Kendrick Lamar, Ash Riser - Barbed Wire lyrics

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Compton, California

Have you ever felt like
Like you never get life?
Like you never did right
Sort of like a black sheep? Back down
Backing out your dreams like some bad sleep
Chasing for the wind but you
Never win the track meet
Oh, what a cold world for a broke nigga
It's bitter
And life's a bitch, don't hit women
So I bit her i struck enough pain let her
Know I wasn't playing
I was so sincere like Nas'
First name in Belly
They tell me, it's very difficult to see 25
And if I survive it's probably with a celly
My opportunities are low because
My brown complexion floats


In the ghetto rather in
Some heels like Giuseppe's
They want me unemployed
Until I hit the streets
Fulfilling voids of broke D-Boys selling weed
Fucking up my prestige
'til I live with the blues
BB King or the neighbors of Snoop
That's why I'm

In the club like fuck it, though
They say it's only one life, life, life
And if you say I can't live comfortable
I'ma tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc
With a hand full of ass
Celebrate the very day that I get past
Through the barbed wire
We are, we are (Fighters)
We are, we are (True)
Through the, through barbed (Wires)
We will, will break (Through)
So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc
With a hand full of ass
Celebrate the very day that I get past
Through the barbed wire

Have you ever felt like
Like you never get life?
Like you never did right
Sort of like a black sheep?
Tryna get away from the world's stereotype
Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny
She desperately in need of some inspiration
See what the people saying
She gon have a baby then
Flee from her education
At the age of 16, credit card scam schemes
See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality
She'll never get by, no how, no way
Welfare recipient, property of the state
Housing, Section 8, corner store prostitute
The owner bout to prosecute
The niggas tell her that she's cute
Hoodrat trashy, six baby daddies
And this baby daddy is new to the family
Chilling in pajamis, waiting on the first
Fast forward spilling drinks on her fur
That's why she

In the club like fuck it, though
They say it's only one life, life, life
And if you say she can't live comfortable
She gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
So while she up in VIP
Pouring Merlot in the glass
Celebrate the very day that she get past
Through the barbed wire
We are, we are (Fighters)
We are, we are (True)
Through the, through barbed (Wires)
We will, will break (Through)
So while she up in VIP
Pouring Merlot in the glass
Celebrate the very day that she get past
Through the barbed wire

Have you ever felt like, you finally got life
You finally got right? No
Longer a black sheep
Living off ya dreams like Christina uh-Milian
In the front seat of a
Convertible eloping to get married
What a feeling of overcoming the odds
It's like we just hit the lottery, my God
There must be a God, cause golly
You done made it through the
Fight while squabbling Ali
Now ya lifestyle's looking up and
You escaped the crooked cuffs
And you ain't have to kill a nigga
Just to make a couple bucks
And she ain't have to go and
Fuck on everybody for a dollar
Making good decisions
Got a independent business-mind
And both of y’all are steady grindin'
Doing it the legal way
Just tryna make a decent pay on
Every second of the day
But they won't give you the credit
Disses out they mouth
You must have joined the Illuminati
Just to ball out

In the club like fuck it, though
They say it's only one life, life, life
And if you say they can't live comfortable
They gone tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
So even if you overcame doubt
And ya living ain't bad
Know it's a barbed wire that's
Always in your path
Through the barbed wire (Just laugh)
Then everybody say
'Cause I won't get caught again
And I'm here to stop the trends
You can catch me if you try
Disappear into the night and I'm gone

So you made it past all the barbed wires?
There's one more left Gunshot