Kendrick Lamar - Super Genius Lyrics

[Intro: Cutlass Reid]
It was kinda genius
It is kinda genius, well, by the way (It's super genius)
Uh
Uh, uh

[Verse 1: Cutlass Reid]
Intelligent thug, half of the time, I'm Nasir Jones
Cooking live at the barbecue when I reveal poems
From the composition, destroy the competition
Never on the wire, but look, Joe, here's the proposition
I pray for you fools every day like a faithful Christian (Amen)
Sunk my soul in white wood, the whole eighth, I'm twistin'
Cutlass, jet black, '78 edition
I'm a genius, straight A's when I ride the rhythm
Cut the pie more than twice and I'ma get a slice
Don't act like I ain't the truth, word to Proof, let's go get 'em, Ninth
Uh, uh, let's go get 'em, Ninth
Middle East represent, let's go get 'em, Ninth

[Verse 2: Skewby]
I'm sad 'cause my generation got the blindest eyes
Niggas rappin' 'bout drugs like it's savin' lives
Investin' time into these hoes like potential wives
If that's the mother of your son, boy, don't be surprised
Didn't think that karma was real
Them condoms flushed down your toilet resurrected as a beautiful kid
Got you workin' double time to leave that cubicle shit
Make up your mind, holy design or Lucifer's tits?
Yeah, I know, life's complicated
Open the bottle just to see it's all concentrated
Pulp fiction, I would never pump fiction just to leave pots pissed in
Spittin' at the camera like Pac before prison, huh
You know the losers say it happens to the best of us
The best of who, dog? Who are you, dog?
I'm U-turnin' in the clouds because of me
Been loggin' off since that guy on YouTube is me
Usually, I would like attention
But strangers get stranger with every, "Can I get a picture?"
I'm tryna tell folks blog posts don't make you richer
But thank you for supportin' all the genius in a nigga, for real
[Verse 3: Naledge]
Tread water on flat land
My larynx hold crack cocaine for a rap fan
Lookin' for more than the shuckin' and jivin' of rappers compromisin' they taste
Like eatin' off a griddle, no blow
Never congregate with the so-so
Snob-hop in its purest, this here is my modern life
I took a vow, never live moderate
That was way back when I was on Ivy League college shit
They won't let me live it down, so I live it up
I used to want my city's crown, now it isn't much
Them shots fired when Pac died
Back when it wasn't cooler to be lyin' to the consumer
Matata Hakuna, I am the Lion King
Tell these hoes what they want, I'm the lyin' king
Word to Magluta, Brainiac
No blanks in my six-shooter, they all hollow
Take a tip out the sip, class is dismissed, genius

[Verse 4: Add-2]
Yo, comin' straight up from Chicago, they sayin' from the outside lookin' in
I'm lookin' like that nigga that your favorite rapper should've been
Better than the best, right? Catch me in the next life
Bet I'm still spittin' uglier than Usher ex-wife
Add-2 a problem in the column Ann Landers writes
So mean, but on the mic, I'm Ned Flanders nice
A genius like Jean and Ninth, I kill tracks
Tryna hurry up before Drake and J. Cole bring light-skinned back
You kick it like hacky sack, I ain't goin' back to that
For every scar on Seal face, I could spit a rap to match
They nervous like a Suburban jumpin' the curb
And the shit I spit is stuck on they mind like Hodgy wearing his turban
I was told to go harder than try and touchin' dollars
More dots be on they ass than Laurence Fishburne daughter
Artists hard as the hardest part the part and gotta martyr us and Martin us
Guess I'll dumb it down when y'all smarten up
[Verse 5: Kendrick Lamar]
If you look inside my mind, you'd probably see atomic bombs
Loaded with explosive grenades holdin' dope rhymes
And it's potent
You never heard a heroic flow more divine
As a poet, I know I'm the don
Like sunrise and I owe it to family genes
The Albert Einstein in the pocket of dungarees
And I'm dunkin' on Shaq with ease
It's a lay-up every time I stay up
I'm in the studio the time they wake up
But wait up, it gets worse
It's not a weapon that can prosper
The prognosis of a sick rapper that can rock your whole roster
This is genius, GZA can vouch, and Phoenix
Will catch a snow blizzard if Kendrick go visit
I'm that cold with it, you know me
My intellect can intertwine with God
Get washed up like a tide if you don't pay your tithes
Oceans divide whenever I speak
Cars will collide when I'm on this beat
Wreck shit for the record once the record peak

