Live Or Get By

By Humor

On Half Smile

Released on February 2, 2014

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[Verse 1]

I wondering, how to get it in

How to set a presidential type of precedent

How to separate from niggas that are decadent

Declare a destination and go there is what I'm reckoning

I reckon since I was younger on the road

I knew I had I do a record and

I reckon since I felt that hunger in my soul

I had to conjure up some doe

The only way I know to settle it

You get the message yet?

You get the message of a young nigga

In that inner city situation tryna get his funds bigger

I said I wanna be the one, nigga

I told myself I said I'll never be a dumb nigga

My motivation was to taste a little doe

Procrastination is a way to never make it

So I'm steady elevating as I chase another goal

I gotta chase another goal I gotta make a ton of doe


[Hook]

Young niggas with a dream of getting money

We was all on the roadside

Used to be a fantasy but now I really want it

It's do or die my nigga

So you know I gotta keep tryna get it till I got it

It's you and I my nigga

So you know we gotta stay up in the running till we run it

Tell em I

Said I'm tryna live I ain't tryna get by

Said I'm tryna live I ain't tryna get by no

I ain't settling for less

No way, I'm tryna get it are you running with me


[Verse 2]

I was on the road, me and all my home

Boys dreaming of some dollar

Without a plan to follow its imaginary gwolla

Holla if you ever seen a lazy nigga go from squalor to a baller

I seen a nigga go from right up on the corner

To right before your honour

To lying in a cell up in the slammer

Federales got his phone deciphered the grammar

And had him in a cell before the summer

Niggas out here getting wrapped quicker than a doner

Put the work in but the method isn't working

And they've got a strict aversion to this working blue-collar lifestyle

It's your life, your choice, your mother

What a bummer, collect all the money in the world you'll never get a 1-up

Fuck this life up nigga you'll never get another

Opportunities are looming if your prudent you can catch em if you wanna

Yeah I gotta, yeah I must, yes trust

I'm bout to take a trip with me, myself ma boys and marijuana

Yeah I gotta, yeah I must, yes trust

Then put the game up in a stunner

Suddenly these niggas wanna follow

Suddenly these bitches get malicious when they see me with another

Suddenly these niggas wanna follow

Suddenly these bitches get malicious when they see me with another


[Hook]


[Verse 3]

It's all or nothing for a nigga like

I was living life in that inner city situation, recognise

As a juvenile most of the shit that I thought was important isn't now

Most of the shit that I thought was important isn't how

I'm gonna make it out, of the kind of situation where I'm scraping out

Of the bottom of the barrel

Barricade a hater they ain't gonna take you down

I see my mother struggle and I bleed my heart for her

She came out of a nation where opportunities are vacant

To give her kids a foundation and a passport

The type of shit that we don't ask for

You think that shits given?

That's why I shake my head when niggas fucking with prison

That's why I shake my head when niggas acting like

They ain't got a thing to lose as if their life ain't even worth living


[Hook]