Barbed Wire lyrics - Kendrick Lamar (feat. Ash Riser)

[Kendrick Lamar]

One time

Reporting live, Compton, California

Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?

Like you never get right? Sort of like a black sheep

Back down, backing out your dreams like some bad sleep

Chasing for the win but you never win the track meet

Oh, what a cold world for a broke nigga, it's bitter

and life's a bitch, don't hit women so I bit her

I struck enough pain, let her know I wasn't playing

I was so (Sincere) like Nas' first name

And back, they'd tell me, it's very difficult to see twenty-five

and if I survive I probably wouldn't sell it

My opportunities are low because my brown complexion floats

in the ghetto, rather in some heals like Giuseppe's

They want me unemployed, until I hit the streets

for filling voids of broke D-boys selling weed

Fucking up my prestige, till I live with the blues

B.B. King or the neighbors of Snoop

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser) {uncredited female}]

That's why I'm in the club like fuck it though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say I can't live comfortable

I'ma tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass

Celebrate the very day that I get past

(Through the barbed wire)

{We are, we are fighters

We are, we are true

Through the, through barbed wires

We will, will break through}

So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass

Celebrate the very day that I get past

(Through the barbed wire)

[Kendrick Lamar]

Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?

Like you never did right? Sort of like a black sheep

Tryna get away from the world stereotype

Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny

She desperately in need of some inspiration, see what the people saying

She gon' have a baby, then flee from her education

At the age of sixteen, credit card scam schemes

See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality

She will never get by, no how, no way

Welfare recipient, property of the state

Housing, Section 8, corner store, prostitute

The owner bout to prosecute, the niggas tell her that she cute

Hoodrat trashy, six baby daddies

and this baby daddy is new to the family

Chilling in pajamies, waiting on the first

Fast-forward, spilling drinks on her fur

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser) {uncredited female}]

That's why she in the club like fuck it though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say she can't live comfortable

She gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So while she up in V.I.P. pouring Merlot in her glass

Celebrate the very day that she get past

(Through the barbed wire)

{We are, we are fighters

We are, we are true

Through the, through barbed wires

We will, will break through}

So while she up in V.I.P. pouring Merlot in her glass

Celebrate the very day that she get past

(Through the barbed wire)

[Kendrick Lamar]

Have you ever felt like you finally got life?

You finally got right? No longer a black sheep

Living off your (dreams) like Christina uh-Milian in the front seat

of a convertible, eloping to get married

What a feeling of overcoming the odds

It's like you just hit the lottery, my God

There must be a God, cause golly

you done made it through the fight while squabbling, Ali

Now your lifestyle's looking up and you escaped the crooked cops

and you ain't have to kill a nigga just to make a couple bucks

And she ain't have to go and fuck on everybody for a dollar

Making good decisions, got an independent business mind

And both of y'all are steady grinding, doing it the legal way

Just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day

But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth

You must have joined the Illuminati just to ball out

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser)]

In the club like fuck it though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say they can't live comfortable

They gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So even if you overcame doubt and your living ain't bad

Know it's some barbed wire that's always in your path

(Through the barbed wire)

[Kendrick Lamar]

Just laugh, then everybody say

[Ash Riser]

Cause I won't get caught again

and I'm here to start the trend

You can't catch me if you try

Disappear into the night, and I'm gone

[Outro]

"So you made it past all the barbed wires?"

Just one more left [gun shot]