Survive - Akir

Elders say, «Keep your focus,» smirk and say I’m hopeless

Addict for greenbacks, rubber bands over mean stacks

I’ma get it—I mean that—like coke where the fiends at

Supplying, multiplying, lying up in a mean shack

Ten rooms of fire, place, and a mean act

Super fly, she’s live ass and a mean rack

Drive you out of your mind, back up, and truck

Call me the Mack, speeding behind until I reach my peace of mind

This peace of mind?

Plan to protect it with a piece of mine

Fuck around, blow out a piece of your mind.

It’s hard

Work, nigga.

Musical

Artwork.

Soon as I reach, I’ll climb.

There’s no

Stopping on four fours.

Like bowlegged, low

Just watch the move, don’t ask me why I do what I do

Back the fuck up while these live niggas step through

Back the fuck up while these live niggas step through

Stay alive, nigga, ‘cause man is not the only to

Survive, nigga.

And so we keep this fire

Deep inside, nigga.

Without it, you will wither up

And die, nigga.

Stay alive, nigga.

To all

My live niggas, only few is prepared

To die, nigga.

Pick up your people, then go ahead

And ride, nigga.

Get live, nigga

Survive, nigga.

Stay alive, nigga

Stated as simple as I can, I am only one man.

In this

Grand scheme of things, about as small as an ant, holding

The dreams of those who believed but didn’t achieve, addicts

Pimps, and thieves who breathe by these tricks up their sleeves

Niggas in prison see their living through survival as creed.

Only

Eighteen, serving fiends and had his mom signing deeds

To her new house, bank accounts, to the scenes with the cream

You know the scene, same routine: judges gave him eighteen.

And you

Could see the repercussions through the bums on the street.

Head on

Their shoulders, falling over, they can’t get on their feet.

It’s hard

To balance when the foulness hits ya.

Elders say, «Read the scripture»

I say, «Do whatever fits ya.»

I’ll pray, I’ll play my part

It’s at the end of motion picture.

Type twenty-three to plot

Changes with the age, kid.

Getting these papers to

Finance me rocking stages.

I’ll get patient, then change

Switch: dental pair, health care, and paychecks

Stay alive, nigga, ‘cause man is not the only to

Survive, nigga.

And so we keep this fire

Deep inside, nigga.

Without it, you will wither up

And die, nigga.

Stay alive, nigga.

To all

My live niggas, only few is prepared

To die, nigga.

Pick up your people, then go ahead

And ride, nigga.

Get live, nigga

Survive, nigga.

Stay alive, nigga

Yo, yo, some decide to play games, some decide to take aim

Some decide to dickride, piggyback off somebody’s fame

Some’ll pray on the weak, some’ll wait for defeat

Some’ll wait for the chance to knock you off your fucking feet

Challenge your balance, watch you fall in the street, pick up

Your keys and run you over with your own SUV.

I’ll keep

An eye open, sleep, make sure the sky’s over me ‘cause when

You over the sky, it’s over, you die.

Time

Will tell my destiny more that equity.

I want my people

To love and respect me in the struggle ‘til I’m stress-free

These thoughts are serious and much more than lyrical

Modern-day negro spirituals, contemporary biblical

There’s a lot in this world.

You might not be the dopest.

Stay

Focused, always keep an eye on your peripherals

No telling what these niggas’ll do.

Don’t get sidetracked

My niggas.

Ayyo, just do you

Stay alive, nigga, ‘cause man is not the only to

Survive, nigga.

And so we keep this fire

Deep inside, nigga.

Without it, you will wither up

And die, nigga.

Stay alive, nigga.

To all

My live niggas, only few is prepared

To die, nigga.

Pick up your people, then go ahead

And ride, nigga.

Get live, nigga

Survive, nigga.

Stay alive, nigga