Dumb It Down
Kendrick Lamar

Dumb It Down


[Into]


Ali, mix it...

Ha ha ha, Lady G, Whaddup?

Ha ha ha, Bad Love, Whaddup?

Ha ha ha, ha...


[Verse 1]


I spaz out till I pass out. There’s clarity in my vulgarity for a sass-mouth

Your praody’s not funny. Apparently you aint’ nothing but industry crash dummies -

As long as the lord love me, I’m good

I could: be the best rapper but I’d rather be the answer that capture

The violence that coincides in my hood

I should: stick a fork in this music business but I’m too dependent

Like pussy on my penis. Devil’s kitchen in Phoenix. That’s the heat that I’m bringing

Where the shade at? I’m L.A. radio and good music, boy I don’t play that

Ugh. Walking a thin line from thinking like Einstein and

Rhyming like Rakim in ’89

Don’t wanna pack a nine just a mind full of wisdom like a man

99 years old locked in prison. Don’t freeload on my vision

Get exposed like an R&B ho with a sex tape hidden

I’m always for the business, forever you can feel it, weather you Crip blue

Or a nigga that hemorrhage

My penmanship is like me and Langston combined to the hip

And my hip to the hop don’t stop as I rock

I got a buzz like a shot of Palmer Sun and the women fall in love as they fall in my crotch

Now understand that I’m all that you’ve got

Give me chance, give me ears, give me hearts, give me props

Hear the difference...? I’m cool like that

Oh you spit? Well the retarded drool is back

See, I’m the author of the authors. The father of the Austin Power fajja

Who can bust like a charter, why bother?

I know a jealous serpent is a burden to my life

But still I carry on like luggage on a flight

The realness in my bones is the DNA to life

I can give you insight only if you’re in sight

I’m lookin’ past y’all like a fastball - strike!

And I aint’ even trynna give it my all - yikes!

I’m comfortable enough to go and chill out with a Huxtable

You couldn’t see my pedestal, because you’re afraid of heights...

Cloud 9, where you can find; me in my dime like Roosevelt in his prime

Wait till I’m in my prime; the moon and the stars will align

On my Louis V. belt like Orion...

To whom say he cool: but the irony is I could hold the bottom of an iron with the bottom of my palm

I say so much, so little all action, no talk like a mob throwing up gang signs

It’s not all about punchlines, I don’t do that

I’m a Jaguar - you’re just a new cat now move back

Kendrick Lamar on the radar for success

Aiming for the top like an AR aimed at your neck. I can never digress

‘less I get demoted to death, even then I’ll be the best still like a petty theft

I will: conquer my biggest dreams, once you open the cage, I bet that I’ll spread my wings

Nipsy got street cred, Jay Rock got street cred, and all I got is bad credit

Big ears and big head. But still they’ll feel me, cuz we all ate cereal

Humped at momma' friend' daughter while they bump the stereo

Backflips on shopping carts, free lunch at the park, watched power rangers after school...

Here we go: I’m so Comptonized, I will never compromise for no fussy ass A&R or TEO

We ain't what you think and you think we’re back

But we’ve been here for decades and I vouch for that

Open your mouth for that, speak well like a great debater over iChat;

Get your other eye cracked. I don’t rap, I-Iraq and declare war...

I enjoy watching enemies blood pour

I came up lower middle class, not poor

So don’t feel sorry for me I don’t need y’all to love me

I need y’all to feel me - and if you feelin’ froggy to leap

Then feel free. My feeling’s so aside, my pride is deprived by

The ultimate prize I'mma get when I see your suicide...


