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Kendrick Lamar

G Code

Release date: 30th January 2009

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About This Track

'G Code' by Kendrick Lamar is a 2009 track from the album 'C4'. The lyrics sketch a brash, streetwise perspective, with the speaker trading swagger for direct address while name-checking places, schools, and local figures. In the verse, the writing leans on confrontational language and boasts about reputation, cars, and access, culminating in a mix of humour and threat. The overall tone feels performative and combative, as if the song is designed to sound tough while talking back. One line sums up the momentum: “How I sound out there, Ali?”

"G Code" is a track by Kendrick Lamar, from the album C4, released 30th January 2009. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Kendrick Lamar.

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Lyrics

G Code

[Intro]

Yeah

How I sound out there, Ali?

Good? Then good

[Verse 1]

Hehe, can I pay my past a visit?

Centennial Compton School District

And video campus shut the fuck up your premises

King Drew and Westchester had the baddest bitches

And my nigga L Wood had a white Toyota, and we got pulled over

Had to hide the bottle because there was mix with Hennessy and soda

Every time we rode up we was unsober

And everybody had know that

My nigga Yan Yan had all the red P Hat

Which was really dumb because where we was at

Was the other side and more than likely

The other side really didn't like that

Didn't have no burner so if they would shot us we never really could shoot back

Could've lost our life over hood rats

We was dumb as fuck but lucky for us we was lucky enough

That the black car didn't pull up and ask, Where y'all niggas from"

I know some, nigga less fortunate was fucking with the enemies' bitch

She had a fat ass and a brown Camaro, but it wasn't that fast it was like a V6

But anyway she was one of those hoes in high school with the cornrows

Size 5 Jordans, Rolex sporting, and wanna fight everybody she knows

Well she's important, well she wasn't, she was just so and so so and so cousin

He was a red, so anytime she got into it, that's who she would get

Now let me get back to the plan

Homie had ask, " Do ya got a man?"

She said,"No", he said, "Oh yeah

Where do you stay?" She said, " Rosecrans"

Rosecrans and what? She said, "Don't matter just know I fuck

He said, "What? you're a, you're a little freaky bitch huh?"

She said, "Yeah, daddy, I can you get you sprung

I can work that pussy and the tongue

If you come over, I can make you cum

If you come over make sure that you bring drink

Because I like to get to drunk."

And that he did, that Friday he was where she lived

Notice that he was out of bounds

But didn't give a fuck cause he wanted to fuck that bitch right now

Walked in the house, rubber on, panties down

Oldies playing in the background

Let's get it on Marvin Gaye had bumped to the morning

Time to go, picked his pants up off the floor

Kissed that bitch in the mouth then walked to the door

When he walked out he seen a four four Bluh!

Didn't know that was the pussy he was dealing with

[Hook]

And that's how you get your ass killed bitch!

That's how you get your ass killed bitch!

That's how you get your ass killed bitch!

Get your ass killed bitch! How?

Fucking with them hoes, them hoes, them hoes, them hoes

Them hoes hoes, them scandalous hoes

Them hoes hoes will have you uh dead dead dead

[Verse 2]

Look. I guess we all can learn from mistakes

But your first mistake, might be your death date

And death doesn't wait, on no one

A million ways to die, and you can make it a million and one

If you not aware of the rules or maybe tryna fill someone else shoes

Like a square trying to be a gangster kind of remind of this one dude

He wasn't thirteen he was twenty two

When he went to first get put on the hood

He wasn't born it, Boys in the Hood the movie made him think it was all good

But usually this type of person want to prove his s s s s self on purpose

Tell everybody quit working, but really he's worthless

His momma had money, his daddy had money, so he had money

The OG's that gave him a pistol, think that he was gonna be just another crash dummy

And the funny thing about it he thought he was bout it like P-Miller

But he wasn't no killa

Just a monkey hanging around a bunch of gorillas

Everybody wanna be tough guy so he did, approached this guy like, "Where are you from?" with his gun but didn't shoot it, rule number one

Never pull out if you don't use it

Even though the dude didn't banged the very next day he seen around the way blew his brains out while homeboy was cruising

Not knowing the scariest nigga will split your shit

[Hook]

And that's how he got his ass killed bitch!

That's how he got his ass killed bitch!

That's how he got his ass killed bitch!

Fuck around and get your ass killed bitch! How?

Not knowing the G codes, the codes the codes

The G codes, the codes the codes

The G codes, if you don't know then your already dead dead dead

Feel me?

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Track details

From C4

2009
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Album
C4
C4
Kendrick Lamar
Release year
2009
  1. —Misunderstood
  2. —Still Hustlin'
  3. —Intro (Wayne Co-Sign)
  4. —Mr. Carter
  5. —Welcome to C4
  6. —Compton Chemistry
  7. —Shot Down
  8. —West Coast Wu-Tang
  9. —A Milli (Freestyle)
  10. —Best Rapper Under 25
  11. —G Code
  12. —Phone Home
  13. —Young & Black
  14. —Play with Fire
  15. —Friend of Mine
  16. —Bitch I’m In the Club
  17. —Take Off Your Pants
  18. —Famous Pipe Game

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