[ti:meet the grahams (Explicit)] [ar:Kendrick Lamar] [al:meet the grahams (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]meet the grahams (Explicit) - Kendrick Lamar (肯德里克·拉马尔) [00:01.80]Lyrics by:Kendrick Lamar [00:03.61]Composed by:Kendrick Lamar [00:05.42]Produced by:The Alchemist [00:07.23]Dear Adonis [00:08.49]I'm sorry that that man is your father let me be honest [00:11.58]It takes a man to be a man your dad is not responsive [00:14.88]I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom [00:18.03]I'm sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him [00:20.85]Life is hard I know the challenge is always gon' beat us home [00:23.97]Sometimes our parents make mistakes that affect us until we grown [00:27.30]And you're a good kid that need good leadership [00:29.85]Let me be your mentor since your daddy don't teach you **** [00:33.03]Never let a man piss on your leg son [00:35.52]Either you die right there or pop that man in the head son [00:38.73]Never fall in the escort business that's bad religion [00:41.76]Please remember you could be a ***** even if you got ******* [00:45.00]Never code-switch whether right or wrong you a Black man [00:48.27]Even if it don't benefit your goals do some push-ups get some discipline [00:52.32]Don't cut them corners like your daddy did **** what Ozempic did [00:55.50]Don't pay to play with them Brazilians get a gym membership [00:58.95]Understand no throwin' rocks and hidin' hands that's law [01:02.01]Don't be ashamed 'bout who you wit' that's how he treat your moms [01:05.19]Don't have a kid to hide a kid to hide again be sure [01:08.46]Five percent will comprehend but ninety-five is lost [01:11.46]Be proud of who you are your strength come from within [01:14.61]Lotta superstars that's real but your daddy ain't one of them [01:17.91]And you nothing like him you'll carry yourself as king [01:20.94]Can't understand me right now [01:22.53]Just play this when you eighteen [01:30.93]Dear Sandra [01:31.92]Your son got some habits I hope you don't undermine them [01:35.13]Especially with all the girls that's hurt inside this climate [01:38.19]You a woman so you know how it feels to be in alignment [01:41.25]With emotion hopin' a man can see you and not be blinded [01:44.55]Dear Dennis you gave birth to a master manipulator [01:47.79]Even usin' you to prove who he is is a huge favor [01:50.94]I think you should ask for more paper and more paper [01:54.18]And more uh more paper [01:56.22]I'm blamin' you for all his gamblin' addictions [01:58.74]Psychopath intuition the man that like to play victim [02:01.95]You raised a horrible ******* person the nerve of you Dennis [02:04.92]Sandra sit down what I'm about to say is heavy now listen [02:08.37]Mm-mm your son's a sick man with sick thoughts [02:10.95]I think niggas like him should die [02:12.48]Him and Weinstein should get ****** up in a cell for the rest they life [02:15.60]He hates Black women hypersexualizes 'em with kinks of a nympho fetish [02:18.90]Grew facial hair because he understood bein' a beard just fit him better [02:22.05]He got sex offenders on ho-VO that he keep on a monthly allowance [02:25.38]A child should never be compromised and he keepin' his child around them [02:28.53]And we gotta raise our daughters knowin' there's predators like him lurkin' [02:31.68]**** a rap battle [02:32.43]He should die so all of these women can live with a purpose [02:34.89]I been in this industry twelve years I'ma tell y'all one lil' secret [02:38.10]It's some weird **** goin' on [02:39.33]And some of these artists be here to police it [02:41.22]They be streamlinin' victims all inside of they home and callin' 'em tender [02:44.49]Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas [02:47.67]To any woman that be playin' his music know that you're playin' your sister [02:50.97]Or better you're sellin' your niece to the weirdos not the good ones [02:54.03]Katt Williams said"Get you the truth" so I'ma get mines [02:56.58]The Embassy 'bout to get raided too it's only a matter of time [02:59.70]Ayy LeBron keep the family away hey Curry keep the family away [03:03.06]To anybody that embody the love for they kids keep the family away [03:06.12]They lookin' at you too if you standin' by him keep the family away [03:09.33]I'm lookin' to shoot through any pervert that lives keep the family safe [03:19.74]Dear baby girl [03:21.12]I'm sorry that your father not active inside your world [03:24.30]He don't commit to much but his music yeah that's for sure [03:27.36]He a narcissist misogynist livin' inside his songs [03:30.27]Try destroy families rather than takin' care of his own [03:33.48]Should be teachin' you time tables or watchin' Frozen with you [03:37.02]Or at your eleventh birthday singin' poems with you [03:40.23]Instead he be in Turks payin' for sex and poppin' Percs [03:43.02]Examples that you don't deserve [03:44.76]I wanna tell you that you're loved you're brave you're kind [03:47.91]You got a gift to change the world and could change your father's mind [03:51.27]'Cause our children is the future but he lives inside confusion [03:54.51]Money's always been illusion but that's the life he's used to [03:57.78]His father prolly didn't claim him neither [04:00.21]History do repeats itself sometimes it don't need a reason [04:03.39]But I would like to say it's not your fault that he's hidin' another child [04:07.23]Give him grace this the reason I made Mr. Morale [04:10.35]So our babies like you can cope later [04:12.87]Give you some confidence to go through somethin' it's hope later [04:16.14]I never wanna hear you chase a man 'cause his failed behavior [04:19.79]Sittin' in the club with sugar daddies for validation [04:22.68]You need to know that love is eternity and trumps all pain [04:26.16]I'll tell you who your father is just play this song when it rains [04:29.40]Yes he's a hitmaker songwriter superstar right [04:32.67]And a ******* deadbeat that should never say"more life" [04:35.91]Meet the Grahams [04:43.59]Dear Aubrey [04:44.55]I know you probably thinkin' I wanted to crash your party [04:47.76]But truthfully I don't have a hatin' bone in my body [04:50.73]This supposed to be a good exhibition within the game [04:53.91]But you ****** up the moment you called out my family's name [04:57.15]Why you had to stoop so low to discredit some decent people [05:00.33]Guess integrity is lost when the metaphors doesn't reach you [05:03.60]And I like to understand 'cause your house was never a home [05:06.94]Thirty-seven but you showin' up as a seven-year-old [05:10.05]You got gamblin' problems drinkin' problems pill-poppin' and spendin' problems [05:13.59]Bad with money whorehouse [05:15.22]Solicitin' women problems therapy's a lovely start [05:18.18]But I suggest some ayahuasca strip the ego from the bottom [05:22.05]I try to empathize with you 'cause I know that you ain't been through nothin' [05:25.80]Crave entitlement but wanna be liked so bad that it's puzzlin' [05:29.19]No dominance let's recap moments when you didn't fit in [05:32.13]No secret handshakes with your friend [05:33.81]No cultural cachet to binge just disrespectin' your mother [05:37.56]Identity's on the fence don't know which family will love ya [05:40.17]The skin that you livin' in is compromised in personas [05:43.38]Can't channel your masculine even when standin' next to a woman [05:46.80]You a body shamer you gon' hide them baby mamas ain't ya [05:49.89]You embarrassed of 'em that's not right that ain't how mama raised us [05:53.07]Take that mask off I wanna see what's under them achievements [05:56.25]Why believe you [05:57.24]You never gave us nothin' to believe in [05:59.61]'Cause you lied about religious views you lied about your surgery [06:02.97]You lied about your accent and your past tense all is perjury [06:06.03]You lied about your ghostwriters you lied about your crew members [06:09.18]They all p***y you lied on 'em I know they all got you in 'em [06:12.51]You lied about your son you lied about your daughter huh [06:15.36]You lied about them other kids that's out there hopin' that you come [06:18.54]You lied about the only artist that can offer you some help [06:21.84]**** a rap battle this a long life battle with yourself