Still somehow I believe, we survive, but why?
To my dogs you are Whattup Big? You know shit is after you slid You in God's now, keep a place for me kid Ain't nuttin' changed still, party and We used to fuck R&B bitches and see who rhyme For every hit you made, more rappers to come out
Machine Gun Funk from Queens I came through to smoke You came to my hood, we was I wonder if we stayed way, would there have been gunsmoke? Still on the block fiends numb from coke, I guess so 'Cause now with paper, shit is still But fuck it black, you livin' life, though your loved ones
Peace to your daughter and newborn son It used to be fun, makin' to see your response But, now competition is none, now that gone And these niggaz is wrong, usin' your in vain And they claim to be New York's king? It about that It's serious, I plan to toast it up with you
with you, happy we on top, the most official Ain't too real ones out there, I feel some But doubt capable 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 so long with so much to say
I had to put it in writin' to keep me and Brooklyn fightin' Tellin' me to pay my and move to the side But I wouldn't have got off my knees to let people by You can't kill that's ready to die You was like God to us in the of Allah
Still somehow I believe, we survive, but why?
Still, we will No what, my people just stay alive Still, we will No what, my people just stay alive
Thug never die 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop and use teeth To bite off beer tops and pour out a liquor You was than just the wildest nigga 2Pacalypse, I understand your nigga It's goin' on the third year, since been gone
On the East and West Coast the same is goin' on The be talkin', offendin' me often They don't believe you dead, wanna see you in coffin I can relate, shootouts and court All on you, niggaz in your face invadin' your space You asked if I could in your place, how would I hold up?
How long I ride, before I fold up? How did you through your rhymes it was your time to go? You predicted it in every line, all in your There never be peace, I have to quote Can't believe I heard my name on the shit you ever wrote We had words the best supposed to clash at the top
But kept it brotherly when we seen each and stopped In NYC, at MTV, people We was both deep, after you I got no sleep Think about how us real niggaz be If we united, a nation of thugs, who could it? You was caught in a wild or were you crucified
Like the son of God, when Lucifer And make the world think, blacks should be extinct? But thug never die, we stay high and just link there ever be another MC as nice? Will you to us like the resurrection of Christ?
somehow I believe, we always survive.. but why?
Still, we, survive No matter what, my people stay alive Still, we, survive No matter what, my just stay alive
I wonder what the Commodores went through on Did Smokey Robinson, to shoot his way out a war? What has Al Green seen that made him Was it the drugs, put an end to the business? If so, should I put out the indo right now and write A plan and pursue my dream turn my life
'Cause I'm bound for the movie screen, that scream I'll a extra Uzi riding through 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 walked a million miles it was twenty Not used to in the path of legit money
I I made it but we only took baby steps Up the success ladder, where they pay me To my when I got it I said, "Baby bless" That was the but now look 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, lose or gain A pounds tryin' to maintain, one day you here The you not, when you around niggaz check 'em out Some is it, most individuals plots And run the spots, choose to stay to theyselves While have no cares and stay in jail
More fifty percent of us Endin' up holes through the chest Through the head, through the gut it The future for us young shooters and old Who rich as dope dealers? Nothing 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 Whether it be 9 to 5 or slangin' To my deceased Gods wishin' I could you back But is a dream and y'all taught me that
survive, but why?
Always survive, Still, we, survive No matter what, my people just stay Still, we, survive No matter what, my just stay alive
Still, we, survive No matter Still, we, will No matter Still, we, survive No what My niggaz just alive