所属专辑:Kendrick Lamar
歌手: Kendrick Lamar
时长: 04:00
Uncle Bobby and Jason Keaton - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)[00:00:00]
I was sitting on the couch reading yellow paper[00:00:11]
A letter in reply [00:00:14]
7 days later after I wrote 'em[00:00:15]
"Stay strong keep your faith in God " what I told him[00:00:18]
Hoping that he's listening[00:00:21]
Said that they tried to give him[00:00:23]
Like a hundred years[00:00:24]
What a coincidence I was bumping some Plies[00:00:26]
I can taste the salt from my tears[00:00:29]
As the water had start to flood on my eyes[00:00:32]
I know it gotta be hard being 21[00:00:34]
Doing time in the pen and your Gram's old[00:00:37]
Your brother's getting older[00:00:40]
And the streets is getting colder[00:00:41]
And your hoping[00:00:42]
That he's focused to stay on the right road[00:00:43]
Sleeping in a cell it's been 30 weeks[00:00:45]
Ain't recieved any mail[00:00:48]
It's cold and the hole stinks[00:00:49]
And you can't even blink without niggas testing your life[00:00:51]
As I read every word that you write I can only imagine[00:00:54]
Jason Keaton I can only imagine[00:00:59]
Life's about decisions man[00:01:09]
It's in your hand and you got it[00:01:12]
Just take control if you can[00:01:15]
It's in your hand and you got it[00:01:17]
Sitting on the couch that was my Uncle Bobby[00:01:20]
After he just got out 15 years to count[00:01:23]
Haven't seen the world in so long[00:01:25]
Haven't seen a girl in so long[00:01:27]
And before the sun came up he was gone[00:01:29]
Like a fiend off the best rock[00:01:31]
Trying to get his life together or what not[00:01:33]
Typed his name in the system[00:01:36]
And they couldn't find his identity[00:01:38]
Got it straight got a place [00:01:39]
Found some serenity[00:01:41]
Found a job [00:01:42]
Found his Mother's grave site [00:01:43]
Found a 40 ounce[00:01:44]
Then he found God [00:01:46]
Then he bounced [00:01:47]
Then he found a new chick[00:01:48]
Two kids wide hips [00:01:49]
Found something in her we didn't see[00:01:50]
Found this spot in Pasadena and shack with her [00:01:53]
An investment[00:01:55]
Then found guilty [00:01:57]
Somebody had yelled domestic[00:01:58]
Violence on my Uncle [00:01:59]
Was working with two strikes[00:02:01]
Only out a year now facing life[00:02:02]
I can only imagine[00:02:04]
That's f**ked up[00:02:07]
I can only imagine Uncle Bob[00:02:10]
Life's about decisions man[00:02:17]
It's in your hand and you got it[00:02:20]
Just take control if you can[00:02:23]
It's in your hand and you got it[00:02:25]
Sitting on the couch [00:02:28]
Thinking about the ratio[00:02:29]
Of blacks in prison as compact in prison[00:02:30]
When blacks pack with minorities[00:02:33]
System grab more of these 18 year olds[00:02:35]
18 year sentence with no parole[00:02:38]
The state won't oversee[00:02:40]
They make the term severe a conspiracy [00:02:42]
That's what I call it [00:02:45]
It's full of shit[00:02:46]
A toilet can help quick [00:02:47]
The government help [00:02:48]
No just put us on death row[00:02:49]
Just give us some more guns [00:02:51]
Then give us some more coke[00:02:52]
Then give us another chair [00:02:54]
Then give us some more rope[00:02:55]
Then hang it like right there yeah[00:02:56]
It's justice for all but 90 percent unfair[00:02:59]
Care No[00:03:02]
Alcatraz was purchased by a white man[00:03:03]
For 5 grand with intentions to expand[00:03:05]
More prisons[00:03:08]
So these correctionals ain't for rehabilitation[00:03:08]
They for grossing a bigger business[00:03:11]
Imagine[00:03:13]
We're being used[00:03:16]
Imagine[00:03:19]
The truth shall be told[00:03:23]
Life's about decisions man[00:03:25]
It's in your hand and you got it[00:03:28]
Just take control if you can[00:03:31]
It's in your hand and you got it[00:03:33]