Kendrick Lamar - County Building Blues lyrics
[Kendrick Lamar - County Building Blues lyrics]
Greeting boys and girls
(Greetings boys and girls)
My name is Petey P (My name is Petey P)
Kendrick's childhood imaginary friend
(That’s right, that's right, that's right)
I am your neighbor (I am your neighbor)
And I’d like to welcome you to good kid
MAAd city (good kid, mAAd city)
So grab your cartoons and cereal (And sing)
Your pop guns and fireworks (And sing)
And sing along (Along)
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah sing along kids, sing along
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah
Kendrick, you remember that one
Time when we was
I’ve been waiting on this day
Since Dr dre and Pac
Was on Rosecrans in that burger stand at '95
People staring at 'em in amazement
Reservations at the Days Inn
We was living out a hotel at the time
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Chicken from Kentucky Fried
Mama babysitting Section 8 vouchers the move
When nothing else to lose but
A burger flipping job
Close my eyes inside the swap meet
And imagine it's a mansion
Gold ballroom, AK-47 dancin'
Howling at the moon
What’s a pack of hungry babies?
Hope you feed us soon, bite your back
You die of rabies everyday we pray to eat at
The table at Sizzlers
But never make the visit
If better days was on it's way
Then they make the decision
To make the wrong turn
So for now we heat this skillet
So this canned food can burn
Oh yeah, I remember that, it- it was the
Ravioli with the hot sauce in it, right?
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million am I right?
Spend it all in front of the county building
Oh!
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah don't forget to sing along by the way
Sing along when we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah
And all the ghetto children in the world say
"that’s my car" (Aye, oh)
All the ghetto boys say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
All the ghetto girls say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
When we grow up, when we grow up (Aye, oh)
Ghetto children in the world say
"that’s my car" (Aye, oh)
All the ghetto boys say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
All the ghetto girls say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
When we grow up, when we grow up (Aye, oh)
Nigga you remember the smoke and
The burning buildings and shit?
Couple stolen TV's and a seat
Belt for my safety (Uh, huh)
Played the passenger I think it’s
Five years after eighty (yeah, yeah that)
Seven, do the math, ‘92, don’t you be lazy
(I won't) looking out the window
Notice all the essentials
Of a block party that stop for a second
Then it rekindle
Like a flame from a trick candle
Everybody got dental
Insurance ‘cause we ‘bout to floss
You get that couch I sent you?
I heard that from a block away
Probably had credentials
Of a scholar but, shit, not today
Them Dayton Spokes was his to take
Refrigerators, barbecue pit's
And Jordan kicks they did invasions while
Helicopters recorded it
Hello Mi-Mister Miyagi
I want them Kenwood woofers
Say that you got me, if not
I’ll dig in your drawer for it
The swap meet was the
Bulls' eye like Tauruses
Murder was the melody you should
Know what the chorus is
"Papa, you really telling me we can
Just get some more of it
If we run out?" He said, "Lil' nigga
Today the poor is rich
Don’t tell your mom that you
Seen a Molotov bomb
If she ask just know you have
To lie and son don’t forget
Bitches ain’t shit, hoes ain’t neither
Niggas gon' snitch
Watch the company you keeping
And one day you’ll put money in
The ghetto when you got it
Rather than having to hustle off
These Rodney King riots"
That- that’s right the
Mothafuckin’ Rodney King
You was with your daddy on Bullis Road
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million that's crazy
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Don't forget, still sing along kids
Still sing along when we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million please sing
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
(Greetings boys and girls)
My name is Petey P (My name is Petey P)
Kendrick's childhood imaginary friend
(That’s right, that's right, that's right)
I am your neighbor (I am your neighbor)
And I’d like to welcome you to good kid
MAAd city (good kid, mAAd city)
So grab your cartoons and cereal (And sing)
Your pop guns and fireworks (And sing)
And sing along (Along)
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah sing along kids, sing along
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah
Kendrick, you remember that one
Time when we was
I’ve been waiting on this day
Since Dr dre and Pac
Was on Rosecrans in that burger stand at '95
People staring at 'em in amazement
Reservations at the Days Inn
We was living out a hotel at the time
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Chicken from Kentucky Fried
Mama babysitting Section 8 vouchers the move
When nothing else to lose but
A burger flipping job
Close my eyes inside the swap meet
And imagine it's a mansion
Gold ballroom, AK-47 dancin'
Howling at the moon
What’s a pack of hungry babies?
Hope you feed us soon, bite your back
You die of rabies everyday we pray to eat at
The table at Sizzlers
But never make the visit
If better days was on it's way
Then they make the decision
To make the wrong turn
So for now we heat this skillet
So this canned food can burn
Oh yeah, I remember that, it- it was the
Ravioli with the hot sauce in it, right?
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million am I right?
Spend it all in front of the county building
Oh!
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah don't forget to sing along by the way
Sing along when we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Yeah
And all the ghetto children in the world say
"that’s my car" (Aye, oh)
All the ghetto boys say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
All the ghetto girls say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
When we grow up, when we grow up (Aye, oh)
Ghetto children in the world say
"that’s my car" (Aye, oh)
All the ghetto boys say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
All the ghetto girls say, "that’s my car"
(Aye, oh)
When we grow up, when we grow up (Aye, oh)
Nigga you remember the smoke and
The burning buildings and shit?
Couple stolen TV's and a seat
Belt for my safety (Uh, huh)
Played the passenger I think it’s
Five years after eighty (yeah, yeah that)
Seven, do the math, ‘92, don’t you be lazy
(I won't) looking out the window
Notice all the essentials
Of a block party that stop for a second
Then it rekindle
Like a flame from a trick candle
Everybody got dental
Insurance ‘cause we ‘bout to floss
You get that couch I sent you?
I heard that from a block away
Probably had credentials
Of a scholar but, shit, not today
Them Dayton Spokes was his to take
Refrigerators, barbecue pit's
And Jordan kicks they did invasions while
Helicopters recorded it
Hello Mi-Mister Miyagi
I want them Kenwood woofers
Say that you got me, if not
I’ll dig in your drawer for it
The swap meet was the
Bulls' eye like Tauruses
Murder was the melody you should
Know what the chorus is
"Papa, you really telling me we can
Just get some more of it
If we run out?" He said, "Lil' nigga
Today the poor is rich
Don’t tell your mom that you
Seen a Molotov bomb
If she ask just know you have
To lie and son don’t forget
Bitches ain’t shit, hoes ain’t neither
Niggas gon' snitch
Watch the company you keeping
And one day you’ll put money in
The ghetto when you got it
Rather than having to hustle off
These Rodney King riots"
That- that’s right the
Mothafuckin’ Rodney King
You was with your daddy on Bullis Road
When we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million that's crazy
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
Don't forget, still sing along kids
Still sing along when we grow up we gon' go
And get us a million please sing
Spend it all in front of the county building
Blow it like Coltrane, blow it like Coltrane
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