[00:10.13]We on Ali? You ugly
[00:14.22]Everybody just clap your hands if you're real
[00:17.87]Middle finger up, give a **** how they feel
[00:20.80]Be yourself, just show me you're real
[00:23.77]Middle fingers up
[00:25.73]
[00:26.74]Just let me be me, hmm
[00:33.03]That's the only way I know
[00:38.34]Just let me be me, hmm
[00:45.59]That's the only way I know
[00:47.70]（That's the only way I know how to hold it down
[00:49.83]That's-that's the only way I know how to hold it down）
[00:52.53]
[00:53.05]Uh, I just wanna be me
[00:55.58]No disrespect, but mother**** you
[00:58.53]My education stopped at a high school degree
[01:01.60]but I can outsmart any high IQ
[01:04.95]Draped in some fly shit, call me Jeff Goldblum
[01:08.02]Cold, my style making my nose run
[01:11.33]Oh, I stare at the mirror, then realize
[01:14.27]that real lies, within me
[01:17.46]Some say I'm crazy cause I think like I need a shrink
[01:20.42]Ask too many questions about the stars and Earth shit
[01:23.43]Rather be in the studio than out buying drinks
[01:26.54]So if I'm not clubbing, don't think I'm on some jerk shit
[01:29.98]And California on that jerk shit
[01:32.80]But I'd just rather two-step like my first steps
[01:35.69]Jill Scott in my iPod as my head rests, yes
[01:40.82]
[01:41.78]Just let me be me, hmm
[01:47.06]That's the only way I know
[01:53.25]Just let me be me, hmm
[01:57.27]That's the only way I know
[02:01.09]（That's the only way I know how to hold it down
[02:03.39]That's-that's the only way I know how to hold it down）
[02:06.30]
[02:06.96]And yeah I know I'm from Compton, Cali'
[02:10.18]But I don't lace up Chucks or rock tan khakis
[02:12.70]And skinny jeans ain't quite the lick
[02:16.03]I probably would wear 'em but my dick don't fit
[02:18.96]Ha-ha-ha, I like to joke, got a sense of humor?
[02:22.15]Stale face, play me short like an Oompa-Loompa
[02:25.20]You ain't gotta screw up your face in front of the kids
[02:28.42]Won't you lighten up like Michael did?
[02:31.45]I grew up with killers man, people who killed man
[02:34.33]But my character never could be like them man
[02:37.55]And they respect that, say that I'm real man
[02:40.45]Not a fake person, that's the Sims man
[02:43.77]Live my life through some film man?
[02:46.68]I ain't acting out shit, I be packing out shows
[02:50.07]cause they know they'll know Kendrick fo' sho', and oh
[02:54.54]
[02:55.19]Just let me be me, hmm
[03:00.51]That's the only way I know
[03:07.16]Just let me be me, hmm
[03:13.22]That's the only way I know
[03:15.28]（That's the only way I know how to hold it down
[03:17.21]That's-that's the only way I know how to hold it down）
[03:20.19]
[03:20.87]Almost lost my life to the industry
[03:23.57]Had to look through a photo book to remember me
[03:26.55]These label heads ain't nothing but bullshit
[03:29.42]Have you with professional killers, chasing hits
[03:32.58]Lying to yourself all over an image
[03:35.63]Making records they want, that was wrecking my brilliance
[03:38.78]My mama said, boy that don't sound like you
[03:41.30]I said, this is the sound though, my only excuse
[03:44.60]Quite frankly, dusted off my shoes with my hankie
[03:48.24]and kicked it like he skate, make these mother****ers hate me
[03:51.09]The reason why they hate, cause these mother****ers ain't me
[03:54.15]And you can underrate me, but I know what I'm worth
[03:57.16]A diamond in God's dirt, a diamond in winter
[04:00.05]Watching Simpsons and eating some cereal for dinner
[04:03.02]See I give you my life to mix it up in a blender
[04:06.01]to make sure that you feel it
[04:09.06]
[04:09.61]Just let me be me, hmm
[04:14.96]That's the only way I know
[04:21.03]Just let me be me, hmm
[04:26.91]That's the only way I know
[04:29.89]（That's the only way I know how to hold it down
[04:31.22]That's-that's the only way I know how to hold it down）
[04:34.01]
[04:34.93]Kendrick Lamar, what are you trying to say?
[04:38.58]What are you trying to accomplish Kendrick Lamar?
[04:40.62]Kendrick Lamar, what are you trying to say?
[04:42.29]What are you trying to accomplish Kendrick Lamar?
[04:44.75]Is this really you? Is this who you are?
[04:47.82]What are you trying to say?
[04:49.19]What are you trying to accomplish Kendrick Lamar?
[04:51.66]Who are you?
[04:53.70]What are you trying to accomplish Kendrick Lamar?
[04:55.62]Kendrick Lamar, what are you trying to say?
[04:57.17]What are you trying to accomplish Kendrick Lamar?
[04:59.49]
[05:00.05]I think that I finally reached the pinnacle
[05:01.55]of finding myself as an individual
[05:04.93]The world is so typical
[05:07.59]I just wanna be higher than that
[05:10.18]I used to want to be the messiah of rap
[05:13.22]Infatuated with becoming a relevant star
[05:16.03]Trying to say goodbye to the glamorous chains and cars
[05:18.89]that I never had, but wrote it in my raps to make you mad
[05:22.01]Vanity, they say that it can damage me
[05:25.75]So do I really want it?
[05:26.86]If I didn't, I guess I'm a cool cocaine connect
[05:31.42]That means I'll be fronting, hmm
[05:34.43]Cooking in a laboratory, hoping I can tell a story
[05:37.81]that the whole world can feel, like the ones that came before me
[05:40.85]Knowing that I'm misunderstood
[05:42.63]So I gotta get my point across like a snitch would
[05:46.00]And I would never walk in the shadow that never was really there
[05:49.81]or try to fill the shoes of an invisible pair
[05:52.77]And Dame said he proud of my newfound honesty
[05:55.94]and all I could say is, will the radio care?
[05:58.78]Yeah, or should I say no?
[06:00.92]Or should I just stop and come with a whole new approach?
[06:04.07]You heard my Hip Hop when I was sixteen years old
[06:06.95]Well that was me then, now I'm an adult
[06:10.46]Twenty-two like the smallest of guns that you know, most determined
[06:14.41]but with the smallest of funds to show, but I'm not worried
[06:17.26]My talent should take me places I've never been
[06:20.44]The world should turn soon as my record spin
[06:23.54]I wanna be the highest, on top of all the bullshit
[06:26.29]The negative you bring, the stress, the violence
[06:29.34]The capital punishment, the loud police sirens
[06:32.26]Too focussed, one word, righteous
[06:35.96]And this is Kendrick Lamar
[06:38.48]and soon y'all know cloud nine y'all
[06:41.57]And that means I wanna be the highest
[06:44.55]Too focussed, one word （righteous）
[06:48.06]Mm, yeah
[06:54.60]That means I wanna be the highest
[06:56.42]Too focussed, one word
[06:58.59]
[06:59.90]Too focussed, too focussed, one word
[07:02.25]Too focussed, too focussed, one word
[07:04.97]Too focussed, too focussed, one word
[07:07.94]Too focussed, one word
[07:10.13]Too focussed, too focussed, one word