Song | Get By (Remix) Feat. Mos Def, Jay-Z, Busta & Talib |
Artist | Native Tongues |
Album | Freshmen Adjustment 3 |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
[00:01.59] | History, it's happenin' every day, y'all (right now) |
[00:06.17] | Everyday (live, right now) |
[00:08.91] | Right now (good mornin', Vietnam!) |
[00:10.50] | Mos Def |
[00:10.99] | Listen! Brooklyn wins again |
[00:13.10] | It's the Stuy, it's the Bush, them ****** again |
[00:15.94] | Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S. Dot on the guest lock |
[00:19.08] | Kanye, you're the ******* of hip-hop, now let's rock |
[00:21.67] | Now roll out, ******, my hometown ****** |
[00:24.36] | I get it good in yo hood, so slow down, ****** |
[00:27.55] | Watch the speed though, mind your pedal and ease off |
[00:29.76] | Or screech off into a collision course with these walls |
[00:32.53] | (BAM!) They don't move, don't pray, don't lose |
[00:34.94] | Don't sleep, life passin', light flashin', life happens |
[00:37.77] | That fast, part of done, black hands up in prayer |
[00:40.31] | Black guns up in fear, dyin' wish is to touch the air |
[00:42.98] | Seekin' heaven that wasn't here |
[00:45.31] | Eyes will not see another year, it's another day |
[00:48.42] | It's the same fight, different round, sound the bell |
[00:51.07] | Mix it up in victory, you live it up, the beat'll get risen up |
[00:54.21] | You're knocked down, then get back and get it up |
[00:56.24] | Get off of queer street and get with us |
[00:58.60] | And get clear where we did it, from the heart, from the people |
[01:01.36] | From the top, from the jeep, from the gut, from the street |
[01:04.21] | From my soul to the mic to the essence |
[01:06.46] | So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly |
[01:09.78] | I make contact, for short, I MC |
[01:11.80] | Me and mine we don't just get by |
[01:14.47]e and that's ready [(Mos, *****!)] | |
[01:15.54] | Jay-Z |
[01:15.90] | Just to get by |
[01:16.36] | ***** I sold coke, ***** I pushed lye, carried a fo' five |
[01:19.47] | Claimed I was ready to die, promised never to cry |
[01:22.08] | Held it all inside, reality was too much to take, so I |
[01:25.69] | Kept my mind fried, slept for most of mine |
[01:28.52] | Soon as I closed my eyes, then I woke up behind |
[01:31.30] | Thinkin' either I load up these 9's, or blow up with rhymes |
[01:35.44] | ‘Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca |
[01:38.17] | And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme |
[01:41.44] | Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein' your moms |
[01:44.14] | Doin' five dollars worth of work just to get a dime |
[01:46.63] | So pardon my disposition |
[01:48.67] | Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me? |
[01:51.71] | Picture me workin' McDonald's! |
[01:54.10] | I'd rather pull a MAC on you |
[01:55.56] | Sorry, Ms. Jackson, but I'm packin', bye! |
[01:57.08] | Kanye West |
[01:57.46] | Yeah! It's somethin' about that Nina Simone piano flow |
[01:58.92] | It's like a Michelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou |
[02:02.64] | And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote |
[02:05.51] | If music get ya choked up, this is the tree and the rope |
[02:08.23] | This is Chi, *****, I'm Mr. All-of-That |
[02:10.98] | **** a map, let's put this ***** on the almanac |
[02:13.59] | Dice what they hittin' fo', lax what you sittin' on |
[02:16.17] | Tracks who you spittin' on, rap 'til we get it on |
[02:18.89] | And don't let nobody with the power to sign |
[02:21.30] | Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme |
[02:23.68] | They used to tell me, "Toughen up, put some bass in your voice!" |
[02:26.41] | They used to tell me, "Lighten up, put some Mase in your voice!" |
[02:28.87] | Lord willin' I ain't killed nobody |
[02:31.56] | But I have a feelin' this album that I'm gonna make a killin' |
[02:34.73] | Or not a shilling, this is love-it-or-hate-it music |
[02:37.38] | But—at least we made it music |
[02:40.17] | And we didn't make it industry, this is gon' be interesting |
[02:43.03] | This'll be the end of me, or I'm finna be an entity |
[02:45.52] | Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli |
[02:47.81] | We are not makin' songs no more, we're makin' history |
[02:50.74] | kground singers + (Talib Kweli) |
[02:51.41] | This morning I woke up |
[02:52.61] | Feelin brand new, I jumped up |
[02:55.25] | Feelin my highs and my lows |
