I’ve got what must be about the best collaboration of 2012. In fact it’s come up as being a runner up on HipHopDX, but I love it.
Kendrick Lamar with Gunplay, got together in 2012 for this unreleased record “Cartoon & Cereal“.
No official video out for this, and I’m not sure they will do one.
However, we like this version by Josh Forman, as it has more thought than just a static image of Kendrick. And it taps up some fond memories of my youthful days.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbbQb9bEcDQ?rel=0]
That’s not all… here’s the lyrics to Cartoon & Cereal:
[Intro]
I wanna hit line drives…
Wanna lose weight and keep eating…
For you…
Hey, whats up doc?
[Bridge]
Now I was raised in a sandbox, next to you and her
You was holding the handgun, she was giving birth
To a baby boy to be just like you, I wonder what’s that worth
I-I wonder if you ever knew that you was a role model to me first
The next day I-I woke up in the morning, seen you on the news
Looked in the mirror, then realised I-I-I had something to prove
You told me “Don’t be like me, just finish watching cartoons”
Which is funny now cause all I see is Wile E. Coyotes in the room
[Hook: Kendrick Lamar and Gunplay]
And I run it, (Blow! Blow! Blow! Blow!), and I run it, (Blow! Blow! Blow! Blow!)
And I run it, (Yeah! Blow!), and I run it, (Yeah! Blow!)
That’s ironic, (Blow! Blow! Blow! Blow!), I run it, (Blow! Blow! Blow! Blow!)
That’s ironic, (Y-Yeah! Blow!), I run it, (Yeah! Blow! Yeah!)
Salt all in my wounds
Hear my tears all in my tunes
Let my life loose in this booth
Just for you, mothafucka, hope y’all amused
And I run it, (Blow! Blow! Blow! Blow!), and I run it, (Blow! Blow! Blow! Blow!)
And I run it, (Y-Yeah! Blow!), and I run it (Yeah! Blow!) That’s ironic
[Interlude]
Liberation…leader…
Popular pie plant pictured here…
Wile E. Coyote! Wile E. Coyote!
[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]
This shit make a nigga just wanna write
Reminisce when I had the morning appetite
Apple Jacks and after that I hit the TV Guide
Animaniac the only thing that gave me peace of mind
I’m a maniac when aiming at the enemy that lied
Tell a story that I’ll never glory 25
Not to worry, every warrior will come and see euphoria
And that’s a covenant I put on every tribe
Ain’t nobody gon’ tie your shoe
Nobody gon’ abide by your rule
Nobody holding your gun, how come your tongue say killa then kill my mood
Light speed living in the world you know
Little old me, feeling like a live wire
Bet I put some new tires on a lightning bolt
‘Til I wreck into a pole, like a right to vote
I’m from the bottom of the jungle
Living in the bottom of the food chain
When you get a new chain, nigga take it from you
A new name, want stripes, and you and zebra look alike
Hope another homicide don’t numb you and none do
Things we will never learn soon
In the era where we wanna earn soon
That’s a error, you can smell it in the air and everybody really doomed
That’s why I’m backdooring you motherfuckas
All y’all can suck my dick
All them days at the county building
Now I’m ’bout to make my mama rich
Cartoons and (cereal!) I ain’t felt this good since
Scrooge McDuck, (here we go!) Elementary hood shit
[Bridge + Hook]
[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]
This shit make a nigga just wanna shit on everybody
Even with a pot to piss in
I’mma aim sloppy at a loud mouth, discharge
Dismiss any business of yours
Discounts never did amount to a check
That ya ass couldn’t cash when the shit bounce
Everything dismounts, niggas gon’ flip that car
AKs for the whole hood
House lick went down perfect
Two shots to the head he deserved it
I overheard it hit my bed with a bowl and remote control
Dark Wing Duck lost service
Mama said I’d better duck, she’s nervous
Drama all up in the cut, hit the curtains
I mean don’t intervene with no gun machine
This block stay jerking, the feds stay lurkin’
Emerging on everybody corner (dash for it)
Get a toe tag when you play tag with a task of a new (task force)
Everybody wanna know my life
How did I make it (past yours)
Well let me tell you like this
I’ve been running this shit since (I asked for it)
Cartoons and cereal
[Bridge]
[Verse 3: Gunplay]
Salt all in my wounds
Hear my tears all in my tunes
Let my life loose in this booth just for you
Mufucka hope y’all amused!
I did wrong, karma came
Crackers gave me ball and chain
Friends, enemies all the same
State, fed, both can hang
Nobody can mute me, but I never said nobody can’t shoot me
Just another stat to the white folks
Still whip work to the white yolk, absolutely!
Everyday feel like the one before
Hunt the money, don’t hunt the ho
If you do what you always done
Then you get what you always got
You dumb buffoons!
I ain’t seen the back of my eyelids
For about the past 72 hours
Hand on my heart, face to the hood
I pledge every word you ever heard was honest
Yeah this me, no mic
No cameras, no lights, just pain
Mama how much trauma can I sustain?
Dirty money come with lots of stains
Road to riches come with lots of lanes
Just another player with lots of game
Never had shit, got lots to gain…
Just another player with lots of game
Never had shit, got lots to gain