Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Institutionalized, artist - Kendrick Lamar.
Date of issue: 22.03.2015
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Institutionalized |
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? |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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… |
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 |