Sing About Me - Kendrick Lamar/Kid Casual.mp3

[00:01.809]American dream kid, American brain
[00:05.600]And I just hope when I'm gone that you'll sing about a nigga, about niggas
[00:13.538]Say you should be
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[00:14.284]when the lights go up but it's my turn to settle, my main concern
[00:19.930]Promise that you will sing about me
[00:22.513]Promise that you will sing about me
[00:25.264]Promise that you will sing about me
[00:25.685]Promise that you will sing about me
[00:26.392]Say when the lights go up but it's my turn to settle, my main concern
[00:32.313]Promise that you will sing about me
[00:33.700]Promise that you will sing about me
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[00:38.378]everybody's screamingI'll take it Saturday to jump
[00:40.084]Just seem to eat me alive
[00:42.579]I'm trying to learn how to survive without a mother
[00:45.076]It's safe so I gotta keep on my right
[00:45.588]And I know I gotta be tight
[00:46.769]So my niggas can stay on flight
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[00:48.833]Without a doubt they down to shout
[00:49.977]We never home, we down and out
[00:51.469]Houses caught a fire, but all my brothers came to put them out
[00:53.315]I'm like my nigga with a firehouse
[00:57.977]But **** it, nigga stay with me
[00:59.853]I got a place where you can sleep
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[01:00.604]Just promise me you honor me and stay up about the trees
[01:02.830]I got niggas just watch me big as follow from the beat
[01:05.529]Only one is he, I'm making more hits
[01:08.282]They may leave, go to sleep on morning, focus let a nigga be
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[01:12.682]Man I'm trusting you but don't even get too comfortable
[01:15.981]'Cause when the niggas come you start eating like a lunchable
[01:18.171]Running through all your clothes, getting on all these holes
[01:20.278]And talking about how we living exactly how we should go alone
[01:37.617]But fxxk it, I gotta know, get it, make a difference
[01:37.898]For all the children without a parent trying to make a living
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[01:39.001]I'll be the future
[01:39.359]But niggas look for a respite but tested
[01:40.273]Every method that always looked kind of skeptical
[01:46.632]My mind is like a pool full of thought
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[02:03.184]Promise that you will sing about me
[02:06.446]Promise that you will sing about me
[02:09.658]when the lights go up but it's my turn to settle, my main concern
[02:16.424]Promise that you will sing about me
[02:18.380]Promise that you will sing about me
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[02:20.651]I make it look so easy
[02:22.741]It's why he talking all greasy
[02:24.660]Nigga is hungry for them to scream and feed me
[02:27.646]but I'm too high, you've been the kind that don't see me
[02:30.089]Forcing them to act out a character so heavy
[02:33.494]Let you take this lady so soft that didn't do any homework on your boy
[02:37.385]Ain't they so clever
[02:39.293]Studying in Harvard don't mean you have nothing
[02:41.975]What's make your face to the people that I speak up, disgusting
[02:45.183]Think it's really got nothingSo fxxk it
[02:47.517]I'm the top of conversation, headline in the news
[02:49.842]For haters, for the debates, striving to be the greatest
[02:54.017]That's what they want And when they take it to my playlists
[02:58.284]This‑industry niggas gone have a problem
[02:59.131]These local niggas don't travel the world, it's so behind them
[03:02.042]Yeah I ain't worried about nothing
[03:04.719]My flow so good girls won't cup it, it's so disgusting
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[03:08.372]Leave it up to me but you're coming with something
[03:10.986]I got longevity in my blood, my future's pumping, nigga, yeah
[03:15.090]And despite all the hating
[03:16.553]I promise you the only one I'm dating that's honest to god
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[03:19.883]I live in the booth forever, telling the truth forever
[03:21.779]Doing my pockets, I'm here to brush off the youth, yeah, check
[03:27.864]Forever doing my pockets, I'm here to brush off the youth
[03:30.649]How though we getting older, the young don't last forever
[03:33.758]But I'm forever young in these verses to last forever
[03:36.720]It's all about progression, we're going, we're moving, pursuing
[03:39.279]They watching me moving, it's like I got niggas in school
[03:42.608]And I'm mentally growing
[03:43.992]They telling me keep on going
[03:45.584]I promise to always dedicate it to you forever
[03:50.660]Throughout the verses that's for certain, hip‑hop
[03:53.008]If you ever could live without me, through the bass and the drums
[03:53.433]Hope that's how you sing about me
[03:54.368]when the lights come on
[03:55.494]And this my turn to shut it down,
[03:57.453]my main concern
[03:58.961]I promise that you will forever ever think about me
[04:01.736]Whenever you hear me on the track
[04:03.742]I hope that you will think about me, think about me, nigga
[04:05.776]Say when the lights go up but it's my turn to settle,
[04:09.213]my main concern
[04:10.089]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:13.116]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:21.755]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:24.709]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:34.078]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:36.368]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:45.091]Promise that you will sing about me
[04:48.545]Promise that you will sing about me