Lions at the Gate

Verse 1

Block politics and basic bitter bickering

Keeping up the pace while these posers are just flickering

Quiet on the set when the kings start counting

Watch the way the words move higher than a mountain

You bark like a dog with no bite behind the bone

Just a little puppet sitting empty on a throne

Speak when you are spoken to and learn to hold your peace

Listen to the legends until the drama starts to cease

Real giants walk without making any sound

Heavy hitters only when we coming to your town

Pre-Chorus

Money in the ceiling

Game is what we dealing

Watch the world spinning

Knowing that we winning

Chorus

Lock the gates when the lions start to roar

Lock the gates when the lions start to roar

Hush the crowd when the masters take the floor

Lock the gates when the lions start to roar

I am living

Verse 7: Kendrick Lamar

And we still praying for the block while the wolves outside

Looking for a reason just to kill the vibe and slide

It’s the soul of the coast in the palm of my hand

Trying to find a piece of peace within a desert of sand

Got a nephew on the corner and his eyes real wide

Trying to decide if he should let the metal provide

Life is more than just a mission or a struggle for status

Don't let them turn your whole existence into a math practice

Multiply the vision while they divide the crew

That's exactly what these vultures want to do to you

I’m on the mountain top screaming till my lungs go numb

Because I know exactly where these cycles come from

They want a coffin or a cage for a young king soul

But I’m keeping all the spirits and the minds under control

Wait for the signal then we move in the light

The ancestors watching as we finish the fight

Chorus

Lock the gates when the lions start to roar

Lock the gates when the lions start to roar

Hush the crowd when the masters take the floor

Lock the gates when the lions start to roar

I am living proof of the truth in the booth

Living proof of the truth in the booth

Verse 8: Ant Banks

It’s that hardcore foundation since the days of the mac

Keep the G-Funk bouncing while we putting on the track

From the yay to the south keeping real niggas paid

Thinking bout the brothers and the choices they made

Some are gone too soon and some are trapped in the box

So we spitting for the ones who still hitting the rocks

Keep your chin up high and your feet on the path

Avoid the cold steel and the bitter aftermath

Banks and the Kendrick keeping history alive

Showing every youngster how to really survive

Turn the music up high let the bass hit the gut

Keep the whole hood rolling and the haters stay shut

Outro

Keep the peace y'all

West Coast forever

California dreaming

Through the storm and the weather

Unity is the only way out

Don't let them doubt what you're about

Yeah

Keep living proof

One love

Done deal