[02:58.28] | In my soul, and my goals |
[03:00.88] | Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin' |
[03:03.29] | But I been thinkin' I got my reasons |
[03:05.89] | Just to get (by), just to get (by) |
[03:08.41] | Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye) |
[03:18.40] | (Just to get by, just to get by) |
[03:20.38] | (Just to get by), just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[03:28.48] | Talib Kweli |
[03:33.47] | We keep it gangsta, say 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy' |
[03:35.47] | Desensitized by the violence on the TV during the war |
[03:37.53] | Killin' each other is easy, its pourin' liquor for fallen ****** |
[03:40.71] | Believe me, it's ghetto libation, seen it all before |
[03:42.60] | Just to get by, my people, we get fly |
[03:45.72] | My people, we get high, fillin' cigars with the lah |
[03:49.12] | *****, come on! Even Jesus was stoned |
[03:51.51] | Before receivin' the throne |
[03:53.21] | I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone |
[03:54.05] | Busta Rhymes |
[03:54.36] | Back in the days we was used to doin' the **** |
[03:56.13] | I can't call it all in the streets |
[03:57.09] | We was hustlin' fiends that asked for it |
[03:58.89] | I guess I was used to just standin' on corners |
[04:00.84] | Waitin' for paper bags with bundles of crack |
[04:02.54] | Hopin' the week was good, so I could get money back |
[04:04.85] | (To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by) |
[04:08.39] | When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength |
[04:12.24] | That made me angry and bleed |
[04:13.30] | With the frustration havin' me smokin' Newports and **** |
[04:15.40] | (To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by) |
[04:18.91] | Those be the times when I try to rely |
[04:22.08] | On my ****** and street *********** |
[04:23.61] | And reach out to wifey, and then I place a call on my mother |
[04:26.08] | (To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by) |
[04:29.63] | *Ayo, Mom, pick up the phone, I gotta to talk to you, Ma* |
[04:31.16] | If you was five percent instead of actin' stupid and guessin' |
[04:33.55] | You had to go and study your lessons |
[04:35.79] | And know your math in the building in session |
[04:36.91] | kground singers + (Talib Kweli) |
[04:37.40] | This morning I woke up |
[04:39.18] | Feelin brand new, I jumped up |
[04:40.86] | Feelin my highs and my lows |
[04:43.49] | In my soul, and my goals |
[04:47.21] | Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin' |
[04:49.80] | But I been thinkin' I got my reasons |
[04:52.53] | Just to get (by), just to get (by) |
[04:55.08] | Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye) |
[04:59.76] | Some people try, some people try |
[05:01.90] | Just to get by, for my piece of the pie |
[05:03.61] | We love to eat and get high |
[05:05.81] | We deceive when we lie |
[05:07.56] | And we keepin' it fly – yo, yo, yo, yo, yo |
[05:09.30] | When people decice to keep a disguise |
[05:12.51] | Can't see your eyes, see the evil inside |
[05:15.05] | The best people you find |
[05:16.36] | Stronger people in mind |
[05:17.45] | I stay readin' the signs |
[00:01.59] | History, it' s happenin' every day, y' all right now |
[00:06.17] | Everyday live, right now |
[00:08.91] | Right now good mornin', Vietnam! |
[00:10.50] | Mos Def |
[00:10.99] | Listen! Brooklyn wins again |
[00:13.10] | It' s the Stuy, it' s the Bush, them again |
[00:15.94] | Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S. Dot on the guest lock |
[00:19.08] | Kanye, you' re the of hiphop, now let' s rock |
[00:21.67] | Now roll out, , my hometown |
[00:24.36] | I get it good in yo hood, so slow down, |
[00:27.55] | Watch the speed though, mind your pedal and ease off |
[00:29.76] | Or screech off into a collision course with these walls |
[00:32.53] | BAM! They don' t move, don' t pray, don' t lose |
[00:34.94] | Don' t sleep, life passin', light flashin', life happens |
[00:37.77] | That fast, part of done, black hands up in prayer |
[00:40.31] | Black guns up in fear, dyin' wish is to touch the air |
[00:42.98] | Seekin' heaven that wasn' t here |
[00:45.31] | Eyes will not see another year, it' s another day |
[00:48.42] | It' s the same fight, different round, sound the bell |
[00:51.07] | Mix it up in victory, you live it up, the beat' ll get risen up |
[00:54.21] | You' re knocked down, then get back and get it up |
