Kendrick Lamar is a 24-year old emcee from Compton, California who has been on the rise lately. He notes Tupac Shakur as his main inspiration, and many of his songs carry the same messages and emotions. In this powerful ballad about a woman's life and death as a prostitute, he even references Shakur's "Brenda's Got a Baby". It's off his new album Section.80 which is available now on iTunes. Also, his 2010 mixtape O.Verly D.Edicated is available on datPiff for free download. Let me know what you think in the comments; I highly doubt this is the last you'll hear of this amazing artist.
Lyrics:
[Hook]
Fancy girls
On Long Beach Blvd
Flagging down
All of these flashy cars
[Verse 1 - Kendrick Lamar]
And Lord knows she’s beautiful
Lord knows the usuals
Leaving her body sore
She take the little change she make
To fix her nail cuticles, lipstick is suitable
To make you fiend for more
She play Mr. Shakur
That’s her favorite rapper
Bumping “Brenda’s Got A Baby”
While a pervert yelling at her
And she capture features of a woman
But only 17 and 7 cars start honkin’
She start running like FLo-Jo
Don’t care if they Joe Blow
If they got money to blow a blow job is a sure go
And sure enough don’t see a dime of dirty dollars
She givin’ all to her daddy but she don’t know her father, that’s ironic
See a block away from Lueders park, I seen the El Camino parked
In her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where
Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
Rosa Parks never a factor when she making ends meet
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
And Lord knows she’s beautiful
Lord knows the usuals, leaving a body sore
Her anatomy is God’s temple, and it’s quite simple
Her castle is about to be destroyed, she’s always paranoid
Watching the law inside the streets undercovers the dummies that look like decoys
Remember, sergeant let her slide, said if he seen
What’s between her thighs he’d compromise, to no surprise
She took the ultimatum around the alleyway and gave him
A warm welcome to fill him right below the navel
Though he was wired up like a pair of jumping cables
His eyes was closed shut, prior charges, he had waived em
It was a block away from Lueders Park, I seen a squad car parked
And in her heart, she hate it there but in her mind, she made it where
Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
Cause Rosa Parks never a factor when she topping off police
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
And Lord knows she’s beautiful
Lord knows the usuals, leaving a body sore
As she bust down like a 12 bunk on tour
She suddenly realized she’ll never escape the allure
Of the black man, white man, needed satisfaction, at first
It became a practice, but now she’s numb to it
Sometimes she wonder if she can do it like nuns do it
But she never heard of Catholic religion or sinners’ redemption
That sounds foolish, and you can blame it on her mother
For letting her boyfriend slide candy under her cover
Ten months before she was ten he moved in and that’s when he touched her
This muthaf-cka is the f-cking reason why Keisha rushing through that
Block away from Lueders park, I seen a El Camino park
And in her heart she hate it there but in her mind, she made it where
Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
And caught a knife inside the bladder, left her dead, raped in the street
Keisha’s song
My little sister eleven, I looked her right in the face
The day that I wrote this song, set her down and pressed play
[Hook]
1 comments:
Great song!
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