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(Intro)"We got a young brother that stands for something! We got a young brother that believes in the all of us! Brother Kendrick Lamar! He's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author! And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another! But you can't do that... — (Right on!) — I said, you can't do that without loving yourself first..."I done been through a whole lotTrial, tribulations, but I know GodSatan wanna put me in a bow-tiePraying that the holy water don't go dryAs I look around meSo many motherfuckers wanna down meBut ain't no nigga never drown meIn front of a dirty double-mirror they found me

And I love myself(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)I love myself(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)I love myself(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)I love myself(One day at the time, sun gon' shine)

Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?)Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)Peace to fashion police, I wear my heartOn my sleeve, let the runway startYou know the miserable do love companyWhat do you want from me and my scars?Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidenceHow many times our potential was anonymous?How many times the city making me promises?So I promise this

They wanna say there's a war outside and a bomb in the streetAnd a gun in the hood and a mob of policeAnd a rock on the corner and a line full of fiendsAnd a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme, yupThese days of frustration, keep y'all on ducking rotationI duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basisDreams of realities peace, blow steam in the face of the beastThe sky can fall down, the wind can cry nowThe strong in me, I still smile

Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet)Down, down valley peak (Down, down valley peak)I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)I keep my heart undone (My heart undone)

I went to war last nightWith an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medicImma do it 'til I get it right, I went to war last nightI've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescentDuckin' every other blessin', l can never see the messageI can never take the lead, I can never bob and weaveFor my nigga that be letting 'em annihilate meAnd the sound is moving in a meteor speedFrom a hundred to a billion, lay my body in the streetKeep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm freeGive my story to the children and the lesson they can readAnd the glory to the feeling of the only unseenSeen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"

I lost my head, I've must misread what the good book saidOh woes keep me, it's a jungle insideGive myself again 'til the well runs dry

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