Nosetalgia - Pusha T feat Kendrick Lamar
[Verse 1: Pusha T]
20 plus years of selling Johnson & Johnson
I started out as a baby face monster
No wonder there's diaper rash on my conscience
My teething ring was numbed by the nonsense
Gem Star razor and a dinner plate
Arm and hammer and a mason jar, that's my dinner date
Then crack the window in the kitchen, let it ventilate
Cause I let it sizzle on the stove like a minute steak
N_gga, I was crack in the school zone
Two beepers on me, Starter jacket that was two toned
Four lockers, four different b_tches got their mule on
Black Ferris Bueller, cutting school with his jewels on
Couldn't do wrong with a chest full of chains and a arm full of watches
What I sell for pain in the hood, I'm a doctor
Zhivago tried to fight the urge like Ivan Drago
If he dies he dies, like Doughboy to Tre
If he rides he rides, throwing punches in his room
If he cries he cries, we don't drink away the pain
When a n_gga die we add a link to the chain
Inscribe a n_gga name in your flesh
We playing on a higher game of chess
Once you delegate his bills who's gone f_ck his b_tch the best?
A million megapixels of the Pyrex
Started on the scale digital, my only Timex
N_gga, this is timeless, simply cause it's honest
Pure as the fumes that be f_cking with my sinus
N_gga this is Simon says, Simon red
Blood on your diamonds til you dying; dead
[Hook]
You better change what comes out your speaker
[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]
You wanna see a dead body?
Instrumentals from my mama's Christmas party
Troubles on my mind, I still smell crime
My little brother crying
Smokers repeatedly buying my Sega Genesis
Either that or my auntie was stealing it
Hit the pipe and start feeling it
Oh wee, cut me some slack, weed never did that
This was different, geez, Louise please help me relax
Quantum physics could never show you the world I was in
When I was ten
Back when nine ounces have got you ten
And nine times out of ten n_ggas don't pay attention
And when there's tension in the air nines come with extensions
My daddy dumped a quarter piece to a four and a half
Took a L, started selling soap fiends bubble bath
Broke his nails misusing his pinky to treat his nose
Shirt b_ttoned open, taco meat land on his gold
I said "daddy, one day I'mma get you right with 36 zips
1000 grams of c_caine then your name will be rich
Now you can rock it up or sell it soft as leather interior
Drop some ice cubes in it, Deebo on perimeter"
He said "son, how come you think you be my connect?"
Said "pops, your ass is washed up with all due respect"
He said "well n_gga, then show me how it all makes sense"
Go figure, motherf_cker, every verse is a brick
Your son dope, n_gga
Now reap what you sowed, n_gga
Please reap what you sowed, n_gga
I was born in '87, my grand daddy a legend
Now the same sh_t that y'all was smoking is my profession
Let's get it
[Hook]