i (Single Version)

[Produced by Rahki]​​

[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]

This is a world premiere! (This is a world premiere)

This is a world premiere!

I done been through a whole lot

Trial, tribulation, but I know God

Satan wanna put me in a bow tie

Pray that the holy water don't go dry, yeah, yeah

As I look around me

So many motherfuckers wanna down me

But an enemigo never drown me

In front of a dirty double-mirror, they found me

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]

And I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs), I love myself

(But it can do what it want, whenever it want, I don't mind), I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide), I love my, self

(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

Everybody lookin' at you crazy (Crazy)

What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?)

Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)

Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)

Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart

On my sleeve, let the runway start

You know the miserable do love company

What do you want from me and my scars?

Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence

How many times my potential was anonymous?

How many times the city making me promises?

So I promise this (I promise this)

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]

I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs), I love myself

(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind), I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide), I love my, self

(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

They wanna say it's a war outside and a bomb in the street

And a gun in the hood, and a mob of police

And a rock on the corner, and a line for the fiend

And a bottle full of lean, and a model on the scene, yup

These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation

I duck these cold faces, post up "fi-fie-fo-fum" basis

Dreams of reality's peace (Uh, uh)

Blow steam in the face of the beast

The sky could fall down, the wind could cry now

The strong in me, I still smile

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]

I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs), I love myself

(But it can do what it want, whenever it want, I don't mind), I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide), I love my, self

(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

[Bridge: Kendrick Lamar]

Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet)

Down, down, valley deep (Down, down valley deep, I love myself)

Fi-fie-fo-fum (Fi-fie-fo-fum, I love myself)

My heart undone (My heart undone, I love myself)

[Refrain: Kendrick Lamar]

The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs (I love... love myself)

But it can do what it want, whenever it want, I don't mind (I-I love myself)

He said I gotta get up, (I love myself) life is more than suicide (I love my, self)

One day at a time, (Hey) sun gon' shine (Hol' up)

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]

I went to war last night

With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic

I'ma do it 'til I get it right

I went to war last night (night, night, night, night, night, night)

I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent

Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message

I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave

From a negative and letting them annihilate me

And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed (Meteor speed)

Finna run into a building, lay my body in the street

Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free

Give my story to the children and a lesson they can read

And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen

Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself"

[Outro: Kendrick Lamar]

I lost my head

I must've misread what the good book said (I love my...)

Oh, woes keep me, it's a jungle inside (Well, well, well)

Give, myself again, 'til the well runs dry, I...

*Instrumental filled by sounds of traffic and car horns beeping*