Still Strugglin'-Raekwon

[ti:Still Strugglin'] [ar:Raekwon] [al:Save The Hip Hop Drama For Yo Mama (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Still Strugglin' - Raekwon [00:00.58]I know how it feels to wake up f**ked up [00:02.98]Pockets broke as hell another rock to sell [00:05.30] [00:06.06]People look at you like you're the user [00:08.24]Selling drugs to all the losers mad Buddha abuser [00:10.99]But they don't know about the stress filled day [00:13.54]Baby on the way mad bills to pay [00:15.80]That's why you drink Tanqueray [00:17.45]So you can reminisce and wish [00:19.17]You wasn't living so devilish sh*t [00:21.20]I remember I was just like you [00:23.72]Smoking blunts with my crew [00:25.16]Flipping over sixty two's [00:26.30]Cause G E D wasn't B I G I got P A I D [00:30.48]That's why my mom hates me [00:31.89]She was forced to kick me out no doubt [00:34.10]Then I figured out Nick's went for twenty down south [00:36.69]Packed up my tools for my raw power move [00:39.24]Glock nineteen for casket and flower moves [00:41.67] [00:42.48]Four chumps trying to stop my flow [00:44.33]And what they don't know will show on the autopsy [00:47.01]Went to see papi to cop me a brick [00:49.51]Asked for some consignment and he wasn't trying to hear it [00:52.19]Smoking mad Newport's 'cause I'm doing court for an assault [00:55.33]That I caught in Bridgeport New York [00:57.51]Catch me if you can like the ginger bread man [01:00.03]You better have your gat in hand [01:01.83]Cause man [01:02.56]A man with a dream with plans to make cream [01:05.01]Still struggling survival got me buggin' [01:07.87]Souls of a soldier in the streets of survival [01:10.07]Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough [01:12.50]The rough life I just be up nights it got me [01:14.94]Still strugglin' [01:15.72]Campaign [01:16.20]Lay out your maintain [01:17.40]In the everyday struggle [01:18.45]I grew up on the crime side the New York Times side [01:21.42]Staying alive was no jive [01:22.78]Had secondhands moms bounced on old man [01:25.80]So then we moved to shaolin land [01:28.03]A young youth yo rockin' the gold tooth 'Lo goose [01:31.20]Only way I begin to G off was drug loot [01:33.74]And let's start it like this son rolling with this one [01:36.86]And that one pulling out Gats for fun [01:39.08]But it was just a dream for the teen who was a fiend [01:42.02]Started smoking woolies at 16 [01:43.63] [01:44.25]And running up in gates and doing hits for high stakes [01:47.24]Making my way on fire escapes [01:49.16]No question I would speed for cracks and w**d [01:52.14]The combination made my eyes bleed [01:54.53]No question I would flow off and try to get the dough all [01:57.93]Sticking up white boys in ball courts [01:59.76]My life got no better same damn 'Lo sweater [02:02.90]Times is rough and tough like leather [02:04.90]Figured out I went the wrong route [02:06.69]So I got with a sick a** clique and went all out [02:09.54]Catchin' keys from across seas [02:11.95]Rollin' in MPV's every week we made forty G's [02:15.38]Yo ni**a respect mine or anger the TEC-9