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Lyrics by Kendrick Lamar

  \u200bi (Album Version)   \u200bu   1 Train (Feat. ASAP Rocky, Joey Bad Ass, Yelawolf,...   25   6'7 (Freestyle)   A Million Dollar Arm Soundtrack (Snip)   A Tale Of 2 Citiez Remix   A.D.H.D   A.D.H.D.   Ab-Soul's Outro   Ab-Souls Outro   Alien Girl (Today With Her)   All Day   Alright   Autumn Leaves   Average Joe   B*tch Don't Kill My Vibe   Backseat   Backseat Freestyle   Backwards   Bad Blood   Bad Blood (Remix)   Balance Fasho   Barbed Wire   BET BackRoom Freestyle   BET Cypher   Better Off (Feat. Quadron)   Beyonce   Big Boys Neighborhood (Freestyle)   Biggie (Freestyle)   Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)   Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe (remix)   Bitch Dont Kill My Vibe (Remix) (Feat. Jay-Z, Emel...   Bitch Dont Kill My Vibe (Remix) (Feat. Jay-Z, Emel...   Bitch Dont Kill My Vibe (Remix) (Feat. Jay-Z, Emel...   Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe   Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (International Remix)   Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)   Bitch, Don\u2019t Kill My Vibe   Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe Remix   Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe   Black Boy Fly   Black Friday   Black Friday (A Tale Of 2 Citiez Remix)   Black fridayf   Blessed   Blessed ft. Schoolboy Q   Blow My High (Members Only)   Blue Faces   Bridget Kelly – Street Dreamin   Buried Alive   Cartoon & Cereal   Cartoon & Cereal   Cartoon and Cereal   Cartoons & Cereal   Celebration   Chapter 6   Chapter Six   Chapter Ten   Cloud 10   Collard Greens   Collard Greens (Feat. Schoolboy Q)   Collard Greens ft. Schoolboy Q   Collect Calls   Complexion   Complexion (A Zulu Love)   Compton   Compton Feat. Dr. Dre   Compton ft. Dr. Dre (Prod. by Just Blaze)   Compton's Finest   Comptons Finest (Feat. H.O.P.E.)   Control   Control   County Building Blues   Cut You Off   Cut You Off (To Grow Closer)   Determined   Do Yo Gudda (Remix)   Don't Kill My Vibe   Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)   Don't Understand   Don't Understand   Double XL   Dying Of Thirst   F*ck Your Ethnicity   Faith   Far from Here   Fight The Feeling   For Free?   For Free? (Interlude)   For Sale?   For Sale? (Interlude)   For The Girlfriends   For The Homies   Forbidden Fruit (Feat. J Cole)   Fragile   Fuck Your Ethnicity   Funkmasterflex (Freestyle)   Get Bizy   Get Bizy ft. Kurupt & Bad Lucc (Prod. by Terrace M...   Good Kid   Good Morning America   GQ Man of The Year 2013 Freestyle   Growing Apart (From Everything)   Growing Apart (To Get Closer)   H.O.C   H.O.C.   Heart Pt. 3   Heaven & Hell   Heaven & Hell   Heaven and Hell   Heaven Help Dem   Higher Ground (BBC Radio Freestyle)   Hii Power   Hiii Power   HiiiiPoWeR   HiiiPower   Hol' Up   Hol' Up   Holy Ghost (Remix)   Homage To DPG ft. LaToiya Williams (Prod. by Focus...   Hood Gone Love It   Hood Politics   How Many Drinks   How Many Drinks (Remix) (Feat. Miguel)   How Much A Dollar Cost   Hub City's Wild Side   I   I (from California Dreams, 2015)   I Am (Interlude)   I Do This   I Do This (Remix)   I Do This (Remix)   I Hate You   I Want It All   I Want It All (Feat. B. Martin, Juicy J)   I'm Da Man   I'm On 2.0   I'm Da Man   I'm On 2.0   Ignorance Is Bliss   Im Da Man   Institutionalized   Interlude   Is It Love   Jason Keaton & Uncle Bobby   Keisha's Song   Keisha's Song (Her Pain)   Keisha's Song Her Pain   Keisha's Song   Kendrick Lamar   Kendrick Lamar BET Cypher Cypher at the BET Hip Ho...   Kendrick Lamar Interlude Track No.9 on Ab-Soul's '...   Kendrick Lamar Partynauseous is a duet with Lady G...   Kendrick Lamar Sing About Me Produced by Pac Div. ...   