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The Art Of Peer Pressure

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The Art Of Peer Pressure

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Everybody, everybody

Everybody

Everybody sit your bitch ass down and listen to this true mothafuckin' story told by kendrick lamar on rosecrans, ya bitch

Smoking on the finest dope

Aye aye aye aye

Drank until I can't no mo'

Aye aye aye aye

Really I'm a sober soul

But I'm with the homies right now

And we ain't asking for no favors

Rush a n*gga quick then laugh about it later

Aye aye aye aye

Really I'm a peacemaker

But I'm with the homies right now

And momma used to say

One day, it's gon' burn you out

One day, it's gon' burn you out, out

One day, it's gon' burn you out

One day, it's gon' burn you

I'm with the homies right now

Me and my niggas four deep in a white toyota

A quarter tank of gas, one pistol, and orange soda

Janky stash box when the federales roll up

Basketball shorts with the gonzales park odor

We on the mission for bad bitches and trouble

I hope the universe love you today

'Cause the energy we bringing sure to carry away

A flock of positive activists and fill they body with hate

If it's necessary

Bumping jeezy first album looking distracted

Speaking language only we know, you think is an accent

The windows roll down all I see is a hand pass it

Hotboxing like george foreman grilling the masses

Of the working world, we pulled up on a bunch of working girls

And asked them what they working with – look at me

I got the blunt in my mouth

Usually I'm drug-free, but shit I'm with the homies

(Yea nigga, we off a pill and remy red

Come through and bust ya head nigga)

Me and the homies

(Sag all the way to the liquor store

Where my niggas pour up 4 and get twisted some more)

Me and the homies

(I ride for my mothafuckin' niggas

Hop out, do my stuff, then hop back in)

Me and the homies

(Matter fact, I hop out that mothafucka and be like

"Doo! Doo! Doo! Doo!... Doo! Doo! Doo! Doo! Doo!" )

It's 2: 30 and the Sun is beaming

Air conditioner broke and I hear my stomach screaming

Hungry for anything unhealthy and if nutrition can help me

I'll tell you to suck my dick then I'll continue eating

We speeding on the 405 passing westchester

You know the light skin girls in all the little dresses, good lord

They knew we weren't from 'round there

'Cause every time we down there we pulling out the boost mobile sim cards

Bougie bitches with no extensions

Hood niggas with bad intentions, the perfect combination

Before we sparked a conversation

We seen three niggas in colors we didn't like then started interrogating

I never was a gang banger, I mean I was never stranger to the funk neither

I really doubt it

Rush a nigga quick and then we laugh about it

That's ironic 'cause I've never been violent, until I'm with the homies

(Just ridin', just ridin')

Me and the homies

(Bullshittin', actin' a fool)

Me and the homies

(Trippin', really trippin')

Me and the homies

(Just ridin', just ridin', just ridin'…)

Bragging 'bout the episode we just had

A shot of hennessy didn't make me feel that bad

I'm usually a true firm believer of bad karma

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

We tryna conquer the city with disobedience

Quick to turn it up, even if we ain't got the cd in

But jeezy still playing and our attitude is still "nigga, what is you saying"

Pull in front of the house that we been camping out for like two months

The Sun is going down as we take whatever we want

(Ay, ay, nigga cash out nigga, pop the safe

Ay nigga, I think it's somebody in this room

Wait, what?

Nigga, it's somebody in this room!)

I hit the back window in search of any nintendo

Dvds, plasma screen tvs in the trunk

We made a right, then made a left, then made a right

Then made a left, we was just circling life

My mama called – "hello? What you doin'?" kicking it "

I should've told her I'm probably 'bout to catch my first offense with the homies

But they made a right, they made a left then made a right

Then another right

One lucky night with the homies

Ay, are you faded, hood?

Yea we finally got that nigga faded

I think he hit the wrong blunt though

Ooh, which one?

Well which one he talking 'bout?

I was finna hit the one with the shenanigans in it

I prayed he hit that

Nah, that nigga straight. He ain't hit that one

Got the shenanigans? Give that n*gga the shenanigans

Nigga I think we should push back to the city, fo' real doe

Nigga, for what?

What that nigga, what's that jeezy song say nigga?

Last time I checked I was the man on these streets!

Yea, yea, that shit right there. I'm tryna be the nigga in the street

There he go. Man you don't even know how the shit go

Look, here's the plan, dog. We gon' use the kickback as a alibi

Wait till the Sun go down, roll out, complete the mission, drop k. Dot off at his mama van, at the park, cause I know he tryna fuck on sherane tonight

Yeah yeah yeah. That's the night he gonna do it

Then we all gon' meet back at the block at about 10:30

That's straight but we should just meet up around 12; I'm tryna fuck on something too

Nigga sit yo dumb ass back down, nigga you ain't doing shit tonight

Matter fact, nigga get in the mothafuckin' car. We finna get active

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