[Ab-soul]

What's your life about? enlighten me

Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?

There's fire in the street, fire in the swisher

Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister

Just get a sip of this elixir

Before they crop us out the picture

I've never seen a crop circle

But I've cops circle the block, I puff squares

But I swear one day I'ma stop, my nerves itch

On the brink of my career while my peers struggle for employment

Can you hear these screams? (uncle sam ain't no killing me)

One, two, three, four grams and a fifth of hennessy

A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary.

[Sung by female]

Section 80's babies, blame ronald reagan

We raising hell.

[Ab-soul]

Lord forbid

The homie got wet, so we tryna soak it in

The president is black, but you can't vote for skin

You vote for the better man

Come to our show, you can see the diversity

Unify the people, they gon' peep it universally

We might not change the world, but we gon' manipulate it

I hope you participating

Aiyyo dot, won't you let these cats know?

We knew we'd be here like back in '04

Started hiiipower because our generation needed a generator

And the system made to disintegrate us

And all we do is assist 'em

We're not victors, we're victims

The bigger picture isn't developed yet

Like, what if kids were celibate?

Or what is tammy came across a real man

Who didn't play games like chil-dren?

My nigga cheated on his girlfriend

With his girlfriend's girlfriend, let the world end

And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve

And the extraterrestrial presence as well

(Odd future's aight) but our future's not

That martial law shit drop, we gon' all get got

So keep that question mark on your face

Eat your fast-food, use your fluoride toothpaste

Hide your feelings from the public, work your lil' nine-to-five

Don't forget to pay your tithes, and thank god you alive (hiiipower)

And on another note

We focussed like the hubble telescope, 'soul.

[Kendrick lamar (female)]

Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam)

Life is a traffic jam

Life is a traffic jam

Life is a traffic jam

Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)

Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)

Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)

Life is a traffic jam

Life is a traffic jam.

[Kendrick lamar]

I wrote this because I was ordered to

People say I speak for generation y

Why lie? I do

Section 80, your son will play me if radio won't

Daughters that just turned one to twenty-one listen to kendrick

For instance.

[Ab-soul]

What's your life about? enlighten me

Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?

Take out that student loan and pay off your college degree

And do exactly what you see on tv.

[Kendrick lamar]

True story

Hmm, can you repeat that for me 'soul?

[Ab-soul]

What's your life about? enlighten me

Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?

Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn?

The time is now my child, come on.

[Kendrick lamar]

See a lot of y'all don't understand kendrick lamar

Because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, god and history

All in the same sentence

You know what all them things have in common?

Only half of the truth if you tell it

See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers

Till one day I realised I had to come up with my own

I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on inside looking out

I'm in the dead fucking centre looking around

You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?

That's an analogy for the way the world make me react

My innocence been dead

So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes, god and history

All in the same sentence

Just know I meant it, and you felt it

Cause you too are searching for answers

I'm not the next pop star, I'm not the next socially aware rapper

I am a human motherfucking being over dope ass instrumentation

Kendrick lamar

Now fuck 'em up terrace

('soul!)

[Outro]

I watch this fire that we're gathered around

And see that it burns similar to the fire that burns inside you

Section 80, section 80 babies

A generation of bliss and disobedience

No they can't control us, no they can't control you

No they can't control us, but we control each other

We build our own world

If you don't leave with nothing else tonight, you will leave with knowing yourself

You will leave knowing you represent something that's bigger than all of us

Or our family

Heart, honor and represent

This is you, this is me, and we are hiiipower.