Still I believe, we always survive, but why?
To my dogs you are Whattup Big? You know shit is rough after you You in God's hands now, a place for me kid Ain't nuttin' still, party and bullshit We used to fuck R&B bitches and see who sickest For hit you made, more rappers afraid to come out
Machine Gun Funk from Queens I through to smoke blunts You came to my hood, we was I wonder if we stayed that way, would have been gunsmoke? Still on the block around numb from coke, I guess so 'Cause now with paper, is still ghetto But fuck it black, you livin' life, though your loved ones
Peace to your daughter and newborn son It used to be fun, makin' records to see your But, now competition is none, now that gone And these niggaz is wrong, usin' your name in And they claim to be New York's king? It ain't that It's serious, I plan to toast it up with you
Joke with you, happy we on top, the most Ain't too real ones out there, I feel some But doubt they're to take it where you took it to I your wake not 'cause I'm fake 'Cause I hate to see somebody so great in way I woulda stayed so long so much to say
I had to put it in writin' to me and Brooklyn from fightin' Tellin' me to pay my respects and move to the But I probably wouldn't have got off my to let people by You can't kill nothin' ready to die You was like God to us in the of Allah
Still somehow I believe, we survive, but why?
Still, we survive No matter what, my people just stay Still, we will No matter what, my people just alive
Thug life die 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop and use teeth To bite off beer tops and pour out a liquor You was more just the wildest nigga 2Pacalypse, I understand your nigga It's on the third year, since you've been gone
On the East and West the same shit is goin' on The industry be talkin', me often They don't believe you dead, see you in your coffin I can relate, shootouts and dates All eyez on you, niggaz in face invadin' your space You asked if I could trade in your place, how would I up?
How long would I ride, I fold up? How did you know your rhymes it was your time to go? You predicted it in every line, all in flow There could never be peace, I have to Can't believe I heard my on the realest shit you ever wrote We had words the best supposed to clash at the top
But it brotherly when we seen each other and stopped In NYC, at MTV, people We was both deep, after you left I got no about how us real niggaz would be If we united, a nation of thugs, who fight it? You was caught in a wild homicide or you crucified
Like the son of God, when lied And make the world think, blacks should be extinct? But thug life'll never die, we stay high and link Will there ever be MC as nice? Will you return to us the resurrection of Christ?
Still I believe, we always survive.. but why?
Still, we, survive No what, my people just stay alive Still, we, survive No what, my people just stay alive
I wonder what the went through on tour? Did Smokey Robinson, to shoot his way out a war? What has Al seen that made him religious? Was it the drugs, put an end to the music If so, I put out the indo right now and write down A plan and pursue my dream turn my around
'Cause I'm bound for the screen, cuties that scream I'll need a extra Uzi riding my own hood in Queens It be the you always knew, that want it on everybody it was him that you fronted on Thought we a million miles it was just twenty Not used to walkin' in the of legit money
I thought I it but we only took baby steps Up the ladder, where they pay me checks To my when I got it I said, "Baby bless" That was the 80's but now look at this crazy We in the 90's and finally it's good Hip-hop took it to billions, I we would
A lot of ups and downs in the game, could lose or A couple tryin' to maintain, one day you here The next you not, when you around niggaz 'em out Some is bout it, individuals plots And run the spots, some choose to to theyselves others have no cares and stay in jail
More than percent of us Endin' up with holes through the the head, through the gut it shows The future for us young and old killers Who become rich as dope Nothing for us but hoop dreams and hood tournaments
Thug with subs sittin' on the bench, either that or rap We want the fast way outta trap Whether it be 9 to 5 or slangin' To my deceased Gods wishin' I could bring you But life is a dream and y'all taught me
Always survive, but
survive, always Still, we, survive No matter what, my just stay alive Still, we, survive No matter what, my people stay alive
Still, we, will No matter Still, we, survive No what Still, we, survive No what My niggaz just stay