Get By
Jay-Z
S Carter The Best Of Library Of A Legend
Talib Kweli feat Mos Def, Jay-Z, Kanye West & Busta Rhymes (Get By) - Native Tongues
History
Shoutin' it every day y'all right now
Everyday right now
Good morning vietnam
Listen
Brooklyn wins again
It's the stuy it's the bush dem niggaz again
Ta' kweli mighty def and that's 'sta on the guest lock
Kanye you're the d**e man in hip hop now let's rock
Now roll out niggaz my hometown niggaz
I get it good in your hood so slow down niggaz
Watch the speed though man you better let ease off
A street talk into a collision course with these walls bam
They don't move don't pray don't lose don't sleep
Light passin' light fashion light pappers that pass part a gun
Black hands up
Black guns up
Dyin' wish is to touch the air
Seekin' heaven that wasn't here
Eyes will not see another year
It's another day
It's the same fight
Dip around sound the bell
Mix it up and where you live it up the beat
And get risen up you're knocked down get it back and get it up
Get off of queer street and get with us
And get clear where we did it
From the heart from the people
From the top from the jeep
From the gut from the street
From my soul to the mic to the essence
Say in my absence you feel the presence exactly
I make contact with shorter emcee
Me and mine we don't just get by
We get free and that's ready
Ni**a I sold coke ni**a I pushed lah
Carried a fo'five
Claimed I was ready to die
Promised never to cry
Held it all inside
Reality was too much to take so I
Kept my mind fry
Slimmed for most of mine
Soon as I closed my eyes
Then I woke up behind
Ni**a either I load up these nines
Or blow up with rhymes
Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca
And your folks think hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
Nah I'm a poster for what happened seeing your moms
Doing five dollars worth to work just to get a dime
So pardon my disposition
Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me
Picture me working mcdonald's
I'd rather pull a mac on you
Sorry ms jackson but I'm packing
Weight like nina simone
Piano flow
It's like a michaelangelo paintin' a portrait of maya angelou
And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote
If music get's you choked up this is the treat anaerobe
This is shy ni**a I mista all of that
F**k a mattress put this b**ch on the almanac
Dice what they hittin' for 'lax what you sittin' on
Tracks who you spitting on rap till we get it on
And don't let nobody with the power to sign
Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme
They used to tell me toughen up
Put some bass in your voice
They used to tell me lighten up
Put some mase in your voice
Lord willin' I ain't kill nobody
But I have a feelin' this album
That I'm gonna make a killin'
Well now that's chillin'
This is love it or hate it music
But at least we made it music
And we didn't make it industry
This is gon' be interesting
This'll be the end of me or I'm on be an entity
Kanye jay-z mos def and kweli
We are not makin' songs no more
We're makin' history
This morning I woke up
Feeling brand new I jumped up
Feeling my highs and my lows
In my soul and my goals
Just to stop smoking and stop drinking
But I been thinking I got my reasons
Just to get by just to get by
Just to get by just to get by
Just to get by just to get by
Just to get by just to get by
Just to get by just to get by
Just to get by
We keep it gangsta stay 'fo shizzle' 'fo sheezy'
To set the tide to the violence on the tv during the war
Killing each other is easy there's war and liquor for fallen niggaz
Believe me it's ghetto love I bet you seen it all befo'
Just to get by my people we get fly
My people we get high filling cigars with the lah
Ni**a come on even jesus was stoned before receivin' the throne
I said to rest in peace to nina simone
Back in the days we was used to doing the sh*t
I can't call it all in the streets
We was hustling fiends that asked for it
I guess I was used to just standing on corners
Waiting for paper bags with bundles of crack
Hoping the week was good so I could get money back
To get by just to get by just to get by just to get by
When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength
That made me angry and bleed
With the frustration having me smoking newports and w**d
To get by just to get by just to get by just to get by
Those be the times when I try to rely
On my niggaz and street motherf**kers
And reach out to wifey and then I place a call on my mother
To get by just to get by just to get by just to get by
If you was five percent instead of acting stupid and guessin
You had to go and study your lessons
And know your math in the building recession to get by
This morning I woke up
Feeling brand new I jumped up
Feeling my highs and my lows
In my soul and my goals
Just to stop smoking and stop drinking
But I been thinking I got my reasons
Just to get by just to get by
Just to get by just to get
Some people try
And some people try just to get by
For my piece of the pie
You love to eat and be high
We deceive and we lie
And we keepin' it fly
People beside
Keeper of the skies
Can't see your eyes
See the evil inside
The best people you find
Stronger people in mind
I stay readin' the signs
Some people try
Some people try just to get by
For my piece of the pie
You love to eat and be high
We deceive and we lie
And we keepin' it fly
People beside
Keeper of the skies
Can't see your eyes
See the evil inside
The best people you find
Stronger people in mind
I stay readin' the signs