Shadow of Death-Black Hippy/Kendrick Lamar/ScHoolboy Q/Ab-Soul/Jay Rock

[00:20]Yeah, Los Angeles, "Welcome to the Terrordome" [00:23]City of Satan, angels can't even get along [00:25]No lie, my town covered in darkness [00:28]Hoping that the sun just shine on us [00:30]Rolling up the kush, now I'm letting my mind wander [00:32]Into another place, I ain't tryna go down under [00:34]Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it [00:37]Shit never fair, strays hitting the innocent [00:40]The good die young where I'm from and it's sad to say [00:42]That somebody gotta die today [00:45]Tomorrow's never promised, but we living for the moment [00:48]Bitch, time never stops, it just keeps on going [00:51]Crackers just gave my young nigga four life sentences [00:53]Twenty-five times four, nigga, do the math [00:57]And the hood never have witnesses [00:59]Cause if we did, then them shots gon' blast [01:02][02:04][03:05]As I reflect, I start realizing I wanna [01:07][02:08][03:09]Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends [01:12][02:14][03:15]This ain't the way my life bout to end [01:14][02:16][03:17]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and [01:17][02:19][03:20]Give 'em something my people sure to feel [01:19][02:21][03:22]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real [01:22]Just wakin' up, mind playing tricks on me [01:25]Got the fifth on me, gotta take a risk homie [01:27]Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me [01:30]Keep it real, I could take you down the list homie [01:32]Be a tradition, see these Chucks be a mission [01:34]Burner be the fuel to the flame, the key to the ignition [01:37]If you banging, be serious, boys run up in your pad [01:40]Point-blank, period, moms ain't hearing it [01:43]Niggas said 'cuz lil nigga got blasted [01:45]Oh well, give a ****, shouldn't half-assed it [01:47]Only time you with it, when your niggas all tripping [01:50]Caught your ass slipping, now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping [01:53]Riding through the city in lights, living it trife [01:55]Wrong intersection, ready to fight [01:58]Hopping out with my own agenda, who the contender? [02:01]Better hope this mother****er jam (BLAHH!) [02:24]Uh, as I'm hearing the first and second verse [02:26]I try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song [02:29]I want to tell Rock and Q to go to church [02:31]But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long [02:34]I stare at the world from a righteous point of view [02:36]And realize a crisis coming [02:38]Novocain couldn't numb it, the pain is unbearable times two [02:41]Let's rally a team, summon, and school the youth [02:44]How you feel about it? [02:45]Man, I feel the same way as you [02:46]It hurts my soul, like a needle piercing [02:49]Through the bottom of my shoe and if you behind bars [02:52]Hold your head, pause [02:55]And if you in close range with a nigga with a gun in his waist [02:58]I pray the intervention is divine [03:00]I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven [03:03]But earlier than expected, what the hell?