Stay Alive Verse One:

Fightin' my demons off me since '84 / wealthy in character but she said we po' / momma / I walked around with self-esteem lower / drama / cause they Jordan's fresh and my Fila's is / Madonna / so old see right through the souls / I fought off the hatred so no hatred would grow / it's hard livin' / thankful my old man never let it break his spirits when bringing bacon for children home / but we couldn't afford to keep me with Nia Long's / you know the girls / pretty girls follows who's on / my bigger brother's gettin' fresh up out the blue / yeah I snuck and wore his gear so the ladies could say ohhhh / Dominic Dominic you lookin' like my king / come and get the pussy they sounding like black Eve's / let me get on back / getta get on track / you say I'm special / how / everybody hit on that / looking back reminiscin' I'm missing my childhood / crazy in the 'Go a black child could leave the hood in the box from a bang / bang bang no boogie nah / leaving my twenties a rarity I'm speakin' to y'all / could've been like my close cousin serving some time / he say he good if it was me I'm losing my mind / they say that freedom is an art controlling the mind / on my mind are riches and I want 'em for mine...

Chorus One:

Come on my nigga let's stay alive huh... / come on my nigga let's take 'em higher... / let's get to these riches we are survivors... / before they come kill us we'll kill the wire / fire / setting the world in it my desire... / I'm telling these hella haters retire... / come on my nigga let's take 'em higher... / let's get to these richer we are survivors.

Stay Live Verse Two:

Yo I'm screamin' fuck the police / they the biggest gangbangers that we ever gone see / and then I think about all the murders from my brothers / I'm thinking like damn we doing it to each other man / I wish more of our people can stay together beyond lustful endeavors / we making babies the set up is we don't know each other / having babies with strangers / these families are being broken for ages / tired of all the killin' / tired of drug dealin' / tired of seeing robberies / they don't even have to kill us / cause we do it to our own / searching for black leaders / never show they face till other races defeat us / in this game called life / dealin' with bad hands / dealin' with bad cards / many won't understand / I praise God daily for steering me into college but I / become a slave to student loans / my money gone / my white friends be chill / they daddy money long / my daddy tried / momma tried couldn't hold on / from growing and make sure I'm feelin' secure / so rap money a must / blessings for being pure / and loving me though I'm flawed / workin' to get a call to be in meetings and be like my niggas we want it all / all the press / president's dead / that long money to be a blessing to people / we made it nigga we gone uh huh.....

Chorus Two:

(Repeat of Chorus One).

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Verse 3 (Neak - Dreamer's Sadness):

Yo, the motto shine bright never simmer, that lifestyle tatted to my inner, soul, never let a dream glimmer, leave it beyond flicker, where you barely give it life.....a highway to liquor...a road to depression, swimming pool for sinners, don't know where you going tuxedo'd out at the devil's dinner, meaning he's feeding you words, leave you broken down, stressed, and even discou-raged from being called, so our dreaming is blurs when you royalty it's more to me than dreams deferred, coming of age, platform leave me torn, medicine, is thoughts to my IPhone lettering, pile up paintings form in lover's lane sketching in, means it's from the heart when I say it unlike many men uh, I can make amends with life if what I'm doing fails, it's when I don't try, and what ifs all sail to the back of minds like what he could've been if he been a little stronger in the grind, Lord knows, dead dreams wouldn't wish em on my own foes it's hard watching pain sit up on an old rose, life's cycle goes young, old, back again, double dutch, take control, look within it's on you to be the best you that ever did it if you don't write your own stories believe it's taken lies with it I can't say enough legacy is all we got your only mark what you plan to blot, I plan to leave a path tailored to my kid's kids, and show em life's biggest lesson's is to give, it's not about you, it's not about the fruit, you're born with, the power's for the less fortunate and how you pull em through, it's one life and one shot, I'm hear to give it all I got....God knows....