Album Cover Living For The City

Living For The City

Rakim

5

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