Ab-Soul's Outro Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 [Ab-Soul]

2 What's your life about? Enlighten me

3 Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?

4 There's fire in the street, fire in the swisher

5 Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister

6 Just get a sip of this elixir

7 before they crop us out the picture

8 I've never seen a crop circle

9 but I've cops circle the block, I puff squares

10 But I swear one day I'ma stop, my nerves itch

11 On the brink of my career while my peers struggle for employment

12 Can you hear these screams? (Uncle Sam ain't no killing me)

13 One, two, three, four grams and a fifth of Hennessy

14 A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary

15 [sung by female]

16 Section 80's babies, blame Ronald Reagan

17 We raising hell

18 [Ab-Soul]

19 Lord forbid

20 The homie got wet, so we tryna soak it in

21 The president is black, but you can't vote for skin

22 You vote for the better man

23 Come to our show, you can see the diversity

24 Unify the people, they gon' peep it universally

25 We might not change the world, but we gon' manipulate it

26 I hope you participating

27 Aiyyo Dot, won't you let these cats know?

28 We knew we'd be here like back in '04

29 Started HiiiPoWeR because our generation needed a generator

30 and the system made to disintegrate us

31 And all we do is assist 'em

32 We're not victors, we're victims

33 The bigger picture isn't developed yet

34 Like, what if kids were celibate?

35 Or what is Tammy came across a real man

36 who didn't play games like chil-dren?

37 My nigga cheated on his girlfriend

38 with his girlfriend's girlfriend, let the world end

39 And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve

40 and the extraterrestrial presence as well

41 (Odd Future's aight) but our future's not

42 That martial law shit drop, we gon' all get got

43 So keep that question mark on your face

44 Eat your fast-food, use your fluoride toothpaste

45 Hide your feelings from the public, work your lil' nine-to-five

46 Don't forget to pay your tithes, and thank God you alive (HiiiPoWeR)

47 And on another note

48 we focussed like the Hubble Telescope, 'Soul

49 [Kendrick Lamar (female)]

50 Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam)

51 Life is a traffic jam

52 Life is a traffic jam

53 Life is a traffic jam

54 Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)

55 Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)

56 Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)

57 Life is a traffic jam

58 Life is a traffic jam

59 [Kendrick Lamar]

60 I wrote this because I was ordered to

61 People say I speak for generation Y

62 Why lie? I do

63 Section 80, your son will play me if radio won't

64 Daughters that just turned one to twenty-one listen to Kendrick

65 For instance

66 [Ab-Soul]

67 What's your life about? Enlighten me

68 Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?

69 Take out that student loan and pay off your college degree

70 and do exactly what you see on TV

71 [Kendrick Lamar]

72 True story

73 Hmm, can you repeat that for me 'Soul?

74 [Ab-Soul]

75 What's your life about? Enlighten me

76 Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?

77 Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn?

78 The time is now my child, come on

79 [Kendrick Lamar]

80 See a lot of y'all don't understand Kendrick Lamar

81 because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history

82 all in the same sentence

83 You know what all them things have in common?

84 Only half of the truth if you tell it

85 See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers

86 till one day I realised I had to come up with my own

87 I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on inside looking out

88 I'm in the dead fucking centre looking around

89 You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?

90 That's an analogy for the way the world make me react

91 My innocence been dead

92 So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history

93 all in the same sentence

94 just know I meant it, and you felt it

95 cause you too are searching for answers

96 I'm not the next pop star, I'm not the next socially aware rapper

97 I am a human motherfucking being over dope ass instrumentation

98 Kendrick Lamar

99 Now fuck 'em up Terrace

100 ('Soul!)

101 [Outro]

102 I watch this fire that we're gathered around

103 and see that it burns similar to the fire that burns inside you

104 Section 80, Section 80 babies

105 A generation of bliss and disobedience

106 No they can't control us, no they can't control you

107 No they can't control us, but we control each other

108 We build our own world

109 If you don't leave with nothing else tonight, you will leave with knowing yourself

110 You will leave knowing you represent something that's bigger than all of us

111 or our family

112 Heart, honor and represent

113 This is you, this is me, and we are HiiiPoWeR