Karaoké Reincarnated Kendrick Lamar

Que reflejan tu mirada

La noche tú y yo

I got this fire burnin' in me from within

Concentrated thoughts on who

I used to be, I'm sheddin' skin

Every day a new version of me

A third of me demented

Cemented in pain

Jugglin' the pros and cons of fame

I don't know how to make friends

I'm a lonely soul

I recollect this isolation

I was four years old

Truth be told

I've been battlin' myself

Tryna navigate the real and fake

Cynical about the judgement day

I did past life regression last year and it fucked me up

Reincarnated on this earth for a hundred plus

Body after body

Lesson after lesson

Let's take it back to Michigan in nineteen forty-seven

My father kicked me out the house 'cos I wouldn't listen to him

I didn't care 'bout his influence

Only loved what I was doin'

Gifted as a musician

I played guitar on a grand level

The most talented where I'm from but I had to rebel

And so I'm off in the sunset

Searchin' for my place in the world

With my guitar up on my hip as the story unfurled

I found myself with a pocket full of money and a whole lot of respect while the record business loved me

I was head of rhythm and blues

The women that fell to they feet

So many to choose

But I manipulated power as I lied to the masses

Died with my money

Gluttony was too attractive

Reincarnated

Another life had placed me as a Black woman in the Chitlin' Circuit

Seductive vocalist as the promoter hit the curtains

My voice was angelic

Straight from heaven

The crowd sobbed

A musical genius what the articles emphasized

Had everything I wanted but I couldn't escape addiction

Heroin needles had me in fetal position, restricted

Turned on my family

I went wherever cameras be

Cocaine, no private planes for my insanity

Self-indulged

Discipline never been my sentiments

I needed drugs

To me an eight-ball was like penicillin

Fuck love

My happiness was in that brown sugar

Sex and melodies gave me hope when nobody's lookin'

My first assistant was a small town scholar

Never did a Quaalude 'till I got myself around her

My daddy looked the other way

He saw sin in me

I died with syringes pinched in me

Reincarnated

My present life is Kendrick Lamar

A rapper lookin' at the lyrics to keep you in awe

The only factor I respected was raisin' the bar

My instincts sent material straight to the charts huh

My father kicked me out the house

I finally forgive him

I'm old enough to understand the way I was livin'

Ego and pride had me lookin' at him with resentment

I close my eyes hopin' that

I don't come off contentious

I'm yellin' Father did I finally get it right

Everything I did was selfless

I spoke freely

When the people needed me I helped them

I didn't gloat, even told 'em No when the vultures came

Took control of my fleshly body when the money changed

Son you do well but your heart is closed

I can tell residue that linger from your past creates itself

Father I'm not perfect

I got urges but I hold them down

But your pride has to die

Okay Father show me how

Tell me every deed that you done and what you do it for

I kept one hundred institutions paid

Okay tell me more

I put one hundred hoods on one stage

Okay tell me more

I'm tryna push peace in L.A.

But you love war

No I don't

Oh yes you do

Okay then tell me the truth

Every individual is only a version of you

How can they forgive when there's no forgiveness in your heart

I could tell you where I'm goin'

I could tell you who you are

You fell out of Heaven 'cos you was anxious

Didn't like authority

Only searched to be heinous

Isaiah fourteen was the only thing that was prevalent

My greatest music director was you

It was colors, it was pinks

It was reds, it was blues

It was harmony and motion

I sent you down to earth 'cos you was broken

Rehabilitation, not psychosis

But now we here now

Centuries you manipulated man with music

Embodied you as superstars

To see how you movin'

You came a long way from garnishin' evilish views

And all I ever wanted from you

Was love and approval

I learned a lot

No more puttin' these people in fear

The more that word is diminished the more it's not real

The more light that I can capture the more I can feel

I'm usin' words for inspiration as an idea

So can you promise that you won't take your gifts for granted

I promise that I'll use my gifts to bring understandin'

For every man, woman and child how much can you vow

I vow my life just to live one in harmony now

You crushed a lot of people keepin' their thoughts in captivity

And I'm ashamed that I ever created that enemy

Then let's rejoice where we at

I rewrote the devil's story just to take our power back

'Carnated