Little Johnny - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)

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Yeah

Kendrick Lamar

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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 Novacane 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 q***n 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 and 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

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