Shadow of Death (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul & Jay Rock)-ScHoolboy Q

[00:03.93] [00:15.63]Yeah, Los Angeles, [00:21.77]"Welcome to the Terrordome" [00:23.02]City of Satan, [00:24.14]Angels can't even get along [00:25.58]No lie, my town covered in darkness [00:28.04]Hoping that the sun just ************ne on us [00:30.23]Rolling up the kush, [00:31.02]Now I'm letting my mind wander [00:32.62]Into another place, [00:33.81]I ain't tryna go down under [00:34.99]Life is like a race [00:36.33]And we all tryna finish it [00:37.57]************t never fair, [00:38.69]Strays hitting the innocent [00:40.13]The good die young [00:41.12]Where I'm from and it's sad to say [00:42.94]That somebody gotta die today [00:44.88]Tomorrow's never promised, [00:47.34]But we living for the moment [00:48.45]******, time never stops, [00:49.65]It just keeps on going [00:51.02]Crackers just gave my young ****** four life sentences [00:53.70]Twenty-five times four, ******, [00:55.40]Do the math [00:56.30]And the hood never have witnesses [00:58.75]Cause if we did, [00:59.96]Then them shots gon' blast [01:02.00]As I reflect, [01:03.40]I start realizing I wanna [01:07.75]Make a way one day for me and my momma, [01:10.89]Family and friends [01:11.94]This ain't the way my life bout to end [01:14.04]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and [01:17.03]Give 'em something my people sure to feel [01:18.98]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real [01:22.21]Just wakin' up, [01:23.16]Mind playing tricks on me [01:24.60]Got the fifth on me, [01:25.94]Gotta take a risk homie [01:27.14]Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me [01:29.41]Keep it real, [01:30.86]I could take you down the list homie [01:32.25]Be a tradition, [01:33.72]See these Chucks be a mission [01:34.71]Burner be the fuel to the flame, [01:35.96]The key to the ignition [01:37.00]If you banging, be serious, [01:38.30]Boys run up in your pad [01:40.04]Point-blank, period, moms ain't hearing it [01:42.34]******s said 'cuz lil ****** got blasted [01:44.75]Oh well, give a ************t, [01:46.31]Shouldn't half-assed it [01:47.66]Only time you with it, [01:49.08]When your ******s all tripping [01:50.23]Caught your ass slipping, [01:51.58]Now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping [01:53.55]Riding through the city in lights, living it trife [01:55.85]Wrong intersection, ready to fight [01:57.44]Hopping out with my own agenda, who the contender? [02:00.44]Better hope this mother****** jam (BLAHH!) [02:03.26]As I reflect, [02:05.00]I start realizing I wanna [02:07.20]Make a way one day for me and my momma, [02:12.67]Family and friends [02:13.64]This ain't the way my life bout to end [02:15.74]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and [02:18.68]Give 'em something my people sure to feel [02:20.72]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real [02:23.57]Uh, as I'm hearing the first and second verse [02:26.31]I try to ************yse the feeling that's felt in the song [02:28.85]I want to tell Rock and Q to go to church [02:31.11]But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long [02:33.66]I stare at the world from a righteous point of view [02:36.26]And realize a crisis coming [02:37.40]Novocain couldn't numb it, [02:39.75]The pain is unbearable times two [02:41.31]Let's rally a team, summon, and school the youth [02:44.02]How you feel about it? [02:44.86]Man, I feel the same way as you [02:46.61]It hurts my soul, like a needle piercing [02:49.22]Through the bottom of my shoe [02:50.54]And if you behind bars [02:51.60]Hold your head, pause [02:54.59]And if you in close range [02:56.49]With a ****** with a gun in his waist [02:57.88]I pray the intervention is divine [02:59.64]I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven [03:02.84]But earlier than expected, what the hell? [03:05.39]As I reflect, [03:07.04]I start realizing I wanna [03:08.64]Make a way one day for me and my momma, [03:14.23]Family and friends [03:15.22]This ain't the way my life bout to end [03:17.46]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and [03:20.56]Give 'em something my people sure to feel [03:22.55]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real [03:25.38]