[Intro: Hype man] Is this mic on? Hey! Hey! Turn the mic up! I want the mic We bringing up nobody-nobody-nobody But the number one rapper in the world He done travelled all over the world He came back just to give you some game All the little boys and girls, come up here Come right here, this is for you, come on up Kendrick Lamar! [Intro] I done been through a whole lot Trial, tribulation, but I know God The Devil wanna put me in a bow tie Pray that the holy water don't go dry As I look around me So many motherf**ers wanna down me But enemigo never drown me In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me [Refren - wersja z albumu] (I love myself) When you lookin' at me, tell me what do you see? (I love myself) Ahh, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police (I love myself) Illuminated by the hand of God, boy don't seem shy (I love myself) One day at a time, uhh [Refren - wersja z singla] And I love myself (The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs) I love myself (But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind) I love myself (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide) I love myself (One day at a time, sun gon' shine) [Zwrotka 1] They wanna say it's a war outside, bomb in the street Gun in the hood, mob of police Rock on the corner with a line for the fiend And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scheme uhhh These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation (Come to the front) I duck these cold faces, post up fi-fie-fo-fum basis Dreams of reality's peace Blow steam in the face of the beast Sky could fall down, wind could cry now Look at me motherf**er I smile [Refren] [Zwrotka 2] Everybody lookin' at you crazy (Crazy) What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?) Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving) Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you) Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart On my sleeve, let the runway start You know the miserable do love company What do you want from me and my scars? Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence How many times my potential was anonymous? How many times the city making me promises? So I promise this, n***a [Refren] [Bridge] Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet) Down, down valley deep (Down, down valley deep) Fi-fie-fo-fum (Fi-fie-fo-fum) My heart undone (My heart undone) [Refren] [Zwrotka 3] I went to war last night With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic I'ma do it till I get it right I went to war last night I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave From a negative and letting them annihilate me And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed Finna run into a building, lay my body... [Koniec zwrotki w wersji z singla] Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free Give my story to the children and a lesson they can read And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen Seen enough, make a motherf**er scream, "I love myself!" [Outro] I lost my head I must've misread what the good book said Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside Give myself away 'til the well runs dry (i) [Klaksony samochodów] Tłum się kłóci [Monolog Kendricka] Not on my time, Not while I'm up here Not on my time, k** the music Not on my time We could save that sh** for the streets We could save that sh**, this for the kids bro 2015, n***as tired of playin' victim dawg n***as ain't trying to play vic— TuTu, how many n***as we done lost? Yan-Yan, how many we done lost? No forreal, answer the question, how many n***as we done lost bro? This, this year alone Exactly. So we ain't got time to waste time my n***a n***as gotta make time bro The judge make time, you know that, the judge make time right? The judge make time so it ain't sh** It shouldn't be sh** for us to come out here and appreciate the little bit of life we got left, dawg On the dead homies Charlie P. you know that bro You know that It's mando And I say this because I love you n***as man I love all my n***as bro Exac — enough said, enough said We gon get back to the show and move on, because that sh** petty my n***a Mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check We gon do some acapella sh** before we get back to -- All my n***as listen Listen to this: [Zwrotka Acapella] I promised Dave I'd never use the phrase "f** n***a" He said "think about what you saying: 'f** n***as'" No better than Samuel on D'Jango No better than a white man with slave boats Sound like I needed some soul searching My pop's gave me some game in real person Retrace my steps on what they never taught me Did my home work fast before government caught me So I'ma dedicate this one verse to Oprah On how the infamous, sensitive N-word control us So many artist gave her an explanation to hold us Well this is my explanation straight from Ethiopia N-E-G-U-S definition: royalty; King royalty - wait listen N-E-G-U-S description: Black emperor, King, ruler, now let me finish The history books overlooked the word and hide it America tried to make it to a house divided The homies don't recognize we be using it wrong So I'ma break it down and put my game in the song N-E-G-U-S, say it with me Or say no more. Black stars can come and get me Take it from Oprah Winfrey, tell her she right on time Kendrick Lamar, by far, realest Negus alive Tłumaczenie i adnotacje na Rap Genius Polska