Imagine - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)

I sit on the studio couch

Ask myself

What the **** am I thinking about

Thinking 'bout living

Without the past and the present

A Dr Dre record imagine

I drift of 600 seconds

10 mintues exact

Letting my mind explore

K Dot had turned Curious George

You know off the hardship is

What I'm curious for

Like what if Pac had never

Looked left to holla at broads

Before he turned right to get them

Shots through the door

They say Suge did it

But he was in emergency clinic

So he'd risk his own life

To get someone else killed

But in the process get injured

It don't make sense

It's like the Da Vinci Code

Trying the solve the crime of these rap souls

What if B I G never did it big

Never went to L A

Would it make a difference

In them bullet-holes

Would it make my flow flow more persistent

Would it raise up the bar of competition

Who knows

Who told Nastradamus baby

Momma was ******* with HOV

Would the battle be less interesting

If it wasn't personal

If Jay wasn't intimate

There'd probably be less people listening

People thinking it's a publicity stunt

What if he partnered

With Jay and still didn't blow

Hip-hop would really be ******

Something like Milli Vanilli

Nothing different quite similar

Filling up my mind capacity

Thinking about Martin Luther

On the balcony

What if the shooter

Better yet

What if Malcolm on the side

Killed two birds with one stone

Both would've died

Now let's rewind

Before we go

Can you imagine

Picture years with your mom

Can you imagine

Hang her picture in the sky

Can you imagine

Call emergency I've been dreamin' all my life

All life

Imagine if Tookie was a Blood Look

No disrespect

But would there be more Bloods

Than Crips sets

Dominating the population of

L A Orange County the Valley

And back up to the bay

Matter fact imagine

If we didn't really start this gangster ****

Y'all wouldn't have nothin' to spit

No drive bys

No flags stickin' out pockets

No NWA dudes

Just rappin like Cre Cru

Imagine if Mike Concepcion

Walked on his own two

Feet no paralyzed

Would he be alive

Or would he been lost his life to the streets

No match no cars in that driveway

What if Freeway Rick never was a kingpin

On this L A strip

Would these rap niggas use his name

Nah what if rap niggas never had rap

Would they try to fall back on this **** game

These rappers a** backwards

Now these rappers getting caught

With the *******

Not to smoke but to slang

Imagine that people not knowing

These rap niggas insane

Just think about it

Think about it

Before we go

Can you imagine

Picture years with your mom

Can you imagine

Hang her picture in the sky

Can you imagine

Call emergency I've been dreamin' all my life

Imagine life without death

Would you even feel alive

Your people that passed

What if they never died

Imagine seeing your mom cry

Tears of happiness

Knowing her son safe

And she ain't lose him to this madness

The street living

What if the crack epidemic

Never reached the projects

And destroyed our buildings

Turned most of us to killers

Innocent victims

Imagine if ******e didn't affect our system

They say **** money funding the labels today

What about the **** money

That's funding the C I A

Imagine if they really tried to fix these streets

Would they start in the hood

Or executive suites

Where the real criminals meet

And principals beef with me

You could possibly live without heat

Imagine if Al Gore had won that election

Would the Twin Tower buildings

Still stand erected

Imagine the penal system

Without witness protection

Would there be these many cowards

On the stand telling

I don't know

I'm just speaking my mind

Lost in my own soul

Just press rewind and imagine

Imagine imagine imagine

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