[00:00.31]Survive (Explicit) - Mistah F.A.B./Kendrick Lamar/Crooked I/Kobe Honeycutt
[00:01.85]Life in the city life in the city
[00:06.10]Oakland California complicated for ya
[00:08.83]But we survive
[00:10.39]Strongest survive
[00:11.43]Life life in the city
[00:13.69]And nia's tryna survive
[00:15.34]Going you don't
[00:18.85]Only the strongest survive
[00:20.61]The business business
[00:21.51]You ever been a victim of being a prisoner inside
[00:23.94]Your own mind
[00:24.90]The bright lights of the street lights
[00:26.30]Will make you go blind
[00:27.63]Handicap your senses you was
[00:29.08]Just an apprentice of watching nias jump fences
[00:31.47]Now you in the Olympics and
[00:32.79]Your hurdle was high enough to clear
[00:34.20]T22he tallest of clothes lines
[00:35.84]Talented when they closing in on your behind
[00:38.69]Life of a young delinquent even stole him a Lincoln
[00:41.07]At fifteen middle fingers walked out the precinct
[00:43.28]I mean the cycle just continue
[00:45.62]The vital information and fine print on the menu
[00:48.35]So you'lla never read it even if a nia lend you
[00:50.78]Money out my own pocket to make it right
[00:52.64]You'll still attend to
[00:53.90]Be on them corners with stop signs and a nine
[00:56.53]'Cause nine times out of ten MAC 11's cry
[00:58.89]And twelve died yesterday and if anyone divides
[01:01.78]The six carried you eventually lose they lives
[01:04.54]True story
[01:04.94]Night falls anything can happen
[01:12.62]We just pray we make it out alive
[01:15.34]We all wanna make it to the top one day
[01:17.93]Success is a street only going one way
[01:22.13]But we all wanna make it
[01:25.07]Just try your best to survive
[01:27.38]You all wanna see a dead body
[01:29.64]Well follow me across the train tracks
[01:31.22]Where angry and insane Blacks
[01:32.68]They slang crack
[01:33.62]Candles burn where they were slain at
[01:35.50]And bottles get poured where they would hang at
[01:37.61]Close I give you truth in this essence
[01:39.95]Dead homies added to swears
[01:41.45]When truth is in question
[01:42.43]Like Man I think he lying
[01:43.99]Or he put that on someone
[01:45.14]If I known you ten years
[01:46.59]Got the right to say we cousins
[01:48.16]I'm from the city of broken homes and often
[01:49.93]I was home alone
[01:50.72]And momma started smoking
[01:51.81]'Cause daddy was scared to smoke alone
[01:53.78]Section 8 policies Top Ramen and sunflower seeds
[01:56.66]June got kill't 'cause he ain't wanna lose his Wallaby's
[01:59.22]Constant atrocities no one is safe
[02:01.28]There's no religion that can save
[02:02.46]You say goodbye to your faith
[02:04.15]Whether you Muslim or a Christian Baptist Jewish
[02:06.05]Or Adventist Atheist or non religious
[02:08.19]Put survival on your wishlist
[02:10.16]'Cause
[02:10.91]Night falls anything can happen
[02:18.55]We just pray we make it out alive
[02:21.42]We all wanna make it to the top one day
[02:23.88]Success is a street only going one way
[02:28.24]But we all wanna make it
[02:31.17]Just try your best to survive
[02:32.79]You walked in the apartment and saw your father on the carpet
[02:35.51]With a belt wrapped around his arm
[02:36.53]And a scarf under his armpit
[02:38.08]And a needle shoved in his bicep
[02:39.93]Earlier this morning you warned him
[02:41.50]His addict habits are something you couldn't digest
[02:44.00]You cry saying I just
[02:45.01]Don't wanna see you die
[02:46.21]Now you tryna dissect the fact that
[02:47.77]He hasn't opened his eyes yet
[02:49.12]You collapsed on his body
[02:50.34]And you started thinking
[02:51.53]I could perform CPR jump start his heart
[02:53.45]If it's beating
[02:54.81]But his pulse started to weaken
[02:56.55]His cardio region depleting
[02:58.01]As you given him part of your breathing
[03:00.03]He dead and gone and you had a bad feeling
[03:02.16]When you was heading home
[03:03.24]Now it's etched in stone you've been left alone
[03:05.49]So you grabbed his chrome gun handle
[03:07.31]All pearl aw nah girl
[03:09.46]Put it to your head thinking fk
[03:11.35]Everybody like a call girl in a small world
[03:14.24]Then pulled back but it didn't clap
[03:15.75]Night falls anything can happen
[03:23.35]We just pray we make it out alive
[03:26.10]We all wanna make it to the top one day
[03:28.45]Success is a street only going one way
[03:32.81]But we all wanna make it
[03:35.91]Just try your best to survive
[03:38.38]Survive