Still somehow I believe, we survive, but why?
To my dogs you are Whattup Big? You shit is rough after you slid You in hands now, keep a place for me kid Ain't nuttin' changed still, and bullshit We used to fuck R&B bitches and see who sickest For every hit you made, more rappers to come out
Machine Gun Funk from Queens I through to smoke blunts You came to my hood, we was I wonder if we that way, would there have been gunsmoke? Still on the block around fiends from coke, I guess so 'Cause now paper, shit is still ghetto But fuck it black, you livin' your life, though your loved
Peace to your daughter and newborn son It used to be fun, makin' records to see your But, now is none, now that you're gone And niggaz is wrong, usin' your name in vain And they claim to be New king? It ain't about that more serious, I plan to toast it up with you
Joke with you, happy we on top, the official Ain't too many real ones out there, I some But doubt they're capable to take it where you it to I missed wake not 'cause I'm fake 'Cause I hate to see so great in that way I woulda so long with so much to say
I had to put it in writin' to me and Brooklyn from fightin' Tellin' me to pay my and move to the side But I probably wouldn't have got off my knees to let by You can't nothin' that's ready to die You was God to us in the form of Allah
somehow I believe, we always survive, but why?
Still, we survive No matter what, my people just alive Still, we will No matter what, my people just stay
Thug life die 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop and use teeth To off beer tops and pour out a lil' liquor You was more than the wildest nigga 2Pacalypse, I understand your style It's on the third year, since you've been gone
On the East and West Coast the shit is goin' on The industry be talkin', offendin' me They don't believe you dead, see you in your coffin I can relate, shootouts and court All eyez on you, niggaz in your invadin' your space You asked if I could trade in your place, how I hold up?
How long I ride, before I fold up? How did you know your rhymes it was your time to go? You it in every line, all in your flow There never be peace, I have to quote Can't believe I my name on the realest shit you ever wrote We had words 'cause the supposed to clash at the top
But kept it when we seen each other and stopped In NYC, at MTV, people We was both deep, you left I got no sleep Think about how us niggaz would be If we united, a nation of thugs, who fight it? You was caught in a wild or were you crucified
Like the son of God, when Lucifer And make the think, young blacks should be extinct? But thug life'll die, we stay high and just link there ever be another MC as nice? Will you return to us the resurrection of Christ?
Still I believe, we always survive.. but why?
Still, we, survive No matter what, my people stay alive Still, we, survive No matter what, my people just alive
I wonder what the Commodores went through on Did Robinson, have to shoot his way out a war? has Al Green seen that made him religious? Was it the drugs, put an end to the business? 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 movie screen, that scream I'll need a extra Uzi riding through my own hood in 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 to walkin' in the path of legit money
I thought I made it but we only took 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 at this crazy mess We in the 90's and finally it's lookin' Hip-hop took it to billions, I we would
A lot of ups and downs in the game, could lose or A couple pounds to maintain, one day you here The next you not, when you around niggaz 'em out Some is bout it, most individuals And run the spots, choose to stay to theyselves While others have no cares and in jail
More fifty percent of us Endin' up with through the chest the head, through the gut it shows The for us young shooters and old killers Who rich as dope dealers? left for us but hoop dreams and hood tournaments
Thug coaches with sittin' on the bench, either that or rap We want the fast way outta this it be 9 to 5 or slangin' crack To my deceased Gods wishin' I could you back But life is a and y'all taught me that
Always survive, but
survive, always Still, we, will No what, my people just stay alive Still, we, survive No matter what, my people stay alive
Still, we, survive No matter Still, we, will No matter Still, we, will No what My niggaz just stay