Keisha's Song
Kendrick Lamar Lyrics

Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd
Girls who dress up and look good on Long Beach Blvd

Flagging down all of these flashy cars
Stopping and signalling to posh cars driving by

And Lord knows she's beautiful
Everyone acknowledges her good looks

Lord knows the usuals leaving a body sore
Men who usually pay for sexual favors leave feeling physically hurt

She take the little change she make to fix her nail cuticles,
She spends the small amount of money she earns on maintaining her nails

Lipstick is suitable to make you fiend for more
Wearing lipstick increases the desire of men for her

She play Mr. Shakur
She listens to the music of Tupac Shakur

That's her favorite rapper bumping "Brenda's Got A Baby"
Her favorite song by Tupac Shakur is "Brenda's Got A Baby"

While a pervert yelling at her and she capture features of a woman
A man with perverse intentions is yelling at her while she tries to look and act like a grown woman

But only 17, the 7 cars start honkin'
She's only 17 years old but several cars are honking at her

She start running like FLo-Jo don't care if they Joe Blow
She runs away from the cars honking at her without any care for who they might be

If they got money to blow a blow job is a sure go
If they have money to pay for it, she's willing to perform oral sex

And sure enough don't see a dime of dirty dollars
Despite making money from such actions, she doesn't get to keep any of it

She give all to her daddy but she don't know her father,
She gives all her money to her father but she doesn't have any connection with her biological father

That's ironic see a block away from Lueders park, I seen the El Camino parked
It's ironic that there is an El Camino parked near Lueders Park where she's trying to escape from a life of prostitution despite her father owning a similar car

In her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where
She doesn't like where she is but she tries to convince herself that she has made it

Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
She doesn't care about anything so she gets into the back seat of a car

Rosa Parks never a factor when she making ends meet
She doesn't care about civil rights and dignity when she wants to earn enough money to survive

Her anatomy is God's temple, and it's quite simple
She believes her body is sacred but the situation she's in makes it all too simple for her to be exploited

Her castle is about to be destroyed, she's always paranoid
Her body, which she considers her castle, is about to be taken away from her and she's always scared and anxious

Watching the law inside the streets undercover the dummies that look like decoys
She's wary of undercover cops in the streets who look like easy targets but could be setting her up instead

Remember the sergeant let her slide,
She remembers how a sergeant let her go without getting arrested for prostitution

Said if he seen what's between her thighs he'd compromise,
The sergeant offers to let her go if she has sex with him

To no surprise she took the ultimatum around the alleyway and gave him
Without any surprise, she gave in and had sex with the sergeant in the alleyway

A warm welcome to fill him right below the navel
She performed oral sex on him

Though he was wired up like a pair of jumping cables
He had a recording device on him

His eyes was closed shut, prior charges, he had waived 'em
He closed his eyes and ignored the fact that he was committing a crime

It was a block away from Lueders Park, I seen a squad car parked
A police car was parked near Lueders Park where she was involved in prostitution

As she bust down like a 12 bunk on tour
She continues to have sex with men like it's a job or a routine while on tour like a musician in a tour bus with 12 bunk beds

She suddenly realized she'll never escape the allure
She comes to a sudden realization that she'll never be able to get away from the temptation

Of the black man, white man, needed satisfaction, at first
Initially, she had sex with black and white men because she needed money and satisfaction

It became a practice, but now she's numb to it
Having sex with different men has become a routine and she's now desensitized

Sometimes she wonder if she can do it like nuns do it
Sometimes, she wonders if she could be celibate like nuns

But she never heard of Catholic religion or sinners' redemption
She's never been exposed to religion or the concept of being saved from sin

That sounds foolish, and you can blame it on her mother
She thinks the idea of religion sounds foolish and it's because of her mother's influence

For letting her boyfriend slide candy under her cover
Her mother's boyfriend molested her by making unwanted sexual advances

Ten months before she was ten he moved in and that's when he touched her
The boyfriend started molesting her ten months before she turned ten when he moved in with them

This muthafucka is the fucking reason why Keisha rushing through that
This man is the reason why Keisha is hurrying to get away from her current situation

And caught a knife inside the bladder, left her dead, raped in the street Keisha's song
She was killed and raped in the street with a knife wound to the bladder

My little sister eleven, I looked her right in the face
The singer refers to his younger sister who is eleven years old

The day that I wrote this song, set her down and pressed play
He played this song to his sister on the day he wrote it to make her aware of the dangers of the world

Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd
Girls who dress up and look good on Long Beach Blvd

Flagging down all of these flashy cars
Stopping and signalling to posh cars driving by

Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd oh
Girls who dress up and look good on Long Beach Blvd

Flagging down all of these flashy cars
Stopping and signalling to posh cars driving by