Ab-Soul's Outro (feat. Ab-Soul)

Kendrick Lamar

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    What's your life about? Enlighten me
    Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
    There's fire in the street, fire in the swisher
    Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister
    Just get a sip of this elixir
    Before they crop us out the picture
    I've never seen a crop circle

    But I've cops circle the block, I puff squares
    But I swear one day I'ma stop, my nerves itch
    On the brink of my career while my peers struggle for employment
    Can you hear these screams? (Uncle Sam ain't no killing me)
    One, two, three, four grams and a fifth of hennessy
    A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary
    Section 80's babies, blame ronald reagan
    We raising hell

    Lord forbid
    The homie got wet, so we tryna soak it in
    The president is black, but you can't vote for skin
    You vote for the better man
    Come to our show, you can see the diversity
    Unify the people, they gon' peep it universally
    We might not change the world, but we gon' manipulate it
    I hope you participating
    Aiyyo dot, won't you let these cats know?
    We knew we'd be here like back in '04

    Started hiiipower because our generation needed a generator
    And the system made to disintegrate us
    And all we do is assist 'em
    We're not victors, we're victims
    The bigger picture isn't developed yet
    Like, what if kids were celibate?
    Or what is tammy came across a real man
    Who didn't play games like chil-dren?
    My nigga cheated on his girlfriend

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    With his girlfriend's girlfriend, let the world end
    And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve
    And the extraterrestrial presence as well
    (Odd future's aight) but our future's not
    That martial law shit drop, we gon' all get got
    So keep that question mark on your face
    Eat your fast-food, use your fluoride toothpaste
    Hide your feelings from the public, work your lil' nine-to-five
    Don't forget to pay your tithes, and thank God you alive (hiiipower)
    And on another note
    We focussed like the hubble telescope, 'soul

    Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam)
    Life is a traffic jam
    Life is a traffic jam
    Life is a traffic jam
    Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
    Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
    Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
    Life is a traffic jam
    Life is a traffic jam

    I wrote this because I was ordered to
    People say I speak for generation y
    Why lie? I do
    Section 80, your son will play me if radio won't
    Daughters that just turned one to twenty-one listen to kendrick
    For instance
    What's your life about? Enlighten me
    Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
    Take out that student loan and pay off your college degree
    And do exactly what you see on TV

    True story
    Hmm, can you repeat that for me 'soul?
    What's your life about? Enlighten me
    Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
    Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn?
    The time is now my child, come on
    See a lot of y'all don't understand kendrick lamar
    Because you wonder how I could talk about money
    Hoes, clothes, God and history
    All in the same sentence

    You know what all them things have in common?
    Only half of the truth if you tell it
    See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers
    Till one day I realised I had to come up with my own
    I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on inside looking out
    I'm in the dead fucking centre looking around
    You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?
    That's an analogy for the way the world make me react

    My innocence been dead
    So the next time I talk about money
    Hoes, clothes, God and history
    All in the same sentence
    Just know I meant it, and you felt it
    Cause you too are searching for answers
    I'm not the next pop star
    I'm not the next socially aware rapper
    I am a human motherfucking being
    Over dope ass instrumentation
    Kendrick lamar
    Now fuck 'em up terrace
    ('Soul!)

    I watch this fire that we're gathered around
    And see that it burns similar to the fire that burns inside you
    Section 80, section 80 babies
    A generation of bliss and disobedience
    No they can't control us, no they can't control you
    No they can't control us, but we control each other
    We build our own world
    If you don't leave with nothing else tonight
    You will leave with knowing yourself
    You will leave knowing you represent
    Something that's bigger than all of us
    Or our family
    Heart, honor and represent
    This is you, this is me, and we are hiiipower

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    Composition: Terrace Jahmal Martin and Kendrick Lamar

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