Kendrick Lamar’s Interlude

Lyrics

[Produced by Terrace Martin] [Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar] 24/7, 365, motherfucker, I'm still right on time Oh, you thought you had me all figured out? Take it from the horse's mouth, you'll never understand me I told you my Plan B is to win your hearts before we win a Grammy These days, ain't shit changed Different toilet, same shit And I drank a whole gallon of laxatives by accident just to shit on you has-beens Had it been for my past tense, I wouldn't be rapping See, these streets made me Broke me down, built me up, drove me crazy Made me hungry, made you hate me, but fuck love It don't make dollars, it don't make sense, nigga By the way, that's DJ Quik, nigga Respect it or check it These days, I'm a little more focused 'Cause y'all cracked the door and I kicked it open Yellin' "Get the fuck down, or I will shoot, I told you not to motherfucking move" Be another example I'll take the whole industry hostage if I have to I'll sabotage this game A good kid? Yeah, that's only in my mama's eyes I seen a dead body at five and that shit made me traumatized So these days, a little blood on my hands ain't nothing compared to hopping out a minivan With a mini .223 and the homie TuTu, and two more white tees on Oh, nobody got time for that These days, it's only time for rap So Herbert Anthony Stevens, you make or break bread before we break even Before they broke our records, we broke records and wrote pieces of history So these days? These accolades that's meant for we? It's only truth that this shit was meant to be TDE [Chorus: Ab-Soul & JaVonté] Life's still a traffic jam (Life is still a traffic jam) Life's still a traffic jam (Life is still a traffic jam) Life's still a traffic jam (Life is still a traffic jam) Life's still a traffic jam (Ready to go) Life's still a traffic jam (Still ready to go) Life's still a traffic jam (Still ready to go) Life's still a traffic jam Life's still a traffic jam [Verse 2: Ab-Soul] Shit, what more did you expect? HiiiPower For the most part, we go hard for the respect I'm obviously ominous to my competition And if I ain't better than Kendrick, then nobody is, then We shared our life with you Shared our light with you even in the darkest of hours In hopes that one day, just maybe, one day the world'll be ours Ha, and now they look up to us like towers For rhymin' like we had superpowers They should've never let us in these offices Knowing good and god-damn well How well we've been ducking officers Laughing at the scraps they offered us in the past And now we toast champagne to the thirst we never had I had my ups and downs, but I always left right Rest in peace Alori Joh, Top Dawg for life And oh yeah, Soul [Outro: Ab-Soul] Yeah Ayo, Denzel, we took a minute, but we did it, my nigga, for real At minimum, we did it bigger, my nigga Yeah Shout out JaVonté, the velvet vocalist Uh, I'mma just get up outta here and let Terrace Martin finish having sex with the saxophone and shit I'm gone [Interlude: Kendrick Lamar] I watch that fire that we're gathered around and see that it burns similar to the fire that is inside you