[00:56.24] | Get off of queer street and get with us |
[00:58.60] | And get clear where we did it, from the heart, from the people |
[01:01.36] | From the top, from the jeep, from the gut, from the street |
[01:04.21] | From my soul to the mic to the essence |
[01:06.46] | So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly |
[01:09.78] | I make contact, for short, I MC |
[01:11.80] | Me and mine we don' t just get by |
[01:14.47]e and that's ready [(Mos, *****!)] | |
[01:15.54] | JayZ |
[01:15.90] | Just to get by |
[01:16.36] | I sold coke, I pushed lye, carried a fo' five |
[01:19.47] | Claimed I was ready to die, promised never to cry |
[01:22.08] | Held it all inside, reality was too much to take, so I |
[01:25.69] | Kept my mind fried, slept for most of mine |
[01:28.52] | Soon as I closed my eyes, then I woke up behind |
[01:31.30] | Thinkin' either I load up these 9' s, or blow up with rhymes |
[01:35.44] | ' Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca |
[01:38.17] | And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme |
[01:41.44] | Nah, I' m a poster for what happened seein' your moms |
[01:44.14] | Doin' five dollars worth of work just to get a dime |
[01:46.63] | So pardon my disposition |
[01:48.67] | Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me? |
[01:51.71] | Picture me workin' McDonald' s! |
[01:54.10] | I' d rather pull a MAC on you |
[01:55.56] | Sorry, Ms. Jackson, but I' m packin', bye! |
[01:57.08] | Kanye West |
[01:57.46] | Yeah! It' s somethin' about that Nina Simone piano flow |
[01:58.92] | It' s like a Michelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou |
[02:02.64] | And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote |
[02:05.51] | If music get ya choked up, this is the tree and the rope |
[02:08.23] | This is Chi, , I' m Mr. AllofThat |
[02:10.98] | a map, let' s put this on the almanac |
[02:13.59] | Dice what they hittin' fo', lax what you sittin' on |
[02:16.17] | Tracks who you spittin' on, rap ' til we get it on |
[02:18.89] | And don' t let nobody with the power to sign |
[02:21.30] | Ever tell you you ain' t got the power to rhyme |
[02:23.68] | They used to tell me, " Toughen up, put some bass in your voice!" |
[02:26.41] | They used to tell me, " Lighten up, put some Mase in your voice!" |
[02:28.87] | Lord willin' I ain' t killed nobody |
[02:31.56] | But I have a feelin' this album that I' m gonna make a killin' |
[02:34.73] | Or not a shilling, this is loveitorhateit music |
[02:37.38] | But at least we made it music |
[02:40.17] | And we didn' t make it industry, this is gon' be interesting |
[02:43.03] | This' ll be the end of me, or I' m finna be an entity |
[02:45.52] | Kanye, JayZ, Mos Def, and Kweli |
[02:47.81] | We are not makin' songs no more, we' re makin' history |
[02:50.74] | kground singers Talib Kweli |
[02:51.41] | This morning I woke up |
[02:52.61] | Feelin brand new, I jumped up |
[02:55.25] | Feelin my highs and my lows |
[02:58.28] | In my soul, and my goals |
[03:00.88] | Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin' |
[03:03.29] | But I been thinkin' I got my reasons |
[03:05.89] | Just to get by, just to get by |
[03:08.41] | Just to get by, just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[03:18.40] | Just to get by, just to get by |
[03:20.38] | Just to get by, just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[03:28.48] | Talib Kweli |
[03:33.47] | We keep it gangsta, say ' fo shizzle', ' fo sheezy' |
[03:35.47] | Desensitized by the violence on the TV during the war |
[03:37.53] | Killin' each other is easy, its pourin' liquor for fallen |
[03:40.71] | Believe me, it' s ghetto libation, seen it all before |
[03:42.60] | Just to get by, my people, we get fly |
[03:45.72] | My people, we get high, fillin' cigars with the lah |
[03:49.12] | , come on! Even Jesus was stoned |
[03:51.51] | Before receivin' the throne |
[03:53.21] | I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone |
[03:54.05] | Busta Rhymes |
[03:54.36] | Back in the days we was used to doin' the |
[03:56.13] | I can' t call it all in the streets |
[03:57.09] | We was hustlin' fiends that asked for it |
[03:58.89] | I guess I was used to just standin' on corners |
[04:00.84] | Waitin' for paper bags with bundles of crack |
[04:02.54] | Hopin' the week was good, so I could get money back |
[04:04.85] | To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by |
[04:08.39] | When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength |
