(VERSE 1)

I’m course correctin’/

No regression/

New Direction, only towards progression/

Forward pressing, no more stressing/

The past is behind you, absorb the lessons/

I’m for redemption/

But the story they’d rather tell is more depression/

More addiction, more affliction/

More aggression/

What I feel we need to do more is question/

Search for answers and we’ll Wise up/

Enhance our chances or it’s times up/

They dig our holes, but we get our selves out/

Build the ladder and we Climb up/

The industry, will pick you up, they feeding off your energy/

Every cent from me, they wanna take until they empty me/

Treat you like the enemy, hit you with a penalty/

Only way to win is if you do it independently/

I’m staying Mindful, I was getting funds, no fucks too/

At some point we gotta break the cycle, when I was young I was dumb too/

Remember They wanna be just like you/

You popping pills, they getting high too/

You bust your Nine, they’re like “I’m busting mine”/

You doing time, they might get life too/ (DAMN)

Its a shitty situation that we in/

They imitating everything, they wanna be like him/

Do we set’em up to fail, with the stories that we tell?/

We don’t want our history to re-repeat it self again/

So I stay the same, but I switched up, Keep on hustling/

Keep adjusting, Seize destruction/

If we love our kids and want to leave’m something/-

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(CHORUS)

Just wise enough to be alive/

Learn to walk with sight, before I lead the blind/

And I was taught, to cross and dot my T’s & I’s/

And make sure that I’m all that I can be for mine/

Wise up/

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(VERSE 2)

Everybody killa

That’s the motto wit the static/

Only answer to god, ima Semi-Autocratic/

I’d rather be an Auto-didactic wita semi-automatic than auto mechanic/

Completely, I’m manic/ Believe me, I’ve had it/

I’m past it/

On average, I’m gassin’/

Defeat me, I’m laughin’/

Beat me? I’m askin’

Who’s gonna do it? He’s weak and impassioned/

Not competin’, I’m thrashin’!/

On a beat I’m an assassin’/ When they wanna kill a track, they send us/

I’m willing’ to ride from dawn til then dusk/

Offensive, penetrate defenses/

Blown brains, violence so senseless/

Forget about him, I’m so dismissive/

Amazin’ lawyers defend us

Or we end up with convictions sentenced to ten plus/

Bearin the weight of the world: tremendous/

Pain feelin like a ton of bricks when it hit us/

Have a ni**a on the monkey bars doin chin ups/

Make a ni**a have to go hawk and spit up/

As long as you ain’t layin’ in a coffin, get up/

Yo’ daddy ain’t raise no quitter/

That stereotype don’t fit us/

It ain’t 24 karat everything that glitters/

Eyes up/

Your haters are disguised up/

But that dont surprise us/

They slide up like they gon’ provide us with some assistance/

But they lied cuz they run and hide up when shit get wicked/

This is my luck but I don’t give five fucks, I’ll get specific , bitches/

Wise up!

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(CHORUS)

Just wise enough to be alive/

Learn to walk with sight, before I lead the blind/

And I was taught, to cross and dot my T’s & I’s/

And make sure that I’m all that I can be for mine/

Wise up/

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(BRIDGE/OUTRO)

Take the lead, follow me/

Made my mind up/

Chase my dream, Wait patiently/

Make them line up/

Play for keep, NO make believe/

A survivor, do or die young, Rise Up/

They despise us/

Hate to see, What makes a G/

Until I’m dust, Raise degrees/

They, pay the fees/

Stay beside us/

Play for keep, No make believe/

We survivors, do or die young, Rise Up/