DUCKWORTH.-Kendrick Lamar

[00:00.00] 作词 : John King/Kendrick Lamar/George Williams/JANEZ BONCINA/Paul Bender/Bill Curtis/Naomi Saalfield/Perrin Moss/Simon Mavin/Joseph W. Scott/Earl Shelton/Don D. Robey/Richard Cornwell/Johnny Flippin/Adolf Topić/Jean Matyka/Pero Ugrin [00:00.18] 作曲 : John King/Kendrick Lamar/George Williams/JANEZ BONCINA/Paul Bender/Bill Curtis/Naomi Saalfield/Perrin Moss/Simon Mavin/Joseph W. Scott/Earl Shelton/Don D. Robey/Richard Cornwell/Johnny Flippin/Adolf Topić/Jean Matyka/Pero Ugrin [00:00.37]It was always me versus the world [00:06.00]Until I found it's me versus me [00:11.16]Why why why why [00:14.16]Why why why why [00:17.10]Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth [00:21.73]We gon' put it in reverse [00:28.43]Darling I told you many times and I am telling you once again [00:35.77]Just to remind you sweetheart that my [00:40.25]Oh Lamar hail Mary a ********* times is hard [00:44.15]Pray with the hooligans shadows all in the dark [00:46.79]Fellowship with demons and relatives I'm a star [00:49.31]God is one funny ********** [00:51.33]A true comedian you gotta love him you gotta trust him [00:54.35]I might be buggin' infomercials and no sleep [00:56.66]Introverted by my thoughts [00:58.03]Children listen it gets deep [00:59.38]See once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects [01:01.96]The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect [01:05.51]Adaptation inevitable gun violence crack spot [01:08.20]Federal policies raid buildings and drug professionals [01:11.13]Anthony was the oldest of seven well respected calm and collected [01:15.64]Laughin' and joking made life easier [01:17.75]Hard times momma on crack a four year old telling his nanny he needed her [01:21.77]His family history pimpin' and bangin' he was meant to be dangerous [01:25.57]Clocked him a grip and start slangin' [01:27.45]Fifteen scrapin' up his jeans with quarter pieces [01:30.15]Even got some head from a smoker last weekend [01:32.18]Dodged a policeman workin' for his big homie [01:34.39]Small time hustler graduated to a brick on him [01:37.10]Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing [01:39.22]That's on the daily seen his first mil twenty years old [01:41.75]Had a couple of babies [01:43.01]Had a couple of shooters caught a murder case [01:45.24]Fingerprints on the gun [01:46.46]They assumin' but witnesses couldn't prove it [01:49.14]That was back when he turned his back and they killed his cousin [01:51.68]He beat the case and went back to hustlin' [01:53.65]Bird shufflin' Anthony rang [01:55.63]The first in the projects with the two tone mustang [01:58.29]That 5.0 thing [01:59.73]They say 5-0 came circlin' parkin' lots and parking spots [02:02.94]And hoppin' out while harrasing the corner blocks [02:05.09]Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it [02:07.39]He brushed them off and walked back to the kentucky fried chicken [02:09.87]See at this chicken spot there was a light skinned ***** that talked a lot [02:12.85]With a curly top and a gap in his teeth [02:14.85]He worked the window his name was Ducky [02:16.47]He came from the streets the robert taylor homes [02:18.53]Southside projects chiraq the terror dome [02:21.25]Drove to California with a woman on him and 500 dollars [02:24.27]They had a son hoping that he'd see college [02:26.32]Hustlin' on the side with a nine to five to freak it [02:29.23]Cadillac seville he'd ride his son around on weekends [02:31.95]Three piece special with his name on the shirt pocket [02:34.65]'Cross the street from the projects Anthony planned to rob it [02:37.54]Stuck up the place before back in '84 [02:39.72]That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war [02:42.48]So many relatives telling us selling us devilish works [02:45.57]Killing us crime intelligent felonious prevalent proposition with nines [02:49.59]Ducky was well aware they robbed the manager and shot a customer last year [02:53.62]He figured he'd get on these ****** good sides [02:55.93]Free chicken every time Anthony posted in line [02:58.48]Two extra biscuits Anthony liked him and then let him slide [03:01.31]They didn't kill him in fact it look like they're the last to survive [03:04.18]Pay attention that one decision changed both of they lives [03:06.84]One curse at a time [03:08.00]Reverse the manifest and good karma and I'll tell you why [03:10.77]You take two strangers and put 'em in random predicaments [03:13.43]Give 'em a soul so they can make their own choices and live with it [03:16.45]Twenty years later them same strangers you make 'em meet again [03:19.13]Inside recording studios where they reaping their benefits [03:22.07]Then you start reminding 'bout that chicken incident [03:24.73]Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence [03:27.54]Because if Anthony killed Ducky top dawg could be servin' life [03:30.22]While I grew up without a father and die in a gun fight [03:55.07]So I was taking a walk the other day