And Lyrics - Mistah Fab

[Intro: Kendrick Lamar] 

Life in the city, life in the city 

Oakland, California, Compton, California 

But we survive 

Only the strongest survive 

Life, life in the city 

In the city and nigga's tryna survive 

Only the strongest survive 

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar] 

You ever been a victim of being a prisoner inside your own mind? 

The bright lights of the street lights will make you go blind 

Handicap your senses, you was just an apprentice of watching niggas jump fences 

Now you in the Olympics and your hurdle was high enough to clear the tallest of clothes lines 

Talented when they closing in on your behind 

Life of a young delinquent, even stole him a Lincoln 

At fifteen, middle fingers walked out the precinct 

I mean the cycle just continue 

The vital information and fine print on the menu 

So you'll never read it even if a nigga lend you 

Money out my own pocket, to make it right 

You'll still attend to 

Be on them corners with stop signs and a nine 

Cause nine times out of ten, MAC 11's cry 

And twelve died yesterday and if anyone divides 

The six that carried you eventually lose they lives 

True story 

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[Hook: Kobe Honeycutt] 

When the night falls anything can happen 

We just pray we make it out alive 

We all wanna make it to the top one day 

Success is a street only going one way 

But we all won't make it 

Just try your best to survive 

[Verse 2: Mistah F.A.B] 

(You all wanna see a dead body?) 

Well, follow me across the train tracks 

Where angry and insane Blacks 

They slang crack 

Candles burn where they were slain at 

And bottles get poured where they would hang at 

Close, I give you truth in this essence 

Dead homies added to swears when truth is in question 

Like "Man I think he lying or he put that on someone" 

If I known you ten years, got the right to say we cousins 

I'm from the city of broken homes, and often I was home alone 

And momma started smoking cause daddy was scared to smoke alone 

Section 8 policies, Top Ramen and sunflower seeds 

June got kill't cause he ain't wanna lose his Wallaby's 

Constant atrocities, no one is safe 

There's no religion that can save you, say goodbye to your faith 

Whether you Muslim or a Christian, Baptist, Jewish or Adventist, Atheist or non-religious 

Put survival on your wishlist 

Cuz 

Photos 

[Hook: Kobe Honeycutt] 

When the night falls anything can happen 

We just pray we make it out alive 

We all wanna make it to the top one day 

Success is a street only going one way 

But we all won't make it 

Just try your best to survive 

[Verse 3: KXNG CROOKED] 

You walked in the apartment and saw your father on the carpet 

With a belt wrapped around his arm and a scarf under his armpit 

And a needle shoved in his bicep 

Earlier this morning you warned him 

His addict habits are something you couldn't digest 

You cry saying "I just don't wanna see you die" 

Now you tryna dissect the fact that he hasn't opened his eyes yet 

You collapsed on his body and you started thinking 

I could perform CPR, jump start his heart if it's beating 

But his pulse started to weaken 

His cardio region depleting as you given him part of your breathing 

He dead and gone and you had a bad feeling when you was heading home 

Now it's etched in stone, you've been left alone 

So you grabbed his chrome gun, handle all pearl, aw nah girl 

Put it to your head, thinking, fuck everybody like a call girl in a small world 

Then pulled back but it didn't clap 

Damn 

[Hook: Kobe Honeycutt] 

When the night falls anything can happen 

We just pray we make it out alive 

We all wanna make it to the top one day 

Success is a street only going one way 

But we all won't make it 

Just try your best to survive