picture me (kendrick speaks)

t-h-e-o

soul!

reason

soulful!

like

and they be like

they be like picture me rollin'

picture me rollin'

picture me rollin'

i'm just tryna

i'm just tryna focus better

no more dealin' with fake niggas

i don't address 'em

we all got hood families

i know the coldest felons

so you could talk all you want but keep it copacetic

please don't

please don't bring the hood out a nigga

lately lookin' for a chick that bring the good out a nigga

i been blowin' 'cause i'm stressed

you got ass and some breasts

ironic that smokin' body bring the kush out a nigga

uh

smokin' with the homies leave my mind dazed

rather be loaded 'cause blunts fuck up the mind frame

but give me a bad bitch

couple shots and some sade

couple hours later

have a mind play and mind games

'cause i done see many women just broken up

with they nigga and figured we ain't close enough to get it crackin'

but when saw that liquor soakened up

closed hearts turned into drunk thoughts

she opened up

feelin' bad as a pull up this bacardi

all this drunk sex got me feelin' like a cosby

i guess it's a thin line between us and bill

but what's the real difference between a shot and pills?

uh

they both get you fucked up

so she popped one and she like

picture me rollin'

picture me rollin'

picture me rollin'

picture me rollin'

picture me like two fingers in a thumb bangin' 60 crip

until them niggas just don't exist

i get it

we all got vices and shit

it's just a shame when that vice turn to a crisis and shit

then bang

a single mother get that sad call to her phone

and now she questionin' god and why he did her wrong

'cause her son was just a kid on the honor roll

caught a stray bullet while walkin' up out designer stores

they was bangin' on 'em piru niggas

and if you hang with 'em

fuck it you can die too

nigga

this is cali

why not live to the stereotype?

sad part is that the mother gotta bury him

right?

always want to be a lawyer or a doctor

get his mama out of compton

but the homie beef with them bloods

got him killed

bang

his brains all over his shoulder

and get to accomplish shitty wonder as he gettin' older

he just want to put his mama in a rover

so he could toll her

mama

picture you rollin'

picture you rollin'

picture you rollin'

look at you rollin'

look at you

'cause mama

you deserve it

but now i'm murdered

and i can't picture you rollin'

tried to stay away from the danger

stray bullet turned your son to an angel

now picture the game without the politics

and without social media always hypin' it

the other day was on my studio floor

then i ran across the cypher and the gx4

like damn

most of these niggas barely aight

another example of people in it for the hype

it's all about the money

gold

and bitches

cars

hoes

and liquors

chains and no gimmicks

it's fucked up

now picture if this shit was 'bout the dopest writtens

not a cosign

but focused on the coldest lyrics

who would be the best comin' out the west?

think about it

give you a hint

there's a reason why they don't speak about me

this verse gon' have a lot of niggas hate a nigga

but fuck it

i'm as bold as a racist nigga

in the middle of watts sharin' thoughts 'bout how you feel

we all deal crack

fuck that

nigga

picture me rollin'

i said picture me rollin'

nigga

picture me rollin'

picture me rollin'

so soulful

picture you rollin'

mama look at me rollin'

in the danger

stray bullet turned your son to an angel

the reason why every- we on earth today

you

me

him

her

all these different

uh- walks of life

it's all a test

it's almost like an experiment

god's experiment

when are we gon' understand that we are put on earth to love?

that's all it's about!

everybody wanna figure out how complicated life is and break it down

this is what i truly think

i really think that it's gonna keep goin' on

world gon' keep goin'

frustrations will keep goin' on

anger will keep goin' on

'til we finally get back down to the simplest word: love

and when god sees that

then we have the answer

but until then

it's gon' be warfare