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[00:01.25][Chorus]
[00:02.15]There, there baby, it's just textbook stuff
[00:04.48]It's in the ABC of growing up
[00:12.07]There, there baby, it's just textbook stuff
[00:15.86]It's in the ABC of growing up
[00:20.67][XV - Verse 1]
[00:22.16]Yeah, three women raised me
[00:23.42]Famous footwear paid me
[00:24.71]Not enough to blow up but sure enough
[00:25.85]Cause I aint f-cking lazy
[00:27.14]If teachers thought I was dumb or crazy, or both
[00:30.48]With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z, I smoked
[00:33.05]In my chair, in my braids, my hair wasn't waves
[00:35.59]Being fly was priority to the lowest
[00:37.82]I would stand on my desk just to see the world in a different way
[00:41.18]The dead society of a poet
[00:43.93]Homie I'm focused but thats something that a dude can't prove
[00:46.88]I mean fair, I was damn near invisible at school
[00:49.35]So I banged for a minute cause all my n-ggas was crippin'
[00:52.13]Just me and two of my dudes, blue man group
[00:55.17]Had dreams of doing things they said you can't do
[00:57.77]Cause everything aint black and white, unless you chew bamboo
[01:00.55]So I was after big bills like a toucan dude?
[01:03.26]All the while my mamma asking why I'm chewing at school
[01:06.26]She said?
[01:07.15][Chorus]
[01:07.66][XV - Verse 2]
[01:29.22]So why I aint go to college
[01:30.59]My mammas ultimatum made me say that I know I got it
[01:33.23]My n-ggas said D's buggin'
[01:34.85]Stay on your computer software de-buggin'
[01:36.94]But we holding hardware cause we thuggin'
[01:39.28]Now they in the trap house with some guns they dun borrowed
[01:41.93]And all this snow, I call it empty sorrow
[01:44.62]With plans to reach the end even if I had to start slow
[01:47.44]Sold CD's in the mall making dough like Sbarro's
[01:50.30]Then I left the hood, like f-ck it, don't need the cargo
[01:52.88]They banking out on you well, and I don't mean Fargo
[01:55.77]But even if you leave somehow it try to follow
[01:58.42]Baby brother took a charge hotter than Lebron and Rondo
[02:01.43]Tryna keep his head up while his eyes are in the bible
[02:03.92]Cause they say your mind is idol, it's a devils toy aisle
[02:06.71]My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol
[02:09.59]I told him sit down, this information is vital
[02:12.22]Look?
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[02:35.77][Kendrick Lamar - Verse 3]
[02:36.15]Living my life like I'm living right in the midst of a fire pit
[02:38.22]The gang banging and the violence is the sweetest song
[02:40.73]In a room with the heart of a violin
[02:42.48]Don't violate my patience, I'm waiting
[02:44.09]To kill a man as I stare at the celiing fan
[02:46.70]As a fan of these wicked streets
[02:48.13]If I gotta eat, I steal like a metal peice
[02:50.66]Screaming now, f-ck the police
[02:52.06]I'm dealing my cards with jokers on 'em
[02:54.09]You can disown him or stone him
[02:55.42]I'm throwin' them rocks back with a flurry of bullets
[02:57.68]You couldn't live your life for the moment
[02:59.08]When I'm foaming at the mouth I'm as sharp as the teeth showing
[03:01.36]I'm in the back of a black Buick, finna black out like February
[03:04.63]Ay, thats how blacks do it right?
[03:06.73]I cut off my ears before I hear your advice and vice versa
[03:10.24]I'm screaming for help as loud as I can but thats not working
[03:12.97]I'm working them corners like Blueprints
[03:15.25]Then cut a L on my first offence
[03:16.79]The judge threw the book at me than said this?
[03:19.38][Chorus]
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