The Rapsody, Kendrick Lamar, Lance Skiiiwalker - Power(2017)

[00:17.33] I feel your energy (feel your energy)
[00:19.86] It's coming through (it's coming through)
[00:21.90] Took me a century (a century)
[00:23.72] To get next to you (to get next to you)
[00:25.92] Plus make some enemies (enemies)
[00:28.95] Invested in you (invest in you)
[00:31.12] So, I feel your energy (I feel your energy)
[00:33.46] Invested, pursue (ooo ooo, I never read the 48 Laws)
[00:41.40] The power of the dussy make a grown man cry
[00:44.89] The day I came up out my mama I saw a grown man cry
[00:47.55] They say it has magic powers, even Magic ain't die
[00:50.38] Wake you up out ya sleep to take a 3am car ride
[00:53.09] He said the booty the only thing between him and God
[00:56.15] They love the booty, sacrifice they family and job
[00:58.64] Badge make police feel powerful in the hood
[01:01.74] Guns make us feel powerful but they don't do no good
[01:04.14] I know my blackness powerful and they don't like that
[01:06.64] I know some niggas sold theirs, sit back and watch 'em tap dance
[01:09.58] Bombs over Baghdad to have a flag to brag bout
[01:12.25] Don't make you a big boy, cus you got a nice Stack
[01:14.71] Carolina home boy, you know we keep a Stackhouse
[01:17.48] Thats power when you know the game, I'm feeling like a Champ now
[01:20.42] I went the rap route, homie get out the trap house
[01:23.32] I want the power to be able rap bout, what I rap bout
[01:25.84] Black child
[01:27.06] God, love and textiles
[01:28.07] Point, blank decimal
[01:29.19] Steph Curry projectile
[01:30.48] I saw the goal from 8 miles
[01:31.82] With every stone you threw I picked it up and built a powerhouse
[01:34.52] Caught a case
[01:35.88] I got murder in my profile
[01:37.48] Niggas still billin' me
[01:38.90] See, that's just the appeal in me
[01:40.10] Respek on my name
[01:41.46] Why yall niggas so emotional?
[01:42.83] Power
[01:45.26] I feel your energy (feel your energy)
[01:46.12] It's coming thru (it's coming thru)
[01:47.95] Took me a century (a century)
[01:49.35] To get next to you (to get next to you)
[01:50.98] Plus make some enemies (enemies)
[01:52.77] Invested in you (invest in you)
[01:56.66] So, I feel your energy (i feel your energy)
[02:01.97] Invested, pursue (ooo ooo, I never read the 48 Laws)
[02:04.86] Power up with the word
[02:06.92] I got it from my God
[02:08.11] He said a good shephard don't trip over what they heard
[02:10.16] Let em talk the talk until the night you choose to go and purge
[02:12.84] I came up when the rest of you struggled and failed to flourish
[02:15.28] Conversations with florist
[02:17.05] She said I'm good as herbs
[02:18.59] Get em high, get em high from the hood to the suburbs
[02:20.72] No one can take your power even if a storm occurred
[02:23.88] It ain't man made, but whether or not you paid don't help or hurt
[02:26.84] It's a perk
[02:27.98] Jamla Squad written on my shirt
[02:29.66] I got a lane but all the lines around me dotted I can merge
[02:31.93] I can do what you can but you can't do the same with words
[02:34.77] As I, now watch my street cred go multiply
[02:37.77] They say the streets respect a real one
[02:39.75] No one's as real as I
[02:40.86] It's just me and young blood this where I get all of my power
[02:42.96] The night I got a chain from Mr Flowers
[02:45.35] I gave it back when I got done rappin' the same hour
[02:47.96] I ain't Five Percent, 'less we talkin the top emcees
[02:50.62] And I'm in the top of that the rest beneath me all cowards
[02:53.49] When I spit, look around, it's meteor showers
[02:55.93] I watch the stars fall, fall, fall, see this what you call Power
[02:59.45] Let's talk about Power
[03:04.44] Let's talk about your and ours that made the allowance
[03:18.88] Let's talk about hundred-thousand kids ravin' and bouncin
[03:22.03] Cravin' and drownin in words the day I pronounced it
[03:24.52] Let's talk about Power
[03:26.14] Let's talk about do'ers and dont'ers
[03:27.80] The house I built when I was homeless and sleepin in corner
[03:30.08] Sharin' coronas and black and milds
[03:32.57] Donuts in el caminos
[03:33.62] Talkin' loud, Scrappin' corners
[03:35.23] Residue every mornin'
[03:36.72] Talk about legacy
[03:37.71] Let's talk about the life of celebrity
[03:38.89] Verses integrity
[03:40.11] Curse the first one that thirst for necessity
[03:41.43] Searching for equity
[03:42.97] Verses the earth that birthed us indefinitely
[03:44.35] Verse the verse I wrote in jeopardy
[03:45.82] Surfin' the laws of the universe and destiny
[03:47.82] Church and a God is the only thing that's been 'head
[03:50.28] AW! Let's talk about my power and golden showers
[03:53.09] Granted to be on your cameras and store counters
[03:55.90] He's banana's, competitive, we can dance
[03:58.13] Siege the damage, no more fo' he peed his pants
[04:01.26] My second LP had real niggas on POTUS lawn
[04:03.86] The seven grammys is at my Grannys and Heaven arms
[04:06.89] I'm in Jamaica like "WAH GAWIN" my feet is out
[04:09.42] My hair is long and patois coming out my mouth
[04:12.08] Me, I go outdoors it's time to bless up erryuhn'
[04:15.08] Rude boy, me, I worry bout it fearless'
[04:17.77] I shot niggas then shot movies ten years later
[04:20.73] Dear God, why you show me so much favor?
[04:23.33] Amongst the haters and wickedness
[04:25.34] Deliver this child from evil convictions and friviless
[04:27.37] Debates about who's the prominent emcee of the millennium
[04:30.75] And it's all for the benjamins
[04:33.49] And I'm all of yalls nemsis
[04:34.58] And I'm all in all happy none of yall can fathom who Kendrick is
[04:36.43] The only one that did wrote book of Genesis
[04:44.56] Motherfucker, thats Power
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