This song is one of the most introspective songs written by Kendrick Lamar, making it one of my favorites. The song begins with the repetition of lines that describe the potential harsh ending that may result from Kendrick's depression, an ending that we are all too familiar with:
"Somebody said you bumped your head and bled the floor
Jumped into a pit of flames and burned to coal
Drowned inside the lake outside, away you flow"
It then transfers to fictional story in verse 1 about Kendrick seeking revenge on the judge who acquitted George Zimmerman, the cop who murdered the unarmed black teen
Trayvon Martin (talk about relation to current events). Before he decides the avenge Martin, he expresses his feelings of suffering and anger due to the history of African American disenfranchisement. Although Kendrick was initially committed to "blowing out every piece" of the judge's brain, he soon changed his mind when he saw that the judge had his son with him. Fearing that murdering the son's father in front of him will traumatize the child, Kendrick drives away.
"I got 100 on my dash, got 200 in my drum
Name in the grab bags, put my Bible in the trunk
Taaka vodka on the top of my binocular, I'm drunk
How come I can make them popular, pop em' when I want
See I'm livin' with anxiety, duckin' the sobriety
Fuckin' up the system, I ain't fuckin' with society
Justice ain't free, therefore justice ain't me
So I justify his name on obituary
Why you wanna see a good man with a broken heart?
Once upon a time I used to go to church and talk to God
Now I'm thinkin' to myself, hollow tips is all I got
Now I'm drinkin' by myself, at the intersection, parked
Watch you when you walk inside your house
You threw your briefcase all on the couch
I plan on creeping through your fuckin' door and blowin' out
Every piece of your brain until your son jump in your arms
Cut on the engine, then sped off in the rain, I'm gone"