[Kendrick Lamar] Alls my life, I has to fight, nigga / Alls my life, I / Hard times like, “Yah!” / Bad trips like, “Yah!” / Nazareth / I’m fucked up, homie, you fucked up / But if God got us, then we gon’ be alright
[Pharrell Williams] Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / We gon’ be alright / Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Huh? We gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
[Kendrick Lamar] Uh, and when I wake up / I recognize you’re looking at me for the pay cut / But homicide be looking at you from the face down / What MAC-11 even boom with the bass down? / Schemin’, and let me tell you ’bout my life / Painkillers only put me in the twilight / Where pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight / Now tell my mamma I love her, but this what I like, Lord knows / Twenty of ’em in my Chevy, tell ’em all to come and get me / Reaping everything I sow, so my karma coming heavy / No preliminary hearings on my record / I’m a motherfucking gangster in silence for the record, uh / Tell the world I know it’s too late / Boys and girls, I think I’ve gone cray / Drown inside my vices all day / Won’t you please believe when I say
Wouldn’t you know / We been hurt, been down before / Nigga, when our pride was low / Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go?” / Nigga, and we hate po-po / Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure / Nigga, I’m at the preacher’s door / My knees gettin’ weak, and my gun might blow / But we gon’ be alright
[Pharrell Williams] Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / We gon’ be alright / Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Huh? We gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
[Kendrick Lamar] What you want you, a house? You, a car? / Forty acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar? / Anything, see my name is Lucy, I’m your dog / Motherfucker, you can live at the mall / I can see the evil, I can tell it, I know it’s illegal / I don’t think about it, I deposit every other zero / Thinking of my partner, put the candy, paint it on the Regal / Digging in my pocket, ain’t a profit big enough to feed you / Every day my logic get another dollar just to keep you / In the presence of your chico, ah! / I don’t talk about it, be about it, every day I sequel / If I got it then you know you got it, Heaven, I can reach you / Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, my dog, that’s all / Bick back and Chad, I trap the bag for y’all / I rap, I black on track so rest assured / My rights, my wrongs; I write ’til I’m right with God
Wouldn’t you know / We been hurt, been down before / Nigga, when our pride was low / Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go?” / Nigga, and we hate po-po / Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure / Nigga, I’m at the preacher’s door / My knees gettin’ weak, and my gun might blow / But we gon’ be alright
[Pharrell Williams] Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / We gon’ be alright / Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Huh? We gon’ be alright / Nigga, we gon’ be alright / Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
[Kendrick Lamar & Thundercat] I keep my head up high / I cross my heart and hope to die / Lovin’ me is complicated / Too afraid of a lot of changes / I’m alright, and you’re a favorite / Dark nights in my prayers
[Kendrick Lamar] I remembered you was conflicted / Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same / Abusing my power, full of resentment / Resentment that turned into a deep depression / Found myself screamin’ in the hotel room / I didn’t wanna self-destruct / The evils of Lucy was all around me / So I went runnin’ for answers
[By Pharrell Williams – Kawan Prather – Kendrick Lamar – Mark Anthony Spears © Interscope Records, 2015]