"
[00:13.33]"Man down
[00:13.95]Where you from, nigga?"
[00:16.07]"Fuck who you know, where you from my nigga?"
[00:19.38]"Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?"
[00:22.75]This m.A.A.d city now run, my nigga
[00:25.99]Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
[00:29.11]This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine
[00:32.42]This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major pain
[00:35.10]Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain
[00:38.41]It was Me, O-Boog [?], and Yaya [?], YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans
[00:42.28]It got ugly, waving your hand out the window. Check yo self
[00:45.34]Uh, warriors and Conans
[00:46.59]Hope euphoria can slow dance with society
[00:48.40]The driver seat the first one to get killed
[00:51.27]Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out
[00:54.51]At the same burger stand, where hang out
[00:57.76]Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it
[01:01.06]But ever since that day, I was lookin at him different
[01:04.18]That was back when I was nine
[01:06.18]Joey packed the nine
[01:07.30]Pack to stand on every porch is fine
[01:09.43]We adapt to crime, pack a van with four guns at a time
[01:12.74]With the sliding door, fuck is up?
[01:14.79]Fuck you shootin for if you ain't walkin up?
[01:17.73]You fuckin punk, pickin up the fuckin pump
[01:20.41]Pickin off you suckers, suck a dick or die or sucker punch
[01:24.34]Or warn the bullets comin from
[01:26.15]AK's, AR's, "aye y'all. Duck."
[01:27.40]That's what momma said when we was eatin that free lunch
[01:30.64]Aw man, God damn, all hell broke loose
[01:33.07]You killed my cousin back in '94. Fuck yo truce
[01:36.19]Now crawl yo head in that noose
[01:38.07]You wind up dead on the news
[01:39.94]Ain't no peace treaty, just pieces
[01:41.52]BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies
[01:44.03]IV's on top of IV's
[01:45.71]Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys
[01:48.41]When you hop on that trolley
[01:50.41]Make sure your colors correct
[01:52.03]Make sure you're cornbread, or they'll be calling your mother collect
[01:55.40]They say the governor collect, all of our taxes except
[01:58.39]When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat
[02:01.97]You movin backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec
[02:05.35]Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess
[02:08.93]M.A.A.d city
[02:09.55]"Man down
[02:10.24]Where you from, nigga?"
[02:12.06]"Fuck who you know, where you from my nigga?"
[02:15.14]"Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?"
[02:17.94]This m.A.A.d city now run, my nigga."
[02:21.50]If Pirus and Crips all got along
[02:24.49]They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
[02:27.81]Seem like the whole city go against me
[02:31.05]Every time I'm in the street I hear
[02:33.35]"YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!
[02:34.23]Wake yo punk ass up!
[02:40.22]It ain't nothin but a Compton thang
[02:42.90]Chyea
[02:43.40]Real simple and plain
[02:44.77]I'm a teach you some lessons about the street
[02:47.46]It ain't nothin but a Compton thang
[02:53.28]Chyea
[02:55.27]How we do
[02:56.21]Fresh outta school cause I was a high school grad
[02:58.71]Sleeping in the living room in my momma's pad
[03:01.20]Reality struck I seen the white car crash
[03:03.76]Hit the light pole two nigga's hopped out on foot and dashed
[03:06.88]My Pops said I needed a job I thought I believed him
[03:10.08]Security guard for a month and ended up leaving
[03:12.51]In fact I got fired because I was inspired by all of my friends
[03:14.76]To stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in
[03:17.38]Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up
[03:20.12]Cocaine laced in marijuana
[03:22.99]And they wonder why I rarely smoke now
[03:25.57]Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth
[03:28.57]I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke even
[03:31.31]I made a legion then made a promise to see you bleeding
[03:34.18]You know the reasons but still won't ever know my life
[03:36.11]Kendrick AKA Compton's human sacrifice
[03:38.69]Cocaine, weed
[03:43.12]Nigga's been mixing shit since the 80's loc
[03:45.18]Shine sticks, buck nakeds
[03:46.99]Make a nigga flip
[03:49.30]Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit
[03:53.49]One time's crooked and shit
[03:55.31]Block a nigga in
[03:56.55]Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis
[03:58.30]I'm still in the hood
[04:00.42]Loc yeah that's cool
[04:01.61]The hood took me under so I follow the rules
[04:04.35]But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang
[04:08.36]And niggas that rep colors is doing the same thing
[04:11.05]Pass it to the left so I can smoke on me
[04:13.99]A couple drive-bys in the hood lately
[04:15.94]Couple of IV's with the fucking spraycan
[04:17.95]Shots in the crowd then everybody ran
[04:20.53]Crew I'm finna slay, the street life I crave
[04:23.29]Shots hit the enemy, harsh turn brave
[04:25.54]Mount up regulators in the whip
[04:28.47]Down the boulevard with the pistol grip
[04:30.78]Trip, we in the hood still
[04:33.65]So loc, grab a strap cause yeah, it's so real
[04:36.77]Deal with the outcome, a strap in the hand
[04:39.16]And a bird and 10 grand's where motherfuckers stand
[04:41.84]If I told you I killed a nigga at 16, would you believe me?
[04:44.89]Or see me to be innocent Kendrick that you seen in the street
[04:47.39]With a basketball and some Now & Laters to eat
[04:50.39]If I'm mashing all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat?
[04:52.76]Would you say my intelligence now is great relief?
[04:55.27]And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep
[04:57.97]With dreams of being a lawyer or doctor
[04:59.67]Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the cul de sac hostage
[05:01.48]Kill them all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn
[05:05.05]They realizing the option of living a lie, drive they body with toxins
[05:08.19]Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this flame
[05:11.07]That arrive in his eye; this a coward, the concept is aim and
[05:14.64]They bang it and slide out that bitch with deposits
[05:17.45]And the price on his head, the tots probably go to the projects
[05:20.76]I live inside the belly of the rough
[05:22.51]Compton, U.S.A. made Me an Angel on Angel Dust, what