Little Johnny - Kendrick Lamar

Little Johnny - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)
Uh
Yeah
Kendrick Lamar
Uh
Yeah I can reconcile
Being depressed real bad
I'm a thinker not a drinker
But still I Hennessey drag;
Alcohol numbs the pain like
Where Novacane stabs
In your arteries pardon me
But my city go mad
Via Compton California
Corners with coroners and karma on em
Colours corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted Crips
And Pirus cripple the city
Triple the crime
Bible nor the q***n can save;
Welcome don't be afraid
Your city similar right
Where the choppers kidnap the night
And police silence your rights;
Stare at the sky
Wonder will you live to see twenty-five
I'm twenty-two
At twenty I knew I was against the odds;
This kid named Jonathan was monitoring
His momma and sister
His older cousin he honoured him;
Anonymous bodies on
His burner was astonishing
To Johnny he might've been
A modern day rider then
He walking outside again
He see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a MAC-11 now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem
What's his cousin to say now
He wanna be from the hood
That he's from and that's one
More gangster under the family tree
Took 'em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy rocking matching T-shirts
That says "The hood made me"
No love just spread slugs
That's the policy
The leader and the prodigy;
Now shorty doo-wop
Holding a oowop
Hanging with rah-rahs
With blah-blahs that sit
On the block catching fades and licks
Going on missions with lunatics
A ninth-grade menace
Thugging for six months
Smoking like six blunts an hour
The power of banging
He was walking from
Little Johnny
I think you'll find sir
That there will come a time
When black people wake up
And become intellectually independent enough
To think for themselves
As other humans are intellectually independent
Enough to think for themselves
Then the black man
Will think like a black man
And he will feel for other black people
And this new thinking
And feeling will cause black people
To stick together
And then at that point you
Will have a situation
Where when you attack one black man
You are attacking all black men
And this type of black thinking
Will cause all black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also will bring an
End to the brutality inflicted
Upon black people by
(black people)
And it is the only thing
That will bring an end to it
No federal court
State court or city court will bring an end to it
It's something
That the black man has to bring an end to