歌词
作词 : Kendrick Lamar/9th Wonder/Nai Palm/Paul Bender/Perrin Moss/Simon Mavin/Hiatus Kaiyote/The Fatback Band/Bill Curtis/John King/Johnny Flippin/George Williams/Earl Shelton/Richard Cornwell/Joseph Scott/Don D. Robey/Jean Matyka/September/Dado Topic/Janez Boncina Benc/Pero Ugrin
作曲 : Kendrick Lamar/9th Wonder/Nai Palm/Paul Bender/Perrin Moss/Simon Mavin/Hiatus Kaiyote/The Fatback Band/Bill Curtis/John King/Johnny Flippin/George Williams/Earl Shelton/Richard Cornwell/Joseph Scott/Don D. Robey/Jean Matyka/September/Dado Topic/Janez Boncina Benc/Pero Urgin
编曲 : 9th Wonder/Bekon
制作人 : 9th Wonder/Bekon
It was always me versus the world
Until I found it's me versus me
Why why why why
Why why why why
Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth
We gon' put it in reverse
Darling I told you many times and I am telling you once again
Just to remind you sweetheart that my
Oh Lamar hail Mary a ****in' times is hard
Pray with the hooligans shadows all in the dark
Fellowship with demons and relatives I'm a star
Life is one funny mother****er
A true comedian you gotta love him you gotta trust him
I might be buggin' infomercials and no sleep
Introverted by my thoughts
Children listen it gets deep
See once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
Adaptation inevitable gun violence crack spot
Federal policies raid buildings and drug professionals
Anthony was the oldest of seven well respected calm and collected
Laughin' and joking made life easier
Hard times momma on crack a four year old telling his nanny he needed her
His family history pimpin' and bangin' he was meant to be dangerous
Clocked him a grip and start slangin'
Fifteen scrapin' up his jeans with quarter pieces
Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
Dodged a policeman workin' for his big homie
Small time hustler graduated to a brick on him
Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing
That's on the daily seen his first mil twenty years old
Had a couple of babies
Had a couple of shooters caught a murder case
Fingerprints on the gun
They assumin' but witnesses couldn't prove it
That was back when he turned his back and they killed his cousin
He beat the case and went back to hustlin'
Bird shufflin' Anthony rang
The first in the projects with the two tone mustang
That 5.0 thing
They say 5-0 came circlin' parkin' lots and parking spots
And hoppin' out while harrasing the corner blocks
Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it
He brushed them off and walked back to the kentucky fried chicken
See at this chicken spot there was a light skinned mother****er that talked a lot
With a curly top and a gap in his teeth
He worked the window his name was Ducky
He came from the streets the robert taylor homes
Southside projects chiraq the terror dome
Drove to California with a woman on him and 500 dollars
They had a son hoping that he'd see college
Hustlin' on the side with a nine to five to freak it
Cadillac seville he'd ride his son around on weekends
Three piece special with his name on the shirt pocket
'Cross the street from the projects Anthony planned to rob it
Stuck up the place before back in '84
That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war
So many relatives telling us selling us devilish works
Killing us crime intelligent felonious prevalent proposition with nines
Ducky was well aware they robbed the manager and shot a customer last year
He figured he'd get on these niggas good sides
Free chicken every time Anthony posted in line
Two extra biscuits Anthony liked him and then let him slide
They didn't kill him in fact it look like they're the last to survive
Pay attention that one decision changed both of they lives
One curse at a time
Reverse the manifest and good karma and I'll tell you why
You take two strangers and put 'em in random predicaments
Give 'em a soul so they can make their own choices and live with it
Twenty years later them same strangers you make 'em meet again
Inside recording studios where they reaping their benefits
Then you start reminding 'bout that chicken incident
Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence
Because if Anthony killed Ducky top dawg could be servin' life
While I grew up without a father and die in a gun fight
So I was taking a walk the other day