How We Survive
R.E.D.
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I got blood, I mean paint on my hands I got the brush, I'm bout to paint on this canvas with Good lines, good lines, just a reflection How we, survive, survive, survive I got blood, I mean paint on my hands I got the brush, I'm bout to paint on this canvas with Good lines, good lines, just a reflection How we, survive, survive, survive I use a pencil to stencil the tension felt tip pen And tell a dick, better be quick, to git me in the cellar get it Meaner then pitbull stigma, liquor store open Swig an Amsterdam and hope I miss the details that I'm Supposed to Sixty year old's staring at sixteen year old's wearing skimp shit That's their prerogative, turn the block, but Brock Turner Gets six months, which brush my supposed to hit the canvas with I guess a rigger, bout time you see the difference It ain't the body kit, sometimes it's poorer and richer Stick up kids is out to tax Well what the f*ck you think I'm doing when I'm out to rap Draw a line on the street it gets crossed, S'why I fly Like an eagle, Steve Miller, band together higher cause Through this evil, Iron horse is filled with people tryna keep it Together, I'm flying speeds, V.S.O.P rushes me All together, left a lot off the palate, the green for the gavel The ballot, the malice, shit happens when you're out in This city, till the stains on ya jacket looks like your past Gets nasty tryna eat, half your face looks like an animal Paint the moon it gets dark, lose a couple friends Know the pain, thirst to kill the villain like marvel Filled with written scripts, pills that harm you, doctors move to foes Hippocratic oath is gone, tragedy is upon you Throw bottles at these AMC lights, so you can see lows For what they are through nights, your sanity can harm you I got blood, I mean paint on my hands I got the brush, I'm bout to paint on this canvas with Good lines, good lines, just a reflection How we, survive, survive, survive I got blood, I mean paint on my hands I got the brush, I'm bout to paint on this canvas with Good lines, good lines, just a reflection How we, survive, survive, survive NYC is my canvas, I brandish brushes Colors are luscious, hit it up with just a couple of touches As me and Redrum discuss it, I'll be adding Streets and blends and running through cans like nothing Bypass fake dudes, they be huffing and puffing Ain't creating nothing, just a bunch of copy cats And puppets every stroke fly art that you'll never forget Embedded in your memory as dope as it gets Pop up shops, you can cop my artist sets Cop hats and shirts so you can adorn your flesh I'm on that every color in the spectrum workable Beneficial every can is stamped official Ain't no issues, I'm sure you find something that fits you When it's all said and done the whole world will see um Hanging in museums and big coliseums Painting portraits of black folks in they kingdom Painting murals on walls so the hood will see 'em I got blood, I mean paint on my hands I got the brush, I'm bout to paint on this canvas with Good lines, good lines, just a reflection How we, survive, survive, survive I got blood, I mean paint on my hands I got the brush, I'm bout to paint on this canvas with Good lines, good lines, just a reflection How we, survive, survive, survive
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Written by: Shabaam Sahdeeq, Thomas Murphy
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