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[00:01.95]Artist: Nas
[00:02.30]Album: I Am
[00:02.72]Song: We Will Survive
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[00:06.01]Still somehow I believe, we always survive.. but why?
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[00:12.58]To my dogs.. wherever you are
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[00:15.07]Whattup Big? You know shit is rough after you slid
[00:17.49]You in God's hands now, keep a place for me kid
[00:19.77]Ain't nuttin changed -- still _Party and Bullshit_
[00:21.84]We used to +Fuck R&B Bitches+ and see who rhyme sickest
[00:24.74]For every hit you made, more rappers afraid to come out
[00:27.44]_Machine Gun Funk_, from Queens I came through to smoke blunts
[00:30.27]You came to my hood, we was broke
[00:31.89]I wonder if we stayed that way, would there have been gunsmoke?
[00:34.20]Still on the block around fiends numb from coke, I guess so
[00:37.22]Cause now with paper, shit is still ghetto
[00:39.38]But fuck it black, you livin your life, though your loved ones
[00:42.22]Peace to your daughter and your newborn son
[00:44.43]It used to be fun, makin records to see your response
[00:47.04]But, now competition is none, now that you're gone
[00:49.48]And these niggaz is wrong -- usin your name in vain
[00:52.02]And they claim to be New York's king? It ain't about that
[00:54.85]It's more serious, I plan to toast it up with you
[00:56.98]Joke with you, happy we on top, the most official
[00:59.87]Ain't too many real ones out there; I feel some
[01:02.23]but doubt they're, capable, to take it where you took it to
[01:05.50]I missed your wake not cause I'm fake
[01:09.00]cause I hate to see somebody so great in that way
[01:09.83]I woulda stayed so long with so much to say
[01:11.60]I had to put it in writin to keep me and Brooklyn from fightin
[01:14.17]Tellin me to pay my respects and move to the side
[01:16.57]But I probably wouldn't have got off my knees to let people by
[01:18.70]You can't kill nothin that's _Ready to Die_
[01:21.74]You was like God to us in the form of Allah
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[01:24.77]Still somehow I believe, we always survive.. but why?
[01:35.13]
[01:35.35]Still, we, will survive
[01:36.21]No matter what, my people just stay alive
[01:38.92]Still, we, will survive
[01:40.85]No matter what, my people just stay alive
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[01:43.74]Thug Life never die..
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[01:44.31]Dear 'Pac, every thug sheds a tear drop -- and use teeth
[01:46.50]to bite off beer tops, and _Pour Out a Lil' Liquor_
[01:48.88]You was more than just the wildest nigga
[01:50.96]+2Pacalypse+, I understand your style nigga
[01:53.16]It's goin on the third year, since you've been gone
[01:55.68]On the East and West Coast the same shit is goin on
[01:58.30]The industry be talkin, offendin me often
[02:00.82]They don't believe you dead, wanna see you in your coffin
[02:03.64]I can relate, shootouts and court dates
[02:05.52]+All Eyez on You+, niggaz in your face invadin your space
[02:07.94]You asked if I could trade in your place, how would I hold up?
[02:10.72]How long would I ride, before I fold up?
[02:12.95]How did you know through your rhymes it was your time to go?
[02:15.24]You predicted it in every line, all in your flow
[02:17.96]There could _Never Be Peace_ I have to quote
[02:20.03]Can't believe I heard my name on "the realest shit you ever wrote"
[02:22.77]We had words cause the best supposed to clash at the top
[02:25.24]but kept it brotherly, when we seen each other and stopped
[02:27.70]in NYC, at MTV, people watched
[02:30.26]We was both deep, after you left, I got no sleep
[02:32.82]Think about how us real niggaz would be
[02:34.99]If we united, a nation of thugs, who could fight it?
[02:37.63]You was caught in a wild homicide, or were you crucified
[02:40.32]like the son of God, when Lucifer lied
[02:42.32]and make the world think, young blacks should be extinct?
[02:44.72]But Thug Life'll never die, we stay high and just link
[02:47.23]Will there ever be another MC as nice?
[02:49.69]Will you return to us like the resurrection of Christ?
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[02:53.25]Still somehow I believe, we always survive.. but why?
[02:55.52]
[03:02.77]Still, we, will survive
[03:04.36]No matter what, my people just stay alive
[03:07.36]Still, we, will survive
[03:09.83]No matter what, my people just stay alive
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[03:11.85]I wonder what the Commodores went through on tour?
[03:14.19]Did Smokey Robinson, have to shoot his way out a war?
[03:16.61]What has Al Green seen, that made him religious?
[03:19.10]Was it the drugs -- put an end to the music business?
[03:21.64]If so, should I put out the indo right now and write down
[03:24.27]a plan and pursue my dream turn my life around
[03:26.54]Cause I'm bound for the movie screen, cuties that scream
[03:28.91]I'll need a extra Uzi riding through my own hood in Queens
[03:31.31]It be the ones you always knew, that want it on
[03:33.71]Tellin everybody it was him, that you fronted on
[03:36.06]Thought we walked a million miles it was just twenty
[03:38.60]Not used to walkin in the path of legit money
[03:41.22]I thought I made it but we only took baby steps
[03:43.53]Up the success ladder, where they pay me checks
[03:46.06]To my clicks when I got it I said "Baby bless"
[03:48.46]That was the 80's, but now look at this crazy mess
[03:51.10]We in the 90's, and finally it's lookin good
[03:53.64]Hip-hop took it to billions, I knew we would
[03:56.16]A lot of ups and downs in the game, could lose or gain
[03:58.59]a couple pounds tryin to maintain -- one day you here
[04:00.85]the next you not; when you around niggaz, check 'em out
[04:03.34]Some is bout it, most individuals plots
[04:05.81]and run the spots, some choose to stay to theyselves
[04:08.24]While others have no cares and stay in jail
[04:10.84]More than fifty percent of us
[04:12.14]endin up with holes through the chest
[04:14.00]through the head, through the gut it shows
[04:15.45]The future for us young shooters and old killers
[04:18.05]Who become rich as dope dealers?
[04:19.64]Nothing left for us but hoop dreams and hood tournaments
[04:22.60]Thug coaches with subs sittin on the bench; either that or rap
[04:25.92]We want the fast way outta this trap
[04:27.95]Whether it be 9 to 5 or slangin crack
[04:30.33]To my deceased Gods wishin I could bring you back
[04:34.11]But life is a dream and y'all taught me that
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[04:34.96].. always survive.. but why?
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[04:39.78]Always survive, always
[04:41.18]Still, we, will survive
[04:42.57]No matter what, my people just stay alive
[04:45.59]Still, we, will survive
[04:47.59]No matter what, my people just stay alive
[04:50.57]Still, we, will survive (no matter what)
[04:53.15]Still, we, will survive (no matter what)
[04:55.53]Still, we, will survive
[04:57.27]No matter what, my niggaz just stay alive