Kendrick Lamar, U2 - XXX.(2017)

[00:05.41] America, God bless you if it's good to you
[00:13.65] America please take my hand
[00:21.00] Can you help me underst-
[00:23.88] New Kung Fu Kenny
[00:25.56] Throw a steak off the yacht
[00:26.98] To a pool full of sharks, he'll take it
[00:31.24] Leave him in the wilderness
[00:32.98] With a sworn nemesis, he'll make it
[00:36.82] Take the gratitude from him
[00:38.76] I bet he'll show you something, woah
[00:42.06] I'll chip a nigga little bit of nothing
[00:45.11] I'll chip a nigga little bit of nothing
[00:47.95] I'll chip a nigga little bit of nothing
[00:51.05] I'll chip a nigga then throw the blower in his lap
[00:53.83] Walk myself to the court like bitch I did that x-rated
[00:59.58] Johnny don't wanna go to school no more, no more
[01:04.94] Johnny said books ain't cool no more (no more)
[01:10.59] Johnny wanna be a rapper like his big cousin
[01:13.92] Johnny caught a body yesterday out hustlin'
[01:16.64] God bless America you know we all love him
[01:19.28] Yesterday I got a call like from my dog like 101
[01:21.85] Said they killed his only son because of insufficient funds
[01:24.83] He was sobbin', he was mobbin', way belligerent and drunk
[01:27.73] Talkin' out his head philosphing on what the lord had done
[01:30.38] He said, "K-Dot can you pray for me?
[01:32.05] It's been a fucked up day for me
[01:33.55] I know that you anointed, show me how to overcome"
[01:35.87] He was lookin' for some closure
[01:37.62] Hopin' I could bring him closer
[01:39.01] To the spiritual, my spirit do no better, but I told him
[01:41.71] "I can't sugar coat the answer for you
[01:43.54] This is how I feel—if somebody kill my son
[01:45.96] That mean somebody's gettin' killed"
[01:47.62] Tell me what you do for love, loyalty, and passion of
[01:50.22] All the memories collected, moments you could never touch
[01:52.83] I wait in front a niggas spot and watch him hit his block
[01:56.01] I'll catch a nigga leavin' service if that's all I got
[01:58.67] I'll chip a nigga then throw the blower in his lap
[02:01.52] Walk myself to the court like, "Bitch I did that"
[02:04.43] Ain't no black power when your baby killed by a coward
[02:07.13] I can't even keep the peace, don't you fuck with one of ours
[02:10.18] It be murder in the street, it be bodies in the hour
[02:12.85] Ghetto bird on the street, paramedics on the dial
[02:15.69] Let somebody touch my momma
[02:17.04] Touch my sister, touch my woman
[02:18.59] Touch my daddy, touch my niece
[02:19.77] Touch my nephew, touch my brother
[02:21.38] You should chip a nigga then throw the blower in his lap
[02:24.08] Matter fact, I'm 'bout to speak at this convention
[02:26.20] Call you back
[02:27.44] Alright kids we're gonna talk about gun control
[02:29.68] (Pray for me)
[02:30.36] Damn
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[02:41.66] It's not a place
[02:46.11] This country is to be a sound of drum and bass
[02:53.44] You close your eyes to look around
[02:57.02] Hail Mary, Jesus and Joseph
[03:00.37] The great American flag
[03:01.81] Is wrapped and dragged with explosives
[03:03.95] Compulsive disorder, sons and daughters
[03:07.08] Barricaded blocks and borders
[03:09.33] Look what you taught us
[03:11.09] It's murder on my street, w'all street, back streets
[03:14.55] Wall street, corporate offices, banks
[03:17.26] Employees and bosses with homicidal thoughts
[03:20.71] Donald Trump's in office, we lost Barack
[03:23.38] And promised to never doubt him again
[03:25.97] But is America honest or do we bask in sin?
[03:29.69] Pass the gin, I mix it with American blood
[03:33.21] Then bash him in, you crippin'ìg or you married to blood?
[03:36.80] I'll ask again—oops—accident
[03:40.52] It's nasty when you set us up
[03:43.39] Then roll the dice, then bet us up
[03:44.56] You overnight the big rifles, then tell Fox to be scared of us
[03:48.62] Gang members or terrorists, et cetera, et cetera
[03:52.13] Americas reflections of me
[03:54.65] That's what a mirror does
[03:56.20] It's not a place
[03:59.91] This country is to be a sound of drum and bass
[04:07.54] You close your eyes to look ar-
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