Kendrick Lamar - Little Johnny lyrics
Kendrick Lamarс [Duckworth] Compton, California, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Kendrick Lamar - Little Johnny lyrics]
Uh yeah
Kendrick Lamar uh
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad
I'm a thinker not a drinker
But still I Hennessey drag
Alcohol numbs the pain like
Where Novocaine stabs in your arteries
Pardon me but my city go mad
Via Compton California
Corners with coroners and karma on em
Colours corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted Crips and Pirus
Cripple the city triple the crime
Bible nor the Quran can save
Welcome, don't be afraid
Your city similar right?
Where the choppers kidnap the night
And police silence your rights
Stare at the sky
Wonder will you live to see twenty-five?
I'm twenty-two
At twenty I knew I was against the odds
This kid named Jonathan was monitoring
His momma and sister, his older cousin
He honoured him anonymous bodies on his
Burner was astonishing
To Johnny, he might've been
A modern day rider then
He walking outside again
He see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a MAC-11 now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem
What's his cousin to say now?
He wanna be from the hood that
He's from and that's one
More gangster under the family tree
Took 'em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy
Rocking matching T-shirts that says
"The hood made me"
No love, just spread slugs
That's the policy
The leader and the prodigy
Now shorty doo-wop, holding a oowop
Hanging with rah rahs
With blah-blahs that sit on the
Block catching fades hittin’ licks
Going on missions with lunatics
A ninth-grade menace
Thugging for six months
Smoking like six blunts an hour
The power of banging, he was walking from
(gunshots) little Johnny
I think you'll find, sir
That there will come a time
When black people wake up and
Become intellectually independent enough
To think for themselves as other humans are
Intellectually independent enough to
Think for themselves
Then the black man will think
Like a black man
And he will feel for other black people
And this new thinking and feeling will
Cause black people to stick together
And then at that point you
Will have a situation
Where when you attack one black man
You are attacking all black men
And this type of black thinking will cause
All black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also
Will bring an end
To the brutality inflicted upon
Black people by (black people)
And it is the only thing that
Will bring an end to it no federal court
State court or city court will
Bring an end to it
It's something that the black man has
To bring an end to
Kendrick Lamar uh
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad
I'm a thinker not a drinker
But still I Hennessey drag
Alcohol numbs the pain like
Where Novocaine stabs in your arteries
Pardon me but my city go mad
Via Compton California
Corners with coroners and karma on em
Colours corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted Crips and Pirus
Cripple the city triple the crime
Bible nor the Quran can save
Welcome, don't be afraid
Your city similar right?
Where the choppers kidnap the night
And police silence your rights
Stare at the sky
Wonder will you live to see twenty-five?
I'm twenty-two
At twenty I knew I was against the odds
This kid named Jonathan was monitoring
His momma and sister, his older cousin
He honoured him anonymous bodies on his
Burner was astonishing
To Johnny, he might've been
A modern day rider then
He walking outside again
He see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a MAC-11 now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem
What's his cousin to say now?
He wanna be from the hood that
He's from and that's one
More gangster under the family tree
Took 'em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy
Rocking matching T-shirts that says
"The hood made me"
No love, just spread slugs
That's the policy
The leader and the prodigy
Now shorty doo-wop, holding a oowop
Hanging with rah rahs
With blah-blahs that sit on the
Block catching fades hittin’ licks
Going on missions with lunatics
A ninth-grade menace
Thugging for six months
Smoking like six blunts an hour
The power of banging, he was walking from
(gunshots) little Johnny
I think you'll find, sir
That there will come a time
When black people wake up and
Become intellectually independent enough
To think for themselves as other humans are
Intellectually independent enough to
Think for themselves
Then the black man will think
Like a black man
And he will feel for other black people
And this new thinking and feeling will
Cause black people to stick together
And then at that point you
Will have a situation
Where when you attack one black man
You are attacking all black men
And this type of black thinking will cause
All black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also
Will bring an end
To the brutality inflicted upon
Black people by (black people)
And it is the only thing that
Will bring an end to it no federal court
State court or city court will
Bring an end to it
It's something that the black man has
To bring an end to