Kendrick Lamar - F*ck Your Ethnicity

[00:01.20] Skit]

[00:01.70] Gather around. I'm glad everybody came out tonight. As we stand on our neighborhood corner, know that this fire that's burning represents the passion you have. Listen, Keisha, Tammy, come up front. I recognize all of you. Every creed and color. With that being said... fuck your ethnicity. You understand that? We gon' talk about a lot of shit that concerns you. All of you...

[00:35.95] Now everybody, throw your hands up high

[00:36.44] If you don't give a fuck, throw your hands up high

[00:55.45] Now I don't give a fuck if you

[00:56.97] Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, goddammit

[00:59.92] That don't mean shit to me

[01:01.48] Fuck your ethnicity, nigga

[01:03.70] Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life

[01:06.47] Y'all be calling it hip-hop, I be calling it hypnotize

[01:09.44] Yeah, hypnotize, trapped my body but freed my mind

[01:12.94] What the fuck are you fighting for? Ain't nobody gon' win that war

[01:16.22] My details be retail, man, I got so much in store

[01:20.70] Racism is still alive, yellow tape and colored lines

[01:23.95] Fuck that, nigga look at that line, it's so diverse

[01:25.98] They getting off work and they wanna see Kendrick

[01:28.20] Everybody can't drive Benz's, and I been there, so I make it my business

[01:31.20] To give 'em my full attention, ten-hut! Man, I gotta get my wind up

[01:34.43] Man, I gotta get down with God cause I got my sins up

[01:37.93] Matter of fact, don't mistake me for no fucking rapper

[01:41.45] They sit backstage and hide behind the fucking cameras

[01:44.70] I mosh pit, had a microphone and I tossed it

[01:47.73] Had a brain, then I lost it, I'm out of my mind

[01:50.70] So don't you mind how much the cost is, penny for my thoughts

[01:53.95] Everybody, please hold up your wallets

[01:55.70] Yeah man, I'm the mailman, can't you tell, man?

[01:59.18] Going postal, never freeze up, when I approach you

[02:02.18] That's starstruck and roast you, oh my

[02:03.70] HiiiPower

[02:08.20] Reporting live from Planet Terminator X

[02:11.20] I saw Martin Luther King with an AK-47

[02:14.70] Now I don't give a fuck if you

[02:16.23] Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, goddammit

[02:19.21] That don't mean shit to me

[02:20.70] Fuck your ethnicity, nigga

[02:23.20] I'm tired of y'all, cause everybody lied to y'all

[02:25.95] And you believe it? Recognize them false achievements

[02:29.22] It's treason and I'm Tylenol, I knock out when you knock it off

[02:32.45] Knock on the doors of opportunity, I'm too involved

[02:35.45] I'm no activist, I'm no Einstein before calculus

[02:38.68] I was kicking that math, dropping that science

[02:40.94] Like an alchemist, and I be kicking that ass, lyrically I'm UFC

[02:45.23] If a UFO had came for me, I'ma come back with the head of an alien

[02:48.24] Don't alienate my dreams, get it right

[02:51.19] Get a life, I got two, that's a metaphor for the big shit I do

[02:54.71] Boy, TMI, TSA, man I'm fly, put wings on my back

[02:58.95] That a plane or an angel? Both like a pilot with a halo, whoa... gross

[03:03.48] I mean, I've seen so many things come through them, him, her, you

[03:10.20] I'm just a messenger, yeah, I know life's a bitch, get the best of her

[03:16.45] Put them 3's up, they notice that we up, HiiiPower

[03:20.20] And the power in the people and if they don't believe us

[03:23.23] They'll die

[03:28.97] Wizard

[03:33.68] Now I don't give a fuck if you

[03:35.45] Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, goddammit

[03:38.73] That don't mean shit to me

[03:40.45] Fuck your ethnicity, nigga