(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/