[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
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Smoke good, eat good, live good [4X]
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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I used to want to see the penitentiary, way after elementary
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Thought it was cool to look the judge in the face when he sentenced me
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Since my uncles was institutionalised
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my intuition has said I was suited for family ties
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My mama is stressing, my daddy tired
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I need me a weapon, these niggas ride
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every minute, hour and second, ministers tried
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to save me, how I'm gon' listen when I don't even hear God?
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Heaven or Hell, base it all on my instincts
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My hands dirty, you worried bout mud in your sink
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You like to mistake a street nigga for real nigga
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That same nigga that kill with ya squeal with ya
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I deal with ya like my son, stare at the sun
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and you'll be looking in my eyes homie
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Stand for something or fall for anything
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and you working with two left feet at the skating rink
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But anyway, this for my niggas
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Uncles, twenty-three hours sending me pictures
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I want you to know that I'm so determined to blow
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that you hear the music I wrote, hope it get you off death row
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You came home to a pocket full of stones
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A MetroPC' phone, then you went back in
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So when I touch the pen, the pen is in my view
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I'ma get it right just so you
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[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
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Smoke good, eat good, live good [5X]
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[GLC]
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And I do this for the city
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Got some Hennessy and my real niggas with me
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Fuck the police, they gon' have to come and get me
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If it feel good to ya, holler if you hear me
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yourself
wrote
worried
world
working
worked
witness
windy
weapon
wealth
using
twenty
three
thought
those
think
talking
under
supply
suited
streets
stand
wanna
start
squeal
spiritual
skating
since
shoes
sending
second
wealthy
torso
rotating
worry
rotate
right
parking
grams
heaven
critical
individuals
minute
expand
gonna
deserved
mistake
enormous
elementary
anything
stones
eating
develop
speakers
depend
getting
daddy
cathedral
touch
apply
bottom
police
before
about
doing
listen
living
build
outro
heard
after
hennessy
every
stare
gotta
criminals
tried
chorus
dirty
compton
church
radio
curve
holler
uncles
determined
cordial
while
simplest
continue
definitely
music
homie
hustle
vision
instincts
split
anyway
niggas
dollar
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