Title - Deep Water
Artists - Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Justus
Album - Compton (A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre)
Album Artist - Dr. Dre
Year - 2015
Label - Aftermath/Interscope Records

Composers - C. McCormick, B. Edwards Jr., M. Ricks II, André Romell Young, B.Anderson, D. Natche, J. Mohrle, Kendrick Lamar;
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[Lyrics - Genuis.com]

[Intro: Dr. Dre (Anderson .Paak)]
Where you from nigga?

(Help me!)



[Skit]

"What is going on in Compton? I don't understand it."

"Well as it relates to this, this is not in my field as the clerk so anything that relates to this, you'll probably have to get an answer from Dr. Dre."



[Verse 1: Dr. Dre]

I heard you talking about respect, I gave you niggas the utmost

All you niggas the utmost

Would you look over Picasso's shoulder

And tell him about his brush strokes?

Them opinions, I don't trust those

I apologize, the city made a nigga so cutthroat

Every hood love me, but it started on one coast

Could've stopped in '86 but I knew that you would want more

I'm on the throne in a place some niggas won't go



[Hook: Justus]

(Don't get it fucked up!) Been away from home

But I ain't been gone that long

(All they wanna know is: where you from? Where you from?

Where you from, nigga, huh? Compton!)



[Bridge: Dr. Dre]

Psst! This is about where I'm from

I think it's time to take these niggas to the deep water

Yeah, down in the Pacific (the Pacific), representin'

Where them sharks at nigga, down in the deep water



[Verse 2: Dr. Dre]

Listen, listen, listen, all you niggas swimming in the info

Go fuck around and drown in the specifics

Always going overboard, used to be my kinfolk

Now you sleeping with the motherfuckin' fishes

(Swimming with the mothefuckin' fishes, what the business?)
These niggas won't let up until they all wet up

(Don't get it fucked up!) Naww, nigga!

Now everybody wanna visit tryna re-up that prescription

Yeah, re-up

That's my nigga, watercolors couldn't even paint the picture

If they don't get the picture, fuck them

Yeah, drugs by the dozen

You might just wanna go and check the children

(You might just wanna check your fuckin' children)

I'm the one that got they ear

Ah, for many years, I been making parents live in fear

I just wanna make it clear: my influence run deep like the ocean



[Hook: Justus (Dr. Dre)]

(Don't get it fucked up!) Been away from home

But I ain't been gone that long

(All they wanna know is: where you from? Where you from?

Where you from, nigga, huh? Compton!)



[Bridge: Anderson .Paak]

Feel's like you're drowning, don't you?

About a hundred miles down in that ocean

It's over, shoulda never jumped in

If you can't swim (if you can't swim, if you can't swim)

Oh my God, where's a lifeguard when you need one?



[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]

Motherfucker know I started from the bottom, vodka baby bottle

Mixin' that with Similac, my momma knew I had a problem

Wasn't thinking 'bout no rapping, I was juuging for a dollar

Putting quarter pieces in the black Caprice and make it holla

No policing me, I got the beast in me, I gotta holla

Keep the decency and make them TNT my product

I'm a C-O-M-P-T-O-innovator, energizer

Inner city bullet flyin' 'til that bitch on auto pilot

Ahhhhh, shit! I don't give a fuck about your whereabouts

All I care about is wearing out your area

And airing out your upper body

When I catch ya walking out your parents house

(Don't get it fucked up!) Homie got fucked up

Tryna park his tour bus, not knowing what's what

Or who's who, living in the L.A. County zoo

Pick them off like a big dog, motherfucker, woof!

Once upon a time, I shot a nigga on accident (Boom, boom, boom)

I tried to kill him but I guess I needed more practicing (Boom, boom, boom)

That's when I realized banging wasn't for everybody

Switch it up before my enemy or the sheriff got me

They liable to bury him, they nominated six to carry him

They worry him to death, but he's no vegetarian

The beef is on his breath, inheriting the drama better than

A great white, nigga, this is life in my aquarium



[Hook: Justus (Dr. Dre)]

(Don't get it fucked up) Been away from home

Been away from home all night long

(All they wanna know is: where you from?

Where you from, nigga, huh? Compton)



[Bridge: Cheyenne Lavene]

This is about where I'm from

I think it's time to take these niggas to the deep water

Yeah, down in the Pacific

Where them sharks at, nigga, down in the deep water



[Outro: Anderson .Paak]

(Gasping for Air)

Help me

(Feels like you're drowning)

I'm drowning

Help me, help me, help me

Somebody help me

(Shoulda never jumped in

If you, if you can't swim)

Help me

Help me, help me, help me

I can't, I can't breathe

I can't wait, help

(Where's a lifeguard when you need one?)

God, please, please help me, please

Please help me, please help...

Please help, please, please...