The Heart Part 5 Lyrics

The Heart Part 5 - Kendrick Lamar

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As I get a lil' older

I realize life is perspective

And my perspective may differ from yours

I wanted to say thank you to everybody that's been down with me

For all my fans, all my beautiful fans

Anyone who's ever gave me a listen

All my people

I come from a generation of pain where murder is minor

Rebellious and Margielas'll trip you for designer

Belt buckles and clout, overzealous and prone to violence

Make the wrong turn, be a wheel of the wheel alignment

Residue burn, miss that in inner city

Miscommunication to keep homo' detective busy

No protection is risky

Desensitized, I vandalized pain, covered in camouflage

Get used to hearin' arsenal rain

Analyze, what's your life take to charge?

Homies done fucked your baby momma once you hit the yard, that's culture

Twenty-three hour lockdown that somebody caused

Said your lil' nephew was shot down, the culture's involved

I done seen niggas do seventeen, hit the halfway house

Get out and get his brains blown out, lookin' to buy some weed

Car wash is played out, new GoFundMe accounts'll proceed

A brand new victim, shatter those dreams, the culture

(Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh)

But I want you to want to want me too (Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh)

I want the hood

Come on me, baby (Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh)

I want the hood (Look what all I done for you)

Look what I done for you

Look what I done for you

I said I do this for my culture

To let ya' know what a nigga look like in a bulletproof Rover

Head trigger, walk up closer, ain't no PhotoShoppin'

Friends bipolar, grab you by your pockets

No option if you froze up, always play the offense

Niggas goin' to work and sellin' work, late for work

Workin' late, prayin' for work but he don't pay for work

That's the culture, point the finger, promote ya'

Remote location, witness protection, they gon' hold ya'

The streets got me fucked up, y'all can miss me

I wanna represent for us

New revolution was up and movin'

I'm in Argentina wiping my tears full of confusion, water in between us

Another peer's been executed, history repeats again

Make amends then find a nigga with the same skin to do it

But that's the culture, crack a bottle

Hard to deal with the pain when you sober

By tomorrow we forget the remains, we start over

That's the problem, our foundation was made to accept whatever follows

Dehumanize, insensitive, scrutinize the way we live for you and I

Enemy shook my hand, I could promise I meet you

In a land where no equal is your equal, never said I ain't told you (Nah)

In the land where hurt people hurt more people, fuck callin' it culture

(Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh)

But I want you to want to want me too (Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh)

I want the hood

Come on me, baby (Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh)

I want the hood (Look what all I done for you)

Look what I done for you

Look what I done for you

Take the drums out

(Phew, phew, phew)

Celebrate new life when it come back around

Sacrifice personal gain over everything

Just to see the next generation better than ours

I wasn't perfect, the skin I was

Consciousness is syncronizin', crystal clear

Them same views make schools change curriculums

Should I feel regret about the good I was into?

To my brother, to my kids, I'm in Heaven

To my fans, make sure you make them investments

I seen that pain in your pupil

I completed my mission, wasn't ready to leave

I don't need to be in flesh jsut hug y'all

Celebrate me with respect

Make sure my kids watch all my interviews

Keep that genius in your brain on the move

Look for salvation when

And I can't blame the hood the day I was killed

I want you