Kendrick Lamar: Rapper of the Year - GQ   King Kunta   Kush & Corinthians   Kush & Corinthians   Kush and Corinthians (His Pain)   Lamar You Ain't Gotta Lie   Lamar You Ain't Gotta Lie   Last Real Nigga Alive   Let Me Be Me   Lets Us Move On (Feat. Dido)   Little Johnny   LMAO   Look Out For Detox   Looks Good With Trouble (Feat. Solange)   Lunch Table   Lunch Table (Freestyle)   Lunch Table (L.A. Leakers Freestyle)   M.A.A.d City   m.A.A.d city Feat. Mc Eiht   Members Only   Memories Back Then   Memories Back Then (Feat. T.I., B.o.B)   Michael Jordan   Michel Jordan   Momma   Money Trees   Monster   Monster Freestyle   Mortal Man   Murder   Murder (Feat. The Game, Scarface)   My Mind Drifts   My People   Never Catch Me   No Make-Up (Her Vice)   No Makeup   Not Coming Down   Now Or Never   Opposites Attract (Tomorrow W\/O Her)   Opposites Attract (Tomorrow Without Her   Outrageous   P&P 1.5   P&P   P&P 1.5   Party Nauseous   Partynauseous   Pay for It   Phone Home   Poe Man Dreams   Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)   Poetic Justice   Poetic Justice feat. Drake   Poetic Justicee   Power Circle   PP 1.5   R.I.P. (Remix)   R.O.T.C. (Interlude)   Rare Breed   Real   Real 92.3 Freestyle   Real feat. Anna Wise of Sonnymoon   Rigamortis   Rigamortis Remix   Rigamortus   Rigamortus (Remix)   Rip (Remix)   Ronal Reagan Era   Ronald Reagan Era   Ronald Reagan Era (His Evils)   Rossi Wine (Prod. by Droop E)   Say Whassup (Black Hippy)   Sex With Society   Shake It Off (Freestyle)   She Needs Me   She Needs Me (Remix)   Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter   Sherane A.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter   Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter’s Daughter   Sherane aka Master Splinter's Daughter   Shock The World   Sing About Me   Sing About Me / I’m Dying of Thirst   Sing About Me I'm Dying Of Thirst   Sing About Me, I m Dying of Thirst   Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst   Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst   Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst   Skill Still Appeal   Solo Dolo   Solo Dolo Part 2 (Feat. Kid Cudi)   Somebody That I Used To Know (Freestyle)   Street Dreamin (Feat. Bridget Kelly)   Swimming Pools   Swimming Pools (Black Hippy Remix)   Swimming Pools (Drank)   Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended Version)   Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended)   Swimming Pools (Drank) (Single)   Swimming Pools (Drank) [Extended Version]   Swimming Pools (Remix)   Swimming Pools (Replay Remix)   Taking Me Down   Talib Kweli Interlude   Tammy's Song   Tammy's Song (Her Evils)   Tammy's Song Her Evils   Tammy's Song   TDE Roll Call (Black Hippy)   Temptation   Textbook Stuff   Thanksgiving   The Art Of Peer Pressure   The Blacker The Berry   The Blacker The Berry (feat. Assassin)   The City   The City Is Mines   The Heart Pt 3   The Heart Pt. 2   The Heart Pt. 3   The Heart Pt. II   The Heart Pt. III   The Jig Is Up   The Jig Is Up (Dump'n)   The Recipe   The Recipe (Black Hippy Remix)   The Recipe (Single)   The Relevant   The Spiteful Chant   These Walls   They Say   Thirsty   Today   Track 1   Trip   Two Presidents   U   U \/ For Sale? (God Is Gangsta)   U.O.E.N.O. (Black Hippy)   U.O.E.N.O. (Remix)   Uncle Bobby & Jason Keaton   Untitled   Untitled 01 (08.19.2014)   untitled 01 | 08.19.2014.   untitled 02 (06.23.2014)   untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.   untitled 03 (05.28.2013)   untitled 03 | 05.28.2013.   Untitled 04 (08.14.2014)   untitled 04 | 08.14.2014.   untitled 05 (09.21.2014)   untitled 05 | 09.21.2014.   untitled 06 (06.30.2014)   untitled 06 | 06.30.2014.   Untitled 07 - 2014-2016   Untitled 07 - Levitate   untitled 07 (2014 - 2016)   Untitled 07 (Levitate)   untitled 07 | 2014 - 2016   untitled 08 (09.06.2014)   untitled 08 | 09.06.2014.   Untitled 2   Untitled 2 (Blue Faces)   Vanity Slaves   Vanity Slaves Part 2   Wanna Be Heard   War Is My Love   Watts R.I.O.T. (Feat. Gee Watts)   We Up   We Up (Feat. 50 Cent)   Wesley's Theory   Wesley's Theory   Westside Right On   Westside, Right On Time   What The Deal   What The Deal (Freestyle) (Feat. Miguel)   Who Shot Ya   Who Shot Ya (Freestyle)   Writer At War: \u2019s XXL Cover Story   XXL Freshman   You Ain't Gotta Lie   You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)   Young & Black

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