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

I can tell you what it is

I can tell you what it isn't

No more K Dot

My mother had named me Kendrick

F**k a stage name

That's the name that I was given

The only thing that I can identify

Within this bidness

I'm just a good kid from Compton

That want to rap

Weighing my options

Pick up a Bible or a strap

I never killed a man

Never sold any crack

All I ever did was

Try to keep my city on the map

But this monkey on my back

Y'all don't want me to win

I'm tryna follow dreams

You want me to follow trends

So just to get a dollar

Will I sell my soul

I look the Devil in the eye

And tell him hell no

They say anything

Worth having is worth the wait

Well I want the world

Tell me how long that takes

There's no time like now

I can cut my patients short

Or give 'em some more gowns

I don't even want the crown

I just want a peace of mind

And ni**a when I get it

You won't get a piece of mine

Won't you mind your own bidness

A rich ni**a buy anything you sell him

A broke ni**a believe anything

That you tell him

Well I'm a broke ni**a

But still I wouldn't listen to you

Even if your hand was on a Bible quote

Ni**a

Pfttuh

See I was brought up different

Whatever that my pops said

For sure I'd listen

You said you did dirt

But I can't dig it

It don't concern you

If you wasn't born in it

Oh-no-oh-oh

I swear we got to fast-forward

Before time flies by

My new sound for '0-10 is why lie

And if you ain't trying to win

Then why try

Now you can low-ball

Or give me high five

This is I ni**a look into my eye

Ni**a I am Kendrick

Lamar

Ni**a my name is Kendrick

Lamar

I said my name is Kendrick

Lamar

I changed the name

Cause I was tired of being like y'all

Now finally I'm ready to tell the world

Who I are pfttuh

And that used to be a hell of a task

Now I'm ahead of my class

So go ahead and harass

My character like it don't carry a

Confidence that can marry a Halle Berry

Or Angelina with no cash

I'm bout to cash in my thoughts

Give you a compass

Then tell you get lost

What I'm bout to accomplish is something

That you can't fathom

Once the 'Eves' come

They quick to stare at him

Hoping I don't take they b**ch

But I'm on some other sh*t

When I'm done

I'm tryna run the government

They are big dreams

Transition from a rapper to a human being

You can't 'school' a dean

I be tutoring artist-es

Leave 'em with no audience

All cause they all oversaw it my God

Y'all be out partying

I be stealing your audience

All because who I are Lamar

But my first name

It gotta be Kendrick

Lamar

Ni**a my name is Kendrick

Lamar

I changed the name

Cause I was tired of being like y'all

Now finally I'm ready to tell the world

Who I are now let's go

But we can't go backwards