DUCKWORTH. - Kendrick Lamar.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : John King/Kendrick Lamar/George Williams/JANEZ BONCINA/Paul Bender/Bill Curtis/Naomi Saalfield/Perrin Moss/Simon Mavin/Joseph W. Scott/Earl Shelton/Don D. Robey/Richard Cornwell/Johnny Flippin/Adolf Topić/Jean Matyka/Pero Ugrin
[00:00.18] 作曲 : John King/Kendrick Lamar/George Williams/JANEZ BONCINA/Paul Bender/Bill Curtis/Naomi Saalfield/Perrin Moss/Simon Mavin/Joseph W. Scott/Earl Shelton/Don D. Robey/Richard Cornwell/Johnny Flippin/Adolf Topić/Jean Matyka/Pero Ugrin
[00:00.37]It was always me versus the world
[00:06.00]Until I found it's me versus me
[00:11.16]Why why why why
[00:14.16]Why why why why
[00:17.10]Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth
[00:21.73]We gon' put it in reverse
[00:28.43]Darling I told you many times and I am telling you once again
[00:35.77]Just to remind you sweetheart that my
[00:40.25]Oh Lamar hail Mary a ********* times is hard
[00:44.15]Pray with the hooligans shadows all in the dark
[00:46.79]Fellowship with demons and relatives I'm a star
[00:49.31]God is one funny **********
[00:51.33]A true comedian you gotta love him you gotta trust him
[00:54.35]I might be buggin' infomercials and no sleep
[00:56.66]Introverted by my thoughts
[00:58.03]Children listen it gets deep
[00:59.38]See once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
[01:01.96]The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
[01:05.51]Adaptation inevitable gun violence crack spot
[01:08.20]Federal policies raid buildings and drug professionals
[01:11.13]Anthony was the oldest of seven well respected calm and collected
[01:15.64]Laughin' and joking made life easier
[01:17.75]Hard times momma on crack a four year old telling his nanny he needed her
[01:21.77]His family history pimpin' and bangin' he was meant to be dangerous
[01:25.57]Clocked him a grip and start slangin'
[01:27.45]Fifteen scrapin' up his jeans with quarter pieces
[01:30.15]Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
[01:32.18]Dodged a policeman workin' for his big homie
[01:34.39]Small time hustler graduated to a brick on him
[01:37.10]Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing
[01:39.22]That's on the daily seen his first mil twenty years old
[01:41.75]Had a couple of babies
[01:43.01]Had a couple of shooters caught a murder case
[01:45.24]Fingerprints on the gun
[01:46.46]They assumin' but witnesses couldn't prove it
[01:49.14]That was back when he turned his back and they killed his cousin
[01:51.68]He beat the case and went back to hustlin'
[01:53.65]Bird shufflin' Anthony rang
[01:55.63]The first in the projects with the two tone mustang
[01:58.29]That 5.0 thing
[01:59.73]They say 5-0 came circlin' parkin' lots and parking spots
[02:02.94]And hoppin' out while harrasing the corner blocks
[02:05.09]Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it
[02:07.39]He brushed them off and walked back to the kentucky fried chicken
[02:09.87]See at this chicken spot there was a light skinned ***** that talked a lot
[02:12.85]With a curly top and a gap in his teeth
[02:14.85]He worked the window his name was Ducky
[02:16.47]He came from the streets the robert taylor homes
[02:18.53]Southside projects chiraq the terror dome
[02:21.25]Drove to California with a woman on him and 500 dollars
[02:24.27]They had a son hoping that he'd see college
[02:26.32]Hustlin' on the side with a nine to five to freak it
[02:29.23]Cadillac seville he'd ride his son around on weekends
[02:31.95]Three piece special with his name on the shirt pocket
[02:34.65]'Cross the street from the projects Anthony planned to rob it
[02:37.54]Stuck up the place before back in '84
[02:39.72]That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war
[02:42.48]So many relatives telling us selling us devilish works
[02:45.57]Killing us crime intelligent felonious prevalent proposition with nines
[02:49.59]Ducky was well aware they robbed the manager and shot a customer last year
[02:53.62]He figured he'd get on these ****** good sides
[02:55.93]Free chicken every time Anthony posted in line
[02:58.48]Two extra biscuits Anthony liked him and then let him slide
[03:01.31]They didn't kill him in fact it look like they're the last to survive
[03:04.18]Pay attention that one decision changed both of they lives
[03:06.84]One curse at a time
[03:08.00]Reverse the manifest and good karma and I'll tell you why
[03:10.77]You take two strangers and put 'em in random predicaments
[03:13.43]Give 'em a soul so they can make their own choices and live with it
[03:16.45]Twenty years later them same strangers you make 'em meet again
[03:19.13]Inside recording studios where they reaping their benefits
[03:22.07]Then you start reminding 'bout that chicken incident
[03:24.73]Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence
[03:27.54]Because if Anthony killed Ducky top dawg could be servin' life
[03:30.22]While I grew up without a father and die in a gun fight
[03:55.07]So I was taking a walk the other day