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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group__Alright Kendrick Lamar__To Pimp A Butterfly__ 2015 Aftermath_Interscope Top Dawg Entertainment __Released on_ 2015-03-16__Producer_ Pharrell Williams_Producer_ Sounwave_Composer Lyricist_ Kendrick Lamar_Composer Lyricist_ P. Williams_Composer Lyricist_ M. Spears__Auto-generated by YouTube.
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00:00All's my life, I has to fight, nigga. All's my life, I. Hard times like y'all. Bad trips like y'all. Nazareth, I'm fucked up, homie, you fucked up. But if God got us, then we gon' be alright, alright, alright.
00:20Nigga, we gon' be alright. Nigga, we gon' be alright. We gon' be alright. Do you hear me? Do you feel me? We gon' be alright. Nigga, we gon' be alright. Huh? We gon' be alright. Nigga, we gon' be alright. Do you hear me? Do you feel me? We gon' be alright.
00:37Uh, and when I wake up, I recognize you looking at me for the pay cut
00:40Bahamasabi looking at you from the face down
00:43My Mac 11 even ruined with the bass down
00:45Skimming, now let me tell you about my life
00:47Painkillers only put me in the twilight
00:49Where pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight
00:51Now tell my mama I love her, but this is what I like, Lord knows
00:54Twenty of them in my Chevy, tell them all to come and get me
00:57Reaping everything I sow, so my karma come in heaven
00:59No preliminary hearings on my record, I'm a motherfucking gangster
01:02Silence for the record, uh
01:03Tell the world I know it's too late
01:05Poison cause I think I'm gon' crazy
01:07Tryin' inside my face, it's all day
01:10Won't you please believe when I say
01:12When you know, we been hurt, been down before
01:15Nigga, when our pride was low
01:17Lookin' at the world like, where do we go?
01:19Nigga, and we hate pro-po
01:21Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure
01:23Nigga, I miss the preacher's door
01:25My knees getting weak and my gun might blow
01:28But we gon' be alright
01:29Nigga, we gon' be alright
01:31Nigga, we gon' be alright
01:34We gon' be alright
01:36Do you hear me, do you feel me?
01:37We gon' be alright
01:38Nigga, we gon' be alright
01:40Huh?
01:41We gon' be alright
01:42Nigga, we gon' be alright
01:44Do you hear me, do you feel me?
01:46We gon' be alright
01:47What you want?
01:47You a house, you a car
01:48Forty acres and a mule
01:50A piano, a guitar, anything
01:51See, my name is Lucy
01:52I'm your dog
01:53Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
01:55I can see the evil
01:56I can tell it
01:57I know it's illegal
01:57I don't think about it
01:58I deposit every other zero
02:00Thinkin' of my partner
02:00Put the candy, paint it on a regal
02:02Diggin' in my pocket
02:03And a profit big enough to feed you
02:04Every day my logic
02:05Get another dollar
02:06Just to keep you in the presence
02:07Of your cheek
02:07Go, ah!
02:08I don't talk about it
02:09Be about it
02:10Every day a sequel
02:10If I got it
02:11Then you know you got it
02:12Heaven, I can reach you
02:13Pet dog, pet dog, pet dog
02:14My dog, that's all
02:15Big back and chat
02:16I'm trapped in back for y'all
02:17I rap, I black on tracks
02:19I rest assured
02:19My rights, my wrongs
02:20I write till I'm right with God
02:21When you know
02:22We been hurt, been down before
02:24Nigga, when our pride was low
02:27Lookin' at the world
02:28Like, where do we go?
02:29Nigga, and we hate Po-Po
02:31Wanna kill us dead
02:32In the street for sure
02:33Nigga, I met the preachers door
02:35My knees gettin' weak
02:36And my gun might blow
02:37But we gon' be alright
02:39Nigga, we gon' be alright
02:41Nigga, we gon' be alright
02:43We gon' be alright
02:46Do you hear me?
02:46Do you feel me?
02:47We gon' be alright
02:48Nigga, we gon' be alright
02:50Huh?
02:51We gon' be alright
02:52Nigga, we gon' be alright
02:54Do you hear me?
02:55Do you feel me?
02:55We gon' be alright
02:57I keep my head up high, I cross my heart anymore tonight
03:04Love me is complicated, too afraid of life changes
03:09I'm alright in your favor, dark nights in my prayers
03:14I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence
03:18Sometimes I did the same, abusing my power full of resentment
03:23Resentment that turned into a deep depression
03:26Found myself screaming in the hotel room
03:30I didn't want to self-destruct
03:32The evils of Lucy was all around me
03:36So I went running for answers
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