Gotta Survive

I don't regret nothing that I have ever done At this point I don't owe nobody an explanation Man, they love you when you up Kick you when you down Look around, VH1 man, where are they down Life is amusing, nobody like to see you cruising But everybody like to see you losing So I stop despise, on top of lies And if it prophesied I'll be ostracized And one day, I lost my rhodium on the day I hit the podium Now I'm back on top and salty like sodium A gift to this world man, wrap me with a ribbon Why do you look for a dead among the living Some thought I was crazy, some thought I was dissing Some said I was lazy, some said I was different I was so loaded, that everybody floated But once I got the notice then I got focused And then I saw the motive, so everybody rode it So I did the way wrote it and live it the way I quote it, come on Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be really true When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me Gotta survive, gotta survive Hold up, trying to tell me what I'm not Pull up in the 'Bach, now I'm all of the sudden hot Now they want to stop just to look at what I got Thought they want my home man, left me out to rot So I had to make it on my own, take it on my own I wanted out the hood I had to 'scape it on my own Believe me now, it's easy now 'Cause everybody see me now and I'm on TV now But it started out with low budget Then I took it around the world the folks love it In the beginning man, my life it was so rugged But now I shine like a gold nugget, 'cause I made the most of it I know how you feeling man, I was weary Some days I used to sit there, my eyes all teary Thinking to myself, do anybody hear me Now I know, you making it out is not a theory, come on Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be really true When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me Gotta survive, gotta survive I've been laughed at, talked about, ridiculed But I got a Bentley and I'm still not a bitter dude And you know it's not coincidence, that me and you is not so intimate I can't fake, I don't shake, I don't break I don't lose, I don't use, I don't groove I never lacked and I'm never going back I'm nothing you ever sorrow I'm telling you that I'm immortal Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me So I try and I try to be really true When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me Gotta survive, gotta survive Got to, got to survive Keep your head held high Got to, got to survive Keep your head to the sky Got to, got to survive We can make it every time Got to, got to survive Gotta survive, gotta survive Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (Yeah) When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me When I'm down at the back, just keep it real (You know there is nothing in this world) Gotta survive, gotta survive (That could separate me) Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (From what I believe So I try and I try to be really true (From what I've achieved) When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me (All of this is because of him) Gotta survive, gotta survive (And I'm telling you now) Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (As much as you all don't want to hear this) When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me (I could do nothing to myself) When I'm down at the back, just keep it real Gotta survive, gotta survive (It's all through him, it's all through him) Gotta survive in this life that's being given to me (So all around the world) So I try and I try to be really true (You don't even know success) When it seems that the world keeps crushing on me (Until you know him) Gotta survive, gotta survive (And him is Jesus)