[04:12.24] | That made me angry and bleed |
[04:13.30] | With the frustration havin' me smokin' Newports and |
[04:15.40] | To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by |
[04:18.91] | Those be the times when I try to rely |
[04:22.08] | On my and street |
[04:23.61] | And reach out to wifey, and then I place a call on my mother |
[04:26.08] | To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by |
[04:29.63] | Ayo, Mom, pick up the phone, I gotta to talk to you, Ma |
[04:31.16] | If you was five percent instead of actin' stupid and guessin' |
[04:33.55] | You had to go and study your lessons |
[04:35.79] | And know your math in the building in session |
[04:36.91] | kground singers Talib Kweli |
[04:37.40] | This morning I woke up |
[04:39.18] | Feelin brand new, I jumped up |
[04:40.86] | Feelin my highs and my lows |
[04:43.49] | In my soul, and my goals |
[04:47.21] | Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin' |
[04:49.80] | But I been thinkin' I got my reasons |
[04:52.53] | Just to get by, just to get by |
[04:55.08] | Just to get by, just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[04:59.76] | Some people try, some people try |
[05:01.90] | Just to get by, for my piece of the pie |
[05:03.61] | We love to eat and get high |
[05:05.81] | We deceive when we lie |
[05:07.56] | And we keepin' it fly yo, yo, yo, yo, yo |
[05:09.30] | When people decice to keep a disguise |
[05:12.51] | Can' t see your eyes, see the evil inside |
[05:15.05] | The best people you find |
[05:16.36] | Stronger people in mind |
[05:17.45] | I stay readin' the signs |
[00:01.59] | History, it' s happenin' every day, y' all right now |
[00:06.17] | Everyday live, right now |
[00:08.91] | Right now good mornin', Vietnam! |
[00:10.50] | Mos Def |
[00:10.99] | Listen! Brooklyn wins again |
[00:13.10] | It' s the Stuy, it' s the Bush, them again |
[00:15.94] | Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S. Dot on the guest lock |
[00:19.08] | Kanye, you' re the of hiphop, now let' s rock |
[00:21.67] | Now roll out, , my hometown |
[00:24.36] | I get it good in yo hood, so slow down, |
[00:27.55] | Watch the speed though, mind your pedal and ease off |
[00:29.76] | Or screech off into a collision course with these walls |
[00:32.53] | BAM! They don' t move, don' t pray, don' t lose |
[00:34.94] | Don' t sleep, life passin', light flashin', life happens |
[00:37.77] | That fast, part of done, black hands up in prayer |
[00:40.31] | Black guns up in fear, dyin' wish is to touch the air |
[00:42.98] | Seekin' heaven that wasn' t here |
[00:45.31] | Eyes will not see another year, it' s another day |
[00:48.42] | It' s the same fight, different round, sound the bell |
[00:51.07] | Mix it up in victory, you live it up, the beat' ll get risen up |
[00:54.21] | You' re knocked down, then get back and get it up |
[00:56.24] | Get off of queer street and get with us |
[00:58.60] | And get clear where we did it, from the heart, from the people |
[01:01.36] | From the top, from the jeep, from the gut, from the street |
[01:04.21] | From my soul to the mic to the essence |
[01:06.46] | So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly |
[01:09.78] | I make contact, for short, I MC |
[01:11.80] | Me and mine we don' t just get by |
[01:14.47]e and that's ready [(Mos, *****!)] | |
[01:15.54] | JayZ |
[01:15.90] | Just to get by |
[01:16.36] | I sold coke, I pushed lye, carried a fo' five |
[01:19.47] | Claimed I was ready to die, promised never to cry |
[01:22.08] | Held it all inside, reality was too much to take, so I |
[01:25.69] | Kept my mind fried, slept for most of mine |
[01:28.52] | Soon as I closed my eyes, then I woke up behind |
[01:31.30] | Thinkin' either I load up these 9' s, or blow up with rhymes |
[01:35.44] | ' Cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca |
[01:38.17] | And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme |
[01:41.44] | Nah, I' m a poster for what happened seein' your moms |
[01:44.14] | Doin' five dollars worth of work just to get a dime |
[01:46.63] | So pardon my disposition |
[01:48.67] | Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me? |
[01:51.71] | Picture me workin' McDonald' s! |
[01:54.10] | I' d rather pull a MAC on you |
[01:55.56] | Sorry, Ms. Jackson, but I' m packin', bye! |
[01:57.08] | Kanye West |
[01:57.46] | Yeah! It' s somethin' about that Nina Simone piano flow |
