Name: Kendrick Lamar Performs "Poetic Justice" | David Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kendrick Lamar Performs "Poetic Justice" | David Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-03. Transcript available.

Our next guest, ladies and gentlemen, is a talented rapper from Compton,
California,
and his acclaimed debut album is entitled Good Kid, Mad City.
Do me a favor, please welcome Kendrick Lamar.
I recognize your fragrance, hold up, you ain't never got to say it, uh, and I
know your taste is a little bit, mm, high maintenance, uh, everybody else basic,
you live life on a everyday basis, with poetic justice, poetic justice, if I
told you that a flower bloom in a dark room, would you trust it?
I mean, I write poem in this song, dedicated to you when you don't have to move
for empathy, it's blood in my pen, better get all your friends in there, I
really wanna know you are, I really wanna show you off, bump that, pull up,
leave me your champagne, how nice when you curse this name, card up your
girlfriend, y'all curled in a little bitty rage, I heard that if she wanna go
and party, she wanna go and party, don't approach her with that Atari, that ain't
good game, homie, now they say conversation,
Ruler nation, I can tell, but I can never right my wrongs, unless I write it
down for real, BS. One time. You can get it, you can get it, you can get it.
And I know just, know just, know just, know just, know just what you want. Poetic
justice, put it in the song. All right. Two times. Hey.
You can get it, you can get it, you can get it. And I know just, know just,
know just, know just, know just what you want. Poetic justice, put it in the
song. All right.
Every time I write these words, they be doing that move. Making sure my punctuation
curve, heavy letter here's true. Living my life in a margin, and that metaphor
was proof I'm talking poetic justice. Poetic justice.
If I told you that a flower would bloom and a dog roam, would you trust me? I
mean, you need to hear this.
Love is not just a verb, it's you looking in the mirror. Love is not just a
verb, it's you looking forward, maybe. Call me crazy, we can both be insane.
A fatal attraction is common, and what we have common is pain. I mean, you need
to hear this.
Love is not just a verb, and I can see power steering. Sex driver, you swerve,
I want the interference. It's coherent, I can hear it.
I mean, that's your heartbeat. It either caught me, or it caught me.
Be slow here, you'll find gold mines in these lines. Sincerely, yours truly,
and right before you go blind.
Yes, let's go.
You can hear it, you can get it, you can get it, you can get it.
And I know just, know just, know just, know just, know just what you want.
Hey, poetic justice, hey, put it in the song.
All right.
Two times.
You can get it, you can get it, you can get it.
And I know just, know just, know just, know just, know just what you want.
Poetic justice, put it in the song.
All right.
You a bad kid, put your hands up high.
Hands up high.
Hands up high.
Till the building lights down right now.
Put me in the pool.
I'm talking about a young woman.
Go, go, go.
Wow, who is that? Who is that? Who did that? Who was doing that? Who was doing
that? How you doing, Kendrick? Hey, gentlemen, Kendrick Lamar, Aaron Walters,
Tompkins, Good Kid, Mad City. Nice to have you here. Thank you very much. Thank
you, gentlemen. We gotta go. Good night, everybody.
We'll be right back.