Video Preview: Kendrick Lamar - "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe Remix (Feat. Jay-Z) - RESPECT.

“Remember where you heard it first!”

That was Young Guru’s war cry before unveiling the jewel of a record he must have been waiting all night to spin. The Jiggaman’s engineer treated his crowd at SXSW to a revamped version of Kendrick Lamar’s hit “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe,” now featuring a sharp verse from Jay-Z. Never one to be slack on a collab—he is the reigning champ of “Renegade-ing” after all—Kendrick brings two fresh verses to this version, each one longer and more technically flashy than anything he spat on the original.

If you’d rather see the lyrics than watch Young Guru and the dudes in the front row sway back and forth, they’re posted below. At times it is hard to understand K.Dot and Hov due to the video’s quality, so following along will help decipher their intricate bars.

(Chorus)

I am a sinner who’s probably gonna sin again
Lord forgive me, Lord forgive me
Things I don’t understand
Sometimes I need to be alone
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
I can feel your energy from two planets away
I got my drink, I got my music
I would share it but today

I’m yelling bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe
Bitch don’t kill my vibe, bitch don’t kill my vibe

(Verse 1)
Look inside of my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich
Hol’ up, Trinidad James in four weeks but now my album platinum and shit

So what, y’all keep the numbers I’m more than another statistic, my nigga
This courtesy of Compton Brooklyn go hard, motherfucker
Bevy on the East like I’m Chuck D, Dominicans wish that I was born there
I’m lookin’ to be the god MC, you look at my hat and see thorns there
I look at the game and see porn there fuckin’ this industry hard

[inaudible]…yo honey, you thought I was fresh out the yard
Don’t cry to me dummy, you’re lightweight
They tell me you nice and I’m like, wait
Go get me a knife, you’re looking like steak
And when the stakes are high, I stake out for days
When the water beside ya, make the pool shake
When we thirsty nigga, never alert me, nigga
I got a P89 in a suitcase I hope you heard me, nigga,

This is the burpie, nigga lyrical exercise
Right now, homie, I’m in the extra vibe
Bite down on the curb when you heard that I got these words
To the upper echelon, that’s extra vibe

(Chorus)

(Verse 2: Jay-Z)
Up in the clouds, me and my spouse
Rumors on the ground gettin’ too loudwe turn them shits down

Can’t hear myself think, turbulence, shit, almost spilled my drink
In the West with a mink runnin’ through that bitch like it’s my house
All up in the hall with a mall
Told you motherfuckers, all I do is ball
No, I don’t ‘member you, I don’t intend to empty my memory bank
There’s a million dollars in it, baby, Hilary Swank
Sittin’ next to Hilary smellin’ like dank
President Carter, name one nigga out there harder than him
I’ll wait…

I’ve been on my weight like 20 years straight
I’ve been on my vibe like 20 years straight
Don’t fuck up my high, fuck up my high
Nights like this, I don’t fuck up the pies
Still keep straight and still be straight
Fall back, bitch, I got a lot on my plate
Don’t waste my breath
I don’t know how many moons a nigga got left
Back to this joint

Smokin’ this shit like I’m tryna’ prove a point
I’m the highness, the highest title, numero uno
Kill my vibe, that shit’s a walkin’ funeral

(Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar)
Between you and me, turn eulogy to urinals
Niggas pissed off, I’m in this lil’ bitch and I just showed my fart
Leader of the new school, on my toes like a ballerina
Who knew I’d be the black swan, world in my palms
Ironically, I am the Ghost Rider’s vest when I don’t write the bomb
Told niggas when I was 16 that I’d write a 16 to put a nigga right on the big screen
In the paddy wagon at 16 should have been in the pen but then my pen

Ran with morphine, I heal niggas, touch down with more fiends

I kill niggas, audio crack, Khakis to meal ticket

Cardio lap rap–