The Relevant Lyrics - Pre-good Kid In A Mad City - Kendrick Lamar

Reporting live, Compton California 

The good kid 

I'm tired of doing it 

the same way, gotta flip it before I ruin it 

Make it all make sense 'fore you put your two in it 

Opinions get thrown out the window with Ron Browz 

So turn me up loud so the world can hear 

And when your favorite rapper rapping you should cover your ears 

and go death, go death I said 

Go death and stay dead, a shot to the forehead to kill 'em 

But I ain't here for no ignorance 

I'm militant as Martin Luther King and a penalty 

Aiming for my dreams till a bullet bounce off 

one of my deep thoughts and hit a nigga in the spleen 

I've got in it my genes, you probably think I'm talking bout a pistol 

but I'm talking bout the blood of a warrior 

My nigga, what you worry for? I ain't tryna jock your swag 

I'm tryna better my craft and stay relevant, yeah 

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As time flies, hope that I'm soaring 

Far from the boring, I'ma 

tell you why, it's important 

I'm not the boring, I'ma 

If I think and act like you do 

the world will die from not seeing something new 

And if I don't speak on how I feel 

the world will lose out on what's really real 

And if I should die before I wake 

I pray my music could take my place 

in the world... The Relevant 

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I'd rather you call me that 

than a typical artist you call wack 

on a YouTube blog holding ARs and stacks 

of ones, but never could be the one 

to rally communities or lead a crowd of blacks 

Passion is too strong, I'm pissed off 

So there's a chance you get pissed on, R. Kelly was in the wrong 

But that don't make you an exempt 

That don't make you a no-go from hitting the fence 

You ain't a blood and damn sure you ain't a crip 

The crowd yell "hoe" but I ain't a pimp 

I'm me, I'm free as a five-finger discount 

See you on the flip side right after I dismount 

If I ever feel like I ain't pushing myself 

I'll find a cliff, then push myself off the edge 

like a barber at the tip of your head 

That's how I settle it, life or death if I ain't relevant, nigga 

So feel free to not mind me 

if you're used to boosters, drug dealers and shooters on wax 

Cause most of y'all niggas fabricate facts anyway 

I could easily cheat and let the four-four play like a two-on-two orgy 

But I've been there and it bores me 

Got to the point where it did nothing for me 

At forty I want to afford not to record bullshit in my story 

And I'm mad young, so I'd rather do it now before my career's done 

This is pain plus glory, victory is here 

If I cried, you could see strength and pride in my tears 

I do it for the kids 

I do it for the twenty-three hour lockdowns doing time in the pen 

And my pen is the only thing I got for Hip Hop to change the game 

and they'll remember my name as The Relevant