Video Friends de Kendrick Lamar 2024 Lyrics | Hip Hop

Kendrick Lamar - Friends Lyrics

[Verse 1]
This bitch tried to tell me my woman not black
Because she light skinned, and with her hair down her back
Now, growing up, none of us niggas cared about that
We all off the Top Ramen
We all in apartments looking at Martin on broke recliners
Whitney, she know
I say, "What's your feelings on that?", she say, "Fuck them hoes"
She say "It's sad to see black women act different to other black women
Clashing and color ad-libbing to fuck over each other
When half of our mother conditions did the dirty work for us"
"So what’s the dirty work?", she said, "Nigga, we insecure
“From a black man insecurity
Lack of perception, lack of maturity
Manipulation for sex only reason for you and me
We tolerate this
Your perception of bad bitches make us hate the next bitch
So I ain't mad when they be mad, speaking on me
Take a jab, because I got heart and I look the part with a lookin' ass"
Understand deeper than colorism
I said, "What about the ones that pray?", she said, "Fuck them bitches
"They be praying on your downfall, wannabe feminists, turn into serpents around y'all
Maybe I'm sensitive, maybe observant, maybe I'm flawed, maybe been through too much
Living life in the ghetto as a woman kept me in cuffs
Cause the light-skins get picked on, the dark-skins don't get picked
Whoever choose sides need to die so we can exist”
[Chorus]
Friends, how many of us have them?
Friends, ones that we can depend on?
Lets be
Friends, how many of us have them?
Friends, ones that we can depend on?

[Verse 2]
I seen the liars, I seen the opportunists, I seen the tired
I seen my own flesh and blood try sue me
I seen it coming, it's days made desires
I give and give 'til I can't give no more
Then forget to forgive once I don't feel no more
Who took advantage of you?
How foul do you gotta play to get the W?
They'll smile in your mother face, then try and hustle you
Wish I can make this all up, I cannot share enough of me
It was them versus us (us), had to swap out my company
(No more, you fuck with me)
Maybe I'm too sensitive, to ever live with betrayal
Especially when my intentions is to set sail
The family fortune further with goals, but that's a fantasy
I'm fortunate, 'cause now I know

[Chorus]
Friends, how many of us have them?
Friends, ones that we can depend on?
Let's be
Friends, how many of us have them?
Friends, ones that we can depend on?
[Bridge]
(Friends) Never turn they back when you need 'em
(Friends) It's way too many opps to mistreat 'em
(Friends) Can look at you and know that something's wrong
(Friends) Should motivate you where your heart belongs
(Friends) Keep secrets and never turn to judge you
(Friends) Don't say they love you, but show they love you
(Friends) Always lookin' out for your best interest
(Friends) Make more friends with good intentions

[Chorus]
Friends, how many of us have them?
Friends, ones that we can depend on?
Let's be
Friends, how many of us have them?
Friends, ones that we can depend on?