Kendrick Lamar - Institutionalized Lyrics
[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]What money got to do with itWhen I don't know the full definition of a rap image?I'm trapped inside the ghetto and I ain't proud to admit itInstitutionalized, I keep runnin' back for a visitHol' upGet it backI said I'm trapped inside the ghetto and I ain't proud to admit itInstitutionalized, I could still kill me a nigga, so what?[Interlude: Anna Wise]If I was the presidentI'd pay my mama's rentFree my homies and themBulletproof my Chevy doorsLay in the White House and get high, LordWho ever thought?Master take the chains off me[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]Life can be like a box of chocolateQuid pro quo, somethin' for somethin', that's the obviousOh shit, flow's so sick, don't you swallow itBitin' my style, you're salmonella poison positiveI can just alleviate the rap industry politicsMilk the game up, never lactose intolerantThe last remainder of real shit, you know the obviousMe scholarship? No, streets put me through collegesBe all you can be, true, but the problem isA dream's only a dream if work don't follow itRemind me of the homies that used to know me, now follow thisI'll tell you my hypothesis, I'm probably just way too loyalK Dizzle would do it for you, my niggas think I'm a godTruthfully all of 'em spoiled, usually you're never chargedBut somethin' came over you once I took you to the *****in' BET AwardsYou lookin' at artists like the harvestsSo many Rollies around you and you want all of themSomebody told me you thinkin' 'bout snatchin' jewelryI should've listened what my grandmama said to me[Hook: Bilal]Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass niggaShit don't change until you get up and wash your assShit don't change until you get up and wash your ass niggaOh now, slow down[Bridge: Snoop Dogg]And once upon a time in a city so divineCalled West Side Compton, there stood a little niggaHe was 5 foot something, God bless the kidTook his homie to the show and this is what they said[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]What I'm s'posed to do when I'm lookin' at walkin' licks?The convicts talk 'bout matchin', money and foreign whipsThe private jets and passports, presidential glass floorGold bottles, gold models, sniffin' up the ass forInstagram flicks, suck a dick, ***** is this?One more suck away from wavin' flashy wristMy defense mechanism tell me to get him, quickly because he got itIt's the recession, then why the ***** he in King of Diamonds?No more livin' poor, meet my .44When I see 'em, put the per diem on the floorNow Kendrick, know they're your co-workersBut it's gon' take a lot for this pistol go cold turkeyNow I can watch his watch on the TV and be okayBut see I'm on the clock once that watch landin' in LARemember steal from the rich and givin' it back to the poor?Well that's me at these awardsI guess my grandmama was warnin' a boyShe said...[Hook]Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass niggaShit don't change until you get up and wash your assShit don't change until you get up and wash your ass niggaOh now, slow down[Outro: Snoop Dogg]And once upon a time in a city so divineCalled West Side Compton, there stood a little niggaHe was 5 foot something, dazed and confusedTalented but still under the neighborhood ruseYou can take your boy out the hood but you can't take the hood out the homieTook his show money, stashed it in the mozey wozeyHollywood's nervous***** you, goodnight, thank you much for your service
