[00:00.00]m.A.A.d city (Explicit) - Kendrick Lamar/MC Eiht [00:00.12]Lyrics by:Kendrick Lamar/M. Spears/Ricci Riera/Axel Morgan/A. Tyler [00:00.24]Composed by:Kendrick Lamar/M. Spears/Ricci Riera/Axel Morgan/A. Tyler [00:00.37]Kendrick Lamar/ScHoolboy Q: [00:00.45]If Pirus and Crips all got along [00:03.47]They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song [00:06.63]Seem like the whole city go against me [00:09.60]Every time I'm in the street I hear [00:11.43]Yawk yawk yawk yawk [00:12.53]Kendrick Lamar: [00:13.02]Man down where you from n***a [00:16.50]F**k who you know where you from my n***a [00:19.62]Where your grandma stay huh my n***a [00:22.67]This m.A.A.d city I run my n***a [00:26.07]Brace yourself I'll take you on a trip down memory lane [00:28.96]This is not a rap on how I'm slingin' crack or move c*****e [00:32.00]This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major pain [00:35.24]Not the drill sergeant but the stress that weighin' on your brain [00:38.45]It was me L Boog and Yan Yan YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans [00:41.59]It got ugly wavin' yo' hand out the window check yourself [00:44.74]Uh Warriors and Conans hope euphoria can slow dance [00:48.21]With society the driver seat the first one to get killed [00:51.52]Seen a light-skinned n***a with his brains blown out [00:54.85]At the same burger stand where hang out [00:58.00]Now this is not a tape recorder sayin' that he did it [01:01.07]But ever since that day I was lookin' at him different [01:04.12]That was back when I was nine Joey packed the nine [01:07.03]Pakistan on every porch is fine we adapt to crime [01:10.22]Pack a van with four guns at a time [01:12.10]With the sliding door f**k is up [01:14.18]F**k you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up you f**kin' punk [01:17.27]Pickin' up the f**kin' pump pickin' off you suckers [01:20.20]Suck a d**k or die or sucker punch [01:22.06]A wall of bullets comin' from AK's AR's "Ayy y'all duck" [01:27.00]That's what Momma said when we was eatin' that free lunch [01:30.02]Aw man godd**n all hell broke loose [01:33.18]You killed my cousin back in '94 f**k yo' truce [01:36.25]Now crawl your head in that noose [01:37.84]You wind up dead on the news [01:39.29]Ain't no peace treaty just piecin' BGs up to pre-approve [01:42.65]Bodies on top of bodies IVs on top of IVs [01:45.93]Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys [01:49.21]When you hop on that trolley make sure your color's correct [01:52.29]Make sure you're corporate or they'll be callin' your mother collect [01:55.50]They say the governor collect all of our taxes except [01:58.65]When we in traffic and tragic happens that s**t ain't no threat [02:01.98]You movin' backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a TEC [02:05.18]Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial I guess [02:08.37]M.A.A.d. city [02:08.96]Man down where you from n***a [02:12.37]F**k who you know where you from my n***a [02:15.44]Where your grandma stay huh my n***a [02:18.65]This m.A.A.d city I run my n***a [02:20.63]Kendrick Lamar/ScHoolboy Q: [02:22.00]If Pirus and Crips all got along [02:24.88]They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song [02:28.18]Seem like the whole city go against me [02:31.25]Every time I'm in the street I hear [02:33.15]Yawk yawk yawk [02:33.96]MC Eiht: [02:37.30]Wake yo' punk-a*s up [02:40.03]It ain't nothin' but a Compton thang [02:41.72]G-yeah real simple and plain [02:45.40]Let me teach you some lessons about the street [02:48.59]Smoke somethin' n***a [02:48.94]Hood [02:50.03]'Sup Cuz [02:50.95]It ain't nothin' but a Compton thang [02:53.40]G-yeah how we do [02:55.06]Kendrick Lamar: [02:56.20]Fresh outta school 'cause I was a high school grad' [02:58.68]Sleepin' in the living room of my momma's pad [03:01.37]Reality struck I seen the white car crash [03:03.75]Hit the light pole two n***as hopped out on foot and dashed [03:06.50]My pops said I needed a job I thought I believed him [03:08.94]Security guard for a month and ended up leavin' [03:11.46]In fact I got fired 'cause I was inspired by all of my friends [03:14.59]To stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in [03:17.81]Projects tore up gang signs get thrown up [03:21.31]C*****e laced in m*******a [03:23.38]And they wonder why I rarely smoke now [03:25.41]Imagine if your first blunt had you foamin' at the mouth [03:28.06]I was straight tweakin' the next weekend we broke even [03:30.68]I made allegiance that made a promise to see you bleedin' [03:33.41]You know the reasons but still will never know my life [03:35.99]Kendrick a.k.a. "Compton's Human Sacrifice" [03:37.90]MC Eiht: [03:38.62]G-yeah c*****e w**d [03:42.99]N***as been mixin' s**t since the '80s loc [03:45.63]Sherm sticks butt-nakeds [03:47.59]Dip make a n***a flip [03:50.68]Cluck heads all up and down the block and s**t [03:53.45]One time's crooked and s**t [03:55.27]Block a n***a in [03:56.25]Alondra Rosecrans Bullis it's Compton [03:59.37]I'm still in the hood loc yeah that's cool [04:01.59]S**t the hood took me under so I follow the rules [04:04.22]But yeah that's like me I grew up in the hood where they bang [04:07.50]And n***as that rep colors is doin' the same thang [04:10.27]Pass it to the left so I can smoke on me [04:12.75]A couple drive-bys in the hood lately s**t [04:15.81]Couple of IV's with the f**kin' spray-can [04:18.04]Shots in the crowd then everybody ran [04:20.99]Crew I'm finna slay the street life I crave [04:23.52]Shots hit the enemy hearts turn brave [04:26.67]Mount up regulators in the whip [04:28.63]Down the boulevard with the pistol grip yeah [04:31.91]Trip we in the hood still [04:34.00]So loc grab a strap 'cause yeah it's so real yeah [04:36.77]Deal with the outcome a strap in the hand [04:39.18]And a bird and ten grand's where a mothaf**ka stand [04:41.23]Kendrick Lamar: [04:41.95]If I told you I killed a n***a at sixteen would you believe me [04:45.12]Or see me to be innocent Kendrick you seen in the street [04:47.86]With a basketball and some Now and Laters to eat [04:50.10]If I mentioned all of my skeletons would you jump in the seat [04:52.47]Would you say my intelligence now is great relief [04:54.95]And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep [04:57.72]With dreams of bein' a lawyer or doctor [04:59.63]Instead of boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage [05:02.56]Kill 'em all if they gossip [05:03.56]The Children of the Corn they vandalizin' the option [05:06.05]Of livin' a lie drown their body with toxins [05:08.24]Constantly drinkin' and drive [05:09.64]Hit the powder then watch this flame that arrive in his eye [05:12.31]Listen coward the concept is aim and then bang it and slide [05:14.92]Out that b***h with deposit a price on his head the tithes [05:17.87]Probably go to the projects I [05:19.87]Live inside the belly of the rough Compton USA [05:22.74]Made me an Angel on Angel Dust what [05:25.81]M.A.A.d city [05:29.31]Compton [05:35.75]N***a pass Dot the bottle d**n [05:38.05]You ain't the one that got f**ked up [05:39.69]What you holdin' it for [05:41.48]N***as always actin' unsensitive and s**t [05:43.27]N***a that ain't no word [05:44.54]N***a shut up [05:45.87]Hey Dot you good my n***a [05:47.58]Don't even trip [05:48.95]Just lay back and drink that