Living For The City
Rakim

In the city where life is animated with colors

Contaminated with aggravated brothers, who knows where the love is?

Growing up swinging, through my upbringing

My limits is the sky from the all eye seeing

Of so-called realities filled with technicalities

I watch my steps, stay on my p's and check my casualties

Not to get played, equipped with all the tricks of the trade

I even learned from the mistakes that the next man made

I know to choose and pick the people I grow up around

I know to grow and get to know the town up and down

But there's no instructions, so many directions

A lot of crooks look to get hooked with connections

Some thought they knew all adolescence could teach

They graduated from school but fail life in the streets

Your pops taught you to strive and stay a live, no ditty

It's easy to die when you're living for the city


That's how I'm living (x3)

Yeah that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)

Yep that's how I'm living


I grow according to my environmental habitat

I hang where everything seem to happen at

I seen it all, and I've been doing that since I was small

Catch a flashback y'all, if I can recall

The days on the corner we watched the world go by

Or nights that wasn't right like when a good friend dies

I quest for the best for prepare for the worst

Never scared but I cared if I'm blessed or I'm cursed

Yes I fear no man but Allah

I'm Gomar Oras Dubar

Which is God so It's hard to see Ra

I do what I gotta do, with or without a clue

Run through any obstacle including you

Cause I ain't got to bust you, cause I got the muscle

A push any clown that tries to slow down my hustle

I gotta get by, but there's no time for pity

It's easy to die when you're living for the city



That's how I'm living (x3)

Yeah that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)

Yep that's how I'm living


That's how I'm living (x3)

Yep that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)

Yeah that's how I'm living


I'm in a zone everywhere I seem to roam is home

A rolling stone, I hold my own just like a microphone

I stay in tune, travel in harmony and set the tone

Being young but I'm grown and well-known

Try to take me out New York but you can't take New York out of me

Cause that's the only way that I know how to be

My neighbors is jealous they label us drug sellers

We may be hood dwellers, we're just a bunch of goodfellas

Cause we run wild with a passion, my style and my fashion

Is getting, kid, I'm making cash and crashing

Parties that everybody's talking about, we turn it out

I'm just a native New Yorker with clout

I know my way around any borough and any town

I make a lot of ground and I'm hard to be found

I get down to the nitty gritty, wake up with something pretty

It gets me through another day living for the city


That's how I'm living (x3)

Yeah that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)

Yep that's how I'm living


That's how I'm living (x3)

Yep that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)

Yeah that's how I'm living


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Lyrics by Rakim

  Addictive   Addictive (So Contagious)   Addictive-Truth Hurts   Adiós   After You Die   All Night Long   Amigo   As the Rhyme Goes On   Casualties of War   Cold Feeling   Concrete Jungle   Dedicated   Dime   Documentary Of A Gangsta   Don't Call Me   Don't Sweat The Technique (Live)   Don't' Sweat The Technique   Down   Down (remix) ft Ken-Y   Eric B Is President   Eric B. Is President   Eric B. Is President [Album Version]   Euphoria   Finest Ones   Finest Ones [Featuring Clark Kent]   Flow Forever   Follow the Leader   From New York To Cali   Guess Who's Back   Guess Who's Back (Alternative Mix)   Guess Who's Back?   Guess Whos Back   Guilty All the Same   Heat It Up   Hip Hop   Holy Are U   Holy Are You   How I Get Down   How To Emcee   I Ain't No Joke   I Am   I Get Visual   I Know   I Know You Got Soul   I Walk These Streets   I'll Be There   I'll Bust 'em, You Punish 'em   In the Ghetto   Intro   It' Been a Long Time (Suave House Mix)   It's a Must   It's Been a Long Time   It's Been A Long Time (Suave House Mix)   It's Nothing   It's Nothing (Live)   It's the R   It"S The R   Juice *   Juice (Know the Ledge)   Juice (Know The Ledge) *   Know the Ledge   Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em   Let The Rhythm Hit Em   Lyrics of Fury   Mahogany   Man Above   Message In The Song   Microphone Fiend   Microphone Fiend [Album Version]   Move The Crowd   Murderer   Musical Massacre   My Melody   Mystery   Mystery (Who Is God?)   Mystery (Who Is God)   Nena   New York   New York (Ya Out there?)   New York (Ya Out There)   New York To Cali   Outro   Outro (The 18th Letter)   Paid in Full   Paid in Full [Mini Madness-The Coldcut Remix][*]   Paid in Full [Seven Minutes of Madness - the Coldc...   Pasado   Pensando en Ti   Poco A Poco   Psychic Love   Pull It All to Music   Put It All To Music   R.A.K.I.M.   Real Shit   Remember That   Saga Begins   Satisfaction Guaranteed   Show Me Love   Skit - *   State of Hip Hop Interlude   State Of Hip-Hop Interlude   Stay a While   Stay Awhile   Still In Love   Strong Island   Sueltate   Take The Train   The 18Th Letter   The 18th Letter (Always and Forever)   The Militia Ii   The Militia II (Remix)   The Mystery (Who Is God?)   The Punisher   The Saga Begins   The Skit - *   The Skit - (dialogue) *   Up Lift   Uplift   Waiting For The World To End   Walk These Streets   We'll Never Stop   We’ll Never Stop   What's Going On   What's On Your Mind   What's On Your Mind (Live)   Whats Goin On   When I B on Tha Mic   When I Be On The Mic   When I Be On The Mic (Single Version)   When I'm Flowin   When I'm Flowin'   Won't Be Long   Word On The Sreet   Word On The Street   Working For You   You And I   You Know the Deal

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