Lyrics We Will Survive.lrc Nas
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[ar:Nas]
[ti:We Will Survive]
[al:I Am…]
[by:Stillblade]
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[00:05.56][01:24.21][02:52.63]”Still somehow I believed
[00:08.81]We’d always survive, now I’m…” <– Kenny Loggins
[00:11.78]To my dogs, wherever you are
[00:14.78]What up Big? You know shit is rough after you slid
[00:17.28]You in God's hands now, keep a place for me kid
[00:19.60]Ain't nothing change, still Party and Bullshit
[00:21.76]We used to fuck R&B bitches
[00:23.35]And see who rhymed sickest
[00:24.50]For every hit you made
[00:25.63]More rappers afraid to come out
[00:27.31]Machine Gun Funk, from Queens
[00:28.71]I came through to smoke blunts
[00:30.00]You came to my hood, we was broke
[00:31.67]I wonder if we stayed that way
[00:33.11]Would there have been gun smoke?
[00:34.36]Still on the block around fiends numb from coke
[00:36.55]I guess so, cause now with paper, shit is still ghetto
[00:39.36]But fuck it black, you living your life through your loved ones
[00:42.17]Peace to your daughter and your newborn son
[00:44.26]It used to be fun, making records to see your response
[00:46.77]But, now competition is none, now that you're gone
[00:49.18]And these niggas is wrong, using your name in vain
[00:51.66]And they claim to be New York's king? It ain't about that
[00:54.65]It's more serious, I plan to toast it up with you
[00:56.98]Joke with you, happy we on top, the most official
[00:59.58]Ain't too many real ones out there
[01:01.39]I feel some but doubt they're capable
[01:03.50]To take it where you took it to
[01:05.06]I missed your wake, not cause I'm fake
[01:06.57]Cause I hate to see somebody so great in that way
[01:09.35]I would've stayed so long with so much to say
[01:11.47]I had to put it in writing to keep me and Brooklyn from fighting
[01:13.85]Telling me to pay my respects and move to the side
[01:16.23]But I probably wouldn't have got off my knees to let people by
[01:19.23]You can't kill nothing that's Ready to Die
[01:21.12]You was like God to us in the form of Allah
[01:27.28][02:55.56]We'd always survive, now I'm…"
[01:33.96][01:38.84][03:02.41][03:07.24][04:40.58][04:45.56][04:50.09][04:52.53][04:55.11]Still we will survive, no matter what
[01:36.65][03:05.32][03:09.99][04:43.30][04:47.92]My people just stay alive
[01:41.45]My people just stay alive (Thug Life never die)
[01:43.25]Dear 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop
[01:45.69]And use teeth to bite off beer tops and Pour Out a Lil' Liquor
[01:48.73]You was more than just the wildest nigga
[01:50.58]2pacalypse, I understand your style, nigga
[01:52.96]It's going on the third year since you've been gone
[01:55.54]On the East and West Coast, the same shit is going on
[01:58.15]The industry be talking, offending me often
[02:00.54]They don't believe you dead, want to see you in your coffin
[02:03.40]I can relate, shootouts and court dates, All Eyez on You
[02:06.33]Niggas in your face invading your space
[02:08.20]You asked if I could trade in your place, how would I hold up?
[02:10.51]How long would I ride, before I fold up?
[02:12.61]How did you know through your rhymes it was your time to go?
[02:15.12]You predicted it in every line, all in your flow
[02:17.55]There could Never Be Peace, I have to quote
[02:19.66]Can't believe I heard my name on "the realest shit you ever wrote"
[02:22.42]We had words cause the best supposed to clash at the top
[02:24.95]But kept it brotherly, when we seen each other and stopped
[02:27.35]In NYC, at MTV, people watched
[02:29.93]We was both deep, after you left, I got no sleep
[02:32.67]Think about how us real niggas would be
[02:34.72]If we united, a nation of thugs, who could fight it?
[02:37.23]You was caught in a wild homicide, or were you crucified
[02:39.97]Like the son of God, when Lucifer lied
[02:42.09]And make the world think, young blacks should be extinct
[02:44.58]But Thug Life'll never die, we stay high and just link
[02:47.09]Will there ever be another MC as nice?
[02:49.37]Will you return to us like the resurrection of Christ?
[03:11.71]I wonder what the Commodores went through on tour?
[03:14.11]Did Smokey Robinson, have to shoot his way out a war?
[03:16.45]What has Al Green seen that made him religious?
[03:18.96]More than the drugs, put an end to the music business
[03:21.50]If so, should I put out the indo right now and write down
[03:24.13]A plan and pursue my dream, turn my life around
[03:26.39]Cause I'm bound for the movie screen, cuties that scream
[03:28.77]I'll need a extra Uzi riding through my own hood in Queens
[03:31.18]It be the ones you always knew, that want it on
[03:33.55]Telling everybody it was him that you fronted on
[03:36.12]Thought we walked a million miles, it was just twenty
[03:38.57]Not used to walking in the path of legit money
[03:40.98]I thought I made it but we only took baby steps
[03:43.43]Up the success ladder, where they pay me checks
[03:45.93]To my cliques when I got it I said "baby bless"
[03:48.33]That was the 80's, but now look at this crazy mess
[03:50.79]We in the 90's, and finally it's looking good
[03:53.35]Hip-hop took it to billions, I knew we would
[03:55.73]A lot of ups and downs in the game
[03:57.54]Could lose or gain a couple pounds trying to maintain
[04:00.04]One day you here, the next you not
[04:01.51]When you around niggas, check them out, some is 'bout it
[04:03.95]Most individuals plots and run the spots
[04:06.32]Some choose to stay to theyselves
[04:08.10]While others have no cares and stay in jail
[04:10.56]More than fifty percent of us
[04:11.97]Ending up with holes through the chest
[04:13.89]Through the head, through the gut it shows
[04:15.45]The future for us young shooters and old killers
[04:17.90]Who become rich as dope dealers
[04:19.70]Nothing left for us but hoop dreams and hood tournaments
[04:22.49]Thug coaches with subs sitting on the bench; either that or rap
[04:25.84]We want the fast way out of this trap
[04:27.76]Whether it be 9 to 5 or slinging crack
[04:30.06]To my deceased Gods wishing I could bring you back
[04:32.60]But life is a dream and y'all taught me that
[04:34.48]"Always survive, now I'm…"
[04:39.09]Always survive, always
[04:57.77]My niggas just stay aliveYear of Release: 1999