County Building Blues Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 Greeting boys and girls

2 My name is petey p

3 Kendrick's childhood imaginary friend (that's right)

4 I am your neighbor

5 And i'd like to welcome you to good kid, m.a.a.d city

6 So grab your cartoons and cereal

7 Your popcorns and fireworks

8 And sing along)

9 When we grow up we gon go and get us some money

10 Spend it all in front of the county building

11 Blow it like coltrane, blow it like coltrane

12 When we grow up we gon go and get us some money

13 Spend it all in front of the county building

14 Blow it like coltrane, blow it like coltrane

15 (kendrick, you remember that one time when we was…)

16 I've been waiting on this since dr. dre and pac

17 Was on rosecrans in that burgerstand at '95

18 People staring at 'em in amazement

19 Reservation at the days inn

20 We was living out a hotel at the time

21 Breakfast, lunch and dinner chicken from kentucky fried

22 Mama babysitting section 8 vouchers the move

23 When nothing else to lose but a burger flip and job

24 Close my eyes inside the swap meet and imagine this, imagine

25 Gold ballroom, ak-47 dancing

26 Howling at the moon, what's a pack of hungry babies?

27 Hope you feed em soon, bite your back, you die of rabies

28 Everyday we pray to eat at the table at sizzlers

29 But never make the visit, if better days was on its way

30 Then they make the decision, to make the wrong turn

31 So for now we heat this skillet so this canned food can burn

32 (oh i remember that, it was the ravioli with the hot sauce in it, right?)

33 And all the ghetto children in the world say, "that's my car"

34 All the ghetto boys say, "that's my car"

35 All the ghetto girls say, "that's my car"

36 When we grow up, when we grow up

37 All the ghetto children in the world say, "that's my car"

38 All the ghetto boys say, "that's my car"

39 All the ghetto girls say, "that's my car"

40 When we grow up, when we grow up

41 (nigga you remember the smoke and the burning buildings and shit?)

42 Couples stolen t.v.'s and a seat belt for my safety

43 Played the passenger i think it's five years after eighty

44 Seven, do the math, ' 92 don't you be lazy

45 Looking out the window, notice all the essentials

46 Of a block party that stop for a second, then it rekindle

47 Like a flame from a trick candle, everybody got dental

48 Insurance 'cause we 'bout to floss, you get that couch i sent you?

49 I heard that from a block away, probably had a credentials

50 Of a scholar but shit not today, them dayton spokes was his to take

51 Refrigerators, barbecue pits, and jordan kicks

52 They did invasions while helicopters recorded it

53 Hello mi-mister miyagi, i want them ten woo-woofers

54 Say that you got me if not, i'll dig in your drawer for it

55 The swap meet was the bull's-eye like tauruses

56 Murder was the melody you should know what the chorus is

57 "papa you really telling me we can just get some more of it

58 If we run out?" he said, "lil nigga today the poor is rich"

59 Don't tell your mom that you seen a molotov bomb

60 If she ask just know you have to lie and son don't forget

61 Bitches ain't shit, hoes ain't neither

62 Niggas gon snitch, watch the company you keeping

63 And one day you'll put money in the ghetto when you got it

64 Rather than having to hustle all these rodney king riots

65 (that's right the mothafuckin' rodney king

66 You just put your daddy on ? road)