Humor - Live Or Get By lyrics

[Verse 1] I wondering, how to get it in How to set a presidential type of precedent How to separate from n***as that are decadent Declare a destination and go there is what I'm reckoning I reckon since I was younger on the road I knew I had I do a record and I reckon since I felt that hunger in my soul I had to conjure up some doe The only way I know to settle it You get the message yet? You get the message of a young n***a In that inner city situation tryna get his funds bigger I said I wanna be the one, n***a I told myself I said I'll never be a dumb n***a My motivation was to taste a little doe Procrastination is a way to never make it So I'm steady elevating as I chase another goal I gotta chase another goal I gotta make a ton of doe [Hook] Young n***as with a dream of getting money We was all on the roadside Used to be a fantasy but now I really want it It's do or die my n***a So you know I gotta keep tryna get it till I got it It's you and I my n***a So you know we gotta stay up in the running till we run it Tell em I Said I'm tryna live I ain't tryna get by Said I'm tryna live I ain't tryna get by no I ain't settling for less No way, I'm tryna get it are you running with me [Verse 2] I was on the road, me and all my home Boys dreaming of some dollar Without a plan to follow its imaginary gwolla Holla if you ever seen a lazy n***a go from squalor to a baller I seen a n***a go from right up on the corner To right before your honour To lying in a cell up in the slammer Federales got his phone deciphered the grammar And had him in a cell before the summer n***as out here getting wrapped quicker than a doner Put the work in but the method isn't working And they've got a strict aversion to this working blue-collar lifestyle It's your life, your choice, your mother What a bummer, collect all the money in the world you'll never get a 1-up f** this life up n***a you'll never get another Opportunities are looming if your prudent you can catch em if you wanna Yeah I gotta, yeah I must, yes trust I'm bout to take a trip with me, myself ma boys and marijuana Yeah I gotta, yeah I must, yes trust Then put the game up in a stunner Suddenly these n***as wanna follow Suddenly these b**hes get malicious when they see me with another Suddenly these n***as wanna follow Suddenly these b**hes get malicious when they see me with another [Hook] [Verse 3] It's all or nothing for a n***a like I was living life in that inner city situation, recognise As a juvenile most of the sh** that I thought was important isn't now Most of the sh** that I thought was important isn't how I'm gonna make it out, of the kind of situation where I'm scraping out Of the bottom of the barrel Barricade a hater they ain't gonna take you down I see my mother struggle and I bleed my heart for her She came out of a nation where opportunities are vacant To give her kids a foundation and a pa**port The type of sh** that we don't ask for You think that sh**s given? That's why I shake my head when n***as f**ing with prison That's why I shake my head when n***as acting like They ain't got a thing to lose as if their life ain't even worth living [Hook]