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(Intro)

"We got a young brother that stands for something! We got a young brother that believes in the all of us! Brother Kendrick Lamar! He's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author! And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another! But you can't do that... — (Right on!) — I said, you can't do that without loving yourself first..."

I done been through a whole lot

Trial, tribulations, but I know God

Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie

Praying that the holy water don't go dry

As I look around me

So many motherfuckers wanna down me

But ain't no nigga never drown me

In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me

And I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)

I love myself

(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)

I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

I love myself

(One day at the time, sun gon' shine)

Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)

What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?)

Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)

Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)

Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart

On my sleeve, let the runway start

You know the miserable do love company

What do you want from me and my scars?

Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence

How many times our potential was anonymous?

How many times the city making me promises?

So I promise this

And I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)

I love myself

(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)

I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

I love myself

(One day at the time, sun gon' shine)

They wanna say there's a war outside and a bomb in the street

And a gun in the hood and a mob of police

And a rock on the corner and a line full of fiends

And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme, yup

These days of frustration, keep y'all on ducking rotation

I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis

Dreams of realities peace, blow steam in the face of the beast

The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now

The strong in me, I still smile

And I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)

I love myself

(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)

I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

I love myself

(One day at the time, sun gon' shine)

Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet)

Down, down valley peak (Down, down valley peak)

I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)

I keep my heart undone (My heart undone)

And I love myself

(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)

I love myself

(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)

I love myself

(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

I love myself

(One day at the time, sun gon' shine)

I went to war last night

With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic

Imma do it 'til I get it right, I went to war last night

I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent

Duckin' every other blessin', l can never see the message

I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave

For my nigga that be letting 'em annihilate me

And the sound is moving in a meteor speed

From a hundred to a billion, lay my body in the street

Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free

Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read

And the glory to the feeling of the only unseen

Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"

I lost my head, I've must misread what the good book said

Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside

Give myself again 'til the well runs dry

• Artist:Kendrick Lamar
• Album:To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)