Living For The City

Rakim

In the city where life is animated with colors



Contaminated with aggravated brothers who knows where the love is?



Growing up swinging through my upbringing



My limits is the sky from the all eye seeing



Of so called realities filled with technicalities



I watch my steps stay on my p's and check my casualties



Not to get played equipped with all the tricks of the trade



I even learned from the mistakes that the next man made



I know to choose and pick the people I grow up around



I know to grow and get to know the town up and down



But there's no instructions, so many directions



A lot of crooks look to get hooked with connections



Some thought they knew all adolescence could teach



They graduated from school but fail life in the streets



Your pops taught you to strive and stay a live, no ditty



It's easy to die when you're living for the city




That's how I'm living (x3)



Yeah that's how I'm living



That's how I'm living (x3)



Yep that's how I'm living




I grow according to my environmental habitat



I hang where everything seem to happen at



I seen it all, and I've been doing that since I was small



Catch a flashback y'all, if I can recall



The days on the corner we watched the world go by



Or nights that wasn't right like when a good friend dies



I quest for the best for prepare for the worst



Never scared but I cared if I'm blessed or I'm cursed



Yes I fear no man but Allah



I'm Gomar Oras Dubar



Which is God so It's hard to see Ra



I do what I gotta do, with or without a clue



Run through any obstacle including you



Cause I ain't got to bust you, cause I got the muscle



A push any clown that tries to slow down my hustle



I gotta ge