Shadow of Death - Black Hippy/Kendrick Lamar.mp3

[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]B***h, 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?