Dedication

[00:00.27]Nipsey Hussle、Kendrick Lamar - Dedication
[00:08.60]Look my ***** this is dedication this is anti-hesitation
[00:12.77]This a real ***** celebration
[00:14.66]This a Dime Blocc declaration
[00:16.49]Fifty-Ninth and Fifth Ave
[00:18.17]Granny's house with vanilla wafers
[00:19.40]This the remedy the separation 2Pac of my generation
[00:23.12]Blue pill in the ****in' Matrix
[00:25.10]Red rose in the gray pavement
[00:26.99]Young black ***** trapped and he can't change it
[00:29.52]Know he a genius he just can't claim it
[00:32.11]'Cause they left him no platforms to explain it
[00:34.38]He frustrated so he get faded
[00:36.76]But deep down inside he know you can't fade him
[00:39.20]How long should I stay dedicated
[00:41.54]How long 'til opportunity meet preparation
[00:44.19]I need some real ***** reparations
[00:46.47]'Fore I run up in your bank just for recreation
[00:48.94]Dedication hard work plus patience
[00:51.88]The sum of all my sacrifice I'm done waitin'
[00:53.75]I'm done waitin' told you that I wasn't playin'
[00:56.87]Now you hear what I been sayin' dedication
[01:03.73]It's dedication look
[01:18.80]I spent my whole life thinkin' out the box
[01:20.99]Boxin' homies three-on-one got DP'ed but I ain't drop
[01:23.24]Chirp on me here I come brrt spin around the block
[01:26.08]They blurped on me
[01:26.80]Said I ran a stop sign but that's a lie
[01:28.26]I spent my whole life starin' at the stage
[01:30.69]Playin' Sega daddy smokin' sherm mama playin' spades
[01:32.37]Catchin' vapors
[01:33.23]Grandma said I'd get some Jordans for my grades
[01:35.67]That's my baby
[01:36.43]When she died my heart broke a hundred ways
[01:37.68]I spent my whole life tryna make it tryna chase it
[01:40.94]The cycle of a black man divided tryna break it
[01:43.08]You take a loss **** don't cry about it just embrace it
[01:46.11]Minor setback for major comeback that's my favorite
[01:47.63]My ***** L said You do a song with Nip
[01:50.22]K. Dot he a better crip
[01:51.47]I said he a man first you hear the words out his lips
[01:54.14]About flourishing from the streets to black businesses
[01:56.00]Level four yard livin' given to false imprisonment
[01:58.95]Listen close my *****
[02:00.02]It's bigger than deuces and fours my *****
[02:01.69]Since elementary we close my *****
[02:03.17]Yeah straight like that
[02:04.26]I give you the game
[02:05.37]Go back to the turf and give it right back
[02:07.34]For generations we been dealt bad hands with bad plans
[02:09.58]Prove your dedication by hoppin' out Grand Am's
[02:12.23]I'm at the premiere politickin' with Top Nip and Snoop
[02:14.95]Damn Pac watchin' the way we grew from dedication
[02:20.72]If it ain't congratulate then it look like hate
[02:23.71]If it ain't congratulate then it look like what Nipsey
[02:26.05]Hol' up
[02:26.25]This ain't entertainment
[02:27.88]It's for *****s on the slave ship
[02:29.66]These songs just the spirituals
[02:31.03]I swam against them waves wit
[02:32.36]Ended up on shore to their amazement
[02:34.24]I hope the example I set's not contagious
[02:37.19]Lock us behind gates but can't tame us
[02:39.47]Used to be stay safe now it's stay dangerous
[02:41.59]'Cause ain't no point in playin' defense *****
[02:43.72]That's why I dove off the deep end *****
[02:45.69]Without a life jacket
[02:46.61]Couple mil tour the world now my life crackin'
[02:49.45]Cook the books bring it back so it's no taxes
[02:51.89]Royalties publishing plus I own masters
[02:54.09]I'll be damned if I slave for some white crackers
[02:56.89]I was mappin' this out I hit the heights backwards
[02:59.12]Hoppin' out the eighty-five in Reebok cl***ics
[03:01.50]Ran a couple marathons just to get established
[03:04.09]To make it happen you got to have it
[03:06.32]Dedication hard work plus patience
[03:08.79]The sum of all my sacrifice I'm done waitin'
[03:11.23]I'm done waitin' told you that I wasn't playin'
[03:14.03]Now you hear what I been sayin' dedication
[03:20.79]It's dedication