Rakim - Living For The City Lyrics
In the city where life is animated with colorsContaminated with aggravated brothers, who knows where the love is?Growing up swinging, through my upbringingMy limits is the sky from the all eye seeingOf so-called realities filled with technicalitiesI watch my steps, stay on my ps and check my casualtiesNot to get played, equipped with all the tricks of the tradeI even learned from the mistakes that the next man madeI know to choose and pick the people I grow up aroundI know to grow and get to know the town up and downBut theres no instructions, so many directionsA lot of crooks look to get hooked with connectionsSome thought they knew all adolescence could teachThey graduated from school but fail life in the streetsYour pops taught you to strive and stay a live, no dittyIts easy to die when youre living for the cityThats how Im living (x3)Yeah thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yep thats how Im livingI grow according to my environmental habitatI hang where everything seem to happen atI seen it all, and Ive been doing that since I was smallCatch a flashback yall, if I can recallThe days on the corner we watched the world go byOr nights that wasnt right like when a good friend diesI quest for the best for prepare for the worstNever scared but I cared if Im blessed or Im cursedYes I fear no man but allahIm gomar oras dubarWhich is God so its hard to see raI do what I gotta do, with or without a clueRun through any obstacle including youCause I aint got to bust you, cause I got the muscleA push any clown that tries to slow down my hustleI gotta get by, but theres no time for pityIts easy to die when youre living for the cityThats how Im living (x3)Yeah thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yep thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yep thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yeah thats how Im livingIm in a zone everywhere I seem to roam is homeA rolling stone, I hold my own just like a microphoneI stay in tune, travel in harmony and set the toneBeing young but Im grown and well-knownTry to take me out new york but you cant take new york out of meCause thats the only way that I know how to beMy neighbors is jealous they label us drug sellersWe may be hood dwellers, were just a bunch of goodfellasCause we run wild with a passion, my style and my fashionIs getting, kid, Im making cash and crashingParties that everybodys talking about, we turn it outIm just a native new yorker with cloutI know my way around any borough and any townI make a lot of ground and Im hard to be foundI get down to the nitty gritty, wake up with something prettyIt gets me through another day living for the cityThats how Im living (x3)Yeah thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yep thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yep thats how Im livingThats how Im living (x3)Yeah thats how Im living
