Got to, got to survive
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
I'm telling you that I'm immortal
Kick you when you down
And one day, I lost my rhodium on the day I hit the podium
Got to, got to survive
Gotta survive, gotta survive
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
(From what I believe
(It's all through him, it's all through him)
Look around, VH1 man, where are they down
We can make it every time
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
Now I know, you making it out is not a theory, come on
'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now
(As much as you all don't want to hear this)
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude
When I'm down at the back, just keep it real
But once I got the notice then I got focused
Now they want to stop just to look at what I got
So I try and I try to be really true
Pull up in the 'Bach, now I'm all of the sudden hot
When I'm down at the back, just keep it real
When I'm down at the back, just keep it real
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
And then I saw the motive, so everybody rode it
Believe me now, it's easy now
(All of this is because of him)
Then I took it around the world the folks love it
Thought they want my home man, left me out to rot
Man, they love you when you up
And if it prophesied I'll be ostracized
Gotta survive, gotta survive
(That could separate me)
Gotta survive, gotta survive
So I try and I try to be really true
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
But now I shine like a gold nugget, 'cause I made the most of it
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
So I try and I try to be really true
I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break
Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me
I was so loaded, that everybody floated
Some said I was lazy, some said I was different
Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
So I try and I try to be really true
I know how you feeling man, I was weary
Gotta survive, gotta survive
Gotta survive, gotta survive
(So all around the world)
I never lacked and I'm never going back
Keep your head held high
Gotta survive, gotta survive
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed
(from what I've achieved)
Got to, got to survive
Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising
So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own
Gotta survive, gotta survive
I don't lose, I don't use, I don't groove
(And I'm telling you now)
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
But it started out with low budget
So I try and I try to be really true
Keep your head to the sky
Some thought I was crazy, some thought I was dissing
(Yeah)
When I'm down at the back, just keep it real
(Until you know him)
And you know it's not coincidence, that me and you is not so intimate
When I'm down at the back, just keep it real
Gotta survive, gotta survive
Got to, got to survive
(You don't even know success)
But everybody like to see you losing
A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon
I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own
So I stop despise, on top of lies
Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary
Gotta survive, gotta survive
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
Gotta survive, gotta survive
(I could do nothing to myself)
I'm nothing you ever sorrow
(You know there is nothing in this world)
So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it, come on
When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me
Why do you look for a dead among the living
In the beginning man, my life it was so rugged
Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me
Gotta survive, gotta survive
