[ti:Shadow of Death]
[ar:Schoolboy Q/Kendrick Lamar/Ab-Soul/Jay Rock]
[al:Schoolboy Q]
[by:]
[00:00.00]Black Hippy - Shadow of Death (Bonus) (Explicit) - Jay Rock
[00:20.59]Yeah los angeles 'welcome to the terrordome'
[00:23.55]City of Satan angels can't even get along
[00:26.31]No lie my town covered in darkness
[00:28.59]Hoping that the sun just shine on us
[00:30.63]Rolling up the kush now I'm letting my mind wander
[00:33.07]Into another place I ain't tryna go down under
[00:35.66]Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it
[00:38.08]Sh*t never fair strays hitting the innocent
[00:40.59]The good die young where I'm from and it's sad to say
[00:43.69]That somebody gotta die today
[00:46.24]Tomorrow's never promised but we living for the moment
[00:49.00]Ni**a time never stops it just keeps on going
[00:51.54]Crackers just gave my young ni**a four life sentences
[00:54.27]Twenty five times four ni**a do the math
[00:57.53]And the hood never have witnesses
[00:59.48]Cause if we did then them shots gon' blast
[01:02.61]As I reflect I start realising I wanna
[01:07.83]Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends
[01:12.36]This ain't the way my life bout to end
[01:14.74]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
[01:17.52]Give 'em something my people sure to feel
[01:19.88]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real
[01:22.85]Just waking up mind playing tricks on me
[01:25.56]Got the fifth on me gotta take a risk homie
[01:27.91]Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me
[01:30.58]Keep it real I could take you down the list homie
[01:33.09]Be a tradition see these chucks be a mission
[01:35.15]Burner be the fuel to the flame the key to the ignition
[01:37.64]If you banging be serious
[01:39.28]Boys run up in your pad point blank period moms ain't hearing it
[01:43.14]Niggas said 'cuz lil ni**a got blasted
[01:45.76]Oh well give a sh*t shouldn't half assed it
[01:48.30]Only time you with it when your niggas all tripping
[01:50.81]Caught your a** slipping now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping
[01:53.99]Riding through the city in lights living it trife
[01:56.32]Wrong intersection ready to fight
[01:58.16]Hopping out with my own agenda who the contender
[02:01.13]Better hope this motherf**ker jam blahh
[02:04.22]As I reflect I start realising I wanna
[02:09.44]Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends
[02:13.98]This ain't the way my life bout to end
[02:16.40]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
[02:19.06]Give 'em something my people sure to feel
[02:21.55]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real
[02:23.89]Uh as I'm hearing the first and second verse
[02:26.82]I try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song
[02:29.33]I want to tell rock and q to go to church
[02:31.84]But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long
[02:34.41]I stare at the world from a righteous point of view
[02:36.85]And realise a crisis coming
[02:38.69]Novocain couldn't numb it the pain is unbearable times two
[02:41.92]Let's rally a team summon and school the youth
[02:44.63]How you feel about it
[02:45.70]Man I feel the same way as you
[02:47.36]It hurts my soul like a needle piercing through the bottom of my shoe
[02:50.92]And if you behind bars
[02:52.72]Hold your head pause
[02:55.32]And if you in close range with a ni**a with a gun in his waste
[02:58.38]I pray the intervention is divine
[03:00.37]I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven
[03:03.61]But earlier than expected what the hell
[03:05.88]As I reflect I start realising I wanna
[03:11.11]Make a way one day for me and my momma family and friends
[03:15.63]This ain't the way my life bout to end
[03:18.03]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and
[03:20.67]Give 'em something my people sure to feel
[03:23.17]Give 'em something that I know is all the way real