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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Rapsody
Vocals
Terrace Martin
Keyboards
Kendrick Lamar
Vocals
Lance Skiiiwalker
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Kendrick Lamar
Songwriter
Patrick Douthit
Songwriter
W. Godfrey
Songwriter
William Earl Collins
Songwriter
Chuck Jackson
Songwriter
George Clinton
Songwriter
Gary Cooper
Songwriter
Marlanna Evans
Songwriter
Lance Howard
Songwriter
Terrace Martin
Co-Arranger
Marlon Williams
String Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Patrick Douthit
Recording Engineer
9th Wonder
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Picture my love as this power that pulls us closer
Deeper in love, there's this power that pulls us like magnets
[Verse 2]
I feel your energy
It's coming through
Took me a century
To get next to you
Plus makes some enemies
Invested in you
So I feel your energy
Invested pursue, ooh
[Verse 3]
I never read the forty-eight lies
The power to diss, you make a grown man cry
The day I came up out my mama, I saw a grown man cry
They say I have magic powers, even magic ain't die
Wake it, 'bout to sleep and take a 3 AM car ride
He said the booty, only thing between him and God
They love the booty, sacrifice their family and job
[Verse 4]
Bash make police feel powerful in the hood
Guns make us feel powerful, but they don't do no good
I know my blackness powerful and they don't like that
I know some **** sold theirs, sit back and watch 'em tap dance
[Verse 5]
Bombs over Baghdad, to have a flag to brag about
Don't make you a big boy, 'cause you got a nice stack
Carolina home, boy, you know we keep a stacked house
It's power when you know the game, I'm feelin' like a champ now
[Verse 6]
I went the rap rat, homie, get out the trap house
I want the power to be able to rap 'bout what I rap 'bout
Black child, God lovin' textiles
Point blank desk miles
Steph Curry projectiles
I saw the goal from eight mile
[Verse 7]
Every stone you threw, I picked it up and built a powerhouse
'Caught a case, I got murder in my profile
**** still billing me, see that's just the appeal in me
Respect on my name, why y'all **** so emotional?
Power
[Verse 8]
I feel your energy
It's coming through
Took me a century
To get next to you
Plus makes some enemies
Invested in you
So I feel your energy
Invested pursue
[Verse 9]
Uh, power up with the word
I got it from my God
He said a good shepherd don't trip over what they herd
Let 'em talk the talk, until the night you choose to go and purge
I came up when the rest of you struggled and failed to flourish
[Verse 10]
Conversations with the flours
She said I'm good as herbs
Get 'em high, get 'em high, from the hood to the suburbs
No one can take your power, even if a storm occurs
It ain't man made, but whether or not you paid don't help the hurt
[Verse 11]
It's the perp
Jam the Squir written on my shirt
I got a lane, but all the line around me dotted, I can merge
I can do what you can, but you can't do the same with words
As I, now watch my street cred go multiply
[Verse 12]
They say the streets respect the real ones
The one as real as I
It's just me and young blood
It's where I get all of my power
The night I got a chain from Mr. Flowers
I gave it back when I got done rappin', the same hour
[Verse 13]
I ain't five percent, let's be talkin' the top MCs
And I'm in the top of that, the rest beneath me all cowards
When it spits, look around, it's meteor showers
I watch the stars fall, fall, fall, yeah, this is what you call power
[Verse 14]
Picture my love as this power that brings us closer
Deeper in love, there's this power that pulls us like magnets
[Verse 15]
Let's talk about power
Let's talk about yours and ours
The paid be allowance
Let's talk about hundred thousand kids ravin' and bouncin'
Craving and drowning in words the day pronounced it
[Verse 16]
Let's talk about power
Let's talk about doers and don't-ers
The house I built when I was homeless and sleepin' in corners
Sharin' Coronas and Black & Milds, donuts, and El Caminos
Talkin' loud, scraping and combing residue every morning
[Verse 17]
Talk about legacy
Let's talk about the life of celebrity
Versus integrity
Curse the first one that thirst for necessity
Searchin' for equity, versus the earth that birthed us indefinitely
First the verse the I wrote in jeopardy
Surfing the laws of the universe and destiny
Church and a God is odd, that's every been head of me
[Verse 18]
Let's talk about my power, the golden showers
Granted to be on your cameras and store counters
He's bananas, competitive, we can dance
See the damage, no more 'fore he peed his pants
[Verse 19]
My second LP had real **** on POTUS lawn
My seven trophies' is in my granny's in heaven's arms
I'm in Jamaica like wah gwaan? My fetus out
My hair is long and patois comin' from my mouth
[Verse 20]
Me, I go outdoors, it's time to bless up erryuhn'
Rude boy, me ain't worry 'bout it, fearless
I shot **** then shot movies ten years later
Dear God, why you show me so much favor
[Verse 21]
Amongst the haters and wickedness
Deliver this child from evil convictions and frivolous
Debase about who's the preminent MC of the millennium
And it's all for the Benjamins
And I'm all of y'all nemesis
And I'm all in all y'all not happy and y'all can fathom who Kendrick is
The only one that ever did wrote book of Genesis, motherfucker that's power
[Verse 22]
Picture my love as this power that brings us closer
Deeper in love, there's this power that pulls us like magnets
And may the force that be with us forever be right here to guide us
Your sensitivity is very sensitive to mine
Written by: Chuck Jackson, Chuck Sibit, Gary Cooper, George Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Lance Howard, M. RAGIN, Marlanna Evans, Patrick Douthit, Paul Johnson, W. Godfrey, William Earl Collins