Shadow of Death - Black Hippy/Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)/Schoolboy Q/Ab-Soul

Yeah los angeles 'welcome to the terrordome'

City of Satan angels can't even get along

No lie my town covered in darkness

Hoping that the sun just shine on us

Rolling up the kush now I'm letting my mind wander

Into another place I ain't tryna go down under

Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it

Sh*t never fair strays hitting the innocent

The good die young where I'm from and it's sad to say

That somebody gotta die today

Tomorrow's never promised but we living for the moment

Ni**a time never stops it just keeps on going

Crackers just gave my young ni**a four life sentences

Twenty five times four ni**a do the math

And the hood never have witnesses

Cause if we did then them shots gon' blast

As I reflect I start realising I wanna

Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends

This ain't the way my life bout to end

So I'm quick to grab on my pen and

Give 'em something my people sure to feel

Give 'em something that I know is all the way real

Just waking up mind playing tricks on me

Got the fifth on me gotta take a risk homie

Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me

Keep it real I could take you down the list homie

Be a tradition see these chucks be a mission

Burner be the fuel to the flame the key to the ignition

If you banging be serious

Boys run up in your pad point blank period moms ain't hearing it

Niggas said 'cuz lil ni**a got blasted

Oh well give a sh*t shouldn't half assed it

Only time you with it when your niggas all tripping

Caught your a** slipping now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping

Riding through the city in lights living it trife

Wrong intersection ready to fight

Hopping out with my own agenda who the contender

Better hope this motherf**ker jam blahh

As I reflect I start realising I wanna

Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends

This ain't the way my life bout to end

So I'm quick to grab on my pen and

Give 'em something my people sure to feel

Give 'em something that I know is all the way real

Uh as I'm hearing the first and second verse

I try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song

I want to tell rock and q to go to church

But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long

I stare at the world from a righteous point of view

And realise a crisis coming

Novocain couldn't numb it the pain is unbearable times two

Let's rally a team summon and school the youth

How you feel about it

Man I feel the same way as you

It hurts my soul like a needle piercing through the bottom of my shoe

And if you behind bars

Hold your head pause

And if you in close range with a ni**a with a gun in his waste

I pray the intervention is divine

I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven

But earlier than expected what the hell

As I reflect I start realising I wanna

Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends

This ain't the way my life bout to end

So I'm quick to grab on my pen and

Give 'em something my people sure to feel

Give 'em something that I know is all the way real