heart pt. 6 Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 Load up the Pro Tools and press three

2 Studio filled with Jack In The Box and Pepsis

3 Niggas watchin' Worldstar videos, not the ESPYs

4 Laughin' at B Pumper, stomach turnin', I get up and proceeded to write somethin'

5 Ab-Soul in the corner mumblin' raps, fumblin' packs of Black N' Milds

6 Crumblin' kush 'til he cracked a smile

7 His words legendary, wishin' I could rhyme like him

8 Studied his style to define my pen

9 That was back when the only goal was to get Jay Rock through the door

10 Warner Brother Records, hope Naim Ali would let us know

11 Was excited just to go to them label meetings

12 Wasn't my record deal, but still, I couldn't believe it

13 Me and Rock inside the booth, hibernatin'

14 It was simple math, if he made it, that mean I made it

15 Everything I had was for the team, I remained patient

16 Grindin' with my brothers, it was us against them, no one above us, bless our hearts

17 Use your heart and not your eyes

18 Baby, just relax your mind

19 If you got time and I got time (Yeah, yeah)

20 Free your thoughts and watch them fly

21 Use your heart and not your eyes (Mm)

22 My nigga Dave had a champagne Acura

23 A bunch of instrumentals I freestyled in the passenger

24 That nigga wore several hats, a producer, a manager, director, and DJ

25 A hothead squabblin', Bloods, Pirus, and Keeways

26 For this little thing of ours, we called TDE

27 I watch you take some penitentiary chances to say the least

28 Remember in the county buildin' with MixedByAli

29 We tried to freak the system just to make a couple ends meet

30 That's my nigga for shit sure

31 He brought Q over, but Q didn't rap, but he learned from our inspo

32 We split Louisiana chicken riverboat special

33 Sleepin' next to 02R consoles to be our refuge

34 He was homeless and I left home

35 Q said, "Dot, you won't be slept on, you the nigga to bet on (Use your h—)

36 Top had given us the million in the home lived in

37 Hopin' that we see some millions, God bless our hearts

38 Use your heart and not your eyes

39 Baby, just relax and ride

40 If you got time and I got time (Yeah, yeah)

41 Free your thoughts and watch them fly

42 Use your heart and not your eyes

43 Punch played Phil Jackson in my early practices

44 Strategies on how to be great amongst the averages

45 I picked his brain on what was ordained, highly collaborative

46 Ret pushed the label the same, amongst the savages

47 Moose kept my name in the function that he would run in

48 TEEZ kept the vultures away from me that was comin'

49 Sounwave let me borrow his clothes for shows as a hype man

50 To cook up in this room till the night ends

51 Time flies, I'm carryin' debates of a top five

52 Buryin' my opps and allies

53 But I'd done a half job communicatin' feelings of bein' stagnant

54 Life was gettin' bigger than just rappin'

55 The business, what I was lackin'

56 Top used to record me back when it was poor me

57 And now we at the round table for what assures me

58 I guess my motivation was the yearnin' for independence

59 Poured everything I had left in the family business

60 Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a Black exec'

61 I jogged my memory, knowin' Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me

62 Creatively, I moved on with new concepts in reach

63 Top, remember all them sessions we would strategize?

64 To hit the streets, then come back record three records? Ah

65 To tell the truth, it fucked me up when D-Man passed

66 The motive was the condolences, but the pride crashed

67 I had to bypass old mythologies I had

68 Put my heart on display like it was an iMac

69 To all my young niggas, let me be the demonstration

70 How to conduct differences with a healthy conversation

71 If that's your family, then handle it as such

72 Don't let the socials gas you up, or let emotions be your crutch

73 Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost

74 Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart

75 Use your heart and not your eyes

76 Baby, just relax your mind

77 If you got time and I got time (Yeah, yeah)

78 Free your thoughts and watch them fly

79 Use your heart and not your eyes (Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm)