Still I believe, we always survive, but why?
To my wherever you are Whattup Big? You shit is rough after you slid You in God's hands now, a place for me kid nuttin' changed still, party and bullshit We used to fuck R&B and see who rhyme 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 stayed way, would there have been gunsmoke? Still on the block around fiends numb from coke, I so 'Cause now with paper, shit is still But fuck it black, you your life, though your loved ones
to your daughter and your newborn son It used to be fun, makin' records to see response But, now competition is none, now that gone And these niggaz is wrong, usin' your name in And claim to be New York's king? It ain't about that It's more serious, I to toast it up with you
Joke you, happy we on top, the most official Ain't too real ones out there, I feel some But they're capable to take it where you took it to I your wake not 'cause I'm fake 'Cause I hate to see so great in that way I woulda stayed so long with so to say
I had to put it in writin' to keep me and Brooklyn from Tellin' me to pay my respects and to the side But I probably wouldn't have got off my knees to let by You can't kill nothin' ready to die You was like God to us in the form of
Still somehow I believe, we survive, but why?
Still, we will No matter what, my people stay alive Still, we survive No matter what, my people just alive
Thug never die Dear 'Pac, every thug sheds a drop and use teeth To bite off beer tops and out a lil' liquor You was more than just the wildest 2Pacalypse, I your style nigga It's on the third year, since you've been gone
On the East and West Coast the same is goin' on The industry be talkin', offendin' me They don't you dead, wanna see you in your coffin I can relate, shootouts and dates All eyez on you, niggaz in your invadin' your space You asked if I trade in your place, how would I hold up?
How would I ride, before I fold up? How did you know through your rhymes it was time to go? You predicted it in line, all in your flow There could never be peace, I have to Can't I heard my name on the realest shit you ever wrote We had words the best supposed to clash at the top
But kept it brotherly we seen each other and stopped In NYC, at MTV, people We was deep, after you left I got no sleep Think about how us niggaz would be If we united, a nation of thugs, who could it? You was caught in a wild homicide or you crucified
Like the son of God, when Lucifer And make the world think, young blacks be extinct? But thug life'll die, we stay high and just link there ever be another MC as nice? Will you to us like the resurrection of Christ?
Still somehow I believe, we always survive.. but
Still, we, will No matter what, my people stay alive Still, we, will No matter what, my people just stay
I wonder what the Commodores went on tour? Did Smokey Robinson, have to shoot his way out a What has Al Green seen that made him Was it the drugs, put an end to the music If so, should I put out the right now and write down A plan and my dream turn my life around
'Cause I'm bound for the movie screen, cuties scream I'll need a extra Uzi riding through my own in Queens It be the ones you always knew, want it on Tellin' everybody it was him that you on we walked a million miles it was just twenty Not used to walkin' in the path of money
I thought I made it but we only baby steps Up the success ladder, where pay me checks To my clicks I got it I said, "Baby bless" That was the 80's but now look at crazy mess We in the 90's and finally it's good took it to billions, I knew 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, you around niggaz check 'em out is bout it, most individuals plots And run the spots, choose to stay to theyselves While others have no cares and stay in
More fifty percent of us up with holes through the chest Through the head, through the gut it The future for us young and old killers Who become as dope dealers? Nothing left for us but hoop dreams and hood
Thug coaches with subs sittin' on the bench, that or rap We want the fast way this trap it be 9 to 5 or slangin' crack To my deceased Gods wishin' I could bring you But life is a and y'all taught me that
Always survive, but
Always survive, Still, we, survive No matter what, my people stay alive Still, we, survive No matter what, my people just stay
Still, we, survive No matter Still, we, will No what Still, we, will No what My niggaz just alive