Kendrick Lamar Have You Heard This Verse?

Started by Maximus, Dec 7, 2015, in Kendrick Lamar Add to Reading List

  1. Maximus
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    Maximus Skeppy

    Dec 7, 2015

    skip to 6:50
    dope verse
     
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    shahidah watch me work it JT

    Dec 7, 2015
    Just thought I'd add the lyrics in case anyone wanted to look it up (like me lol)

    [Verse 6: Kendrick Lamar]

    Look inside the highs of the last Mohicans survived
    You won’t last a weekend outside
    Seen a pastor tweaking, then sunk his teeth in a rock his demise
    Later on that evening you heard the grieving of angels that cried
    See a demon don’t compromise
    And so I walk alone with a cross and a diamond stone
    I’m a diamond inside the rough that’s too mighty for maricons
    I might as well put all my killers in YSL
    Put my voice on this microphone, put you p---- n----s through h---
    h---’s fire, I never lie, you will never grind
    I know the priors they runnin’ by us when we do crime
    I know that section eight wanna discontinue my Moms
    When they heard that Ohio state gave me 30 racks in July
    Oh Lord, this can’t be life, no it can’t be life
    When they day breaks and you earned them stripes and you learned that strike
    From upstate will adjourn that life and confirm that life
    It’s good bait for the warden that might get awarded and write
    Now your fate can record it a reporter replied
    The death rate will eventually climb, so eventually I’m
    On a track race for the dough before time get a clock that resigns
    So about face if it ain’t business, I get offended, I mind
    No one fake, I’m a realist in strive, of a bilion in five
    Well a billion cause the limit is the sky and I live on cloud nine
    And I recognize my nemesis gon’ try but I’m finishing my shine
    But p----, where it hurt you
    Life in the power circle
     
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  3. SHUDEYE
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    SHUDEYE Kerser is the sickest.

    Dec 7, 2015
    Haven't heard it was a dope verse though.
     
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    shahidah watch me work it JT

    Dec 7, 2015
    to answer your question in the title...I have not heard this verse yet.

    "No one fake, I’m a realist in strive, of a bilion in five
    Well a billion cause the limit is the sky and I live on cloud nine
    And I recognize my nemesis gon’ try but I’m finishing my shine
    But p----, where it hurt you
    Life in the power circle"


    here I'm wondering why they added the second layer of vocals to the track? ....anyone have any ideas?

    my thoughts were that its a tribute or similarity to 2Pac and how he adds the double vocals on some of his tracks.
    or production team just thought it sounded better?
     
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  5. Cj Hall
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    Dec 7, 2015
    I think everybody add extra vocals to the track
     
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