I Hate You lyrics

[Intro]

September 22nd, 2009

Kendrick Lamar

To... to...

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

Let me start off this letter saying I don't like you

Scared of you but I will fight you

I stare at the ceiling and think about you

Curiosity killing me, thinking of when I'ma meet you

You introduced yourself to so many others, mothers, sisters and brothers, children and babies drive me crazy I wonder

Why you love people that love people that do right?

Is it rocket science to you or is it just your type?

One of my biggest fears, is waking up 4 in the morning and gotta hear you met one of my peers

Or maybe a family member that you thought was cool

Or maybe a person that I'll never meet 'cause of you

You, son of a bitch and I wish you never existed

And I swear I'd blow your brains out if you pay me a visit

But that's not realistic, 'cause you'll never rot

But I'ma still send this letter off

P.O. Box, and when you get it....

[Hook]

Please take it personal

Please take it personal

Please take it personal

Because it's personal

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

Let me continue this letter saying I don't like you

Scared of you but I will fight you

Should be ashamed of the moves you make

The pain you bring, the sorrow and the hearts you break

Everyday you remind me that you're always there

'Cause every time I come around someone's getting shot down

And all I say is a prayer, "so help me, Lord!"

Then the Lord talk back, "I can't help you, boy!"

That's fucked up, my life's fucked, was cursed before birth

And what's fucked up, I gotta live my life with the hurt

Of knowing that you're everlasting

Dwelling upon the masses

Of the Earth fatal assassins

Snatchin' bodies

Probably, on my notepad as I write

Why the fuck you wanna take my life?

Sooner or later, I'm tired and weary and my gray hairs are not in my favor

So when I write on this paper

It's real talk

So...

[Hook]

Please take it personal

Please take it personal

Please take it personal

Because it's personal

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar as Death]

Let me start off this letter saying I don't like you too

And the reason we haven't met because I've been busy doing whatever since grade school

I've watched your every move

You slipped up a few times, I gave you a pass

So don't say I ain't sympathetic

But you can barely get curiosity, I'ma dead it

Everybody wanna know why I act this way

Let's just say... I had a bad day

Matter fact, everyday

But I take it out on somebody and you could probably find me wherever the wolves parade

I was born to be a killjoy, I'm an old brat

Conceived by Adam and Eve, so who you mad at?

Not me, see me? I'm just doing my job

And you ducking me? Is mos def an odd

So why send this letter as if I never knew you?

I rather knock on your door and just hand it to you

[Interlude: Ab-Soul]

It's everywhere

The streets, the corners, the coroners, the morgues, the cemeteries, hospitals

Heard about it when I was little

Tomorrow's not promised, 'cause any day can be knocking at your front door

War, genocide, homicide, suicide all coincide

Signed and sealed by the living

Make it, don't take it

[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]

Please take it personal

Please take it personal

Please take it personal

Because it's personal

• Artist:Kendrick Lamar