The Heart Pt.2 Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 [Intro: excerpt from interview with Dash Snow]

2 I'll tell you what I don't believe in, can I do that?

3 Alright, I don't believe in the, in laws, or the system by any means, whatsoever

4 I try not to obey them at any time

5 That's what I believe in, not believing in

6 (So what keeps you alive?)

7 Four big bottles of water a day, two packs of Marlboro Reds and

8 uh, what keeps me alive? Shit, um

9 Music, I have to listen to music all day long

10 I say that keeps me going

11 I'm a pretty dark person, I've thought about ending it a million times

12 and I have to say that music keeps me here, by far, the main thing

13 [Kendrick Lamar]

14 Thank you

15 Sitting in the studio thinking about which mood would go

16 right now, freestyle or write down, whatever

17 And still I come up clever, I just need to free my thoughts

18 and Lord knows that I know better, but I ain't perfect

19 I ain't seen too many churches or know them testament verses

20 You should either hear me now or go deaf

21 or end up dead, die trying and know death

22 Might end up dead, swallow blood, swallow my breath

23 Fuck a funeral, just make sure you pay my music respect nigga

24 I mean that from the bottom of my heart

25 You see my art is all I have, and victory tastes sweet

26 even when the enemy can throw salt

27 Still knock 'em out the park like a fucking tow car

28 Let bygones be bygones, but where I'm from

29 we buy guns and more guns to give to the young

30 I'm living the life of a nigga trapped nigga

31 inside the system, all you envision is trap niggas

32 My uncle doing life inside prison, he wasn't wrapped too tight

33 He told me rap about life, not rap, niggas

34 That's why I'm shaking my head when you rap dissing

35 My stomach start turning, my nerves get to twitching

36 I start evaluating, then my final intuition

37 is that you wishing a come up, would just come up

38 We used to beefing over turf, fuck beefing over a verse

39 Niggas dying, motherfuck a double entendre

40 And this is Compton, lions in the land of the triumph

41 Wrap Saran our defiance, ban our alliance

42 Put burners in the hands of the black man

43 One hood with twenty fo'-fo's like a cloned Kobe Bryant

44 You probably heard I wanna be heard and wonder who I am

45 You probably even listen to "Faith" and think I know Zion

46 But really I'm just caught in the loop of understanding the truth

47 because it seem like it's always clashing with science

48 I got a big fear of flying

49 My future so bright I'd probably go blind before I blink twice, I ain't lying

50 I swear to God half of y'all just don't know Kendrick

51 The school of hard knocks, we was the first ones in attendance

52 You walking down the block, he got shot, you wouldn't know I witnessed

53 You just mind your bidness

54 You just turn your head, kneel down, and then tie your tennises

55 It's kinda scary ain't it

56 You can't act like no bitch, that only got Tyler Perry famous

57 Just let me explain this, why you pick up that stainless?

58 Cause your pops wasn't anxious to see you when you hated him

59 so much, you probably had your burner tucked in graduation

60 Said if you see him on them bleachers then you kill him, facing

61 twenty-five to life with a murder charge

62 Your enemies was the prey, and now you pray to God

63 I pray these bars get farther than Compton

64 And if my record never break I still won't break my promise, I promise to keep it honest

65 Secret society, all we ask is trust

66 and all we lack is communication like service sucks

67 The people scared of annihilation when Kingdom Come

68 And I'm like, the Kendrick Lamar O.D. in less than a month

69 Alright? Gotta keep it pushing

70 Can't let the government tell me how my future looking

71 I'm on Rosecrans & Central trying to duck the central bookings

72 If the fucking pigs get behind me then you know I'm bucking, never will I surrender

73 I've been a warrior when I came out of my mom's placenta

74 In the gutter lane like I'm Master Splinter

75 How splendid, I guess my project had did it

76 Got all these niggas approaching their mixtapes different

77 They said seven tracks, I said fifteen

78 Called it an EP, they said I'm tripping

79 But little did they know, I'm tryna change the rules

80 that we've been confined to, so the corporate won't make decisions

81 Uppity bitches, handling bidness

82 Killing our dreams, stealing our vision

83 Out in Haiti adolescents barely have a home

84 In L.A. everybody think they fucking on

85 Hop on Twitter, perpetrate, we doing big shit

86 Who we hanging with, and bragging about the iPhone

87 I swear to God, most y'all cats just don't know Kendrick

88 You barely know yourself, so I guess most of y'all should be offended

89 Ain't doing this for my health, I'm just trying to purchase my momma them businesses

90 Occupy my time with riches, justify my time, ambition's

91 just to coincide, just to go inside, books we idolize while we living

92 Look the mastermind, took the master's mind, just the perfect time, just to mastermind

93 Just to master grind with precision, look the mastermind, took the... [coughs]

94 [Outro]

95 We would like to call this an appreciation tape

96 for those who recognized the Kendrick Lamar EP

97 For this is the Kendrick Lamar O.D.

98 Because of you, we are Overly Dedicated