Mistah F.A.B., Kobe, Crooked I, Kendrick Lamar - Survive lyrics

Life in the city, life in the city
Oakland, California, Compton, California
But we survive only the strongest survive
Life, life in the city
In the city and nigga's tryna survive
Only the strongest survive

You ever been a victim of being
A prisoner inside your own mind?
The bright lights of the street lights
Will make you go blind handicap your senses
You was just an apprentice of
Watching niggas jump fences
Now you in the Olympics and
Your hurdle was high
Enough to clear the tallest of clothes lines
Talented when they closing in on your behind
Life of a young delinquent
Even stole him a Lincoln at fifteen
Middle fingers walked out the precinct
I mean the cycle just continue
The vital information and fine
Print on the menu
So you'll never read it even
If a nigga lend you
Money out my own pocket, to make it right
You'll still attend to
Be on them corners with stop signs and a nine
Cause nine times out of ten, MAC 11's cry
And twelve died yesterday and
If anyone divides the six that carried you
Eventually lose they lives true story

When the night falls anything can happen
We just pray we make it out alive
We all wanna make it to the top one day
Success is a street only going one way
But we all won't make it
Just try your best to survive

(You all wanna see a dead body?)
Well, follow me across the train tracks
Where angry and insane Blacks
They slang crack
Candles burn where they were slain at
And bottles get poured where
They would hang at
Close, I give you truth in this essence
Dead homies added to swears when
Truth is in question
Like "Man I think he lying or
He put that on someone"
If I known you ten years
Got the right to say we cousins
I'm from the city of broken homes
And often I was home alone
And momma started smoking cause daddy
Was scared to smoke alone
Section 8 policies
Top Ramen and sunflower seeds
June got kill't cause he ain't
Wanna lose his Wallaby's
Constant atrocities, no one is safe
There's no religion that can save you
Say goodbye to your faith
Whether you Muslim or a Christian
Baptist, Jewish or Adventist
Atheist or non-religious
Put survival on your wishlist cuz

When the night falls anything can happen
We just pray we make it out alive
We all wanna make it to the top one day
Success is a street only going one way
But we all won't make it
Just try your best to survive

You walked in the apartment and saw
Your father on the carpet
With a belt wrapped around his arm
And a scarf under his armpit
And a needle shoved in his bicep
Earlier this morning you warned him
His addict habit's are something
You couldn't digest
You cry saying "I just don't
Wanna see you die"
Now you tryna dissect the fact that
He hasn't opened his eyes yet
You collapsed on his body
And you started thinking
I could perform CPR
Jump start his heart if it's beating
But his pulse started to weaken
His cardio region depleting as you given
Him part of your breathing
He dead and gone and you had a
Bad feeling when you was heading home
Now it's etched in stone
You've been left alone
So you grabbed his chrome
Gun, handle all pearl, aw nah girl
Put it to your head, thinking
Fuck everybody like a call girl
In a small world
Then pulled back but it didn't clap damn

When the night falls anything can happen
We just pray we make it out alive
We all wanna make it to the top one day
Success is a street only going one way
But we all won't make it
Just try your best to survive