Ignorance Is Bliss Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 Lord forgive me

2 [Verse 1:]

3 Kill him where he stand or stand over him shake his hand

4 Then jump back in that mini van, double back to his block

5 And blam I ain't backing down for nothing

6 I'm a back em down like Shaq with this black 2-2-3 in my hand

7 Better pray that this chopper jam, like a radio single, man

8 Police radio signals sayin' that a 187 land on your corner,

9 Coroners comfort your mama, mama he's dead,

10 The next morning high toasted up with my homies

11 We drink and smoke marijuana, want us to change our ways? Uh-huh

12 You see this game we play come from uncles that raised me in Compton

13 Ask me what I have accomplished

14 I don't know I don't have conscience

15 I just load up and start dumpin' on enemies I'm head hunting

16 No sympathy, ain't no love when you in these streets just get something

17 Protect ya neck cause they comin' for set respects split your onion

18 Then chop your deck your head tumblin' like gymnastics

19 Cause ignorance is bliss

20 [Verse 2:]

21 This the hardest shit you've heard from LA this far

22 And I'm this far, from a discharge but never will I dish off

23 We all tryna ball and when I got the rock I'll dish off

24 Until the day I pistol whip you posers till ya'll pissed off

25 Then peel off, in a hooptie

26 Come back and make these niggas wanna shoot me

27 And they bitches wanna salute me or seduce me

28 Indubitably I'm too street

29 Indubitably I'm a do me

30 Better than your bitch would

31 But you niggas too weak, but just give me 2 weeks

32 And I'm good

33 I'll make an album that'll put a smile on Malcolm

34 Make Martin Luther tell God I'm the future for Heaven's talent

35 No tarot card reading I'm foreseeing you niggas vanish

36 Not only from the rap game, I'm including the planet

37 Cats so watered down clowns can sink Titanic

38 Tie titanium around their neck and watch em panic

39 Give me respect, dammit, or get damaged

40 Die young, corpse identified by your parents

41 Apparently you a parrot

42 Mocking me and my blueprint

43 But I won't share it just make you cop it then call you a sheriff

44 Stop it, I'm hearin' the comments

45 The critics are calling me conscious

46 But truthfully, every shooter be callin' me Compton

47 So truthfully, only calling me Kweli and Common?

48 Proves, that ignorance is bliss

49 [Verse 3:]

50 And this still the hardest shit you've heard from LA this far

51 And I'm this far, from a discharge but never will I dish off

52 This my world, I grab the universe then play kickball

53 And they wonder why these California earthquakes hit so hard

54 I'm so-Cal, you so called

55 Rappers need to go call

56 Ghostbusters to shoot busters I'm Casper when I go off

57 I show up, to show out to show off

58 You a hundred percent behind me

59 And if you hard then wreck your car and walk up to my crime scene

60 I remember being 17 wishing someone would sign me

61 Now the only way these labels get me back is when they rewind me

62 Backin' down boggins

63 Backin' down bitches

64 We gon' flip her once she off that blue dolphin

65 You gon' tip her

66 Cause ignorance is bliss

67 And Willy B I'm a fool on yo beats, I bleed out the speaker

68 As the speaker that spoke when they done speak