크레딧
실연 아티스트
Kendrick Lamar
보컬
Anna Wise
백그라운드 보컬
Bilal
백그라운드 보컬
Dion Friley
백그라운드 보컬
Dr. Dre
목소리 출연
Preston Harris
백그라운드 보컬
Robert (Sput) Searight
건반
Terrace Martin
건반
작곡 및 작사
Mark Spears
작사가 겸 작곡가
Donte Perkins
작사가 겸 작곡가
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth
작사가 겸 작곡가
Stephen Bruner
작사가 겸 작곡가
Sufjan Stevens
작사가 겸 작곡가
프로덕션 및 엔지니어링
Tae Beast
프로듀서
Thundercat
프로듀서
Anthony "TOPDAWG" Tiffith
책임 프로듀서
Dave "Miyatola" Free
협력 프로듀서
Derek "MixedByAli" Ali
믹싱 엔지니어
Dr. Dre
책임 프로듀서
James "The White Black Man" Hunt
녹음 엔지니어
Mike Bozzi
마스터링 엔지니어
Sounwave
프로듀서
가사
[Intro]
K-Dot, pick up the phone, ****
Every time I call, it's going to voicemail
Don't tell me they got you on some weirdo rap shit, ****
No socks and skinny jeans and shit, ha
Call me on Shaniqua's phone
[Chorus]
I been A-1 since day one, you ****, boo boo
Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo
Lil' hoes you went to school with, boo boo
Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo
We was in the hood, fourteen with the deuce-deuce
Fourteen years later going hard, like we used to on the dead homies
On the dead homies
[Verse 1]
I don't give a fuck about no politics in rap, my ****
My lil' homie Stunna Deuce ain't never comin' back, my ****
So you better go hard every time you jump on wax, my ****
Fuck what they talkin' bout, your shit is where it's at, my ****
Came in this game, you stuck your fangs in this game
You wore no chain in this game, your hood, your name in this game
Now you double up, time to bubble up the bread and huddle up
Stickin' to the scripts, now here if them Benjamins go cuddle up
Skip, hop, drip, drop, flip, flop with the white tube sock
It goes ("Sherm sticks, burn this")
What's the product smell like when the chemicals mix
Fifty **** salute, out the Compton Zoo, with the extras
El Cos, Monte Carlos, Road Kings and dressers
Rip Ridaz, P-Funkers, Mexicans, they fuck with you
Asians, they fuck with you, nobody can fuck with you
[Chorus]
I been A-1 since day one, you ****, boo boo
Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo
Lil' hoes you went to school with, boo boo
Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo
We was in the hood, fourteen with the deuce-deuce
Fourteen years later going hard, like we used to on the dead homies
On the dead homies
[Verse 2]
Hopped out the Caddy, just got my dick sucked
The little homies called and said, "The enemies done cliqued up"
Oh, yeah, puto want to squabble with mi barrio?
Oh, yeah, tell 'em they can run it for the cardio
Oh, yeah, everything is everything, it's scandalous
Slow motion for the ambulance, the project filled with cameras
The LAPD gamblin', scramblin', football numbers slanderin'
**** names on paper, you snitched all summer
Streets don't fail me now, they tell me it's a new gang in town
From Compton to Congress, set trippin' all around
Ain't nothin' new, but a flu of new Demo-Crips and Re-Blood-licans
Red state versus a blue state, which one you governin'?
They give us guns and drugs, call us thugs
Make it they promise to fuck with you
No condom, they fuck with you, Obama say, "What it do?"
[Bridge]
Obama say, "What it do?"
Obama say, "What it do?"
[Chorus]
I been A-1 since day one, you ****, boo boo
Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo boo
Lil' hoes you went to school with, boo boo
Baby mama and your new bitch, boo boo
We was in the hood, fourteen with the deuce-deuce
Fourteen years later going hard, like we used to on the dead homies
On the dead homies
[Verse 3]
Everybody want to talk about who this and who that
Who the realest and who wack, or who white and who black
Critics want to mention that they miss when hip hop was rappin'
Motherfucker, if you did, then Killer Mike'd be platinum
Y'all priorities fucked up, put energy in wrong shit
Hennessy and Crown Vic, my memory been gone since
Don't ask about no camera blocking at award shows
No, don't ask about my bitch, no, don't ask about my Vogues
'Less you askin' me about power, yeah, I got a lot of it
I'm the only **** next to Snoop that can push the button
Had the coast on standby
K Dot, what up? I heard they opened up Pandora's Box
I box 'em all in, by a landslide
Nah, homie, we too sensitive, it spill out to the streets
I make the call and get the coast involved then history repeat
But I resolved inside that private hall while sitting down with Jay
He said it's funny how one verse could fuck up the game
[Chorus]
I been A-1 since day one, you ****, boo boo
[Outro]
I remember you was conflicted
Misusing your influence
Sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screaming in a hotel room
I didn't want to self-destruct
The evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went running for answers
Until I came home
But that didn't stop survivor's guilt
Going back and forth
Trying to convince myself the stripes I earned
Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was
But while my loved ones was fighting
A continuous war back in the city
I was entering a new one
Written by: Donte Perkins, Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears, Stephen Bruner, Sufjan Stevens

