[Kendrick Lamar]
 Cloud nine, Kendrick Lamar, uh
 I take a sip of Hennessy and then get [bad word] [bad word]  I ain't a drinker, I'm a thinker, call it what you want
 But if you turn your back, know that you just missed your chance
 to witness the realest [bad word] that's ever been told to man
 I found myself losing focus at a Sunday service
 Embarrassed so I started questioning God, what is my purpose?
 He say to live the way he did, that's all he want from me
 Spread the word and witness, he rose on the first Sunday
 I said alright, enthused that my Lord gave a listen
 I opened my bible and searched to be a better Christian
 and this from a person that never believed in religion
 But [bad word]  my life is so [bad word] up man, I can't help but give in
 I'm giving testimonies to strangers I never met
 Hopped on the pulpit and told 'em how I was [bad word] blessed
 Felt like I'm free from all my sins when the service was over
 Walked out the church, then got a call that my homie was murdered
 and lost my faith again
 [bad word]  BJ the Chicago Kid]
 What am I gonna do? Gotta have faith
 Life is too much, understood? Where is your faith?
 Oh, faaaaaaaith...
 All you need is the size of a mustard seed

[Kendrick Lamar]
 Single black parent [bad word] raising children of four
 That's four innocent [bad word]  cause papa they don't know
 Her day consists of working back and forth with babysitters
 Can't find no one to watch her kids so she pay her sister
 Her baby daddy ain't bout [bad word]  that [bad word] ain't bout [bad word]  Spent his daughter milk just to cop a new outfit
 She pray to God every night hoping that he'll mature
 and maybe one day his kids, something that he'll live for
 Baby wanna go back to school but she need some help
 because it's hard tryna pay the bills when you're by yourself
 She thought about credit card scams till she heard a voice
 that said the Devil is a lie, make a better choice
 And so it's back to McDonald's and every month dealing
 with them crazy [bad word] people at the county building
 Looked to the heavens and asked 'em to make a better way
 Then got a letter in the mail, lost her section 8
 Then lost her faith again
 [bad word] 

[Punch]
 Kendrick, I appreciate the opportunity to vent my [bad word]  This about how faith works, yeah, murk it... 
 I had dreams of holding a nine-milla to raise Killa
 Ask him why as my eyes fill up
 Each day it gets more realer, orangutans bang like gorillas
 It's jungle when the niggas ensue
 The rat's lurking, vulture's circling the serpents
 Cats lying through they teeth, my [bad word] didn't deserve it
 I flirted with the idea of caressing the steel
 to make [bad word] faster than she normally will
 It's ill, to see my faith try and leave me
 It's so hard to get it, to get rid of it is easy
 I'm tryna reach cloud nine, that's what my niggas bout
 But it never rain in California 'less them pistols out
 Until then, my feet planted on the ground
 Shadowboxing my conscience till my faith start responding
 And if I get no answer, just know I tried
 I should have never looked into his son's eyes
 Ray Charles voice
 [bad word] 

[Kendrick Lamar]
 This for my people that stressing whenever times is hard
 Your mind's slipping, wondering is there really a God?
 Knowing you shouldn't think that way and tryna freeze your brain
 But whenever it's pain, that feeling forever remains
 We can't believe what we can't see and reality seems stronger than prayer
 cause you tried to change your life, and now you live in a wheelchair
 And your son was born with cancer and he live in urgent care
 at the tender age of twelve, and you feel that no one cares
 Searching for answers, that's human nature, you ain't in the wrong
 Just know, when you feeling that way hi