Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar Lyrics

I can tell you what it is, I can tell you
what it isn't
No more K. Dot, my mother had named me
Kendrick
f*ck a stage name, that's the name that I
was given
The only thing that I can identify within
this bidness
I'm just a good kid from Compton that want
to rap
Weighing my options, pick up a Bible or a
strap?
I never killed a man, never sold any crack
All I ever did was try to keep my city on
the map
But this monkey on my back, y'all don't
want me to win
I'm tryna follow dreams, you want me to
follow trends
So just to get a dollar, will I sell my
soul?
I look the Devil in the eye and tell him,
hell no
They say anything worth having is worth the
wait
Well I want the world, tell me how long
that takes
There's no time like now, I can cut my
patience/patients short
or give 'em some more gowns, I don't even
want the
crown
I just want a peace of mind, and nigga,
when I get it
you won't get a piece of mine, won't you
mind your own
bidness?
A rich nigga buy anything you sell him
A broke nigga believe anything that you
tell him
Well I'm a broke nigga
But still I wouldn't listen to you even if
your hand
was on a Bible quote, nigga
Pfttuh

See I was brought up different
Whatever that my pops said, for sure I'd
listen
You said you did dirt, but I can't dig it
It don't concern you if you wasn't born in
it
Oh-no-oh-oh
I swear we got to fast-forward...

Before time flies by My new sound for '0-10 is, why lie?
And if you ain't trying to win, then why
try?
Now you can low-ball or give me high five
This is I nigga, look into my eye
Nigga, I am Kendrick... Lamar
Nigga, my name is Kendrick... Lamar
I said my name is Kendrick... Lamar
I changed the name cause I was tired of
being like
y'all
Now finally I'm ready to tell the world who
I are,
pfttuh

And that used to be a hell of a task
Now I'm ahead of my class, so go ahead and
harass
my character like it don't carry a
confidence that can marry a Halle Berry or
Angelina
with no cash
I'm bout to cash in my thoughts
Give you a compass, then tell you get lost
What I'm bout to accomplish is something
that you can't
fathom
Once the 'Eves' come, they quick to stare
'Adam'/at him
Hoping I don't take they bitch, but I'm on
some other
shit
When I'm done, I'm tryna run the government
They are big dreams
Transition from a rapper to a human being,
you can't
'school' a dean
I be tutoring artist-es, leave 'em with no
audience
All cause they all oversaw it, my God
Y'all be out partying, I be stealing your
audience
All because who I are, Lamar

But my first name, it gotta be Kendrick...
Lamar
Nigga, my name is Kendrick... Lamar
I changed the name cause I was tired of
being like
y'all
Now finally I'm ready to tell the world who
I are, now
let's go
But we can't go... backwards