Cut You Off (To Grow Closer) Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 Uh-uh-uh, uh, uh-uh-uh, uh

2 Ali, you thirsty on Twitter [laughs]

3 You boo-boo, you T

4 You turned down, you thirsty

5 You boo-boo

6 Uh, I'm tryna learn something new

7 I'm tryna find myself, I'm searching deep for Kendrick Lamar

8 I read about Napoleon Hill and try to know God

9 They say he the key to my blessings

10 and if I speak the good into existence, that instant my dreams will unlock

11 Money flow like water, I'll just wait at the dock

12 And by the way I'ma start, finding more light to shed

13 like a small garage in your backyard

14 I'm back chilling with a friend of mine, she mighty fine

15 But I notice that her heart resides next to bitterness

16 Always hollering who she don't like, and who she kick it with

17 Who she wanna fight, who wearing a weave

18 Who Dooney & Bourke bag is fake, who holding the keys

19 to the car she drove last year, or who fucking on who

20 and who need a pap smear, getting on my nerves

21 But before your negative energy curve, bitch, I'ma cut you off

22 [Chorus]

23 Cause every time you come around you be hollering that

24 whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

25 He say, she say, oh my God

26 Shut the fuck up... hoe

27 Every time you come around you be hollering that

28 whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

29 He say, she say

30 Uh, I'm tryna learn something new

31 I'm tryna surround myself with people that inspire me

32 or at least inquire similar desires

33 to do what it T-A-K-E just to reach the T-O-P

34 I'm talking ideas, motivation

35 It's more than making enemies my nigga

36 Oh, that's not your memo? Then tell me why you constant stressing

37 on how much you well connected like centipedes my nigga?

38 I function with you and you flaunt your pistol

39 Every second tell me how you pressed him at the Monte Crystal

40 Where so-and-so from, and what neighborhoods beefing

41 Who baby momma's a rat, and who got killed last weekend

42 That shit is mad depressing, bringing me down

43 Speak on something with some substance that can get us both paid

44 rather than telling me how these niggas jocking your style

45 or his rims ain't bigger, pussy nigga, I'ma cut you off

46 [Chorus]

47 Cause every time you come around you be hollering that

48 whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

49 He say, she say, oh my God

50 Shut the fuck up... scary ass

51 Every time you come around you be hollering that

52 whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

53 He say, she say

54 Uh, I'm tryna learn something new

55 I'm tryna better my chances of becoming a star

56 I'm tryna feel the vibe of Mona Lisa, studying art

57 Now paint that picture, life behind bars

58 Remember the very day I got caught?

59 I murdered a rapper, and you filed the police report?

60 See what I was taught, family is all I need

61 But indeed, them too can run me right up a tree

62 Constantly talking shit bout the next relative

63 Wanting me to take sides, but I'd never give in

64 Ever since grandma died everyone parted ways

65 Argue on holidays, left my uncle in prison

66 For fifteen years no one paid, him attention but moms

67 Yeah my momma as loyal as any sister would come

68 Come to my house just to yap about your own people, dang

69 And if your blood wasn't running through my veins

70 I would probably cut y'all off, too, yep

71 [Chorus]

72 Cause every time you come around y'all be hollering that

73 whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

74 He say, she say, oh my God

75 Shut the fuck up... keep it running Ali

76 Every time you come around you be hollering that

77 whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

78 He say, she say

79 So tell 'em shut the fuck up

80 Tell 'em shut the fuck up

81 Yeah bitch you boo-boo, you T

82 You turned down, you thirsty

83 Tell 'em shut the fuck up

84 Tell 'em shut the fuck up

85 Yeah nigga you boo-boo, you T

86 You turned down, you thirsty

87 You thirsty, you boo-boo

88 You T, you turned down

89 You boo-boo, you T

90 You boo-boo, you turned down

91 You thirsty, you T

92 You boo-boo, you turned down

93 You boo-boo, you T

94 You turned down, you weak

95 You weak, yo' bitch weak

96 Yeah [laughs]

97 You boo-boo, you T [laughs]

98 Keep all that

99 [Outro:]

100 What is HiiiPoWeR?

101 HiiiPoWeR is the way we think, the way we live

102 See it's known today that the human race is nothing

103 No moral, no standards

104 What we're about to do is raise the level of expectations

105 No you don't have to have a lot of money

106 You don't have to be rich

107 But you will be rich in mind and spirit

108 Some say it's as big as a crew, some say it's as big as a gang

109 HiiiPoWeR, we stand for it as if it's as big as a religion