[00:00.00]Average Joe - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔)
[00:08.05]The hardest thing for me to do
[00:12.64]Is to get you to know me
[00:17.87]Within sixteen bars
[00:20.01]That's the hardest thing
[00:21.24]Who is K Dot
[00:22.80]A young ni**a from Compton
[00:23.97]On the curb writing raps next to a gun shot
[00:27.14]On the corners where the gangsters
[00:28.28]And the killers dwell
[00:29.49]The fraudulent tender scars
[00:30.94]That get unveiled
[00:32.16]Everyone I knew was either crip or piru
[00:34.56]Cousins in elementary
[00:35.69]Relatives in high school
[00:37.38]With that being said
[00:38.46]Each one of their rivals
[00:39.79]Was aiming something at my head
[00:41.13]I needed survival
[00:42.44]Got jumped got jacked
[00:43.78]Shot at shot back
[00:45.04]And I don't even push a line
[00:46.36]I'm just tryna push these rhymes
[00:47.98]In the midst of staying
[00:49.09]Neutral and discrete
[00:50.17]My momma said you're judged
[00:51.37]By the company you keep
[00:52.87]But what you can consider
[00:54.22]That if it goes down
[00:55.36]They'll kill you if you kill me
[00:57.27]It gets deep ni**a
[00:59.04]So if you ask what I'm doing
[01:00.36]I'm tryna duck the influence of my city
[01:02.54]That's brewing real talk and
[01:04.89]This is why they f**k with me
[01:07.98](real talk ni**a believe it)
[01:09.85]This is why they f**k with me
[01:13.16](do what I do y'know )
[01:14.60]I'm no gangster no killer
[01:16.87]I'm just your average Joe
[01:18.95](know that)
[01:19.84]But one thing you should consider
[01:22.12]I'm the realest you know
[01:24.07]I was walking from Centennial
[01:25.75]When an unidentified vehicle rolled up
[01:28.35]And I was like hol' up
[01:30.78]Where you from
[01:31.42]"I don't bang"
[01:32.02]Where you stay"Westside"
[01:33.34]That's a Piru gang to be exact
[01:35.38]Well aware they had blue
[01:36.45]Across they hat
[01:37.28]Dropped backpack
[01:37.90]And ran inside of the cul-de-sac
[01:39.70]Shots rang out hoping to God
[01:41.59]I wasn't wet
[01:42.25]Crossed to cross Rosecrans
[01:43.48]And ran inside of the yet
[01:44.93]Chirped the homies on the I-95
[01:46.78]They said they already knew
[01:48.10]What happened
[01:48.74]And meet 'em outside the garage
[01:50.17]Never seen that many guns in my life
[01:52.32]I was paranoid like a fiend in the night
[01:54.47]But needed revenge
[01:55.34]Grabbed the nine-ball
[01:56.32]Opened up the door then got in
[01:58.11]Somebody said fall back
[01:59.55]We gon' make these niggas suffer
[02:00.85]You my brother like a frat
[02:02.17]And that's just to remind you
[02:03.52]Thought about that so long
[02:04.64]I had failed my finals f**k but
[02:07.80]This is why they f**k with me
[02:10.94](I told you ni**a)
[02:12.99]This is why they f**k with me
[02:16.45](you fake ni**a)
[02:17.56]I'm no gangster no killer
[02:19.76]I'm just your average Joe (you fake)
[02:22.97]But one thing you should consider
[02:25.05]I'm the realest you know
[02:27.64]I don't do black music
[02:28.98]I don't do white music
[02:30.32]I do everyday life music
[02:32.46]Give 'em cuts like a ni**a
[02:33.64]Pierced a knife through it
[02:34.91]You say you through
[02:35.78]But I've been through it now that's cold
[02:38.39]And this is for my county building children
[02:40.25]In Hub City on hubcaps
[02:41.80]No power-steering
[02:42.92]I use perseverance in this mad city
[02:45.25]Where the niggas drink Remy
[02:46.80]And hold semis for cutthroats
[02:48.48]Bernie Mac died it's no joke
[02:50.02]Don't ask why if you don't know
[02:51.65]About these killers and thieves
[02:53.12]Seven grams of w**d you smoke that
[02:55.14]But I'm high off life
[02:56.58]I could fall out the sky like twice
[02:59.46]And land in the land of the AKs
[03:01.65]And the minivans where the fan never on
[03:03.82]Cause it's hotter than a lunatic's
[03:05.17]Underarms in a straitjacket
[03:07.31]In other words we get it cracking
[03:08.87]But I keep it cool you know
[03:10.81]This is why they f**k with me
[03:16.04]This is why they f**k with me (real talk)
[03:20.56]I'm no gangster no killer
[03:22.75]I'm just your average Joe (come on)
[03:25.66]But one thing you should consider
[03:27.90]I'm the realest you know
[03:33.88]So there you have it
[03:37.23]But I'mma leave you with this
[03:41.44]An O G once told me
[03:45.16]A real gangster is either dead or in jail
[03:49.31]Or behind the scenes getting real money
[03:51.02]I'm gone