DUCKWORTH. (Explicit)-Kendrick Lamar

[ti:DUCKWORTH. (Clean)] [ar:Kendrick Lamar] [al:DAMN. COLLECTORS EDITION.] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]DUCKWORTH. (Explicit) - Kendrick Lamar [00:00.02]Lyrics by：Don D. Robey/John King/Johnny Flippin/Kendrick Lamar/George Williams/Perrin Moss/Paul Bender/Simon Mavin/Naomi Saalfield/Joseph W. Scott/Jean Matyka/Bill Curtis/Earl Shelton/Richard Cornwell/Adolf Topic/Pero Ugrin/Janez Boncina [00:00.03]Composed by：Don D. Robey/John King/Johnny Flippin/Kendrick Lamar/George Williams/Perrin Moss/Paul Bender/Simon Mavin/Naomi Saalfield/Joseph W. Scott/Jean Matyka/Bill Curtis/Earl Shelton/Richard Cornwell/Adolf Topic/Pero Ugrin/Janez Boncina [00:00.03]Bēkon/Kid Capri： [00:00.47]It was always me vs the world [00:06.34]Until I found it's me vs me [00:11.37]Why why why why [00:14.56]Why why why why [00:17.54]Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth [00:22.06]We gon' put it in reverse [00:26.81]Ted Taylor： [00:28.44]Darling I told you many times [00:32.26]And I am telling you once again [00:35.82]Just to remind you sweetheart [00:37.98]That my [00:39.25]Kendrick Lamar： [00:40.39]Oh Lamar Hail Mary and m*******a times is hard [00:44.11]Pray with the hooligans shadows all in the dark [00:46.61]Fellowship with demons and relatives I'm a star [00:49.54]Life is one funny motha [00:51.36]A true comedian you gotta love him you gotta trust him [00:54.43]I might be buggin' infomercials and no sleep [00:56.83]Introverted by my thoughts children listen it gets deep [00:59.42]See once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects [01:02.24]The object was to process and digest poverty's dialect [01:05.40]Adaptation inevitable gun violence crack spot [01:08.71]Federal policies raid buildings and ** professionals [01:11.22]Anthony was the oldest of seven [01:13.00]Well respected calm and collected [01:15.71]Laughin' and jokin' made life easier hard times momma on crack [01:19.23]A four year old tellin' his nanny he needed her [01:21.97]His family history pimpin' and bangin' [01:24.03]He was meant to be dangerous [01:25.60]Clocked him a grip and start slangin' [01:27.37]Fifteen scrapin' up his jeans with quarter pieces [01:30.19]Even got some head from a smoker last weekend [01:32.40]Dodged a policeman workin' for his big homie [01:34.46]Small time hustler graduated to a brick on him [01:37.20]10000 dollars out of a project housing that's on the daily [01:40.34]Seen his first mil twenty years old had a couple of babies [01:43.01]Had a couple of shooters [01:44.25]Caught a murder case fingerprints on the gun they assumin' [01:46.83]But witnesses couldn't prove it [01:49.01]That was back when he turned his back and they killed his cousin [01:51.83]He beat the case and went back to hustlin' [01:53.79]Bird shufflin' Anthony rang [01:55.85]The first in the projects with the two tone mustang [01:58.46]That 5.0 thing they say 5 0 came [02:01.21]Circlin' parking lots and parking spots [02:03.03]And hoppin' out while harrassin' the corner blocks [02:05.16]Crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it [02:07.47]He brushed 'em off and walked back to the kentucky fried chicken [02:10.07]See at this chicken spot [02:10.99]There was a light skinned that talked a lot [02:13.03]With a curly top and a gap in his teeth [02:14.86]He worked the window his name was ducky [02:16.47]He came from the streets the robert taylor homes [02:18.60]Southside projects chiraq the terror dome [02:21.27]Drove to California with a woman on him and 500 dollars [02:24.21]They had a son hopin' that he'd see college [02:26.30]Hustlin' on the side with a nine to five to freak it [02:29.40]Cadillac Seville he'd ride his son around on weekends [02:32.04]Three piece special with his name on the shirt pocket [02:34.61]'Cross the street from the projects Anthony planned to rob it [02:37.58]Stuck up the place before back in '84 [02:39.83]That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war [02:42.56]So many relatives tellin' us sellin' us devilish works [02:45.61]Killin' us crime intelligent felonious [02:47.49]Prevalent proposition with 9's [02:49.69]Ducky was well aware [02:51.01]They robbed the manager and shot a customer last year [02:53.67]He figured he'd get on these good sides [02:55.91]Free chicken every time Anthony posted in line [02:58.53]Two extra biscuits Anthony liked him and then let him slide [03:01.36]They didn't kill him in fact it look like they're the last to survive [03:04.27]Pay attention that one decision changed both of they lives [03:06.96]One curse at a time [03:08.01]Reverse the manifest and good karma and I'll tell you why [03:10.76]You take two strangers and put 'em in random predicaments [03:13.70]Give 'em a soul so they can make their own choices and live with it [03:16.40]Twenty years later them same strangers you make 'em meet again [03:19.14]Inside recording studios where they reapin' their benefits [03:21.98]Then you start remindin' them about that chicken incident [03:24.67]Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence [03:27.50]Because if Anthony killed ducky top dawg could be servin' life [03:30.47]While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight [03:55.14]So I was takin' a walk the other day