[01:58.92] | It' s like a Michelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou |
[02:02.64] | And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote |
[02:05.51] | If music get ya choked up, this is the tree and the rope |
[02:08.23] | This is Chi, , I' m Mr. AllofThat |
[02:10.98] | a map, let' s put this on the almanac |
[02:13.59] | Dice what they hittin' fo', lax what you sittin' on |
[02:16.17] | Tracks who you spittin' on, rap ' til we get it on |
[02:18.89] | And don' t let nobody with the power to sign |
[02:21.30] | Ever tell you you ain' t got the power to rhyme |
[02:23.68] | They used to tell me, " Toughen up, put some bass in your voice!" |
[02:26.41] | They used to tell me, " Lighten up, put some Mase in your voice!" |
[02:28.87] | Lord willin' I ain' t killed nobody |
[02:31.56] | But I have a feelin' this album that I' m gonna make a killin' |
[02:34.73] | Or not a shilling, this is loveitorhateit music |
[02:37.38] | But at least we made it music |
[02:40.17] | And we didn' t make it industry, this is gon' be interesting |
[02:43.03] | This' ll be the end of me, or I' m finna be an entity |
[02:45.52] | Kanye, JayZ, Mos Def, and Kweli |
[02:47.81] | We are not makin' songs no more, we' re makin' history |
[02:50.74] | kground singers Talib Kweli |
[02:51.41] | This morning I woke up |
[02:52.61] | Feelin brand new, I jumped up |
[02:55.25] | Feelin my highs and my lows |
[02:58.28] | In my soul, and my goals |
[03:00.88] | Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin' |
[03:03.29] | But I been thinkin' I got my reasons |
[03:05.89] | Just to get by, just to get by |
[03:08.41] | Just to get by, just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[03:18.40] | Just to get by, just to get by |
[03:20.38] | Just to get by, just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[03:28.48] | Talib Kweli |
[03:33.47] | We keep it gangsta, say ' fo shizzle', ' fo sheezy' |
[03:35.47] | Desensitized by the violence on the TV during the war |
[03:37.53] | Killin' each other is easy, its pourin' liquor for fallen |
[03:40.71] | Believe me, it' s ghetto libation, seen it all before |
[03:42.60] | Just to get by, my people, we get fly |
[03:45.72] | My people, we get high, fillin' cigars with the lah |
[03:49.12] | , come on! Even Jesus was stoned |
[03:51.51] | Before receivin' the throne |
[03:53.21] | I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone |
[03:54.05] | Busta Rhymes |
[03:54.36] | Back in the days we was used to doin' the |
[03:56.13] | I can' t call it all in the streets |
[03:57.09] | We was hustlin' fiends that asked for it |
[03:58.89] | I guess I was used to just standin' on corners |
[04:00.84] | Waitin' for paper bags with bundles of crack |
[04:02.54] | Hopin' the week was good, so I could get money back |
[04:04.85] | To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by |
[04:08.39] | When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength |
[04:12.24] | That made me angry and bleed |
[04:13.30] | With the frustration havin' me smokin' Newports and |
[04:15.40] | To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by |
[04:18.91] | Those be the times when I try to rely |
[04:22.08] | On my and street |
[04:23.61] | And reach out to wifey, and then I place a call on my mother |
[04:26.08] | To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by |
[04:29.63] | Ayo, Mom, pick up the phone, I gotta to talk to you, Ma |
[04:31.16] | If you was five percent instead of actin' stupid and guessin' |
[04:33.55] | You had to go and study your lessons |
[04:35.79] | And know your math in the building in session |
[04:36.91] | kground singers Talib Kweli |
[04:37.40] | This morning I woke up |
[04:39.18] | Feelin brand new, I jumped up |
[04:40.86] | Feelin my highs and my lows |
[04:43.49] | In my soul, and my goals |
[04:47.21] | Just to stop smokin' and stop drinkin' |
[04:49.80] | But I been thinkin' I got my reasons |
[04:52.53] | Just to get by, just to get by |
[04:55.08] | Just to get by, just to get get buh buh buh bye bye |
[04:59.76] | Some people try, some people try |
[05:01.90] | Just to get by, for my piece of the pie |
[05:03.61] | We love to eat and get high |
[05:05.81] | We deceive when we lie |
[05:07.56] | And we keepin' it fly yo, yo, yo, yo, yo |
[05:09.30] | When people decice to keep a disguise |
[05:12.51] | Can' t see your eyes, see the evil inside |
[05:15.05] | The best people you find |
[05:16.36] | Stronger people in mind |
[05:17.45] | I stay readin' the signs |