We Will Survive Lyrics - I Am... - Nas

Still somehow I believe, we always survive, but why? 

To my dogs wherever you are 

Whattup Big? You know shit is rough after you slid 

You in God's hands now, keep a place for me kid 

Ain't nuttin' changed still, party and bullshit 

We used to fuck R&B bitches and see who rhyme sickest 

For every hit you made, more rappers afraid to come out 

Machine Gun Funk from Queens I came through to smoke blunts 

You came to my hood, we was broke 

I wonder if we stayed that way, would there have been gunsmoke? 

Still on the block around fiends numb from coke, I guess so 

'Cause now with paper, shit is still ghetto 

But fuck it black, you livin' your life, though your loved ones 

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Peace to your daughter and your newborn son 

It used to be fun, makin' records to see your response 

But, now competition is none, now that you're gone 

And these niggaz is wrong, usin' your name in vain 

And they claim to be New York's king? It ain't about that 

It's more serious, I plan to toast it up with you 

Joke with you, happy we on top, the most official 

Ain't too many real ones out there, I feel some 

But doubt they're capable to take it where you took it to 

I missed your wake not 'cause I'm fake 

'Cause I hate to see somebody so great in that way 

I woulda stayed so long with so much to say 

I had to put it in writin' to keep me and Brooklyn from fightin' 

Tellin' me to pay my respects and move to the side 

But I probably wouldn't have got off my knees to let people by 

You can't kill nothin' that's ready to die 

You was like God to us in the form of Allah 

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Still somehow I believe, we always survive, but why? 

Still, we will survive 

No matter what, my people just stay alive 

Still, we will survive 

No matter what, my people just stay alive 

Thug life never die 

Dear 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop and use teeth 

To bite off beer tops and pour out a lil' liquor 

You was more than just the wildest nigga 

2Pacalypse, I understand your style nigga 

It's goin' on the third year, since you've been gone 

On the East and West Coast the same shit is goin' on 

The industry be talkin', offendin' me often 

They don't believe you dead, wanna see you in your coffin 

I can relate, shootouts and court dates 

All eyez on you, niggaz in your face invadin' your space 

You asked if I could trade in your place, how would I hold up? 

How long would I ride, before I fold up? 

How did you know through your rhymes it was your time to go? 

You predicted it in every line, all in your flow 

There could never be peace, I have to quote 

Can't believe I heard my name on the realest shit you ever wrote 

We had words 'cause the best supposed to clash at the top 

But kept it brotherly when we seen each other and stopped 

In NYC, at MTV, people watched 

We was both deep, after you left I got no sleep 

Think about how us real niggaz would be 

If we united, a nation of thugs, who could fight it? 

You was caught in a wild homicide or were you crucified 

Like the son of God, when Lucifer lied 

And make the world think, young blacks should be extinct? 

But thug life'll never die, we stay high and just link 

Will there ever be another MC as nice? 

Will you return to us like the resurrection of Christ? 

Still somehow I believe, we always survive. but why? 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what, my people just stay alive 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what, my people just stay alive 

I wonder what the Commodores went through on tour? 

Did Smokey Robinson, have to shoot his way out a war? 

What has Al Green seen that made him religious? 

Was it the drugs, put an end to the music business? 

If so, should I put out the indo right now and write down 

A plan and pursue my dream turn my life around 

'Cause I'm bound for the movie screen, cuties that scream 

I'll need a extra Uzi riding through my own hood in Queens 

It be the ones you always knew, that want it on 

Tellin' everybody it was him that you fronted on 

Thought we walked a million miles it was just twenty 

Not used to walkin' in the path of legit money 

I thought I made it but we only took baby steps 

Up the success ladder, where they pay me checks 

To my clicks when I got it I said, "Baby bless" 

That was the 80's but now look at this crazy mess 

We in the 90's and finally it's lookin' good 

Hip-hop took it to billions, I knew we would 

A lot of ups and downs in the game, could lose or gain 

A couple pounds tryin' to maintain, one day you here 

The next you not, when you around niggaz check 'em out 

Some is bout it, most individuals plots 

And run the spots, some choose to stay to theyselves 

While others have no cares and stay in jail 

More than fifty percent of us 

Endin' up with holes through the chest 

Through the head, through the gut it shows 

The future for us young shooters and old killers 

Who become rich as dope dealers? 

Nothing left for us but hoop dreams and hood tournaments 

Thug coaches with subs sittin' on the bench, either that or rap 

We want the fast way outta this trap 

Whether it be 9 to 5 or slangin' crack 

To my deceased Gods wishin' I could bring you back 

But life is a dream and y'all taught me that 

Always survive, but why? 

Always survive, always 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what, my people just stay alive 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what, my people just stay alive 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what 

Still, we, will survive 

No matter what 

My niggaz just stay alive