Hood Politics Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 '''Schoolboy Q:'''

2 K-Dot, pick up the phone, nigga

3 Every time I call, it's going to voicemail

4 Don't tell me they got you on some weirdo rap shit, nigga

5 No socks and skinny jeans and shit, ha

6 Call me on Shaniqua's phone

7 '''Kendrick Lamar:'''

8 I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo boo

9 Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo

10 Lil hoes you went to school with, boo boo

11 Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo

12 We was in the hood, fourteen with the deuce-deuce

13 Fourteen years later going hard like we used to on the dead homies

14 On the dead homies

15 I don't give a fuck about no politics in rap, my nigga (My nigga)

16 My little homie Stunna Deuce ain't never comin' back, my nigga (My nigga)

17 So you better go hard every time you jump on wax, my nigga (My nigga)

18 Fuck what they talkin' bout, your shit is where it's at, my nigga (My nigga)

19 Came in this game, you stuck your fangs in this game

20 You wore no chain in this game your hood, your name in this game

21 Now you double up, time to bubble up the bread and huddle up

22 Stickin' to the scripts, now here if them benjamin's go cuddle up

23 Skip, hop, drip, drop, flip, flop with the white tube sock

24 It goes, "Sherm Sticks, burn this"

25 That's what the product smell like when the chemicals mix

26 Fifty nigga salute, out the Compton zoo, with the extras

27 El Cos, Monte Carlos, Road Kings and dressers

28 Rip Ridaz, P-Funkers, Mexicans, they fuck with you

29 Asians, they fuck with you, nobody can fuck with you

30 I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo boo

31 Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo

32 Lil hoes you went to school with, boo boo

33 Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo

34 We was in the hood, fourteen with the deuce-deuce

35 Fourteen years later going hard like we used to on the dead homies

36 On the dead homies

37 Hopped out the caddy, just got my dick sucked

38 The little homies called, they said, "The enemies done cliqued up"

39 Oh, yeah? Puto want to squabble with mi barrio?

40 Oh, yeah? Tell 'em they can run it for the cardio

41 Oh, yeah? Everythin' is everythin', it's scandalous

42 Slow motion for the ambulance, the project filled with cameras

43 The LAPD gamblin', scramblin', football numbers slanderin'

44 Niggas name on paper, you snitched all summer

45 Streets don't fail me now

46 They tell me it's a new gang in town

47 From Compton to Congress, set trippin' all around

48 Ain't nothin' new but a flu of new DemoCrips and ReBloodlicans

49 Red state versus a blue state, which one you governin'?

50 They give us guns and drugs, call us thugs

51 Make it they promise to fuck with you

52 No condom, they fuck with you

53 Obama say, "What it do?"

54 Obama say, "What it do?"

55 Obama say, "What it do?"

56 I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo boo

57 Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo

58 Lil hoes you went to school with, boo boo

59 Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo

60 We was in the hood, fourteen with the deuce-deuce

61 Fourteen years later going hard like we used to on the dead homies

62 On the dead homies

63 Everybody want to talk about who this and who that

64 Who the realest and who wack, or who white or who black

65 Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin'

66 Motherfucker, if you did, then Killer Mike'd be platinum

67 Y'all priorities fucked up, put energy in wrong shit

68 Hennessy and Crown Vic, my memory been gone since

69 Don't ask me 'bout no camera blocking at award shows

70 No, don't ask about my bitch, no, don't ask about my foes

71 'Less you askin' me about power, yeah, I got a lot of it

72 I'm the only nigga next to Snoop that can push the button

73 Had the Coast on standby

74 “K. Dot, what up? I heard they opened up Pandora's box”

75 I box 'em all in, by a landslide

76 Nah homie we too sensitive, it spill out to the streets

77 I make the call and get the coast involved then history repeats

78 But I resolved inside that private hall while sitting down with Jay

79 He said, "It's funny how one verse could fuck up the game"

80 I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo boo

81 I remember you was conflicted

82 Misusing your influence

83 Sometimes I did the same

84 Abusing my power full of resentment

85 Resentment that turned into a deep depression

86 Found myself screaming in a hotel room

87 I didn't want to self-destruct

88 The evils of Lucy was all around me

89 So I went running for answers

90 Until I came home

91 But that didn't stop survivors guilt

92 Going back and forth

93 Trying to convince myself the stripes I earned

94 Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was

95 But while my loved ones was fighting

96 A continuous war back in the city

97 I was entering a new one