R.O.T.C. (Interlude) Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 [Kendrick Lamar]

2 This is me thinking at 4:43 AM, June 6

3 Sometimes I wanna say fuck rapping, I need money now

4 like should I start trapping? If what I write down

5 don't connect this very moment, then I'm on it, no question

6 In the streets my niggas is well connected, let's see

7 Do I cop a pound of kush, Promethazine or push some E?

8 Oxycontin have laying on soft cotton when I sleep?

9 This is deep as the abyss, I'm not just rhyming on the beat

10 I be in spots chopping the rocks like flintstone feet

11 This is me frustrated, battling my own evils

12 Finna saddle up that work, across Ohio in a Geo

13 Or should I sell my music .zip to buy your zip

14 and hope one day it flourish to a kilo, track record of a hustler

15 Rather records on the needle, making music

16 Clocking fast bank like a shot from Patrick Ewing

17 My nigga, what you doing on these corners with me?

18 "I thought you had a show?" Well I guess my nigga, I didn't

19 I'm tryna get this dough and easy money sounds tempting

20 Especially when your homies pushing V8 hinges

21 Twenty-two on twenty-sixes, Range Rovers rolling up

22 Three-fifty for an ounce of fire, I hope I got enough

23 This industry calling my bluff, I need a new solution

24 Curve-serving, know I might be in your store boosting

25 two-elevens with MAC-11s like fuck Hip Hop

26 Don't wanna be Pun, don't wanna be B.I.G., don't wanna be 'Pac

27 Just give me your funds, A.K.A. everything that you got

28 or everything getting shot, for nothing

29 Leave you in shock, coughing up blood and mumbling

30 Watch, the plans of a young man sponsor

31 Moving grams like relocating your mom's momma

32 Then expand to the Hoover dam, water

33 Sherm, contraband, they yearn for the butt-naked

34 Fuck a verse, verses get let off in thirty minutes, six seconds

35 I disperse to the world of unruly, where I put the mic down

36 and pick up a sack and a toolie, if you knew me

37 you'll know I always had a passion for riddle when writing

38 But lately I've been thinking bout taking chances to brighten

39 my future financially, so please don't be mad at me

40 I gotta do what I gotta do, no shit

41 So I tell my nigga front me, let me put it on the strip

42 Then give it back when I think about the consequence, shit

43 [BJ the Chicago Kid]

44 There are times, when you need someone

45 I will be by your side

46 Oh darling, cause there is a light that shines

47 special for you, and me yeah

48 I-take-I-take-take my chances-chances-chances

49 before they pass, they pass, they pass

50 Pass me by, oh darling

51 You've got to look at the other side

52 [Kendrick Lamar]

53 R.O.T.C., or Right On Time Conscience