[00:02.38]Cloud nine  Kendrick Lamar
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[00:08.87]Uh
[00:09.47]I take a sip of Hennessy
[00:12.26]And then get pissy drunk
[00:13.70]I ain't a drinker  I'm a thinker
[00:15.75]Call it what you want
[00:16.87]But if you turn your back
[00:18.20]Know that you just missed your chance
[00:19.77]To witness the realest
[00:20.84]Shit that's ever been told to man
[00:22.83]I found myself losing focus
[00:24.04]At a Sunday service
[00:25.31]Embarrassed so I started questioning God
[00:27.87]What is my purpose
[00:28.65]He say to live the way he did
[00:30.59]That's all he want from me
[00:32.07]Spread the word and witness
[00:33.07]He rose on the first Sunday
[00:34.82]I said alright
[00:35.66]Enthused that my Lord gave a listen
[00:37.81]I opened my bible and searched
[00:39.47]To be a better Christian
[00:40.81]And this from a person that
[00:42.69]Never believed in religion
[00:43.49]But shit  my life is so f**ked up man
[00:45.99]I can't help but give in
[00:47.11]I'm giving testimonies
[00:47.70]To strangers I never met
[00:50.04]Hopped on the pulpit
[00:51.42]And told 'em how I was truly
[00:52.83]Blessed
[00:53.15]Felt like I'm free from all
[00:54.56]My sins when the service was over
[00:55.99]Walked out the church  then
[00:57.31]Got a call that my homie was murdered
[00:58.81]And lost my faith again
[01:00.32]What am I gonna do
[01:04.95]Gotta have faith
[01:06.75]Life is too much
[01:09.19]Understood
[01:10.26]Where is your faith
[01:13.04]Oh  faaaaaaaith
[01:21.43]All you need is the size
[01:23.15]Of a mustard seed
[01:24.04]Single black parent from
[01:24.77]Compton raising children of four
[01:25.92]That's four innocent bastards
[01:27.04]Cause papa they don't know
[01:28.86]Her day consists of working back
[01:30.38]And forth with babysitters
[01:31.95]Can't find no one to watch
[01:33.30]Her kids so she pay her sister
[01:35.08]Her baby daddy ain't bout shit
[01:36.76]That nigga ain't bout shit
[01:38.00]Spent his daughter milk just
[01:39.41]To cop a new outfit
[01:40.50]She pray to God every night
[01:42.41]Hoping that he'll mature
[01:43.71]And maybe one day his kids
[01:45.45]Something that he'll live for
[01:46.69]Baby wanna go back to school
[01:48.53]But she need some help
[01:49.87]Because it's hard tryna pay
[01:51.15]The bills when you're by yourself
[01:52.71]She thought about credit card
[01:54.10]Scams till she heard a voice
[01:55.74]That said the Devil is a lie
[01:57.67]Make a better choice
[01:58.75]And so it's back to McDonald's
[02:00.21]And every month dealing
[02:02.12]With them crazy ass people
[02:03.71]At the county building
[02:04.73]Looked to the heavens and asked 'em
[02:06.61]To make a better way
[02:08.08]Then got a letter in the mail
[02:09.71]Lost her section 8
[02:10.86]Then lost her faith again
[02:12.31]What am I gonna do
[02:15.99]Gotta have faith
[02:17.56]
[02:18.84]Life is too much
[02:20.90]Understood
[02:22.21]Where is your faith
[02:25.22]Oh  faaaaaaaith
[02:30.20]All you need is the size of a mustard seed
[02:35.61]Kendrick
[02:35.81]I had dreams of holding
[02:37.37]A nine-milla to raise Killa
[02:39.37]Ask him why as my eyes fill up
[02:42.01]Each day it gets more realer
[02:43.78]Orangutans bang like gorillas
[02:45.89]It's jungle when the niggas ensue
[02:47.91]The rat's lurking
[02:49.35]Vulture's circling the serpents
[02:50.94]Cats lying through they teeth
[02:52.64]My nigga didn't deserve it
[02:53.83]I flirted with the idea
[02:55.20]Of caressing the steel
[02:56.36]To make karma come faster
[02:57.66]Than she normally will
[02:59.55]It's ill  to see my faith
[03:02.08]Try and leave me
[03:03.12]It's so hard to get it
[03:04.59]To get rid of it is easy
[03:06.63]I'm tryna reach cloud nine
[03:07.78]That's what my niggas bout
[03:09.25]But it never rain
[03:10.19]In California 'less them pistols out
[03:12.19]Until then  my feet
[03:13.84]Planted on the ground
[03:14.83]Shadowboxing my conscience
[03:15.76]Till my faith start responding
[03:17.04]And if I get no answer
[03:20.07]Just know I tried
[03:21.07]I should have never
[03:22.07]Looked into his son's eyes
[03:23.51]Ray Charles voice
[03:24.57]What am I gonna do
[03:28.39]Gotta have faith
[03:29.61]
[03:30.75]Life is too much
[03:32.88]Understood
[03:34.27]Where is your faith
[03:37.46]Oh  faaaaaaaith
[03:44.03]All you need is the size of a mustard seed
[03:47.79]This for my people that
[03:48.67]Stressing whenever times is hard
[03:50.15]Your mind's slipping
[03:50.76]Wondering is there really a God
[03:52.69]Knowing you shouldn't think
[03:54.24]That way and tryna freeze your brain
[03:55.88]But whenever it's pain
[03:57.21]That feeling forever remains
[03:58.09]We can't believe what we can't see
[04:00.37]And reality seems stronger than prayer
[04:02.89]Cause you tried to change your life
[04:04.68]And now you live in a wheelchair
[04:06.35]And your son was born with cancer
[04:07.63]And he live in urgent care
[04:09.00]At the tender age of twelve
[04:10.41]And you feel that no one cares
[04:11.97]Searching for answers  that's human nature
[04:14.37]You ain't in the wrong
[04:15.75]Just know  when you feeling
[04:16.83]That way his spirit's in the room
[04:18.16]I watched people I know pray
[04:20.00]And catch the Holy Ghost
[04:21.37]And wonder why I ain't never
[04:22.96]Caught that feeling before
[04:24.22]Maybe they know him better
[04:25.95]Or I don't know no better
[04:27.56]But what I do know is that
[04:29.07]He's real and he lives forever
[04:30.24]So the next time you feel
[04:32.06]Like your world's about to end
[04:33.68]I hope you studied because
[04:34.76]He's testing your faith again
[04:36.93]
[04:37.99]I'd rather not live
[04:38.91]Like there isn't a God
[04:40.33]
[04:42.56]Than die and find out there really is
[04:45.74]Think about it