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, keep a for me kid nuttin' changed still, party and bullshit 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 to my hood, we was broke I wonder if we stayed that way, would have been gunsmoke? Still on the block around fiends numb from coke, I so 'Cause now with paper, shit is still But it black, you livin' your life, though your loved ones
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 these niggaz is wrong, usin' name in vain And they claim to be New York's 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 many ones out there, I feel some But doubt they're to take it where you took it to I missed your wake not I'm fake 'Cause I hate to see somebody so great in way I woulda stayed so with so much to say
I had to put it in writin' to keep me and Brooklyn fightin' Tellin' me to pay my respects and move to the But I wouldn't have got off my knees to let people by You can't kill nothin' that's to die You was God to us in the form of Allah
Still I believe, we always survive, but why?
Still, we will No matter what, my people stay alive Still, we survive No matter what, my people just alive
life never die Dear 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop and use To bite off beer tops and out a lil' liquor You was more than just the wildest 2Pacalypse, I your style nigga It's goin' on the year, since you've been gone
On the East and Coast the same shit is goin' on The be talkin', offendin' me often They don't believe you dead, wanna see you in coffin I can relate, and court dates All on you, niggaz in your face invadin' your space You asked if I could trade in your place, how would I up?
How would I ride, before I fold up? How did you know through your rhymes it was your to go? You predicted it in every line, all in your There could never be peace, I have to Can't believe I 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 both deep, after you 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 homicide or were you crucified
Like the son of God, when Lucifer And make the world think, young blacks be extinct? But thug never die, we stay high and just link Will there ever be MC as nice? Will you return to us like the resurrection of
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 stay alive
I wonder what the Commodores went through on Did Smokey Robinson, have to his way out a war? What has Al Green seen that him religious? Was it the drugs, put an end to the business? If so, should I put out the indo right now and down A plan and pursue my turn my life around
'Cause I'm bound for the screen, cuties that scream I'll need a extra Uzi through my own hood in Queens It be the ones you always knew, that it on everybody it was him that you fronted on Thought we walked a million miles it was twenty Not used to walkin' in the path of money
I thought I made it but we only took baby Up the success ladder, they pay me checks To my clicks I got it I said, "Baby bless" That was the 80's but now look at this mess We in the 90's and finally it's good Hip-hop it to billions, I knew we would
A lot of ups and downs in the game, could or gain A pounds tryin' to maintain, one day you here The next you not, when you niggaz check 'em out Some is bout it, most plots And run the spots, choose to stay to theyselves others have no cares and stay in jail
More fifty percent of us Endin' up with holes through the Through the head, through the gut it The for us young shooters and old killers Who become as dope dealers? Nothing left for us but dreams and hood tournaments
coaches with subs sittin' on the bench, either that or rap We the fast way outta this trap Whether it be 9 to 5 or slangin' To my deceased wishin' I could bring you back But life is a dream and taught me that
survive, but why?
Always survive, Still, we, will No matter what, my people just alive Still, we, survive No matter what, my people just stay
Still, we, will No what Still, we, survive No matter Still, we, will No matter My niggaz just alive