Kendrick Lamar - Radioactive Live At The Grammy Awards 2014 Lyrics

[Intro: Dan Reynolds]
I'm waking up to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust
I'm breathing in the chemicals
I'm breaking in, shaping up, and checking out on the prison bus
This is it, the apocalypse

[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]
YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!

[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]
Man down, where you from?
- Who you know! Where you from, my -?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my -?
This m.A.A.d city I run, my -

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]
Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slingin' crack or move cocaine
This some cul-de-sac, plenty Cognac, or major brain
This no drill sergeant, no stress that weighin' on your brain
It was me, L Boog, and Yan Yan
Lucky ride down Rosecrans
Ugly, wavin' yo' hand out the window – check yourself!
Uh, Warriors and Conans
'Phorias can slow dance
'Ciety, society, first one to get killed
See light-skinned homies with his brain blown out
At the same burger stand the homies hang out
Now this is not a tape recorder sayin' that he did it
But ever since that day, I was lookin' at him different - Hey!
Back when I was nine, Joey packed the nine
Pakistan on every porch is fine, we adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time
With the sliding door, what is up?
What you shootin' for if you ain't walkin' up? Tell me, punk
Pickin' up the - uh - pump, pickin' off you suckers
Suck a - what - die, sucker punch
W of bullets comin' from
AK's, AR's, "Ayy, y'all, duck!"
That's what Momma said when we was eatin' the free lunch
Aw man, goddamn, all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in '94, buck yo' truce!
Now crawl your head in that noose
You wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty, pieces BG's up to pre-approve
Bodies on top of bodies, IV's on top of IV's
Obviously, the coroner between the sheets - Hey!
You hop on that trolley - your colors correct
You're corporate - they'll be callin' your mother collect
The governor collect - our taxes, except
In traffic and traffic happens, that there ain't no threat
You movin' backwards, you suggest that you sleep with a TEC
Or call a doctor, have a doctor on speed dial, I guess
Let's get it!
[Hook]
Man down, where you from? Uh
I said, fuck who you know, where you from my-?
I said, where your grandma stay, huh, my -?
This m.A.A.d city I run, my-

[Bridge 1: Kendrick Lamar]
I said, if Pirus and Crips all got along
Prolly cut me down - end of the song
Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street, I say—
YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"

[Hook: Dan Reynolds, Kendrick Lamar, Both ]
I'm wakin' up, I feel it in my bones, Uh!
To make my systems blow, (Hah!)
Welcome to the new age, (Oh!), to the new age, (Uh!)
Welcome to the new age, to the new age, (Let's go! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!)
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive

[Bridge 2: Dan Reynolds, Kendrick Lamar]
All systems go (Systems go)
The sun hasn't died (Doesn't die)
Deep in my bones (In my bones)
Straight from inside
[Interlude: Kendrick Lamar]
Okay, tonight [?] everybody understand me?
I need y'all to recognize the plan B is to win your hearts right here, while we at the Grammys, my name is Kendrick Lamar
Words like a sword in the hands of a Spartan in Compton, uh

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]
Bury me alive, bury me with pride
Bury me with berries, the forensic fuit, and cherry wine
Thank you berry much, but tonight's my night and I'm Barry Bonds
Swingin' for the fences, barbaric Kendrick in idle time
Everything in life subject to change, change whips, change grind
Change clothes, change opinions, right before I change my mind
I don't really know your business, been in there since I was bendin' Lego blocks
Now you tell the world about me, dry snitch
Tater tots on my shotgun, I gotta pop one at the stars
Sky's the limit, I gotta finish as the first rapper on Mars
Mark my word, I'ma make my mark, when they start their Martial Law
When these Martians presentate, alienate, [?]
Lord, look in my eyes, tell me I died, tell me I tried, to compromise
Tell me you love me, tell me that I, don't really care and can barely decide
Wishin' good luck on my enemies, energy go to the almighty God
Drown in a bottle of Hennessy, with no amenity
I'm gettin' better with time
Aaah!

[Hook: Dan Reynolds, Kendrick Lamar, Both]
I'm wakin' up, I feel it in my bones (Oh!)
To make my systems blow (Yeah!)
Welcome to the new age, to the new age, (Yeah!)
Welcome to the new age, to the new age, (Yeah! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!)
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh, I'm radioactive, radioactive (Ho!)
[Outro: Kendrick Lamar]
And can you feel me one time, yeah, can you see me?
Can you feel me one time, yeah, can you?

[Outro: Dan Reynolds]
Radioactive, radioactive