Besides the Downfall of Ibliys and A Piece of Strange which are entirely different concepts. I haven't heard a hip hop album that touch on this concept unless I overlooked one
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Besides the Downfall of Ibliys and A Piece of Strange which are entirely different concepts. I haven't heard a hip hop album that touch on this concept unless I overlooked one
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Suspicious Dingo
Superstar
How long til this is officially released? I gotta cop this shyt
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
It's just one beat. I was wrong. It's a dope one though.
But the 9th wonder beat has amazing switches in it.
Both tracks are fire.
I got power, poison, pain and joy in my dna
I got hustle tho, ambition, flow inside my dna
I got hustle tho, ambition, flow inside my dna
Majestic
Believe in myself and the Coles and Kendricks
A piece of strange by cunninlygsuts?Besides the Downfall of Ibliys and A Piece of Strange which are entirely different concepts. I haven't heard a hip hop album that touch on this concept unless I overlooked one
Yep.
This is why I say that hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years- FEAR
Got this from some other sit.
Does he really say this on DNA
He plays a soundbite from Fox News about Alright
Grand Eeezus Maxwell
"Time is when, God....lounge!!"
I aint gone say it... I aint gone say it
That's cool bruh. But if this theory about K Dot's new album is true then it's I Am... The Autobiography redone.
Nas and more recently dudes like Lupe on Tetsuo & Youth have messed around with very similar themes/concepts.Besides the Downfall of Ibliys and A Piece of Strange which are entirely different concepts. I haven't heard a hip hop album that touch on this concept unless I overlooked one
IF the theory is true...
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
Duckworth 
to Kendrick for going back to the raw anecdotal storytelling that made me a fan in the first place, it took the underlying themes of the track to the next level.
"Oh, Lamar
Hail Mary and marijuana, times is hard
Prey with the hooligans, shadows all in the dark
Fellowship with demons and relatives, I'm a star
God is one funny mothafukka
True comedian, you gotta love him, you gotta trust him
I might be buggin, infomercials and no sleep
introverted by ?, children listen it gets deep
see once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
the object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
adaptation inevitable: gun violence, crack spot
federal policies, raid buildings and drug professionals
Anthony was the oldest of seven, well respected
calm and collected...
Laughing and joking they life easier,
hard times, mama on crack
a four year old telling his nanny he needed her
His family history pimping and banging
He was smit to be dangerous
clocked him a grip and start slanging
Fifteen scraping up his jeans with quarter pieces
Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
Dodging policemen working for his big homie
Small time hustler graduated to a brick on him
Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing, that's on the daily
Seen his first mil, twenty years old, had a couple of babies
had a couple of shooters, caught a murder case
finger prints on the gun, they assume it but witnesses couldn't prove it
that was back when he his back and they killed his cousin
He beat the case and went back to hustling, bird shuffling
Anthony rang, the first in the projects
with the two tone mustang, and 5.0 thang
They say 5-0 came, circling parking lots
and parking spots and hopping out while harassing the corner blocks
crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it,
He brushed them off and walked back to the Kentucky Fried Chicken
See, at this chicken spot there was a light skinned nikka that talked a lot
With a curly top and a gap in his teeth, he worked the window
His name was Ducky, he came from the streets, the Robert Taylor Homes
South Side projects, Chiraq, the Terror Dome
Drove to California with a women on him and 500 dollars
They had a son, hoping that he see college
Hustling on the side with a 9 to 5 to freak it
Cadillac Seville, he ride his son around the weekends
3 piece special with his name on it, shirt pocket
Cross the street from the projects, Anthony planned to rob it
Stuck up the place before back in 84,
That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war
So many relatives telling us, selling us devilish words
Scandalous crime, intelligent felonious prevalent proposition
With nines, Ducky was well aware
They robbed the manager and shot a customer last year
He figured he'd get on these nikkas good sides, free chicken
Every time Anthony posted in line, two extra biscuits
Anthony liked him and then let him slide, he didn't kill him
In fact it look like they the last to survive, pay attention
That one decision changed both of they lives, one curse at a time
Reversed the manifestation of good karma and I'll tell you why
You take two strangers and put em in random predicaments
Give em a song so they can make they own choices and live with it
Twenty years later, them same strangers do make a meet again
Inside recording studios where they reaping they benefits
then you start reminding them about that chicken incident
Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence?
Because if Anthony killed Ducky, Top Dawg could be serving life
While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight"
Hail Mary and marijuana, times is hard
Prey with the hooligans, shadows all in the dark
Fellowship with demons and relatives, I'm a star
God is one funny mothafukka
True comedian, you gotta love him, you gotta trust him
I might be buggin, infomercials and no sleep
introverted by ?, children listen it gets deep
see once upon a time inside the Nickerson Garden projects
the object was to process and digest poverty's dialect
adaptation inevitable: gun violence, crack spot
federal policies, raid buildings and drug professionals
Anthony was the oldest of seven, well respected
calm and collected...
Laughing and joking they life easier,
hard times, mama on crack
a four year old telling his nanny he needed her
His family history pimping and banging
He was smit to be dangerous
clocked him a grip and start slanging
Fifteen scraping up his jeans with quarter pieces
Even got some head from a smoker last weekend
Dodging policemen working for his big homie
Small time hustler graduated to a brick on him
Ten thousand dollars out of a project housing, that's on the daily
Seen his first mil, twenty years old, had a couple of babies
had a couple of shooters, caught a murder case
finger prints on the gun, they assume it but witnesses couldn't prove it
that was back when he his back and they killed his cousin
He beat the case and went back to hustling, bird shuffling
Anthony rang, the first in the projects
with the two tone mustang, and 5.0 thang
They say 5-0 came, circling parking lots
and parking spots and hopping out while harassing the corner blocks
crooked cops told Anthony he should kick it,
He brushed them off and walked back to the Kentucky Fried Chicken
See, at this chicken spot there was a light skinned nikka that talked a lot
With a curly top and a gap in his teeth, he worked the window
His name was Ducky, he came from the streets, the Robert Taylor Homes
South Side projects, Chiraq, the Terror Dome
Drove to California with a women on him and 500 dollars
They had a son, hoping that he see college
Hustling on the side with a 9 to 5 to freak it
Cadillac Seville, he ride his son around the weekends
3 piece special with his name on it, shirt pocket
Cross the street from the projects, Anthony planned to rob it
Stuck up the place before back in 84,
That's when affiliation was really eight gears of war
So many relatives telling us, selling us devilish words
Scandalous crime, intelligent felonious prevalent proposition
With nines, Ducky was well aware
They robbed the manager and shot a customer last year
He figured he'd get on these nikkas good sides, free chicken
Every time Anthony posted in line, two extra biscuits
Anthony liked him and then let him slide, he didn't kill him
In fact it look like they the last to survive, pay attention
That one decision changed both of they lives, one curse at a time
Reversed the manifestation of good karma and I'll tell you why
You take two strangers and put em in random predicaments
Give em a song so they can make they own choices and live with it
Twenty years later, them same strangers do make a meet again
Inside recording studios where they reaping they benefits
then you start reminding them about that chicken incident
Whoever thought the greatest rapper would be from coincidence?
Because if Anthony killed Ducky, Top Dawg could be serving life
While I grew up without a father and die in a gunfight"
to Kendrick for going back to the raw anecdotal storytelling that made me a fan in the first place, it took the underlying themes of the track to the next level.
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