Got 2 Survive Lyrics

Got 2 Survive lyrics

Today we're gonna do something scary

 We're venturing into the mind of young black males

 Let's take a peak...

 

 [ Young Lay ]

 Cuddies perved by the corner, stout, herb

 Got me twisted, mo' cold killin murders

 Them brothers gettin further

 Got my pencil for utensil, this'll keep they mind knownin

 Spot some thugs at the club, and they got the nines showin

 Dirty pimpin g's, one of my dreams, player now listen

 Lotta blacks locked down, but comin back around in '96

 All the gals my six (what else?) my track crew and my mother

 Make these police wonder: how is he so undercover?

 Never been a lover, but America had broke my heart

 I was told to tear up out this before this tear me apart

 Eat through scrap, black tracks, free milk and cheese

 While the Japs stack scratch with the Vietnamese

 But I'm finna squeeze, stack cheese they left on a trap

 A young playa mack, hit the bud', spit a rap

 It's just that feelin, that feelin that I have for children

 Are able to love us, but these crazy devils try to kill us

 

 "I gotta survive, I try to stay alive, ho"

 "Smokin that dank to deal with the pain"

 

 (My nigga Ray Luv, when'd you get up out the pen, man?)

 

 [ Ray Luv ]

 June 2nd '93 I returned to the streets

 Did 2 months in the county and I opt to the beat

 Now the cops keep watch, cause they know that I rap

 Tell the world that I'm a gangsta, cause I ride with a strap

 But I ain't yo gangsta, just a young nigga caught up in the struggle

 Born hustler, goin for the jugular

 Out to take the beast down, piece down might be too late

 The funk is on, high, drunk off Thunderbird and Grape Kool-Aid

 Would love to catch a playa slippin, take me down and book me

 Guilty as charged, hit the switch and try to cook me

 Silence a nigga for the shit I'm spittin, I know I'm scarin ya

 A poison you created in the veins of America

 Miseducated, incarcerated, institutionalized 

 That 3rd strike will have a gang of them rollers dyin

 Ain't no love where I'm goin, no love where I'm comin from

 Remember me, that real-ass nigga you been runnin from

 Got us sprung off the cocaine and the welfare

 While the black babies die without health care

 

 [ Mac Mall ]

 Now how could I pledge allegiance to a racist-ass flag

 When the rollers at my do' with a .44 mag?

 Got my mother spittin drag 'bout I ain't home

 Got a double homicide warrant on my dome

 I hear em pushin in the do', I grab my Mac with two clips

 Cut through the back window and like a g hit a fence

 I'm thinkin 'bout my folks gettin sent for violation

 Foes and punk police, them devils still at my do'

 I peep a group of ten tryina get information

 I threw the clips in the Mac, start lettin off frustration

 It's better than incarceration any day, we gonn' die anyway

 So if I go out blastin, call it my fate

 I got niggas in the pen like my cousin Bud

 Lunatic Insane, and my partner T-Love

 Big Tom, Ray Ray, Killa Cuddy, Mac Dre

 Cleek, Jamal, Jinx and Bluebonic, man

 

 [ 2Pac ]

 Now I been called a crook, a killer, a thug

 A no-good dealer of drugs

 And Blood or Cuz, doesn't matter what set you was

 Cause where I'm at, if you black, we strapped

 As long as ki's make g's these thieves attack

 And ain't no rules on the streets these days

 Muthafuckas better watch they back and take it eazay

 I'm livin in the dangerzone

 And learnin lesson from the game, it's on

 Niggas was gone when the frame was on

 I'm gettin breaken them balls daily

 Is there a ghetto in heaven or do I go to hell?

 See, seems I was senteced to death, takin my steps with my head down

 Why pour I liquor for my niggas, cause they dead now

 My memory since I was a little seed

 Was a penitentiary full of niggas like me

 These cops can't terrorize us, they despise us

 Niggas, cause we on the rise

 Plus everybody's searchin for a piece of the truth

 And the youth turn the streets into a piece of Beirut

 And the truth is

 

 "I gotta survive, I try to stay alive, ho"

 "Smokin that dank to deal with the pain"