heart pt. 6 (Explicit) - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)

Lyrics by：Kendrick Lamar

Composed by：Kendrick Lamar

Produced by：Sounwave/Jack Antonoff/M-Tech/JuJu

Load up the Pro Tools and press three

Studio filled with Jack In The Box and Pepsis

Niggas watchin' WorldStar videos not the ESPYs

Laughin' at B. Pumper stomach turnin' I get up and proceeded to write somethin'

Ab-Soul in the corner mumblin' raps fumblin' packs of Black & Milds

Crumblin' kush 'til he cracked a smile

His words legendary wishin' I could rhyme like him

Studied his style to define my pen

That was back when the only goal was to get Jay Rock through the door

Warner Brother records? hope Naim Ali would let us know

Was excited just to go to them label meetings

Wasn't my record deal but still I couldn't believe it

Me and Rock inside the booth hibernatin'

It was simple math if he made it that mean I made it

Everything I had was for the team I remained patient

Grindin' with my brothers it was us against them

No one above us bless our hearts

Use your heart and not your eyes

Baby just relax and ride

If you got time then I got time

Yeah yeah

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes

Mm-hmm

My nigga Dave had a champagne Acura

A bunch of instrumentals I freestyled in the passenger

That nigga wore several hats a producer a manager director and DJ

A hothead squabblin' Bloods Pirus and Keeways

For this little thing of ours we called TDE

I watched you take some penitentiary chances to say the least

Remember in the county building with MixedByAli

We tried to freak the system just to make a couple ends meet

That's my nigga for **** sure

He brought Q over but Q didn't rap but he learned from our inspo

We split Louisiana chicken riverboat specials

Sleepin' next to 02R consoles to be our refuge

He was homeless and I left home

Q said "Dot you won't be slept on you the nigga to bet on"

Use your h

Top had given us dominion in the home he lived in

Hopin' that we see some millions God bless our hearts

Use your heart and not your eyes

Baby just relax and ride

If you got time then I got time

Yeah yeah

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes

Punch played Phil Jackson in my early practices

Strategies on how to be great amongst the averages

I picked his brain on what was ordained highly collaborative

RET pushed the label the same amongst the savages

Moose kept my name in the function that he would run in

TEEZ kept the vultures away from me that was comin'

Sounwave let me borrow his clothes for shows as a hype man

To cook up in this room 'til the night ends

Time flies I'm carryin' debates of a top five

Buryin' my opps and allies

But I'd done a half job communicatin' feelings of being stagnant

Life was gettin' bigger than just rappin'

The business what I was lackin'

Top used to record me back when it was poor me

And now we at the round table for what assures me

I guess my motivation was the yearnin' for independence

Poured everything I had left in the family business

Now it's about Kendrick I wanna evolve place my skillset as a Black exec'

I jog my memory knowin' Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me

Creatively I moved on with new concepts in reach

Top remember all them sessions we would strategize

To hit the streets then come back record three records?

Ah

To tell the truth it ****** me up when D-Man passed

The motive was the condolences but the pride crashed

I had to bypass old mythologies I had

Put my heart on display like it was an iMac

To all my young niggas let me be the demonstration

How to conduct differences with a healthy conversation

If that's your family then handle it as such

Don't let the socials gas you up or let emotions be your crutch

Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost

Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart

Use your heart and not your eyes

Baby just relax your mind

If you got time and I got time

Yeah yeah

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes

Mm-hmm