Talib Kweli Get By Remix Lyrics

lets see
its happening everyday yall (right now)
everyday (right now)
(right now)
Good morning vietnam!

[Mos Def]

listen!
brookly wins again
its the star
its the bush
them n____s again
ta kweli, mighty definate
start on the guest lot
kanye or that dope man of hiphop
now lets rock
and roll out n____s
my whole town n____s
i get it good in your hood so slow down n____s
watch the speed dawg
mind your pedal and ease off
or screech off a__ume a collision course with these walls.
Bam!
dont move dont play dont lose dont sleep
life passin life flashing life happens that fast
pardon done black hands are not rare
black guns are not fair
dying wish is to touch the air
seeking heaven, it wasnt here
eyes will not see another year
its another day
its the same fight
dip around sound of bell
mix it up in victory
and live it up the beat it get..
prison have you locked down
so get back and get it up
get offa queer street and get with us
it get clear where we get it from
the heart from the people from the top
from the deep from the cut from the street
from my soul to the mic to the essence
said in my absence you feel the presence
exactly, i make contact for shorter emcees
me and mine we dont just get by we get free
lets go

[Jay-Z]

Just to get by
n____ I sold c__e, n____ I pushed lah
Carried a fo'five
Claimed I was ready to die
Promised never to cry
Held it all inside
Reality was too much to take so I
Kept my mind fly
Slept for most of mine
Soon as I closed my eyes
Then I woke up behind
thinkin either i load up these nines
Or blow up with rhymes
cuz this flow of mine's like blow up on lines of coca
And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
Nah, I'ma poster for what happened seein your moms
Doin five dollars worth to work just to get a dime
So pardon my disposition
Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?
Picture me working McDonald's (uh uh)
I'd rather pull a mac on you
Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin

[Kanye West]

they say im back in, wait to get em some more
piano flow, its like a michael angelo.
painted a portrait of mia angelo and gave it to a sick poet
for an antidote
if music gets you choked up this is the tree and a rope
this is chi n____ i mix to all of that
f___ a map lets put this b____ on an almanac
lights what they hittin for
blacks what you sittin on
tracks that you spittin on
rep till we get it on
and dont let nobody with the power to sign
ever tell you you aint have the power to rhyme
they used to tell me tough it up put some bass in your voice
they used to tell me lighten up put some mase in your voice
lord willin i aint killed nobody
but i have a feeling this album that im going to make a killing
or not a shilling
this is love it or hate it music
but at least we made it music
and we didnt make the industry
this is going to be interesting
this ll be the end of me
or im fittin to be an entity
kanye, jay-z, mos def, and kweli
we are not making songs anymore
we are making history.

[Hook: Talib Kweli + background singers]

This morning I woke up
Feelin brand new and I, I jumped up
Feelin my highs and my lows
In my soul, and my goals
Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin
But I been thinkin I got my reasons
Just to get (by), just to get (by)
Just to get (by), just to get (by)

[background singers]
bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah

[Talib Kweli]
bu bu bu by by by
Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by

[background singers]
Just to get by
bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah

[Talib Kweli]
Just to get by, Just to get by, Just to get by
bu bu bu by by by

We keep it gangsta, say 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy'
desensitized to the violence on the TV during the war
Killin each other is easy as pourin liquor for fallen n____s Believe
me, it's ghetto *love < not said*, I bet you seen it all befo'
Just to get by, my people we get fly
My people we get high, fillin cigars with the lah
n____ come on, even Jesus was stoned before receivin the throne
I said to rest in peace and leave us alone

[Busta Rhymes]
Back in the days we was used to doin the s___
I can't call it all in the streets
We was hustlin fiends that asked for it
I guess I was used to just standin on corners
Waitin for paper bags with bundles of crack
Hopin the week was good so I could get money back
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength
That made me angry and bleed
With the frustration havin me smokin Newports and weed
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
Those be the times when I try to rely
On my n____s and street m_________ers
And reach out to wifey and then I place a call on my mother
To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by
(Hey yo mom pick up the phone, I g- I gotta to talk to you ma)
If you was five percent instead of actin stupid and guessin
You had to go and study your lessons
And know your math in the building recession to get by

[Hook: Talib Kweli + background singers]
(clapping with the beat)
This morning I woke up
Feelin brand new and I, I jumped up
Feelin my highs and my lows
In my soul, and my goals
Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin
But I been thinkin I got my reasons
Just to get , just to get
Just to get, just to get ( byeeeeeee)

[background singers repeat in the background]
bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah
bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah

[Talib Kweli]
Some people try to be fly
They fake and they lie
They snakes'll see the hate in their eyes
Look at the sky to survive
People try to get by
Fightin force, slice of the pie
Tryin to eat and be high
How you know you really alive if you don't reach for the sky?
Your eyes keep on the prize
What you seek and you'll find
Who's the realest n____s? that we let people decide
Who keepin it live?
Brooklyn got the key to the ride, c'mon
Some people try to be fly
They fake and they lie
They snakes'll see the hate in their eyes
Look at the sky to survive
People try to get by
Fightin force, slice of the pie
Tryin to eat and be high
How you know you really alive if you don't reach for the sky?
Your eyes keep on the prize
What you seek and you'll find
Who's the realest n____s? that we let people decide
Who keepin it live?
Brooklyn got the key to the ride, c'mon