M.A.A.D City Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 '''Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q:'''

2 If Pirus and Crips all got along

3 They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song

4 Seem like the whole city go against me

5 Every time I'm in the street I hear

6 "Yawk, yawk, yawk, yawk"

7 '''Kendrick Lamar:'''

8 Man down, where you from, nigga?

9 Fuck who you know, where you from, my nigga?

10 Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?

11 This m.A.A.d city I run, my nigga

12 Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane

13 This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or move cocaine

14 This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major pain

15 Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain

16 It was Me, L Boogs and Yan Yan, YG, Lucky ride down Rosecrans

17 It got ugly, waving your hand out the window, check yourself, uh

18 Warriors and Conans, hope euphoria can slow dance

19 With society, the driver seat the first one to get killed

20 Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out

21 At the same burger stand where hang out

22 Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it

23 But ever since that day, I was looking at him different

24 That was back when I was nine, Joey packed the nine

25 Pakistan on every porch is fine, we adapt to crime

26 Pack a van with four guns at a time, with the sliding door, fuck is up?

27 Fuck you shooting for if you ain't walking up, you fucking punk?

28 Picking up the fucking pump, picking off you suckers

29 Suck a dick or die or sucker punch, a wall of bullets coming from

30 AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all, duck"

31 That's what mama said when we was eating the free lunch

32 Aw man, goddamn, all hell broke loose

33 You killed my cousin back in '94, fuck your truce

34 Now crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the news

35 Ain't no peace treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approve

36 Bodies on top of bodies, IV's on top of IV's

37 Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys

38 When you hop on that trolley, make sure your colors correct

39 Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect

40 They say the governor collect, all of our taxes except

41 When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat

42 You moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a tec

43 Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess, m.A.A.d city

44 Man down, where you from, nigga?

45 Fuck who you know, where you from, my nigga?

46 Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?

47 This m.A.A.d city I run, my nigga

48 '''Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q:'''

49 If Pirus and Crips all got along

50 They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song

51 Seem like the whole city go against me

52 Every time I'm in the street I hear

53 "Yawk, yawk, yawk"

54 '''MC Eiht:'''

55 Wake your punk ass up

56 It ain't nothing but a Compton thang, G-yeah

57 Real simple and plain, I'mma teach you some lessons about the street

58 It ain't nothing but a Compton thang, G-yeah

59 How we do?

60 '''Kendrick Lamar:'''

61 Fresh outta school 'cause I was a high school grad

62 Sleeping in the living room in my mama's pad

63 Reality struck I seen the white car crash

64 Hit the light pole two niggas hopped out on foot and dashed

65 My pops said I needed a job, I thought I believed him

66 Security guard for a month and ended up leaving

67 In fact I got fired 'cause I was inspired by all of my friends

68 To stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in

69 Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up

70 Cocaine laced in marijuana

71 And they wonder why I rarely smoke now

72 Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth

73 I was straight tweaking the next weekend, we broke even

74 I made allegiance that made a promise to see you bleeding

75 You know the reasons but still won't ever know my life

76 Kendrick AKA Compton's human sacrifice

77 '''MC Eiht:'''

78 G-yeah

79 Cocaine, weed

80 Niggas been mixing shit since the eighties, loc

81 Sherm sticks, butt nakeds

82 Dip, make a nigga flip

83 Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit

84 One time's crooked and shit

85 Block a nigga in

86 Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis, it's Compton

87 I'm still in the hood, loc, yeah, that's cool

88 The hood took me under so I follow the rules

89 But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood where they bang

90 And niggas that rep colors is doing the same thang

91 Pass it to the left so I can smoke on me

92 A couple drive-by's in the hood lately

93 Couple of IV's with the fucking spray can

94 Shots in the crowd then everybody ran

95 Crew I'm finna slay, the street life I crave

96 Shots hit the enemy, hearts turn brave

97 Mount up, regulators in the whip

98 Down the boulevard with the pistol grip

99 Trip, we in the hood still

100 So loc, grab a strap 'cause yeah, it's so real

101 Deal with the outcome, a strap in the hand

102 And a bird and ten grands where a motherfucker stand

103 '''Kendrick Lamar:'''

104 If I told you I killed a nigga at sixteen, would you believe me?

105 Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the street

106 With a basketball and some Now and Laters to eat

107 If I mentioned all of my skeletons, would you jump in the seat?

108 Would you say my intelligence now is great relief?

109 And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep

110 With dreams of being a lawyer or doctor, instead of boy with a chopper

111 That hold the cul-de-sac hostage, kill 'em all if they gossip

112 The Children of the Corn, they vandalizing

113 The option of living a lie, drown their body with toxins

114 Constantly drinking and drive, hit the powder then watch this flame

115 That arrive in his eye, listen coward, the concept is aim

116 And they bang it and slide out that bitch with deposits

117 A price on his head, the tithes probably go to the projects

118 I live inside the belly of the rough

119 Compton, USA made Me an Angel on Angel Dust, what

120 m.A.A.d city

121 Compton

122 ''Nigga, pass Dot the bottle, damn

123 You ain't the one that got fucked up, what you holding it for?

124 Niggas always acting unsensitive and shit

125 (Nigga, that ain't no word)

126 Nigga, shut up

127 Hey, Dot, you good, my nigga?

128 Don't even trip, just lay back and drink that''