DNA. Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 I got, I got, I got, I got

2 Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA

3 Cocaine quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DNA

4 I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA

5 I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DNA

6 I was born like this, since one like this

7 Immaculate conception

8 I transform like this, perform like this

9 Was Yeshua's new weapon

10 I don't contemplate, I meditate, then off your fucking head

11 This that put-the-kids-to-bed

12 This that I got, I got, I got, I got

13 Realness, I just kill shit 'cause it's in my DNA

14 I got millions, I got riches buildin' in my DNA

15 I got dark, I got evil, that rot inside my DNA

16 I got off, I got troublesome, heart inside my DNA

17 I just win again, then win again like Wimbledon, I serve

18 Yeah, that's him again, the sound that engine in is like a bird

19 You see fireworks and Corvette tire skrrt the boulevard

20 I know how you work, I know just who you are

21 See, you's a, you's a, you's a—

22 Bitch, your hormones prolly switch inside your DNA

23 Problem is, all that sucker shit inside your DNA

24 Daddy prolly snitched, heritage inside your DNA

25 Backbone don't exist, born outside a jellyfish, I gauge

26 See, my pedigree most definitely don't tolerate the front

27 Shit I've been through prolly offend you

28 This is Paula's oldest son

29 I know murder, conviction

30 Burners, boosters, burglars, ballers, dead, redemption

31 Scholars, fathers dead with kids

32 And I wish I was fed forgiveness

33 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, soldier's DNA

34 Born inside the beast

35 My expertise checked out in second grade

36 When I was 9, on cell, motel, we didn't have nowhere to stay

37 At 29, I've done so well, hit cartwheel in my estate

38 And I'm gon' shine like I'm supposed to

39 Antisocial, extrovert

40 And excellent mean the extra work

41 And absentness what the fuck you heard

42 And pessimists never struck my nerve

43 And that's a riff, gonna plead this case

44 The reason my power's here on earth

45 Salute the truth, when the prophet say

46 I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA

47 This is why I say that hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years

48 I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA

49 I live a better life, I'm rollin' several dice, fuck your life

50 I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA

51 I live a better, fuck your life

52 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

53 This is my heritage, all I'm inheritin'

54 Money and power, the makin' of marriages

55 Tell me somethin'

56 You mothafuckas can't tell me nothin'

57 I'd rather die than to listen to you

58 My DNA not for imitation

59 Your DNA an abomination

60 This how it is when you're in the Matrix

61 Dodgin' bullets, reapin' what you sow

62 And stackin' up the footage, livin' on the go

63 And sleepin' in a villa

64 Sippin' from a Grammy and walkin' in the buildin'

65 Diamond in the ceilin', marble on the floors

66 Beach inside the window, peekin' out the window

67 Baby in the pool, godfather goals

68 Only Lord knows, I've been goin' hammer

69 Dodgin' paparazzi, freakin' through the cameras

70 Eat at Four Daughters, Brock wearin' sandals

71 Yoga on a Monday, stretchin' to Nirvana

72 Watchin' all the snakes, curvin' all the fakes

73 Phone never on, I don't conversate

74 I don't compromise, I just penetrate

75 Sex, money, murder—these are the breaks

76 These are the times, level number 9

77 Look up in the sky, 10 is on the way

78 Sentence on the way, killings on the way

79 Motherfucker, I got winners on the way

80 You ain't shit without a body on your belt

81 You ain't shit without a ticket on your plate

82 You ain't sick enough to pull it on yourself

83 You ain't rich enough to hit the lot and skate

84 Tell me when destruction gonna be my fate

85 Gonna be your fate, gonna be our faith

86 Peace to the world, let it rotate

87 Sex, money, murder—our DNA