Verse 1 [Talib]
We Sell crack to our own, nigga,
I'm back in tha zone
My passionate poems
Got the feds tapping my phone
It's like Timothy McVeigh
they say I'm acting alone
I got a whole team that'll put a gat to yo dome
ta get by… just ta get by…
just to get by, just to get by
YO, this remix is hot,
We only dealing with the live hip-hop
Yo get by, just lay back and rock (nigga)
Verse 2 [Jay-Z]
Just to get by,
Nigga I sold coke
Nigga I pushed LAH
Carried the 4 5
Claimed I was ready to die
Promised never to cry
Held it all inside
Reality was to much to take so I
Kept my mind fried
Slept for most of mine
Soon as I closed my eyes
And I woke up behind
Nigga … either… I… filled up these nines
To blow up, with rhymes, with this flow of mine
Is like blow-up the lines of coke up
And you folks think that
HOV' just wrote stuff to rhyme
Naw, I'm a poster for what happens see your mind
Doing 5 dollars worth of work just to get a dime
So, pardon, my, disposition
Why? should I listen to a system that never listened to me
Picture me working at McDonald's
I'd rather put a mac on you
Sorry Miss Jackson, but I'm packing
Now this morning I woke up,
Feeling brand new, and I jumped up
Feeling my highs, and my lows,
In my soul, and my goals,
Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin'
But I've been thinking that I got my reasons
Just ta get (by), Just ta get(by)
Just to get (by), Just to get by
Now everybody through your hands in the sky and go
ba ba ba, ba ba bada, ba ba bada, ba ba bada, ba ba badahh
just to get by, just ta get by
just to get by,
put yo hands in the sky and go
ba ba ba, ba ba bada, ba ba bada, ba ba bada, ba ba badahh
(Laidies and Gentlemen you now rocking with the best)
just to get by, just ta get by
just to get by, just to get by.. (Talib Kweli)by..
