[Intro: Kendrick Lamar]

Everybody put three fingers in the air

The sky is falling, the wind is calling

Stand for something or die in the morning

Section.80, HiiiPoWeR

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

Visions of Martin Luther staring at me

Malcolm X put a hex on my future, someone catch me

I'm falling victim to a revolutionary song, the Serengeti's clone

Back to put you backstabbers back on your spinal bone

You slipped your disc when I slid you my disc

You wanted to diss, but jumped on my dick

Grown men never should bite their tongue

Unless you eatin' pussy that smell like it's a stale plum

I got my finger on the motherfuckin' pistol

Aimin' it at a pig, Charlotte's web is gonna miss you

My issue isn't televised and you ain't gotta tell the wise

How to stay on beat, because our life's an instrumental

This is physical and mental, I won't sugarcoat it

You'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it

And everything on TV just a figment of imagination

I don't want a plastic nation, dread that like a Haitian

While you motherfuckers waiting, I be off the slave ship

Building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]

Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR

Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR

Five-star dishes, food for thought, bitches

I mean this shit is

Huey Newton going stupid, you can't resist his

HiiiPoWeR

Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

Visions of Martin Luther staring at me

If I see it how he seen it, that would make my parents happy

Sorry, mama, I can't turn the other cheek

They wanna knock me off the edge like a fuckin' widow's peak, uh

And she always told me pray for the weak, uh

Them demons got me, I ain't prayed in some weeks, uh

Dear Lord, come save me, the devil's working hard

He probably clockin' double shifts on all of his jobs

Frightenin', so fuckin' frightenin'

Enough to drive a man insane, I need a license to kill

I'm standing on a field full of land mines

Doin' the moonwalk, hopin' I blow up in time

'Cause 2012 might not be a fuckin' legend

Tryna be a fuckin' legend, the man of mankind

Who said a Black man in the Illuminati?

Last time I checked, that was the biggest racist party

So get up off that slave ship

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]

Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR

Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR

Five-star dishes, food for thought, bitches

I mean this shit is

Bobby Seale makin' meals, you can't resist his

HiiiPoWeR

Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR

[Bridge: Alori Joh & (Kendrick Lamar)]

Every day, we fight the system just to make our way

We been down for too long, but that's alright

We was built to be strong, 'cause it's our life, na-na-na

Every day, we fight the system, we fight the system

We fight the system (Never like the system)

We been down for too long, but that's alright, na-na-na

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]

Who said a Black man in the Illuminati?

Last time I checked, that was the biggest racist party

Last time I checked, we was racin' with Marcus Garvey

On the freeway to Africa 'til I wreck my Audi

And I want everybody to view my autopsy

So you can see exactly where the government had shot me

No conspiracy, my fate is inevitable

They play musical chairs once I'm on that pedestal

Frightenin', so fuckin' frightenin'

Enough to drive a man insane, a woman insane

The reason Lauryn Hill don't sing, or Kurt Cobain

Loaded that clip and then said bang

The drama it bring is crazy, product of the late '80s

Tryna stay above water, that's why we shun the Navy

Pull your guns and play me, let's set it off

'Cause a riot, throw a Molotov

Somebody told me them pirates had got lost

'Cause we been off them slave ships

Got our own pyramids, write our own hieroglyphs

[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]

Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR

Yeah, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR

Five-star dishes, food for thought, bitches

I mean this shit is

Fred Hampton on your campus, you can't resist his

HiiiPoWeR

Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR

[Outro: Kendrick Lamar]

Thug life

Thug life

[Produced by J. Cole]