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i We got a young brother to stand for something! We got a young brother that believe in the all of us! Brother Kendrick Lamar! He's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author! And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another! But you can't do that Right on I said, you can't do that - without loving yourself first I done been through a whole lot Trial, tribulations, but I know God Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie Praying that the holy water don't go dry, yeah yeah As I look around me So many motherfuckers wanna down me But ain't no nigga never drown me In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me And I love myself (The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs) I love myself (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind) I love myself (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide) I love myself (One day at the time, sun gone shine) Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy) What you gone do? (What you gone 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 our potential was anonymous? How many times the city making me promises? So I promise this 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 wants and I don't mind) I love myself (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide) I love myself (One day at the time, sun gone shine) They wanna say there'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 full of fiends And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme, yup These days of frustration keep y'all on ducking rotation I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis Dreams of realities peace Blow steam in the face of the beast The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now The strong in me, I still smile 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 wants and I don't mind) I love myself (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide) I love myself (One day at the time, sun gone shine) Walk my barefeet (Walk my barefeet) Down, down valley peak (Down, down valley peak) I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum) I keep my heart undone (My heart undone) 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 wants and I don't mind) I love myself (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide) I love myself (One day at the time, sun gone shine) I went to war last night With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic I'm a do it 'til I get it right I went to war last night I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent Duckin' every other blessin', l can never see the message I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave For my nigga that be letting 'em annihilate me And the sound is moving in a meteor speed From a 100 to a billion 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 the lesson they can read And the glory to the feeling of the only unseen Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!" I lost my head, I must've misread what the good book said Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside Give myself again 'til the well runs dry