Institutionalized Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 What money got to do with it

2 When I don't know the full definition of a rap image?

3 I'm trapped inside the ghetto and I ain't proud to admit it

4 Institutionalized, I keep runnin' back for a visit, hol' up

5 Get it back

6 I said I'm trapped inside the ghetto and I ain't proud to admit it

7 Institutionalized, I could still kill me a nigga, so what?

8 If I was the president

9 I'd pay my mama's rent

10 Free my homies and them

11 Bulletproof my Chevy doors

12 Lay in the White House and get high, Lord

13 Who ever thought?

14 Master, take the chains off me

15 Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom

16 Zoom, zoom, zoom

17 Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom

18 Zoom, zoom, zoom

19 Shit

20 Life can be like a box of chocolate

21 Quid pro quo, somethin' for somethin', that's the obvious

22 Oh shit, flow's so sick, don't you swallow it

23 Bitin' my style, you're salmonella poison positive

24 I can just alleviate the rap industry politics

25 Milk the game up, never lactose intolerant

26 The last remainder of real shit, you know the obvious

27 Me, scholarship? No, streets put me through colleges

28 Be all you can be, true, but the problem is

29 Dream only a dream if work don't follow it

30 Remind me of the homies that used to know me, now follow this

31 I'll tell you my hypothesis, I'm probably just way too loyal

32 K Dizzle will do it for you, my niggas think I'm a god

33 Truthfully all of 'em spoiled, usually you're never charged

34 But somethin' came over you once I took you to the fuckin' BET Awards

35 You lookin' at artists' like the harvests

36 So many Rollies around you and you want all of them

37 Somebody told me you thinkin' 'bout snatchin' jewelry

38 I should've listened when my grandmama said to me

39 "Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass, nigga

40 Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass, boy

41 Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass, nigga

42 Oh now, slow down"

43 Once upon a time, in a city so divine

44 Called West Side Compton, there stood a little nigga

45 He was five foot something, God bless the kid

46 Took his homie to the show and this is what they said

47 "Fuck am I 'posed to do when I'm lookin' at walkin' licks?

48 The constant big money talk 'bout the mansion and foreign whips

49 The private jets and passport, presidential glass floor

50 Gold bottles, gold models, sniffin' up the ass for

51 Instagram flicks, suck a dick, fuck is this?

52 One more suck away from wavin' flashy wrist

53 My defense mechanism tell me to get him

54 Quickly because he got it

55 It's a recession, then why the fuck he a King of Diamonds?

56 No more livin' poor, meet my .44

57 When I see 'em, put the per diem on the floor

58 Now Kendrick, know they're your co-workers

59 But it's gon' take a lot for this pistol go cold turkey

60 Now I can watch his watch on the TV and be okay

61 But see I'm on the clock once that watch landin' in LA

62 Remember steal from the rich and givin' it back to the poor?

63 Well that's me at these awards"

64 I guess my grandmama was warnin' a boy, she said

65 "Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass, nigga

66 Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass, boy

67 Shit don't change until you get up and wash yo' ass, nigga

68 Oh now, slow down"

69 Once upon a time, in a city so divine

70 Called West Side Compton, there stood a little nigga

71 He was five foot something, dazed and confused

72 Talented but still under the neighborhood ruse

73 You can take your boy out the hood but you can't take the hood out the homie

74 Took his show money, stashed it in the mozey wozey, Hollywood's nervous

75 Fuck you, good night, thank you much for your service