[00:00.00]Imagine -Kendrick Lamar (德里克·拉马尔)[00:03.130]I sit on the studio couch[00:04.759]Ask myself[00:05.199]What the **** am I thinking about[00:07.269]Thinking 'bout living[00:07.939]Without the past and the present[00:10.419]A Dr Dre record imagine[00:12.569]I drift of 600seconds[00:14.418]10mintues exact[00:15.718]Letting my mind explore[00:17.87]K Dot had turned Curious George[00:19.157]You know off the hardship is[00:20.517]What I'm curious for[00:21.847]Like what if Pac had never[00:23.687]Looked left to holla at broads[00:25.67]Before he turned right to get them[00:26.357]Shots through the door[00:27.377]They say Suge did it[00:28.246]But he was in emergency clinic[00:30.225]So he'd risk his own life[00:31.645]To get someone else killed[00:32.975]But in the process get injured[00:34.365]It don't make sense[00:35.694]It's like the Da Vinci Code[00:37.204]Trying the solve the crime of these rap souls[00:39.94]What if B I G never did it big[00:40.833]Never went to L A[00:42.73]Would it make a difference[00:43.383]In them bullet-holes[00:44.153]Would it make my flow flow more persistent[00:46.232]Would it raise up the bar of competition[00:48.101]Who knows[00:49.121]Who told Nastradamus baby[00:50.711]Momma was ****ing with HOV[00:52.191]Would the battle be less interesting[00:53.940]If it wasn't personal[00:55.529]If Jay wasn't intimate[00:56.709]There'd probably be less people listening[00:58.687]People thinking it's a publicity stunt[01:01.147]What if he partnered[01:02.147]With Jay and still didn't blow[01:04.166]Hip-hop would really be ****ed[01:05.856]Something like Milli Vanilli[01:07.256]Nothing different quite similar[01:09.65]Filling up my mind capacity[01:10.974]Thinking about Martin Luther[01:12.913]On the balcony[01:13.803]What if the shooter[01:15.143]Better yet[01:15.803]What if Malcolm on the side[01:17.293]Killed two birds with one stone[01:18.903]Both would've died[01:19.803]Now let's rewind[01:21.73]Before we go[01:23.392]Can you imagine[01:26.451]Picture years with your mom[01:29.10]Can you imagine[01:31.670]Hang her picture in the sky[01:34.420]Can you imagine[01:37.549]Call emergency I've been dreamin'all my life[01:41.539]All life[01:42.809]Imagine if Tookie was a Blood Look[01:45.239]No disrespect[01:46.278]But would there be more Bloods[01:47.417]Than Crips sets[01:48.527]Dominating the population of[01:50.276]L A Orange County the Valley[01:52.166]And back up to the bay[01:53.446]Matter fact imagine[01:54.205]If we didn't really start this gangster shit[01:56.854]Y'all wouldn't have nothin'to spit[01:58.444]No drive bys[01:59.554]No flags stickin'out pockets[02:01.273]No NWA dudes[02:03.313]Just rappin like Cre Cru[02:04.702]Imagine if Mike Concepcion[02:06.32]Walked on his own two[02:07.402]Feet no paralyzed[02:08.882]Would he be alive[02:09.992]Or would he been lost his life to the streets[02:12.272]No match no cars in that driveway[02:14.932]What if Freeway Rick never was a kingpin[02:17.831]On this L A strip[02:19.211]Would these rap niggas use his name[02:20.921]Nah what if rap niggas never had rap[02:23.721]Would they try to fall back on this drug game[02:26.600]These rappers a**backwards[02:27.790]Now these rappers getting caught[02:29.530]With the cocaine[02:30.510]Not to smoke but to slang[02:32.210]Imagine that people not knowing[02:34.360]These rap niggas insane[02:36.598]Just think about it[02:37.518]Think about it[02:38.158]Before we go[02:40.618]Can you imagine[02:43.518]Picture years with your mom[02:46.108]Can you imagine[02:48.898]Hang her picture in the sky[02:51.647]Can you imagine[02:54.816]Call emergency I've been dreamin'all my life[02:58.986]Imagine life without death[03:00.655]Would you even feel alive[03:02.255]Your people that passed[03:03.565]What if they never died[03:04.815]Imagine seeing your mom cry[03:06.645]Tears of happiness[03:07.494]Knowing her son safe[03:08.694]And she ain't lose him to this madness[03:10.694]The street living[03:11.624]What if the crack epidemic[03:13.64]Never reached the projects[03:14.124]And destroyed our buildings[03:15.673]Turned most of us to killers[03:17.293]Innocent victims[03:18.483]Imagine if heroine didn't affect our system[03:21.243]They say drug money funding the labels today[03:23.982]What about the drug money[03:25.382]That's funding the C I A[03:26.712]Imagine if they really tried to fix these streets[03:29.492]Would they start in the hood[03:30.992]Or executive suites[03:32.232]Where the real criminals meet[03:33.852]And principals beef with me[03:35.802]You could possibly live without heat[03:37.911]Imagine if Al Gore had won that election[03:40.560]Would the Twin Tower buildings[03:42.40]Still stand erected[03:43.230]Imagine the penal system[03:44.859]Without witness protection[03:46.219]Would there be these many cowards[03:47.569]On the stand telling[03:48.738]I don't know[03:49.698]I'm just speaking my mind[03:51.108]Lost in my own soul[03:52.618]Just press rewind and 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