The City Lyrics - The Game (ft. Kendrick Lamar)

(Leave the angels in the city...
Leave the angels in the city...)

[Game]
Tell them muthaf-ckas I'm ever paid
California king, wrestle gators in the Everglades
Drive up out that muthaf-ckin swamp in the Escalade
So before you put that Red rag in your pocket
I wanna see your f-ckin resume
Started off on Ground Zero, then I start to levitate
Riff rappers a new asshole I never hesitate
'Dre' beats so on, smoking that chronic just to meditate
I'mma give em hurricanes until another Levee break
You niggas is featherweights, I'm Aftermath's heavyweight
Now Dre's weapon of mass destruction is rock to detonate
When a nigga ?, shit, I was selling weight
Now a nigga's selling millions, now it's time to celebrate
Performing in front of millions, nigga, every race
64 in the '64, now watch the Chevy scrape
4th album, no 5 mics? Then let em hate
But I'm not stopping til I'm the king in every state

[Hook]
[Kendrick Lamar]
Recognize my life,
Ridicule my fights
Give me fuel for the fire burning
When I yearn these lights
In the midst of the hieroglyphs while?
Start to write Familiar with cartwright,
Cause I wrote that shot, I'm a raging bull
When the ? drops. My record,
I'mma wreck it, even if my record don't pop
I'mma tie your neck on a Downtown building
Let the? behind me tell em they can find me
In the dark with the ghetto children
Look at my heard, nigga fuck your feelings
This is me!

[Game]
I'm sick of motherf-ckers talking about the west died
Can't you hear my heart beating?
That's the motherf-ckin West side,
You test me, you test God
I'm his son, insane songs, you come at me
Then I can split you with this Tommy gun
You won't have time to run, I'm from the Compton slums
And that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where 2 of the best died
Rest in peace to both of em, spit like I'm the ghost of em
Damn, I said I spit like I'm the ghost of em
Name your top 10, I'm harder than the most of em
Matter of fact, shorten your list nigga, top 5
Game, Biggie, Hov, prolly Pac, Nas
No particular order, bet a mil that I slaughter
Serve niggas, give a fuck what you ordered
How dare you niggas pop fly when I'm the nigga
That sold 5 mil out the gate - and numbers do not lie

[Hook]
[Kendrick Lamar]
Recognize my life,
Ridicule my fights
Give me fuel for the fire burning
When I yearn these lights
In the midst of the hieroglyphs while?
Start to write Familiar with cartwright,
Cause I wrote that shot, I'm a raging bull
When the ? drops. My record,
I'mma wreck it, even if my record don't pop
I'mma tie your neck on a Downtown building
Let the? behind me tell em they can find me
In the dark with the ghetto children
Look at my heard, nigga fuck your feelings
This is me!

[Game]
I gave you the documentary,
Shit was a classic
Gave you Doctor's Advocate,
You ripped it out the package
Came with LAX, since critics said it was average
I was stressed the fuck out, torn between Aftermath and
Geffen, Interscope, now I got you in the scope
Spill the red ink on the paper,
It's like my pen is broke
And this is what you all been waiting for
I'm the lost angel knocking on Satan's door
What the fuck y'all take me for?
I love you cause you hate me more
I'm Kobe on the Lakers floor, except I give you 84
Shake you like Haiti's floor
Walk up on you like "what's going on baby boy?"
Shocks in that Mercedes door
Either I'm crazy, or the black Slim Shady, or
That be the reason that
Baby said "he would pay me more"
But I still owe Jimmy one more album
The best the West has ever seen - no disrespect to Calvin

[Hook - Kendrick Lamar]

And I wear on my shoulder
Soldier, like a lieutenant, and the coup tinted
Got pulled over, Jonny always knock a nigga down
Knowing damn well we don't wanna see the box like ?
Little nigga Mayweather size, ride like Pac
And his is now a radar
Til the federal come through and raid ours
Reminiscing on the LA Raiders
Was in my home, snapback fitted on my uncle's dome
And I don't condone d-ckriding, I'm a d-ck too
Westsiding, living in a city where the skinny niggas die
And the semi bullets fly, but it turn me to a lion
Trying, and I mean that shit
Game came through, put the city on his back
I was in the city, a nigga has seen that shit
"Compton!", a nigga gotta scream that shit
Commercial, T.V. screened that shit
Came back hustling and shit,
Now everybody seen that shit