Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5

[00:08.12] As I get a little older, I realize life is perspective

[00:16.89] And my perspective may differ from yours

[00:21.12] I wanna say thank you to everyone that's been down with me

[00:27.06] All my fans, all my beautiful fans

[00:31.85] Anyone who's ever gave me a listen, all my people

[00:38.63] come from a generation of pain, where murder is minor

[00:41.17] Rebellious and Margielas'll chip you for designer

[00:43.72] Belt buckles and clout, overzealous if prone to violence

[00:46.26] Make the wrong turn, be a will of the wheel alignment

[00:48.51] Residue burned, missed at a inner-city

[00:50.49] Miscommunication to keep homi' detective busy

[00:53.02] No protection is risky

[00:54.15] Desensitized, I vandalized pain

[00:56.13] Covered up and camouflaged

[00:57.82] Get used to hearin' arsenal rain

[00:59.23] Analyze, risk your life, take the charge

[01:00.92] Homies done fucked your baby mama once you hit the yard, that's culture

[01:04.32] Twenty-three hour lockdown, then somebody called

[01:06.29] Said your lil' nephew was shot down, the culture's involved

[01:08.83] I done seen niggas do seventeen, hit the halfway house

[01:11.67] Get out and get his brains blown out, lookin' to buy some weed

[01:14.21] Car wash is played out, new GoFundMe accounts'll proceed

[01:17.03] A brand-new victim'll shatter those dreams, the culture

[01:25.82] But I want you to want me too (I want, I want, I want, I want)

[01:31.45] I want the hood to want me back (I want, I want, I want, I want)

[01:34.85] I want the hood

[01:36.26] Look what I done for you (look what I done for you)

[01:40.23] Look what I done for you

[01:43.34] I said I do this for my culture

[01:44.76] To let y'all know what a nigga look like in a bulletproof Rover

[01:48.14] In my mama's sofa was a doo-doo popper

[01:50.96] Head tricker, walk up closer

[01:52.09] Ain't no Photoshoppin'

[01:53.22] Friends bipolar, grab you by your pockets

[01:55.48] No option if you froze up, always play the offense

[01:58.02] Niggas goin' to work and sellin' work, late for work

[02:00.85] Workin' late, prayin' for work, but he on paperwork

[02:03.40] That's the culture, point the finger, promote ya

[02:05.65] Remote location, witness protection, they gon' hold ya

[02:07.91] The streets got me fucked up, y'all can miss me

[02:10.46] I wanna represent for us

[02:11.87] New revolution was up and movin'

[02:14.70] I'm in Argentina wiping my tears full of confusion

[02:16.68] Water in between us, another peer's been executed

[02:18.95] History repeats again

[02:20.08] Make amends, then find a nigga with the same skin to do it

[02:23.77] But that's the culture, crack a bottle

[02:25.76] Hard to deal with the pain when you're sober

[02:27.45] By tomorrow, we forget the remains, we start over

[02:30.01] That's the problem

[02:30.57] Our foundation was trained to accept whatever follows

[02:33.11] Dehumanize, insensitive

[02:35.67] Scrutinize the way we live for you and I

[02:37.37] Enemies shook my hand, I can promise I'll meet you

[02:39.91] In a land where no equal is your equal

[02:41.61] Never say I ain't told ya, nah

[02:44.44] In the land where hurt people hurt more people

[02:46.42] Fuck callin' it culture

[02:50.10] But I want you to want me too (I want, I want, I want, I want)

[02:59.70] I want the hood to want me back (I want, I want, I want, I want)

[03:03.09] I want the hood

[03:04.50] Look what I done for you (look what I done for you)

[03:07.61] Look what I done for you

[03:11.58] Take the drums out

[03:32.20] Celebrate new life when it come back around

[03:34.19] The purpose is in the lessons we learnin' now

[03:36.45] Sacrifice personal gain over everything

[03:38.71] Just to see the next generation better than ours

[03:41.26] I wasn't perfect, the skin I was in had truly suffered

[03:43.53] Temptation and patience, everything that the body nurtures

[03:46.08] I felt the good, I felt the bad, and I felt the worry

[03:48.63] But all-in-all, my productivity had stayed urgent

[03:51.17] Face your fears, always knew that I would make it here

[03:53.43] Where the energy is magnified and persevered

[03:56.55] Consciousness is synchronized and crystal clear

[03:58.53] Euphoria is glorified and made His

[04:01.08] Reflectin' on my life and what I done

[04:03.06] Paid dues, made rules, change outta love

[04:05.61] Them same views made schools change curriculums

[04:07.87] But didn't change me starin' down the barrel of that gun

[04:10.41] Should I feel resentful I didn't see my full potential?

[04:12.96] Should I feel regret about the good that I was into?

[04:15.22] Everything is everything, this ain't coincidental

[04:17.77] I woke up that morning with more heart to give you

[04:20.32] As I bleed through the speakers, feel my presence

[04:22.30] To my brother, to my kids, I'm in Heaven

[04:24.85] To my mother, to my sis, I'm in Heaven

[04:27.39] To my father, to my wife, I am serious, this is Heaven

[04:29.66] To my friends, make sure you countin' them blessings

[04:32.21] To my fans, make sure you make them investments

[04:34.48] And to the killer that sped up my demise

[04:36.74] I forgive you, just know your soul's in question

[04:39.57] I seen the pain in your pupil when that trigger had squeezed

[04:41.84] And though you did me gruesome, I was surely relieved

[04:44.38] I completed my mission, wasn't ready to leave

[04:46.93] But fulfilled my days, my Creator was pleased

[04:49.48] I can't stress how I love y'all

[04:51.46] I don't need to be in flesh just to hug y'all

[04:53.72] The memories recollect just because y'all

[04:56.26] Celebrate me with respect

[04:57.68] The unity we protect is above all

[04:59.67] And Sam, I'll be watchin' over you

[05:01.92] Make sure my kids watch all my interviews

[05:04.48] Make sure you live all the dreams we produce

[05:06.75] Keep that genius in your brain on the move

[05:09.58] And to my neighborhood, let the good prevail

[05:11.84] Make sure them babies and the leaders outta jail

[05:14.38] Look for salvation when troubles get real

[05:16.66] 'Cause you can't help the world until you help yourself

[05:19.21] And I can't blame the hood the day that I was killed

[05:21.76] Y'all had to see it, that's the only way to feel

[05:24.31] And though my physical won't reap the benefits

[05:26.31] The energy that carry on emits still

[05:28.57] I want you