[00:01.268]September 22nd
[00:04.424]Kendrick Lamar
[00:11.639]To... to...
[00:17.600][00:16.425]
[00:18.862]Let me start off this letter saying I don't like you
[00:22.947]Scared of you but I will fight you
[00:24.900]I stare at the ceiling and think about you
[00:26.896]Curiosity killing me, thinking of when I'ma meet you
[00:29.340]You introduced yourself to so many others, mothers, sisters and brothers, children and babies drive me crazy I wonder
[00:33.758]Why you love people that love people that do right?
[00:37.441]Is it rocket science to you or is it just your type?
[00:40.002]One of my biggest fears, is waking up 4 in the morning and gotta hear you met one of my peers
[00:45.311]Or maybe a family member that you thought was cool
[00:47.489]Or maybe a person that I'll never meet 'cause of you
[00:50.014]You, son of a bitch and I wish you never existed
[00:52.940]And I swear I'd blow your brains out if you pay me a visit
[00:55.552]But that's not realistic, 'cause you'll never rot
[00:57.983]But I'ma still send this letter off
[00:59.880]P.O. Box, and when you get it....
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[01:03.432]Please take it personal
[01:05.518]Please take it personal
[01:10.843]Please take it personal
[01:15.877]Because it's personal
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[01:22.039]Let me continue this letter saying I don't like you
[01:25.196]Scared of you but I will fight you
[01:27.100]Should be ashamed of the moves you make
[01:29.173]The pain you bring, the sorrow and the hearts you break
[01:31.648]Everyday you remind me that you're always there
[01:34.205]'Cause every time I come around someone's getting shot down
[01:36.964]And all I say is a prayer, "so help me, Lord!"
[01:39.376]Then the Lord talk back, "I can't help you, boy!"
[01:42.134]That's ****ed up, my life's ****ed, was cursed before birth
[01:45.181]And what's ****ed up, I gotta live my life with the hurt
[01:47.369]Of knowing that you're everlasting
[01:49.170]Dwelling upon the masses
[01:50.638]Of the Earth fatal assassins
[01:52.432]Snatchin' bodies
[01:53.389]Probably, on my notepad as I write
[01:55.748]Why the **** you wanna take my life?
[01:57.640]Sooner or later, I'm tired and weary and my gray hairs are not in my favor
[02:01.508]So when I write on this paper
[02:02.864]It's real talk
[02:03.730]So...
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[02:05.173]Please take it personal
[02:07.657]Please take it personal
[02:13.162]Please take it personal
[02:18.160]Because it's personal
[02:18.160][02:17.933]
[02:23.804]Let me start off this letter saying I don't like you too
[02:27.920]And the reason we haven't met because I've been busy doing whatever since grade school
[02:31.834]I've watched your every move
[02:33.155]You slipped up a few times, I gave you a pass
[02:35.240]So don't say I ain't sympathetic
[02:37.087]But you can barely get curiosity, I'ma dead it
[02:39.654]Everybody wanna know why I act this way
[02:41.654]Let's just say... I had a bad day
[02:44.382]Matter fact, everyday
[02:45.567]But I take it out on somebody and you could probably find me wherever the wolves parade
[02:49.574]I was born to be a killjoy, I'm an old brat
[02:52.280]Conceived by Adam and Eve, so who you mad at?
[02:54.983]Not me, see me? I'm just doing my job
[02:57.612]And you ducking me? Is mos def an odd
[03:00.207]So why send this letter as if I never knew you?
[03:02.808]I rather knock on your door and just hand it to you
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[03:05.185]It's everywhere
[03:06.635]The streets, the corners, the coroners, the morgues, the cemeteries, hospitals
[03:12.109]Heard about it when I was little
[03:13.979]Tomorrow's not promised, 'cause any day can be knocking at your front door
[03:18.610]War, genocide, homicide, suicide all coincide
[03:23.328]Signed and sealed by the living
[03:25.157]Make it, don't take it
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[03:26.484]Please take it personal
[03:30.809]Please take it personal
[03:35.980]Please take it personal
[03:45.243]Because it's personal