Get By

Life got a funny way of turning, man
See, some people out here want the most
Some people out here don't want nothin' at all
But see, with us, we just tryin' to get by
We ain't doin' no complainin'
We just pickin' our own, path
Gotta respect it
This step really out the mud and I ain't had no help
And I helped so many people takin' they last breath
It says 50 on my head, niggas plannin' gon' kill me
I'm outside every day with about a hundred in jewelry
You was raised off of love and I was raised off survival
We was taught, niggas don't run from nothin', you better squabble
No matter how bad you lose, nigga long as you fight
Rules don't apply when you goin' to bed hungry at night
The struggle don't let you care about what's wrong or what's right
He had no body to teach him, it wasn't no father in sight
And so they go and blame the rappers and the songs they write
But it seem like they the only one really know what it's like
Ain't ain't no sympathy for men like me, we don't have them rights
The realest shit that's ever spoke in the mic
It ain't no sympathy for men like me, we don't have them rights
The realest shit ever spoke in the mic
Hey, whatever it take to get it, I did it
Never too much, but just enough to pass who with me
I forgive if you look at me as competition
I do this shit for my little ones to make a livin'
Convince them life ain't really like the shit they see on Disney
Stayin' in Motel 6 is cause I got momma evicted
Sellin' rocks, what I'm riskin' is only enough for extension
I'm just tryin' to get by, and I go back to the penitentiary
I just wanna sell my dope and stay free
Cause when I'm on my ass, I can't lie, I can't sleep
I start thinkin' bout all kinda crazy shit
Like jackin' niggas ridin' with AKs and shit
I'm from the streets, and that's how I was taught to get it
If the lick worth the risk, I'ma hit it
While I'm makin', makin' music, go ahead and back up on the unit
It ain't easy bein' me, I'm goin' through it
I'm overloaded like a hard drive, but shit ain't backed up
Money like a grocery store, everything get sacked up
Did it for my niggas doin' count, shit got racked up
Please stay out my way, cause I been trippin', shit get smacked up
Lunatic, got out that same hole
Been on a different mission, but shit feel the same cold
Section been heatin' up like shit on the same stove
Duckin' us, sendin' shots, we on that same goal
They ask me why I renegade, I told them ain't nobody got no love
Plus I lost niggas to hell or cell
Someone up above, let him try to put me with him
I'ma turn this bitch upside down
Handle niggas like I'm claustrophobic, go to slide down
Lord, it's my witness, better days in my vision
Still in the trenches, got me clutchin' on this semi
T-Rone died years ago, that pain still with me
The struggle birthed ambition, so I hustled through the rain
If you weren't brought up in the jets, you don't understand this pain
You don't understand the blood, sweat, tears from the game
I got niggas doin' years, shackled in them chains
I got niggas in the grave, I'll never see again
And some niggas turn rats, we'll never speak again
It's funny how some years, you turn a stiff into a bitch
And all these niggas shoot us, till it's time to up a stick
Unloyalty and betrayal, at an all-time high
For the root of all evil, niggas changin' through the night
I'm posted in them trenches like a human streetlight
In a slum with the wolves, been in the jungle all my life
I'm just tryin' to get by, been the struggle of my life