Institutionalized
Kendrick Lamar

[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]

What money got to do with it

When I don't know the full definition of a rap image?

I'm trapped inside the ghetto and I ain't proud to admit it

Institutionalized, I keep runnin' back for a visit

Hol' up

Get it back

I said I'm trapped inside the ghetto and I ain't proud to admit it

Institutionalized, I could still kill me a nigga, so what?


[Interlude: Anna Wise]

If I was the president

I'd pay my mama's rent

Free my homies and them

Bulletproof my Chevy doors

Lay in the White House and get high, Lord

Who ever thought?

Master take the chains off me


[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

Life can be like a box of chocolate

Quid pro quo, somethin' for somethin', that's the obvious

Oh shit, flow's so sick, don't you swallow it

Bitin' my style, you're salmonella poison positive

I can just alleviate the rap industry politics

Milk the game up, never lactose intolerant

The last remainder of real shit, you know the obvious

Me scholarship? No, streets put me through colleges

Be all you can be, true, but the problem is

A dream's only a dream if work don't follow it

Remind me of the homies that used to know me, now follow this

I'll tell you my hypothesis, I'm probably just way too loyal

K Dizzle would do it for you, my niggas think I'm a god

Truthfully all of 'em spoiled, usually you're never charged

But somethin' came over you once I took you to the fuckin' BET Awards

You lookin' at artists like the harvests

So many Rollies around you and you want all of them

Somebody told me you thinkin' 'bout snatchin' jewelry

I should've listened what my grandmama said to me


[Hook: Bilal]

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga

Oh now, slow down


[Bridge: Snoop Dogg]

And once upon a time in a city so divine

Called West Side Compton, there stood a little nigga

He was 5 foot something, God bless the kid

Took his homie to the show and this is what they said


[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

What I'm s'posed to do when I'm lookin' at walkin' licks?

The convicts talk 'bout matchin', money and foreign whips

The private jets and passports, presidential glass floor

Gold bottles, gold models, sniffin' up the ass for

Instagram flicks, suck a dick, fuck is this?

One more suck away from wavin' flashy wrist

My defense mechanism tell me to get him, quickly because he got it

It's the recession, then why the fuck he in King of Diamonds?

No more livin' poor, meet my .44

When I see 'em, put the per diem on the floor

Now Kendrick, know they're your co-workers

But it's gon' take a lot for this pistol go cold turkey

Now I can watch his watch on the TV and be okay

But see I'm on the clock once that watch landin' in LA

Remember steal from the rich and givin' it back to the poor?

Well that's me at these awards

I guess my grandmama was warnin' a boy

She said...


[Hook]

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass

Shit don't change until you get up and wash your ass nigga

Oh now, slow down


[Outro: Snoop Dogg]

And once upon a time in a city so divine

Called West Side Compton, there stood a little nigga

He was 5 foot something, dazed and confused

Talented but still under the neighborhood ruse

You can take your boy out the hood but you can't take the hood out the homie

Took his show money, stashed it in the mozey wozey

Hollywood's nervous

Fuck you, goodnight, thank you much for your service


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  \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   Dumb It Down   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   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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