meet the grahams (Explicit) - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)

Lyrics by：Kendrick Lamar

Composed by：Kendrick Lamar

Produced by：The Alchemist

Dear Adonis

I'm sorry that that man is your father let me be honest

It takes a man to be a man your dad is not responsive

I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom

I'm sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him

Life is hard I know the challenge is always gon' beat us home

Sometimes our parents make mistakes that affect us until we grown

And you're a good kid that need good leadership

Let me be your mentor since your daddy don't teach you ****

Never let a man piss on your leg son

Either you die right there or pop that man in the head son

Never fall in the escort business that's bad religion

Please remember you could be a ***** even if you got *******

Never code-switch whether right or wrong you a Black man

Even if it don't benefit your goals do some push-ups get some discipline

Don't cut them corners like your daddy did **** what Ozempic did

Don't pay to play with them Brazilians get a gym membership

Understand no throwin' rocks and hidin' hands that's law

Don't be ashamed 'bout who you wit' that's how he treat your moms

Don't have a kid to hide a kid to hide again be sure

Five percent will comprehend but ninety-five is lost

Be proud of who you are your strength come from within

Lotta superstars that's real but your daddy ain't one of them

And you nothing like him you'll carry yourself as king

Can't understand me right now

Just play this when you eighteen

Dear Sandra

Your son got some habits I hope you don't undermine them

Especially with all the girls that's hurt inside this climate

You a woman so you know how it feels to be in alignment

With emotion hopin' a man can see you and not be blinded

Dear Dennis you gave birth to a master manipulator

Even usin' you to prove who he is is a huge favor

I think you should ask for more paper and more paper

And more uh more paper

I'm blamin' you for all his gamblin' addictions

Psychopath intuition the man that like to play victim

You raised a horrible ******* person the nerve of you Dennis

Sandra sit down what I'm about to say is heavy now listen

Mm-mm your son's a sick man with sick thoughts

I think niggas like him should die

Him and Weinstein should get ****** up in a cell for the rest they life

He hates Black women hypersexualizes 'em with kinks of a nympho fetish

Grew facial hair because he understood bein' a beard just fit him better

He got sex offenders on ho-VO that he keep on a monthly allowance

A child should never be compromised and he keepin' his child around them

And we gotta raise our daughters knowin' there's predators like him lurkin'

**** a rap battle

He should die so all of these women can live with a purpose

I been in this industry twelve years I'ma tell y'all one lil' secret

It's some weird **** goin' on

And some of these artists be here to police it

They be streamlinin' victims all inside of they home and callin' 'em tender

Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas

To any woman that be playin' his music know that you're playin' your sister

Or better you're sellin' your niece to the weirdos not the good ones

Katt Williams said "Get you the truth" so I'ma get mines

The Embassy 'bout to get raided too it's only a matter of time

Ayy LeBron keep the family away hey Curry keep the family away

To anybody that embody the love for they kids keep the family away

They lookin' at you too if you standin' by him keep the family away

I'm lookin' to shoot through any pervert that lives keep the family safe

Dear baby girl

I'm sorry that your father not active inside your world

He don't commit to much but his music yeah that's for sure

He a narcissist misogynist livin' inside his songs

Try destroy families rather than takin' care of his own

Should be teachin' you time tables or watchin' Frozen with you

Or at your eleventh birthday singin' poems with you

Instead he be in Turks payin' for sex and poppin' Percs

Examples that you don't deserve

I wanna tell you that you're loved you're brave you're kind

You got a gift to change the world and could change your father's mind

'Cause our children is the future but he lives inside confusion

Money's always been illusion but that's the life he's used to

His father prolly didn't claim him neither

History do repeats itself sometimes it don't need a reason

But I would like to say it's not your fault that he's hidin' another child

Give him grace this the reason I made Mr. Morale

So our babies like you can cope later

Give you some confidence to go through somethin' it's hope later

I never wanna hear you chase a man 'cause his failed behavior

Sittin' in the club with sugar daddies for validation

You need to know that love is eternity and trumps all pain

I'll tell you who your father is just play this song when it rains

Yes he's a hitmaker songwriter superstar right

And a ******* deadbeat that should never say "more life"

Meet the Grahams

Dear Aubrey

I know you probably thinkin' I wanted to crash your party

But truthfully I don't have a hatin' bone in my body

This supposed to be a good exhibition within the game

But you ****** up the moment you called out my family's name

Why you had to stoop so low to discredit some decent people

Guess integrity is lost when the metaphors doesn't reach you

And I like to understand 'cause your house was never a home

Thirty-seven but you showin' up as a seven-year-old

You got gamblin' problems drinkin' problems pill-poppin' and spendin' problems

Bad with money whorehouse

Solicitin' women problems therapy's a lovely start

But I suggest some ayahuasca strip the ego from the bottom

I try to empathize with you 'cause I know that you ain't been through nothin'

Crave entitlement but wanna be liked so bad that it's puzzlin'

No dominance let's recap moments when you didn't fit in

No secret handshakes with your friend

No cultural cachet to binge just disrespectin' your mother

Identity's on the fence don't know which family will love ya

The skin that you livin' in is compromised in personas

Can't channel your masculine even when standin' next to a woman

You a body shamer you gon' hide them baby mamas ain't ya

You embarrassed of 'em that's not right that ain't how mama raised us

Take that mask off I wanna see what's under them achievements

Why believe you

You never gave us nothin' to believe in

'Cause you lied about religious views you lied about your surgery

You lied about your accent and your past tense all is perjury

You lied about your ghostwriters you lied about your crew members

They all p***y you lied on 'em I know they all got you in 'em

You lied about your son you lied about your daughter huh

You lied about them other kids that's out there hopin' that you come

You lied about the only artist that can offer you some help

**** a rap battle this a long life battle with yourself