Textbook Stuff-XV/Kendrick Lamar

[ti:Textbook Stuff (Feat. Kendrick Lamar) (Prod. By Seven)] [ar:XV] [al:Zero Heroes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.32]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:03.94] [00:04.77]It's in the ABC of growing up [00:09.18] [00:11.20]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:15.04] [00:15.85]It's in the ABC of growing up [00:20.21] [00:22.01]Yeah three women raised me [00:23.71]Famous footwear paid me [00:24.59]Not enough to blow up but sure enough [00:26.05]Cause I ain't f-cking lazy [00:27.18]If teachers thought I was dumb or crazy or both [00:30.40]With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z I smoked [00:33.21]In my chair in my braids my hair wasn't waves [00:35.66]Being fly was priority to the lowest [00:37.86]I would stand on my desk just to seethe [00:40.37]World in a different way [00:41.39]The dead society of a poet [00:43.01] [00:43.70]Homie I'm focused but thats something [00:45.54]That a dude can't prove [00:46.91]I mean fair I was damn near invisible at school [00:49.73]So I banged for a minute cause [00:51.21] [00:51.71]All my n-ggas was crippin' [00:52.59]Just me and two of my dudes blue man group [00:55.00]Had dreams of doing things they said you can't do [00:57.72]Cause everything ain't black and white [00:59.40]Unless you chew bamboo [01:00.62]So I was after big bills like a toucan dude [01:03.35]All the while my mamma asking why [01:05.07]I'm chewing at school [01:06.23]She said [01:06.84]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [01:10.01] [01:10.79]It's in the ABC of growing up [01:15.37] [01:17.52]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [01:21.14] [01:21.93]It's in the ABC of growing u [01:26.57] [01:28.93]So why I ain't go to college [01:30.64]My mammas ultimatum made me say that I know I got it [01:33.30]My n-ggas said D's buggin' [01:34.93]Stay on your computer software de-buggin' [01:36.72] [01:37.25]But we holding hardware cause we thuggin' [01:38.98] [01:39.72]Now they in the trap house [01:40.99]With some guns they dun borrowed [01:42.08]And all this snow I call it empty sorrow [01:44.72]With plans to reach the end even if [01:46.83]I had to start slow [01:47.93]Sold CD's in the mall making dough like Sbarro's [01:50.28]Then I left the hood like f-ck it [01:52.26]Don't need the cargo [01:53.45]They banking out on you well [01:54.68]And I don't mean Fargo [01:56.10]But even if you leave somehow it try to follow [01:58.47]Baby brother took a charge hotter than Lebron and Rondo [02:00.40]Tryna keep his head up while his eyes are in the bible [02:03.71]Cause they say your mind is idol [02:05.56]It's a devils toy aisle [02:06.89]My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol [02:09.42]I told him sit down this information is vital [02:12.22]Look [02:12.43] [02:13.04]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [02:16.10] [02:17.05]It's in the ABC of growing up [02:21.86] [02:23.77]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [02:27.48] [02:28.44]It's in the ABC of growing u [02:32.80] [02:35.64]Living my life like I'm living right [02:37.28]In the midst of a fire pit [02:38.55]The gang banging and the violence [02:39.88]Is the sweetest song [02:40.76]In a room with the heart of a violin [02:42.46]Don't violate my patience I'm waiting [02:43.69] [02:44.81]To kill a man as I stare at the celiing fan [02:46.78]As a fan of these wicked streets [02:48.25]If I gotta eat I steal like a metal peice [02:50.50]Screaming now f-ck the police [02:52.05]I'm dealing my cards with jokers on 'em [02:53.65]You can disown him or stone him [02:55.26]I'm throwin' them rocks back with a [02:56.70]Flurry of bullets [02:57.32]You couldn't live your life for the moment [02:58.74]When I'm foaming at the mouth [03:00.08] [03:00.66]I'm as sharp as the teeth showing [03:02.16]I'm in the back of a black Buick [03:03.66]Finna black out like February [03:04.54]Ay thats how blacks do it right [03:06.33] [03:07.22]I cut off my ears before I hear [03:08.80]Your advice and vice versa [03:09.77]I'm screaming for help as loud as [03:11.32]I can but thats not working [03:12.52]I'm working them corners like Blueprints [03:13.88]Then cut a L on my first offence [03:16.27]The judge threw the book at me than said this [03:18.61] [03:19.95]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [03:22.42] [03:23.09]It's in the ABC of growing up [03:27.89] [03:29.73]There there baby it's just textbook stuff [03:33.76] [03:34.31]It's in the ABC of growing u [03:38.78] [03:40.75]Textbook Stuff (Feat Kendrick Lamar) (Prod By Seven) - XV