[Verse 6: Brittany Street]
Brittany Street
Yeah, time told on itself
Kinda happy here to see this, I'm an actual genius
Ninth, I'm on a pedestal, lift a finger when it's needed
A genius makes no mistakes
So it's cool I had to wait
Push the bull to the side and keep my power in the safe
Now I release it in this room
Even if you don't believe, you'll catch the spirit in this place
I'm an actual revolver
When it comes back around, they hope it's me for the take
I'm a thief for this space
I want it all or nothin', it's never beef for this cake
And I'm the beauty and the beast and on this beat, I will shake
Damn, slow down, Street, naw, nigga, this my pace
You need actual proof? I need actual stakes
Pass the troop around and tell 'em super genius on its way
Brittany Street
[Interlude: The Kid Daytona]
Genius
Genius (Uh)
Genius (Uh)
Genius (Yeah)
Yo

[Verse 7: The Kid Daytona]
What a beautiful day it is, cruisin' to Mayfield
In a ride that glide like Clyde when he was hoopin' in Avias
Living proof what amazing is
Scooped up your broad, now my palm on her cranium
Gettin' dome, indoor stadium
Rocky-ass roll when I'm all in your Adrian
You must suck at life, I'm on the cusp of heights
Unattainable to most, safe to say I've touched the sky
Delonte West, you motherfuckin' right
Show some respect for the toughest on the mic
Daytona, paint images like Iliad from Homer
Dope, period, what you hearin' is quotables
You'll never get it if you slow to move
Success smell sweet like when roses bloom
Defeat like sea salt in an open wound
I know some goons that keep the strap on like rented bowling shoes
Felons, those them dudes I keep close for hoes like you
No lenience for idiots
Refined thoughts, beyond smart, he's a motherfuckin' genius

[Interlude: Laws]
Yeah, here we go
Uh, uh, yo

[Verse 8: Laws]
Yo, they mockin' me when they should be copyin' their Laws
Knowledge is forever, but novelty wears off
Like names on a wall and fade like hairlines
They gave mine airtime
This is for the Judas that call me Jesus in person, then say, "He's just okay"
He jock my color quality, painted my genius gray
So I'ma meet the chicks he want and steadily strong-arm 'em
Make 'em glow like silver and readily long john 'em
It's not a problem, or one that I can't solve
They wanna stop to talk shit, man, but I can't stall
In this modern warfare, they say that I can't, but I can't recall
Poppin' off with my back to the wall
Is bein' a genius bein' a capital G
And then stayin' in trouble or avoidin' it after seein' it?
Either it's something that you can't reach
Or it's something that your whack mentors can't teach, genius

[Interlude: Laws & Sundown]
Uh
G-g-g-genius, genius, genius
Genius, genius, genius
Genius, genius, genius
Hah
Uh, uh, uh, uh, genius
Uh, uh, uh, genius
Uh, genius
One more time, come on, uh, uh

[Verse 9: Sundown]
Knowledge connoisseur, genius provocateur
The genius schizophrenic, scribble my mental image
Replace the inkblots, graph a genius plot
Off the charts, I mark my territory
Glory, Ben Banneker
Banner in the lab before the gamma radiation got to damage him
You bore me, huh
What of Arabia? Pen prick
Dot my I's, got my eyes fixed on Angelou's prize
Bleed ink, never cry, logic on the fly
I promised I would try to bring more to make your lightbulbs fry
Shy of autism, walk with him, he's Rainman, huh
Talk with him just to figure out the gameplan, hi, game theory
Marvel my brain pickin' pieces of a sane man
I make it rain again
Beautiful mind of intuitive design by omega in the skies
And we don't brainstorm, just 'cause you would waste it
We make it drizzle just a little, go ahead and taste it
Hah, the brainiac has made it, a makeshift
Modern-day genius, Act Proof that crazy shit
Dustin Hoffman, on again, off again
Hot water burn, baby, and I'm lost again, uh

[Interlude: Enigma]
Hah, freakin', freakin'
Haha

[Verse 10: Enigma]
I am E, I do it seamless
Freakin' this genius
Yup, a G I is
But lethal, we see y'all nigs
Straighten you out, nigga, you see my lens
Freakin' this re', I mix
Up a little a convo to find out whoever the comp is
I promised 'em we're never gettin' behind us
They would see the kind of a monster
Tell 'em that my moniker
Honest, I'm one of the smartest
Like I'm from Boston
MIT-in' it
Meet the illest team I'm with
More in tune like most improved to a pee and shit
Clean cut, read a few books to get up my bucks
Give 'em a mean look, believe it, they seem shook, they stuck
Niggas get steam-cooked when I read books
Roastin' cats when provoked, peep the opus
One of the dopest, get to know us
Middiest coasts and show it whenever class is in session
Know it, get out your notes
This genius shit? I wrote it, let's go
Oh, freakin', freakin', now let's go
Freakin', freakin', now let's go