Gotta Survive

I don't regret nothin' that i've ever done at this point i don't owe n obody an explanation Man they love you when you up kick you when you down look around vh1 man where are they now life is amusin' nobody like to see you cruisin' but evrybody like to see you losin' so i stop despisin' on top a lies im livin' prophet side i'll be ostracized one day i lost my rodeydum the day i hit the podium now im back on top salty like sodium a gift to this world man rappin' wit a ribbon why do you look for the dead among the livin' sum thought i was crazy sum thought i was missin' sum said i was lazy sum said i was diffrent i was so loaded that evrybody flowed it but once i got to notice then i got focused and then i saw they motive so evrybody voted so i did the way i rote it and live it the way i quote it c'mon [Chorus] Gotta Survive in this life thats been givin' to me but it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me when im down at the back just keep it real Gotta survive, Gotta survive Gotta survive in this life thats been givin' to me so i tried and i tried to do anything when it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me Gotta survive, Gotta survive now the block tried ta tell me what im not pull up in a bot now im all a sudden hot now they wanna stop just ta look at wat i got thought they were my homay left me out ta rot so i had ta make it on my own take it on my own i wanted out the hood i had ta scape it on my own believe me now its easy now cause evrybody seen me down and im on tv now but it started out with no budget then i took it round the world and the folks love it in the beginnin' man my life it was so rugget but now i shine like a gold nugget cause i made the most of it i no how u feelin' man i was weary sum days i used ta sit there my eyes all teary thinkin' to myself do anybody hear me now i no u makin' a dolla's not a theory, c'mon [Chorus] Gotta Survive in this life thats been givin' to me but it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me when im down at the back just keep it real Gotta survive, Gotta survive Gotta survive in this life thats been givin' to me so i tried and i tried to do anything when it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me Gotta survive, Gotta survive I been laughed at, talked about ridiculed but m dot bethay is still not a bitter dude and u no its no coincident that me n u is not so intimate i cant fake i dont shake i dont break i dont lose i dont use i dont bruise i never lack and im neva goin back im nuttin u never sawd of im tellin' u that im immortal [Chorus] Gotta Survive in this life thats been givin' to me but it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me when im down at the back just keep it real Gotta survive, Gotta survive Gotta survive in this life thats been givin' to me so i tried and i tried to do anything when it seems that the world keeps scratchin' on me Gotta survive, Gotta survive Yea, u no theres nuthin in this world that could seperate me from wat i believe from wat i've achieved all a dis is because a him and im tellin' u now as much as yall dont wanna hear dis i could do nuthin of myself its all through him its all through him so all around the world u dont even no sucess until u no him and him is Jesus