Kendrick Lamar - DUCKWORTH. lyrics

It was always me versus the world
Until I found it's me versus me
Why, why, why, why? Why, why, why, why?
Just remember
What happens on Earth stays on Earth!
We gon' put it in reverse

Darling, I told you many times
And I am telling you once again
Just to remind you, sweetheart that my

Oh, Lamar
Hail Mary and marijuana, times is hard
Pray with the hooligans
Shadows all in the dark
Fellowship with demons and relatives
I'm a star life is one funny ma'fucker
A true comedian, you gotta love him
You gotta trust him
I might be buggin', infomercials and no sleep
See, once upon a time inside
The Nickerson Garden projects
The object was to process
And digest poverty's dialect
Adaptation inevitable: gun violence
Crack spot federal policies raid buildings
And drug professionals
Anthony was the oldest of seven
Well-respected, calm and collected
Laughin' and jokin' made life
Easier hard times, mama on crack
A four-year-old tellin' his nanny
He needed her
His family history: pimpin' and bangin'
He was meant to be dangerous
Clocked him a grip and start slangin'
Fifteen, scrapin' up his jeans
With quarter pieces
Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
Dodged a policeman, workin' for his big homie
Small-time hustler
Graduated to a brick on him
Ten-thousand dollars out of
A project housing, that's on the daily
Seen his first mill' twenty years old
Had a couple of babies
Had a couple of shooters
Caught a murder case
Fingerprints on the gun they assumin'
But witnesses couldn't prove it
That was back when he turned his
Back and they killed his cousin
He beat the case and went back to hustlin'
Bird-shufflin', Anthony rang
The first in the projects
With the two-tone Mustang
That 50 thing They say 5-0 came
Circlin' parking lots and parking spots
And hoppin' out while harrassin'
The corner blocks
Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it
He brushed 'em off and walked back
To the Kentucky Fried Chicken
See, at this chicken spot
There was a light-skinned nigga
That talked a lot
With a curly top and a gap in his teeth
He worked the window
His name was Ducky, he came from the streets
The Robert Taylor Homes
Southside Projects, Chiraq, the Terror Dome
Drove to California with a woman on
Him and five hundred dollars
They had a son, hopin' that he'd see college
Hustlin' on the side with a
Nine-to-five to freak it cadillac Seville
He'd ride his son around on weekends
Three-piece special with his name
On the shirt pocket
'Cross the street from the projects
Anthony planned to rob it
Stuck up the place before, back in '84
That's when affiliation was really
At gears of war
So many relatives tellin' us, sellin'
Us devilish works, killin' us, crime
Intelligent, felonious prevalent proposition
With 9's ducky was well-aware
They robbed the manager and shot
A customer last year he figured he'd get on
These niggas' good sides
Free chicken every time Anthony
Posted in line, two extra biscuit's
Anthony liked him and then let him slide
They didn't kill him
In fact, it look like they're
The last to survive, pay attention
That one decision changed both of they lives
One curse at a time
Reverse the manifest and good karma
And I'll tell you why
You take two strangers and put
'em in random predicaments give 'em a soul
So they can make their own
Choices and live with it
Twenty years later, them same strangers
You make 'em meet again
Inside recording studios where they
Reapin' their benefit's
Then you start remindin' them
About that chicken incident
Whoever thought the greatest rapper
Would be from coincidence?
Because if Anthony killed Ducky
Top Dawg could be servin' life
While I grew up without a father
And die in a gunfight gunshot

Thgifnug a ni eid dna rehtaf a
Tuohtiw pu werg I elihW
Efil 'nivres eb dluoc gwaD poT
YkcuD dellik ynohtnA fi esuaceB
Ecnedicnioc morf eb dluow reppar
Tsetaerg eht thguoht reveohW?
Tnedicni nekcihc taht tuoba meht
'nidnimer trats uoy nehT
Stifeneb rieht 'nipaer yeht erehw
Soiduts gnidrocer edisnI
Niaga teem me' ekam uoy, sregnarts emas meht
Retal sraey ytnewT
Ti htiw evil dna seciohc nwo rieht ekam
Nac yeht os luos a me' eviG
Stnemaciderp modnar ni me' tup dna
Sregnarts owt ekat uoY
Yhw uoy llet ll'I dna
Amrak doog dna tsefinam eht esreveR
Emit a ta esruc eno
Sevil yeht fo htob degnahc noisiced eno tahT
Noitnetta yaP erac tuB
Tpecnoc etalucammi
Siht ekil eno ecnis retrauq eniacoC
AND ym edisni ytlayor tog, ytlayoL
Tog I, tog I, tog I, tog I
So, I was takin' a walk the other day