Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar - The Relevant lyrics
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Reporting live, Compton California The good kid I'm tired of doing it the same way, gotta flip it before I ruin it Make it all make sense 'fore you put your two in it Opinions get thrown out the window with Ron Browz So turn me up loud so the world can hear And when your favorite rapper rapping you should cover your ears and go death, go death I said Go death and stay dead, a shot to the forehead to kill 'em But I ain't here for no ignorance I'm militant as Martin Luther King and a penalty Aiming for my dreams till a bullet bounce off one of my deep thoughts and hit a nigga in the spleen I've got in it my genes, you probably think I'm talking bout a pistol but I'm talking bout the blood of a warrior My nigga, what you worry for? I ain't tryna jock your swag I'm tryna better my craft and stay relevant, yeah [Chorus] As time flies, hope that I'm soaring Far from the boring, I'ma tell you why, it's important I'm not the boring, I'ma If I think and act like you do the world will die from not seeing something new And if I don't speak on how I feel the world will lose out on what's really real And if I should die before I wake I pray my music could take my place in the world... The Relevant I'd rather you call me that than a typical artist you call wack on a YouTube blog holding ARs and stacks of ones, but never could be the one to rally communities or lead a crowd of blacks Passion is too strong, I'm pissed off So there's a chance you get pissed on, R. Kelly was in the wrong But that don't make you an exempt That don't make you a no-go from hitting the fence You ain't a blood and damn sure you ain't a crip The crowd yell "hoe" but I ain't a pimp I'm me, I'm free as a five-finger discount See you on the flip side right after I dismount If I ever feel like I ain't pushing myself I'll find a cliff, then push myself off the edge like a barber at the tip of your head That's how I settle it, life or death if I ain't relevant, nigga [Chorus] So feel free to not mind me if you're used to boosters, drug dealers and shooters on wax Cause most of y'all niggas fabricate facts anyway I could easily cheat and let the four-four play like a two-on-two orgy But I've been there and it bores me Got to the point where it did nothing for me At forty I want to afford not to record bullshit in my story And I'm mad young, so I'd rather do it now before my career's done This is pain plus glory, victory is here If I cried, you could see strength and pride in my tears I do it for the kids I do it for the twenty-three hour lockdowns doing time in the pen And my pen is the only thing I got for Hip Hop to change the game and they'll remember my name as The Relevant [Chorus]