[Intro] Reporting live, from Compton, California North Cackalack [Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar] Now everybody just bow to the greatness, or die in the matrix You're hereby dating, my destiny's waiting My itinerary is very hectic I break records on every record, I'm truly reckless Kendrick Lamar, no Audemar on my wrist Its arthritis from holding it down b**h Me and my down b**h, get busy I'm busy taking over, the world With the weight of the world on my shoulder My drive is not to be chauffeured I'm live, come to the harvest, welcome the artist Whose lyrics out of the orbit, more than the hardest rapper To hit the market and market myself as a shooting target With offers that got me up in these offices often Boo-yaa, who ya? No one, I've done situated myself, I ain't lying Be sure to be friend cause my foes die five times The good kid from the mad city Holding a cereal box instead of a Glock In a 1992 Cadillac that I got from my pops Transmission slipping, but I ain't tripping, swallow my pride Pop in my tape and roll the window, down Like Stacie homie when airing out endo I wish a n***a would [Hook: Kendrick Lamar] A yes yes y'all, and you don't stop A yes yes y'all, and you don't stop A yes yes y'all, and you don't stop Kendrick, show these muh'f**ers how we rock A yes yes y'all, and you don't stop A yes yes y'all, and you don't stop A yes yes y'all, and you don't stop Big Pooh, show these muh'f**ers how we rock [Verse 2: Rapper Big Pooh] Yo, it's evident, I'm evidently your favorite All I ask, open your ears and please savor it
The taste is un-acquired, quietly, been inspired I'm at a point in my life when I was getting tired Now I'm brushing off the dust We don't need no water, fire burned it to the dust n***a grind hard, roaches turning into musk People hear his pain, I consider that a plus I'm a grown man, so a few I have trust to Do the Right Thing The Spike thing, consider me the in-between The new regime taking over Either we each other's opposition or you soldier Used to have the whole state of NC on my shoulder then I pa**ed it Off to the next, you unlucky ba*tard I'm getting drunk same time every year To celebrate the life, Rosie no longer here I swear [Hook] [Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar] Me and Big Pooh like the definition of a two-man city zoo Even Zeus can get beat up from punchlines When I kick it and pump mine, I've got to be a prophet I've gotta make a profit big enough to have a thirty pound wallet I'm a Hub City representer, so I've got to represent the City like a District Attorney being the case for k**ers Might walk around in gurney, this is my sickest winter Since I had the flu and flew in the hospital with the shivers [Verse 4: Rapper Big Pooh] U-P-S, I deliver Little brown boy get the pick of the litter No glitter, all guts, no glory Station on repeat, they retread the same story New n***as bore me, tryna progress to that old sh** Have a plate, that food for your soul tip Drill it in your head, youngun it's that real Hip- Hop along 'fore you get your little a** whipped [Hook]