Shadow of Death (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Schoolboy Q) - ScHoolboy Q.mp3

[00:20.54]Yeah los angeles 'welcome to the terrordome'
[00:23.50]City of Satan angels can't even get along
[00:26.26]No lie my town covered in darkness
[00:28.54]Hoping that the sun just shine on us
[00:30.58]Rolling up the kush now I'm letting my mind wander
[00:33.02]Into another place I ain't tryna go down under
[00:35.61]Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it
[00:38.03] shit never fair strays hitting the innocent
[00:40.54]The good die young where I'm from and it's sad to say
[00:43.64]That somebody gotta die today
[00:46.19]Tomorrow's never promised but we living for the moment
[00:48.95]Ni**a time never stops it just keeps on going
[00:51.49]Crackers just gave my young ni**a four life sentences
[00:54.22]Twenty five times four ni**a do the math
[00:57.48]And the hood never have witnesses
[00:59.43]Cause if we did then them shots gon' blast
[01:02.56]As I reflect I start realising I wanna
[01:07.78]Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends
[01:12.31]This ain't the way my life bout to end
[01:14.69]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
[01:17.47]Give 'em something my people sure to feel
[01:19.83]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real
[01:22.80]Just waking up mind playing tricks on me
[01:25.51]Got the fifth on me gotta take a risk homie
[01:27.86]Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me
[01:30.53]Keep it real I could take you down the list homie
[01:33.04]Be a tradition see these chucks be a mission
[01:35.10]Burner be the fuel to the flame the key to the ignition
[01:37.59]If you banging be serious
[01:39.23]Boys run up in your pad point blank period moms ain't hearing it
[01:43.09]Ni**as said 'cuz lil ni**a got blasted
[01:45.71]Oh well give a shit shouldn't half assed it
[01:48.25]Only time you with it when your niggas all tripping
[01:50.76]Caught your a** slipping now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping
[01:53.94]Riding through the city in lights living it trife
[01:56.27]Wrong intersection ready to fight
[01:58.11]Hopping out with my own agenda who the contender
[02:00.48]
[02:01.08]Better hope this motherf**ker jam blahh
[02:04.17]As I reflect I start realising I wanna
[02:09.39]Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends
[02:13.93]This ain't the way my life bout to end
[02:16.35]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
[02:19.01]Give 'em something my people sure to feel
[02:21.50]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real
[02:23.84]Uh as I'm hearing the first and second verse
[02:26.77]I try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song
[02:29.28]I want to tell rock and q to go to church
[02:31.79]But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long
[02:34.36]I stare at the world from a righteous point of view
[02:36.80]And realise a crisis coming
[02:38.64]Novocain couldn't numb it the pain is unbearable times two
[02:41.87]Let's rally a team summon and school the youth
[02:44.58]How you feel about it
[02:45.65]Man I feel the same way as you
[02:47.31]It hurts my soul like a needle piercing through the bottom of my shoe
[02:50.87]And if you behind bars
[02:52.67]Hold your head pause
[02:55.27]And if you in close range with a ni**a with a gun in his waste
[02:58.33]I pray the intervention is divine
[03:00.32]I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven
[03:03.56]But earlier than expected what the hell
[03:05.83]As I reflect I start realising I wanna
[03:11.06]Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends
[03:15.58]This ain't the way my life bout to end
[03:17.98]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
[03:20.62]Give 'em something my people sure to feel
[03:23.12]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real