Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul - Ab-Soul's Outro lyrics
Kendrick Lamarс [Duckworth] Compton, California, U.S. 🇺🇸
Ab-Soul [Herbert Anthony Stevens IV] Los Angeles, California, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul - Ab-Soul's Outro lyrics]
What's your life about? Enlighten me
Is you gon' live on your knees
Or die on your feet?
It's fire in the street, fire in my 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 seen 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 kin to me)
One, two, three
Four grams and a fifth of Hennessy
A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary
Section 80s babies, blame Ronald Reagan
We raising hell, hell (Oh)
Lord forbid, the homies got wet
So we trying to 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 could 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 participatin'
Ayo, 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
In a system meant to disintegrate us (O oh)
And all we do is assist them
We're not victors, we're victims
The bigger picture isn't developed yet
Like, what if Keisha was celibate?
Or what if Tammy came across a real man
Who didn't play games like children?
My nigga cheated on his girlfriend
With his girlfriend's girlfriend
Let the world end
And everybody tripping off 2012
And the extraterrestrial presence as well
(Odd Future's aight) But our future is 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're alive hiiiPower
And on another note
We focused 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, life is a traffic jam
(I'm ready to go, ready to go)
Life is a traffic jam, life is a traffic jam
(Ready to go, ready to go)
Life is a traffic jam life
I wrote this because I was ordered to
People say I speak for generation Y
Why lie? I do, Section80
Your son'll play me if radio won't
Daughters that just turn one 'til
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
'Til one day I realized I had
To come up with my own
I'm not on the outside looking in
I'm not on the inside looking out
I'm in the dead fucking center
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 motherfuckin'
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’s inside you section80
Section80 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 can 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 that
You represent something
That's bigger than all of us our family
Heart, honor, and respect this is you
This is me and we are HiiiPower
Is you gon' live on your knees
Or die on your feet?
It's fire in the street, fire in my 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 seen 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 kin to me)
One, two, three
Four grams and a fifth of Hennessy
A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary
Section 80s babies, blame Ronald Reagan
We raising hell, hell (Oh)
Lord forbid, the homies got wet
So we trying to 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 could 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 participatin'
Ayo, 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
In a system meant to disintegrate us (O oh)
And all we do is assist them
We're not victors, we're victims
The bigger picture isn't developed yet
Like, what if Keisha was celibate?
Or what if Tammy came across a real man
Who didn't play games like children?
My nigga cheated on his girlfriend
With his girlfriend's girlfriend
Let the world end
And everybody tripping off 2012
And the extraterrestrial presence as well
(Odd Future's aight) But our future is 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're alive hiiiPower
And on another note
We focused 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, life is a traffic jam
(I'm ready to go, ready to go)
Life is a traffic jam, life is a traffic jam
(Ready to go, ready to go)
Life is a traffic jam life
I wrote this because I was ordered to
People say I speak for generation Y
Why lie? I do, Section80
Your son'll play me if radio won't
Daughters that just turn one 'til
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
'Til one day I realized I had
To come up with my own
I'm not on the outside looking in
I'm not on the inside looking out
I'm in the dead fucking center
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 motherfuckin'
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’s inside you section80
Section80 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 can 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 that
You represent something
That's bigger than all of us our family
Heart, honor, and respect this is you
This is me and we are HiiiPower