I Am Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

Everybody put three fingers in the air 

The sky is falling, the wind is calling 

Stand for something or die in the morning 

Section 80, HiiiPoWeR 

Visions of Martin Luther staring at me 

Malcolm X put a hex on my future, someone catch me 

I'm falling victim to a revolutionary song 

The Serengeti's clone 

Back to put you backstabbers back on your spinal bone 

You slipped your disc when I slid you my disc 

You wanted to diss, but jumped on my dick 

Grown men never should bite their tongue 

unless you eating pussy that smell like it's a stale plum 

I got my finger on the motherfucking pistol 

aiming it at a pig, Charlotte's Web is gonna miss you 

My issue isn't televised, and you ain't gotta tell the wise 

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how to stay on beat, because our life's an instrumental 

This is physical and mental, I won't sugar-coat it 

You'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it 

And everything on TV just a figment of imagination 

I don't want no plastic nation, +dread+ that like a Haitian 

While you motherfuckers waiting, I be off the slave ship 

Building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs 

Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR 

Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR 

Five-star dishes, food for thought bitches 

I mean the shit is, Huey Newton going stupid 

You can't resist his, HiiiPoWeR 

Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR 

Visions of Martin Luther staring at me 

If I see it how he seen it, that would make my parents happy 

Sorry mama, I can't turn the other cheek 

They wanna knock me off the edge like a fucking widow's peak, uhh 

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And she always told me pray for the weak, uhh 

Them demons got me, I ain't prayed in some weeks, uhh 

Dear Lord come save me, the Devil's working hard 

He probably clocking double shifts on all of his jobs 

Frightening, so fucking frightening 

Enough to drive a man insane, I need a license 

to kill, I'm standing on a field full of land mines 

Doing the moonwalk, hoping I blow up in time 

Cause 2012 might not be a fucking legend 

Trying to be a fucking legend, the man of mankind 

Who said a black man in the Illuminati? 

Last time I checked that was the biggest racist party 

So get up off that slave ship 

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs 

Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR 

Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR 

Five-star dishes, food for thought bitches 

I mean the shit is, Bobby Seale making meals 

You can't resist his, HiiiPoWeR 

Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR 

+ (Kendrick Lamar) 

Every day we fight the system 

just to make our way, we been down for too long 

But that's alright, we was built to be strong 

cause it's our life, na-na-nah 

Every day we fight the system 

We fight the system 

We fight the system 

(Never liked the system) 

We been down for too long 

But that's alright, na-na-nah 

Who said a black man in Illuminati? 

Last time I checked that was the biggest racist party 

Last time I checked, we was racing with Marcus Garvey 

on the freeway to Africa till I wreck my Audi 

And I want everybody to view my autopsy 

So you can see exactly where the government had shot me 

No conspiracy, my fate is inevitable 

They play musical chairs once I'm on that pedestal 

Frightening, so fucking frightening 

Enough to drive a man insane, a woman insane 

The reason Lauryn Hill don't sing, or Kurt Cobain 

loaded that clip and then said 'Bang!', the drama it bring 

is crazy, product of the late 80s 

Trying to stay above water, that's why we shun the Navy 

Pull your guns and play me, let's set it off 

Cause a riot, throw a Molotov 

Somebody told me them pirates had got lost 

cause we been off them slave ships 

Got our own pyramids, write our own hieroglyphs 

Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR 

Yeah, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR 

Five-star dishes, food for thought bitches 

I mean the shit is, Fred Hampton on your campus 

You can't resist his, HiiiPoWeR 

Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR 

Thug life 

Thug LIFE!