We Trying To Stay Alive - Wyclef Jean/John Forté.mp3

[00:05.55]We got the Refugee Allstars rub-a-dubbing in the club
[00:09.34]Wyclef Jean, John Forte, Praswell
[00:18.04]Nah mean, the streets are getting a little crazy.. Nah
[00:20.14]Looka looka looka looka looka
[00:22.03]Looka looka looka here looka shorty got back
[00:23.77]Should I ask her for a dance? Hold on -- there's too many in the wolf pack
[00:27.02]And besides, Dirty Cash talking to her
[00:29.42]Buying her fake furs and taking her to The Fever
[00:31.76]Quiet as it's kept, that ain't even his Benz
[00:33.95]She spends his Franklins at the malls with her friends
[00:36.74]Material girl, living in a material world
[00:38.98]But it's all right cause it's Saturday night
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[00:43.66]And all you college students, play your Ouijas
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[00:50.89]You ain't even close with the rhymes that you wrote
[00:53.38]Don't be mad cause you broke
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[00:57.12]John Forte, grab the mic, let's sway this way
[01:00.86]I'm more than just a rhymer, you still a small timer
[01:02.85]Hoping that the game treat that ass a little kinder
[01:05.34]Every step tango'd
[01:06.34]Your beef don't concern me
[01:07.99]I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys
[01:10.13]My crew's slang flow worldwide like a current
[01:12.47]With the every spot where nobody got insurance
[01:14.95]Brother, do the math -- you ain't half near exotic
[01:17.45]My man's claim true; you -- forget about it
[01:19.84]Po-po just a nuisance, like my influence
[01:22.23]Well, recognize you a lie trying do it
[01:24.68]Got juice—told your lady
[01:25.87]Oops! We Nutz Baby Oops
[01:27.12]Smooth and charismatic, automatic
[01:29.12]You gonna save me
[01:29.96]God bless the day that my sons survive
[01:31.86]We strive to teach the youth, baby, and stay alive
[01:48.27]Well, you can tell by the way I roll, shorty, that I'm a ladies man
[01:52.40]A business man
[01:53.74]Condos down the shore
[01:54.79]Multi-million pension plan
[01:56.03]But it ain't in my plan to make moves without the fam
[01:59.05]I keep it intact
[02:00.19]Yo 'Clef, do the track
[02:01.43]John, play the mack while I pay the tax
[02:03.78]Business as usual
[02:04.98]Watching suspects steal my assets
[02:06.42]Get cut with Gillettes
[02:08.66]We built this concept, connect like NYNEX
[02:11.15]Drinks at the bar, my American Express
[02:13.59]Yo I cook up cook up Yo
[02:14.59]The copper pull up pull up
[02:15.64]Then I cuff up cuff up
[02:16.78]You who's calling bluff
[02:18.28]Now you shook up shook up
[02:19.23]Cause you lock up lock up
[02:20.47]When I love up love up
[02:21.72]You who's calling bluff
[02:22.86]Hey yo, John is chilling Hey yo
[02:25.70]Dirty Cash dealing
[02:26.49]What more can I say, we living
[02:28.10]That's what we got, we got it good
[02:30.39]And since you understood
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[02:34.83]Yeah
[02:37.21]Live at the Carnival
[02:42.35]97 till infinity 97
[02:44.54]Ha
[02:45.53]Refugee all-stars
[02:48.93]Can't stop the shining, can't stop the shining
[02:52.52]Can't stop the shining, can't stop the shining
[02:57.00]You wanna stop the shining? You wanna stop the shining?
[03:01.94]You wanna stop the shining? You wanna stop the shining?
[03:06.43]Can't stop the shining, can't stop the shining