Get By (remix) Lyrics - Kanye West

[Mos Def] 

History 

It's happening every day y'all (right now) 

Everyday (right now) 

Right now (good mornin', Vietnam!) 

Listen 

Brooklyn wins again 

It's the Stuy, it's the Bush, dem niggaz again 

Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S Dot on the guest slot 

Kanye, you're the dope 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, mind the pedal and ease off 

A street talk into a collision course with these walls - bam! 

They don't move, don't brake, don't lose, don't sleep 

Light passin', light fashion, life happens that fast, party done 

Black hands up and prayer 

Black guns up in fear 

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 

Different round, sound the bell 

Mix it up as if you're where you live it up the beat 

And get risen up you're knocked down get 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 gutter, from the street 

From my soul to the mic to the essence 

So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly 

I make contact for sure the emcee 

Me and mine we don't just get by 

We get free and that's ready [Mos -- nigga] 

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[Jay-Z] 

Just to get by 

Nigga I sold coke, nigga 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 fried 

Slept for most of mine 

Soon as I closed my eyes 

Then I woke up behind 

Thinking 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 seein your moms 

Doin 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 packin 

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[Kanye West] 

It's on I'm packin weight like nina simone 

Piano flow 

It's like a Michaelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou 

And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote 

If music gets you choked up this is the tree and the rope 

This is shy nigga I mista all of that 

F**k a map, let's put this bitch on the almanac 

Dice what they hittin' for, 'lax what you sittin' on 

Tracks who you spittin 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 killt nobody 

But I have a feelin' this album 

That I'm gonna make a killin' 

Or not a shillin' 

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 finna be an entity 

Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli 

We are not makin' songs no more 

We're makin' history 

[background singers] 

This morning I woke up 

Feelin brand new, I jumped up 

Feelin my highs and my lows 

In my soul, and my goals 

Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin 

But I been thinkin I got my reasons 

Just to get (by), just to get (by) 

Just to get (by), just to get (by) 

[background singers repeat in the background] 

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah 

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah 

[Talib Kweli] 

Just to get by, just to get by 

Just to get by, just to get by 

[background singers] 

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah 

Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah 

[Talib Kweli] 

Just to get by, just to get by 

Just to get by 

We keep it gangsta, saying 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy' 

Desensitized to the violence on TV during the war 

Killin each other is easy as whore and liquor for fallen niggaz Believe 

me, it's ghetto libations seen it all befo' 

Just to get by, my people we get fly 

My people we get high, fillin cigars with the lah 

Nigga come on, even Jesus was stoned before receivin' the throne 

I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone 

[Busta Rhymes] 

Back in the days we was used to doin the shit 

I can't call it all in the streets 

We would hustle and fiends would ask for it 

I guess I was used to just standin on corners 

Waitin for paper bags with bundles of crack 

Hopin 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 havin me smokin Newports and weed 

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 

(Hey yo mom pick up the phone, I g- I gotta to talk to you ma) 

If you was five percent instead of actin stupid and guessin 

You had to go and study your lessons 

And know your math in the building recession to get by 

[Hook: Talib Kweli + background singers] 

This morning I woke up 

Feelin brand new, I jumped up 

Feelin my highs and my lows 

In my soul, and my goals 

Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin 

But I been thinkin I got my reasons 

Just to get (by), just to get (by) 

Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye) 

[background singers repeat in the background] 

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah 

bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah 

[Talib Kweli] 

Some people cry 

Some people try just to get by 

For a piece of the pie 

You love to eat and be high 

We deceive and we lie 

And we keepin' it fly - yo yo yo yo yo 

When people decide 

Keep a disguise 

Can't see your eyes 

See the evil inside 

The best people you find 

Strong or feeble in mind 

I stay readin' the signs 

yo-yo-yo-yo yo 

[repeat]