Cut You Off (To Grow Closer) lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

Uh-uh-uh, uh, uh-uh-uh, uh

Ali, you thirsty on Twitter [laughs]

You boo-boo, you T

You turned down, you thirsty

You boo-boo

Uh, I'm tryna learn something new

I'm tryna find myself, I'm searching deep for Kendrick Lamar

I read about Napoleon Hill and try to know God

They say he the key to my blessings

and if I speak the good into existence, that instant my dreams will unlock

Money flow like water, I'll just wait at the dock

And by the way I'ma start, finding more light to shed

like a small garage in your backyard

I'm back chilling with a friend of mine, she mighty fine

But I notice that her heart resides next to bitterness

Always hollering who she don't like, and who she kick it with

Who she wanna fight, who wearing a weave

Who Dooney & Bourke bag is fake, who holding the keys

to the car she drove last year, or who fucking on who

and who need a pap smear, getting on my nerves

But before your negative energy curve, bitch, I'ma cut you off

[Chorus]

Cause every time you come around you be hollering that

whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

He say, she say, oh my God

Shut the fuck up... hoe

Every time you come around you be hollering that

whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

He say, she say

Uh, I'm tryna learn something new

I'm tryna surround myself with people that inspire me

or at least inquire similar desires

to do what it T-A-K-E just to reach the T-O-P

I'm talking ideas, motivation

It's more than making enemies my nigga

Oh, that's not your memo? Then tell me why you constant stressing

on how much you well connected like centipedes my nigga?

I function with you and you flaunt your pistol

Every second tell me how you pressed him at the Monte Crystal

Where so-and-so from, and what neighborhoods beefing

Who baby momma's a rat, and who got killed last weekend

That shit is mad depressing, bringing me down

Speak on something with some substance that can get us both paid

rather than telling me how these niggas jocking your style

or his rims ain't bigger, pussy nigga, I'ma cut you off

[Chorus]

Cause every time you come around you be hollering that

whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

He say, she say, oh my God

Shut the fuck up... scary ass

Every time you come around you be hollering that

whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

He say, she say

Uh, I'm tryna learn something new

I'm tryna better my chances of becoming a star

I'm tryna feel the vibe of Mona Lisa, studying art

Now paint that picture, life behind bars

Remember the very day I got caught?

I murdered a rapper, and you filed the police report?

See what I was taught, family is all I need

But indeed, them too can run me right up a tree

Constantly talking shit bout the next relative

Wanting me to take sides, but I'd never give in

Ever since grandma died everyone parted ways

Argue on holidays, left my uncle in prison

For fifteen years no one paid, him attention but moms

Yeah my momma as loyal as any sister would come

Come to my house just to yap about your own people, dang

And if your blood wasn't running through my veins

I would probably cut y'all off, too, yep

[Chorus]

Cause every time you come around y'all be hollering that

whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

He say, she say, oh my God

Shut the fuck up... keep it running Ali

Every time you come around you be hollering that

whoop-de-whoop, blase-blah

He say, she say

So tell 'em shut the fuck up

Tell 'em shut the fuck up

Yeah bitch you boo-boo, you T

You turned down, you thirsty

Tell 'em shut the fuck up

Tell 'em shut the fuck up

Yeah nigga you boo-boo, you T

You turned down, you thirsty

You thirsty, you boo-boo

You T, you turned down

You boo-boo, you T

You boo-boo, you turned down

You thirsty, you T

You boo-boo, you turned down

You boo-boo, you T

You turned down, you weak

You weak, yo' bitch weak

Yeah [laughs]

You boo-boo, you T [laughs]

Keep all that

[Outro:]

What is HiiiPoWeR?

HiiiPoWeR is the way we think, the way we live

See it's known today that the human race is nothing

No moral, no standards

What we're about to do is raise the level of expectations

No you don't have to have a lot of money

You don't have to be rich

But you will be rich in mind and spirit

Some say it's as big as a crew, some say it's as big as a gang

HiiiPoWeR, we stand for it as if it's as big as a religion