Average Joe chords by
Kendrick Lamar
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Key: A minor•
Verse 1
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The hardest
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thing for me to do
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Is to get you, to know me,
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within sixteen bars
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That's the hardest thing
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Who is K. Dot?
Verse 2
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A young
nigga from Compton
On the curb writing raps next to a gun shot
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On the corners where the gangsters
and the killers dwell
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The fraudulent tender scars
that get unveiled
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Everyone I knew
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was either Crip or Piru
Cousins in elementary,
relatives in high school
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With that being said,
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each one of their rivals
Was aiming something at my head,
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I needed survival
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Got jumped, got jacked,
Verse 3
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shot at, shot back
And I don't even push a line,
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I'm just tryna push these rhymes
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In the midst of staying neutral
and discrete
My momma said you're judged by
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the company you keep
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But what you can consider,
Verse 4
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that if it goes down
They'll kill you if you kill me,
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it gets deep nigga
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So if you ask what I'm doing
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I'm tryna duck the influence of my city
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that's that's brewing, real talk, and
Verse 5
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This is why they fuck with me (real talk nigga,
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believe it)
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This is why they fuck with me (do what I do,
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you know?)
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I'm no gangster, no killer,
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I'm just your average Joe (know that)
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But one thing you should consider,
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I'm the realest you know
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I was walking from Centennial
Verse 6
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When an unidentified vehicle rolled
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up, and I was like hol' up
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Where you from? "I don't bang"
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Where you stay? "Westside", that's a Piru
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gang to be exact
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Well aware they had blue
across they hat
Dropped backpack and ran
inside of the cul- de- sac
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Shots rang out, hoping to
Verse 7
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God I wasn't wet
Crossed across Rosecrans and
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ran inside of the yet
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Chirped the homies on the I- 95 they said
they already knew
What happened,
and meet 'em outside the garage
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Never seen that many guns in my life
I was paranoid like a fiend in the night,
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but needed revenge
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Grabbed the nine- ball, opened up
Verse 8
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the door,
then got in
Somebody said fall back
We gon' make these niggas suffer
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You my brother like a frat,
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and that's just to remind you
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Thought about that so long I had failed my fi nals,
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fuck, but
Verse 9
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This is why they fuck with me
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(I told you nigga)
This is why they fuck with me
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Em
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(you fake nigga)
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I'm no gangster, no killer,
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I'm just your average Joe (you fake)
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But one thing you should consider,
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I'm the realest you know
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I don't do black mu
Verse 10
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sic,
I don't do white music
I do everyday life music
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Give 'em cuts like a nigga
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pierced a knife through it
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You say you through, but I've been through it,
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now that's cold
Verse 11
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And this is for my county building children
In Hub City on hubcaps, no power-
steering
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I use perseverance in this mad city
Where the niggas drink Remy and
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hold semis for cutthroats
Verse 12
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Bernie Mac died, it's no joke
Don't ask why if you don't know
about these killers and thieves
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Seven grams of weed, you smoke that,
but I'm high off life
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I could fall out the sky like twice
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And land in the land of the AKs
And the minivans where
the fan never on
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'Cause it's hotter than a lunatic's
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underarms in a straitjacket
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In other words, we get it cracking,
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but I keep it cool, you know
Verse 13
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This is why they fuck with me
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This is why they fuck with me
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Em
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(real talk)
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I'm no gangster, no killer,
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I'm just your average Joe (come on)
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But one thing you should consider,
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I'm the realest you know
Verse 14
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So there you have it
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But I'ma leave you with this
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An O.G. once told me
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A real gangster is
either dead or in jail
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Or behind the scenes getting
real money
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I'm gone
Outro 1
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