[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.08]Kendrick Lamar - Kendrick Lamar [00:00.37]I can tell you what it is [00:01.74]I can tell you what it isn't [00:03.58]No more K  Dot [00:04.74]My mother had named me Kendrick [00:06.39]F**k a stage name [00:07.34]That's the name that I was given [00:08.81]The only thing that I can identify [00:10.69]Within this bidness [00:11.77]I'm just a good kid from Compton [00:13.57]That want to rap [00:14.87]Weighing my options [00:15.72]Pick up a Bible or a strap [00:17.60]I never killed a man [00:18.61]Never sold any crack [00:20.22]All I ever did was [00:21.14]Try to keep my city on the map [00:23.06]But this monkey on my back [00:24.71]Y'all don't want me to win [00:26.13]I'm tryna follow dreams [00:27.20]You want me to follow trends [00:28.75]So just to get a dollar [00:30.02]Will I sell my soul [00:31.42]I look the Devil in the eye [00:32.81]And tell him  hell no [00:34.31]They say anything [00:35.46]Worth having is worth the wait [00:37.46]Well I want the world [00:38.59]Tell me how long that takes [00:40.27]There's no time like now [00:42.37]I can cut my patients short [00:43.77]Or give 'em some more gowns [00:45.31]I don't even want the crown [00:46.54]I just want a peace of mind [00:48.18]And ni**a  when I get it [00:49.31]You won't get a piece of mine [00:50.86]Won't you mind your own bidness [00:52.92]A rich ni**a buy anything you sell him [00:55.41]A broke ni**a believe anything [00:56.97]That you tell him [00:58.10]Well I'm a broke ni**a [00:59.61]But still I wouldn't listen to you [01:01.00]Even if your hand was on a Bible quote [01:03.39]Ni**a [01:04.16]Pfttuh [01:04.68]See I was brought up different [01:06.55]Whatever that my pops said [01:07.85]For sure I'd listen [01:09.37]You said you did dirt [01:10.74]But I can't dig it [01:12.35]It don't concern you [01:13.50]If you wasn't born in it [01:15.09]Oh-no-oh-oh [01:16.90]I swear we got to fast-forward [01:19.17]Before time flies by [01:20.78]My new sound for '0-10 is  why lie [01:23.61]And if you ain't trying to win [01:25.35]Then why try [01:26.51]Now you can low-ball [01:27.56]Or give me high five [01:29.17]This is I ni**a  look into my eye [01:31.31]Ni**a  I am Kendrick [01:34.80]Lamar [01:36.78]Ni**a  my name is Kendrick [01:40.49]Lamar [01:42.39]I said my name is Kendrick [01:46.20]Lamar [01:48.86]I changed the name [01:49.68]Cause I was tired of being like y'all [01:51.75]Now finally I'm ready to tell the world [01:53.78]Who I are  pfttuh [01:55.23]And that used to be a hell of a task [01:57.27]Now I'm ahead of my class [01:58.70]So go ahead and harass [02:01.32]My character like it don't carry a [02:02.81]Confidence that can marry a Halle Berry [02:05.11]Or Angelina with no cash [02:07.39]I'm bout to cash in my thoughts [02:09.39]Give you a compass [02:10.38]Then tell you get lost [02:11.86]What I'm bout to accomplish is something [02:13.77]That you can't fathom [02:15.20]Once the 'Eves' come [02:16.52]They quick to stare at him [02:18.15]Hoping I don't take they b**ch [02:19.44]But I'm on some other sh*t [02:21.00]When I'm done [02:21.56]I'm tryna run the government [02:23.02]They are big dreams [02:24.56]Transition from a rapper to a human being [02:27.25]You can't 'school' a dean [02:28.71]I be tutoring artist-es [02:30.16]Leave 'em with no audience [02:31.85]All cause they all oversaw it  my God [02:34.82]Y'all be out partying [02:35.86]I be stealing your audience [02:37.68]All because who I are  Lamar [02:42.34]But my first name [02:45.31]It gotta be Kendrick [02:48.74]Lamar [02:50.66]Ni**a  my name is Kendrick [02:54.34]Lamar [02:56.98]I changed the name [02:57.83]Cause I was tired of being like y'all [02:59.98]Now finally I'm ready to tell the world [03:01.88]Who I are  now let's go [03:04.99]But we can't go backwards