Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Game
The Game
Vocals
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu
Sampled Artist
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar
Vocals
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bongo
Bongo
Producer
Mauricio Iragorri
Mauricio Iragorri
Mastering Engineer
Steve Daniel Baughman
Steve Daniel Baughman
Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Back when Dot was hangin' out at Top's in the Benzo
Freestylin' to them Chronic instrumentals, no pens and pencils
I was out there **** like a minstrel
With a Backwood clenched between my dentals, way back when
When we was outside with the indo
Hot**** rentals in front of Centennial, remedial thoughts
Never thought that I would amount to ****
Smoke ****, **** ****, ride around bouncin' ****
From Impalas to that Harley truck, to dishraggin' ****
That was how the **** I came up, it was hardly luck
Just left Compton, and I ain't have to use my A****
What a day, what a day
[Verse 2]
Back when my driver's license was baby-faced and triflin'
I made my way through crisis
I made my tape and recorded portraits in front of sirens
I made you hate the vibrant
You can't escape the tyrant
You can't relate where I've been
In '98 my problem, actin' too grown and ****
Cappin' at ****, yeah, my religion through songs and ****
On me, that's on me
Raise up, ****, you are not the homie
****, I'm well connected from my section down to Long Beach
Fumblin' with Tetris if you're Black, neglectin' your kid
Every day I wake up with my face up to my father
Makin' sure my heart is pure enough to grow my seed and harvest
All my green and stuff and double up my plantation with dollar
Every dream is such reality, my déjà vu done caught up
****, I'm brought up with the homies, that's on me
24/7, Kendrick revvin' these cold streets
Don't we live by it, die by it, then reincarnate
And if Game told me, drive by it, I raise AK
Ain't no shame on it, cry about it, **** that, I play
Like no name on it, blindsided, ain't no one safe
Documentary had identities of where I'm from
Therefore my energy had to make sure the better me won
It ain't no better one, son, it ain't no tellin' me nothin'
****, it's Chuck, Doc Dre, and K, the legacy's done, blaow!
[Bridge]
Oh man, you thought these **** with attitude would show gratitude?
Fooled you
From 2015 to infinity
It's still bomb weed and Hennessy
I can pimp a butterfly for the energy
Game, I need acapella
Here I go, give me a minute, ****
[Verse 3]
'Bout to hit a home run, K, Dot, grab the pennant, ****
Pin it on my Pendleton, trap late night, Jay Leno them
Got my momma a tennis bracelet, Wimbledon on Wilmington
Now can I rap for a minute? Black on the track for a minute
Look in my rhyme book, see murder like when I was a fan of No Limit
Ain't no gimmicks 'round here, this is Compton, Me, Doc, and Kendrick
Chronic, good kid, my first year, three documentaries
Now I'm blockin' sentries, sixteen Impalas, they bounce like they Iguodala
That's on my mama, **** up and did me a solid
I put that on me, that's on me
You get a bullet **** with the lil' homie
[Verse 4]
Thinkin' back then like **** your rules, ****, this is ****
Slide through with the Erykah Badu
Westside Compton, ****, don't mind if I do
From **** street to my old street, ****, this Compton
Grew up on the dead end, got an armful of dead friends
'Round here **** be sweatin' us **** like a headband
Like, "What's up, cuz, where you from?"
No time to stop and think
Pull your strap before they do or you get **** before you blink
Straight outta Compton, three times I told you
The third time I said it with TDE, motha****, I'll make you eat every letter
Spoonfeed you **** like toddlers, from the city of Impalas
Where shot callers take their pitbulls and feed them **** Rottweilers
My clip full, I quick pull, no more slangin' 8 **** on the corner
And all them **** I used to freestyle with, I ate y'all on the corner
Call the coroner, **** dead out here, hangin' on to life by a thread out here
Them **** wearin' all that red out here, P snapbacks on **** heads out here
So don't you come **** with the little homie
So OG, they call me Tony
Montana, no French, my red bandana legit
My uncle told me before he died, "Just keep your hand on the ****"
So I did
Sell every **** that a **** had in stock, yes, I did
Walked to Compton, hot pocket full of ****, yes, I did
Skipped class, yes, I did, **** **** ****, yes, I did
**** a **** behind the bleachers while on the rag, that's on ****
Westside, that's on ****, this Tec fly, that's on ****
You **** with Dot, I'll let you choke on your blood, I put that
[Outro]
On me, that's on me
On me, that's on me
On me, that's on me
Raise up, ****, you are not the homie
On me, that's on me
On me, that's on me
On me, that's on me
Raise up, ****, you are not the homie
Written by: Stanley Bernard Benton, Jahmal D. Cantero, Kendrick Duckworth, Uforo Imeh Ebong, Cash McElroy Jones, Jayceon Terrell Taylor, Erica Wright
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