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“Sing about Me, I’m Dying of Thirst”

Words and music by Kendrick Lamar, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Quincy Jones

Copyright © 2012 WB Music Corp., Hard Working Black Folks Inc. and Top Dawg Music. All rights administered by WB Music Corp.

{Contains samples from “Maybe Tomorrow” by Quincy Jones, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. WB Music Corp.}

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Used by permission of Alfred Music

Compton CowboysSM is a service mark of Star Pen Entertainment, Inc. for which trademark application in International Class 41 with Serial Number 87884240 was filed with the USPTO on April 19, 2018. This book has been published under license from Richland Boys Entertainment, LLC.

THE COMPTON COWBOYS. Copyright © 2020 by Walter Thompson-Hernández. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Cover design by Ploy Siripant

Cover photographs © Walter Thompson-Hernández/The New York Times/Redux; © Ensuper/Shutterstock (type texture)

Digital Edition APRIL 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-291062-2

Version 03202020

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-291060-8