Gettin' By - Rapper Big Pooh, Dynasty, Apollo Brown

I’m trying to be…

We need to be…

I’m trying to be…

We need to be…

No faith for the faithless

People hide behind keyboards and screen names remain faceless

Run up on your IP address, give you a face lift

Report it to the public, got the nerve to call me «tasteless»

You envious, they envy us, your envy here is baseless

Surprised to see a black man with tattered hands that’s case-less

Grab your purses

The elevator making wiggers nervous

You scared?

I’m sure your church is holding service

So what’s the plan yo?

You still trying to be the king of yo' city?

Ruler of your region

To every crowd appeasing

You change with the seasons

Your dish needs seasoning

I’m worried 'bout when us black folk gon' breathe again

We feeding in, got us right where we need to be

Pull the curtain back, show you what you need to see

But most of us is Stevie Wonder to the realness

Only the real ones gon' really feel this

Listen

We listen to these songs as the days go by

Put something in my cup, I’m just trying to get by

I turn my TV on, I just hear a bunch of lies

God help us all, we just trying to get by

I want to be…

We need to be…

I’m trying to be…

We need to be…

Listen

I just want to lay my heart and soul up on this shit

Get into my feelings

Put all my dealings on the table, I don’t care

Show you that it’s real it ain’t a fable that I share

Apollo blessed me with a track to try to make y’all care

Searching for my muse but he alluding me with blues

I read the first verse from the Hughes man

A super hero but I’m still half human

And my life won’t let me forget, like, «What you doing?

Oh, are your hands full?

Well here’s a little more.»

I lift it and used it for inspiration on my tour

So now I’m on the stage having full blown therapy

I’m in Romania like Check Out My Melody

And I’m getting paid for it

And I got life to thank for it

Yeah, I drive a Mustang but my pay foreign

It’s like the verses kept changing with the same Vision got bigger,

good life I was made for it