The Heart Pt. 3 Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 One, two, one, two, one two, ch-ch-ch-ch

2 Mm

3 Nah, one, two, one, two, one two

4 One, two

5 Turn the headphones up, Ali

6 One, two

7 You mix with Dre, right?

8 Turn the headphones up

9 When the whole world see you as 'Pac reincarnated

10 That's enough pressure to live your whole life sedated

11 Find the tallest building in Vegas and jump off it

12 But I could never rewrite history in a coffin

13 So I'm talking to God, "Can you wash all these demons off me?"

14 This last year been quite similar to Aaliyah

15 Controlled my own destiny, only rapper that steered a G5

16 G's give high-fives to me and say, "Kendrick, just persevere"

17 The presence of being real

18 As I lay in this four-corner room, staring at candles

19 Thinking, "How can I make an example for this generation of Compton?"

20 My biggest fear is not feeling accomplished or turning back to that same accomplice

21 My past life was a child with no act-right tryna smile in a room of killers, turn into a crash site

22 Influenced by niggas that spoke the gang culture fluent

23 Assuring that some blossom early and some truant

24 Thank God for the album I idolized

25 "It's Dark and Plus Hell is Hot", that's the start of this crazy ride

26 Two young niggas, me and Dave inside the garage

27 That thought we was Jay and Dame, that's the lane that we tried to drive

28 Truthfully, I just started rappin' to get away

29 I never thought that your favorite rapper would want a verse

30 My nigga got hit 25 times with a K

31 Make the decision, ride the beat or ride in a hearse

32 Now Punch is my mentor, Top Dawg is the coach

33 Jay Rock is my older brother, I was there when he wrote

34 His name on his record deal, we had figured the coast

35 Would live on a pedestal once the shit hit the store

36 Found ourselves scrambling, tryna figure it out

37 Soul told me that the record shop 'bout to go in a drought

38 Q ain't got a place to stay and 'bout to sleep on the couch

39 We eating off each other tray, the dollar-menu amount

40 Meanwhile, the coast going hard at each other

41 The younger rappers had wanted some of the OGs' comfort, but I ain't need it

42 I never screamed out "The New West", I didn't believe it

43 They brung each other down, I was planning out my achievements, huh

44 I need to separate myself to stand out, huh

45 I need a better way to take your fans now, huh

46 I need to kill you motherfuckers dead

47 Three hollow-tips aimed at your head

48 I'll be damned if the chopper jam now

49 And we never asked for no handout

50 In the midst of it all, I recall a call when you said how

51 We could never resolve in the Hall of Fame, and I went to trial

52 With a Bible and rifle, I play the game as I "blam-blaow!"

53 Holler back at me, nigga

54 And if they said that I'm the one, why you asking me, nigga?

55 'Cause when the whole world see you as 'Pac reincarnated

56 Enough pressure to make you just open the Book of David

57 And pray to God that you make it or live your life in The Matrix

58 'Cause falling off is a sickness, I heard that it's quite contagious

59 I need to separate myself to stand out, huh

60 I need a better way to take your fans now, huh

61 I need to kill you motherfuckers dead

62 Three hollow-tips aimed at your head

63 I'll be damned if the chopper jam now

64 And we never ask for no handouts

65 I'll take you back to that pack of Black & Milds in my hand now (Soul)

66 In the midst of it all, was cooking, them pots and pans out

67 Looking forward as four was forced to form a new clan now

68 Fast-forward as I wait in line for this passport

69 The homies was still poor, with work in a Jansport (ugh)

70 Whoever thought that Rosenberg would mention me to Dre?

71 Even Vanessa from XXL had told him press play

72 And there goes my fate, now, I'm on stage with Snoop

73 Gave me the torch and I ran with it in hot pursuit

74 Rapped with my forefathers, even wreck it with Gaga, too

75 Lyricist of the year, fuck am I 'posed to do? Rock!

76 Laughing at you niggas out there who thought we was flukes

77 Exaggerated shit that we rapped had came true

78 Thought I was aggravated when Warner had let me loose

79 I was honored, see, they was haunted when Mike Jones didn't recoup

80 Cool, 'cause niggas won't outdo us in the booth

81 Even when my album leak, fans still buy it for proof

82 I came, I saw, I conquered

83 No shame, I blame all of this on Compton

84 Thinking 'bout when Sherane tried to set me up

85 Cold game, full circle, they set up her

86 I put my life in these 12 songs, my fight in these 12 songs

87 The fight to ignite any wrong and right that I prolong

88 The story, the short film, the glory of Him and them

89 The worry of mothers that don't recover when babies killed

90 The trial and the tribulations, the newer Miseducation

91 The view of a body wasted, you knew somebody ain't make it

92 The angry, the adolescent, the reason I ask this question

93 Will you let hip-hop die on October 22nd?

94 Will you let hip-hop die on October 22nd?