Dying to Live (feat. Do or Die, Syko, NV & H1)

Wake up, not another day, fuck
A lot of mutters, God I fuckin hate stuff
Gotta love blue collar, just the same rut
It's bothersome, the problems and the pay cuts
It's something crucial
My last endeavor wasn't fruitful
Now my supper's food's a couple spoonful's of a Cup of Noodles
Just approval
It's all I ask but it's a tall task
On this long path when you're stuck in neutral
And so I gotta get this half time
For the last time
It's my pastime
And how I pass time
It's a mask and I'm passive with the crap I'm in
Even when I'm strapped for cash I got a stash hidin
And it's constantly thinkin to just consciously
Come to a grip responsibly
But it's comedy thinkin you'll live honestly
Once you have slipped and hit poverty

I pray to God every day that I wake up (wake up)
Knowing what it takes to survive
Man these streets so hard so I blaze up (blaze up)
I stay chiefin just to keep me from dyin
I don't wanna cry
Don't wanna cry this shit don't make sense
Don't wanna grind when my whole day's spent
I don't wanna cry
Don't wanna cry but I'm dying to live
And goddammit I been tired of this

Feels like I'm stuck in the eye of a dangerous storm
Hoping that it changes course
Know that when it rains, it pours
Stress from the gut checking years
Of the pain endured, shed
So much blood sweat and tears
That it stains the floor, left
With a puddle at my feet
Struggling to keep calm
Cuz I'm always plotting through
Trouble in the streets
So I gotta move subtle and discreet
Roll the bud up to relieve
All the stuff that's been bubblin in me
It's like I'm stuck and I'm trapped in a mudslide
And can't fuckin imagine an upside
When it's rough to adapt
And it's tough to relax
And to love and to laugh
So I just cry

I pray to God every day that I wake up (wake up)
Knowing what it takes to survive
Man these streets so hard so I blaze up (blaze up)
I stay chiefin just to keep me from dyin
I don't wanna cry
Don't wanna cry this shit don't make sense
Don't wanna grind when my whole day's spent
I don't wanna cry
Don't wanna cry but I'm dying to live
And goddammit I been tired of this

Used to have this fucking mindset
When I bust the rhymes that
I wasn't s'posed to grip the mic
And so then fuck it, I left
Let those fucking voices get to me
Couldn't hazard a hope, battered and broke
That fucking dream was dead to me
Then the years passed, I saw the desecration of hip hop
Through Kyle and Nick's plots, the pedigree
And started making beats cuz I knew they always rockin that good shit
But Mr. A2z has got the remedy, yeah
Energy sending me to the moon
And can it be, we reached another level
Won't settle, my course, heavenly
Now my prayers to God changing from childhood traumas
To acquiring commas and fuckin wit wildin mamas
And taking everything in front of me
Skinny as a kid but I ate right, grew up to be everything that you wanna be
Hotter than the Suns on a trip to Miami
My family, my Caddy, my pad, and the bad bitches that's under me
Remember back to the doubting, the stressing
Now when I'm talking to God,
I just be counting my blessings
Gaining perspective, blaze, making connections,
Haze, raising the effort, nothing awakens it better

I pray to God every day that I wake up (wake up)
Knowing what it takes to survive
Man these streets so hard so I blaze up (blaze up)
I stay chiefin just to keep me from dyin
I don't wanna cry
Don't wanna cry this shit don't make sense
Don't wanna grind when my whole day's spent
I don't wanna cry
Don't wanna cry but I'm dying to live
And goddammit I been tired of this