Own This City

[Chorus]

You can own this city

You have everything you need

All it takes is all you got

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not

You can own this city

Deep inside you hold the key

While the world is fast asleep

You can take it all if you just dare to dream

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

Talk about goals

Talk about a pen and a pad and the pad of your house

With a permanent flow

Hennessy on the floor looking at a video on the couch

And the couch is cold

And the pouch in your mama pocket got a permanent hole

And your brother pout 'cause he want food on the stove

And a pedestal with a silver spoon, and a big pool

With a big room and a closet, cause it

Hurt when you laughing at his clothes

Looking at him like he ain't shit

Forever living in that commode

Time flies and I watch it tick

Look in the mirror and I gotta take risk

Like blood on the sheet of a suicide note

Tripod then I aim it at your soul

For bright lights

Bite like a alligator when I write

Hungry, come see determination upon me

Come see the visionary in my sight

My life premeditated by ambition

Pistons from my Nikes take off

No assistance, I'm persistent

Adolf, more than I can chew with this thought

[Chorus]

You can own this city

You have everything you need

All it takes is all you got

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not

You can own this city

Deep inside you hold the key

While the world is fast asleep

You can take it all if you just dare to dream

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

Let's talk about pressure

Let's talk about depression

Let's talk about desperate

Times

Everyday I'm guessin'

My mind, It'll never end up resting

I climb a ladder every second

I find another mountain top

Another video I watch when that video go off

I jot like Edgar Allen, matter fact a thousand

Soldiers never could war off my talents

I wanna reassure my talents

I wipe my face but never throw my towel in

I'm often prowlin'

The edge of a quantum jump in my head

I'm a monster from anywhere but Earth

And I'm 1 of 1 ever since my birth, I came for some bright lights

Bite like a bear trap when I write

Hungry, gotta chip on my shoulder

I took it off and ate it

I made it a full meal

And I'm still craving, my front teeth

I sink in the rap game

My name will attract fame

My veins got the blood of a king in it

When it pours down, now Snoop's on stage and he say

"Kendrick"

[Chorus]

You can own this city

You have everything you need

All it takes is all you got

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not

You can own this city

Deep inside you hold the key

While the world is fast asleep

You can take it all if you just dare to dream

[Bridge: Kendrick Lamar]

So what you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

You can run, you can hide

But when you are chosen

The walls they close in

Your forefathers look you in your eyes

So what you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

You can run, you can hide

But when you are chosen

The walls they close in

Your forefathers look you in your eyes

[Chorus]

You can own this city

You have everything you need

All it takes is all you got

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not

You can own this city

Deep inside you hold the key

While the world is fast asleep

You can take it all if you just dare to dream