Get By

[Intro - MLK Sample]

Most people live by the philosophy everybody is doing it

So it must be alright

This is exactly what we have done, so often

We have ended up feeling that the only thing right is to get by

The only thing wrong is to just fall

[Verse 1 - Mickey Factz]

Here's a story that's so, so familiar

Nightmares that are so close to kill ya

Cappuccino, triple shot of expresso

Mind saying stay, heart saying let's go

NYU, yes yo, the best bro

School where the best go

But it gave me strep throat

I was sick of the statutes and laws shit

I swear I hated that classroom I was forced in

Momma said, "get a degree or get in the streets"

I said, "well, give me my things, this isn't me"

Rented couches out, used my coat as a comforter

Put the leak out every week, I'm a hustler

I ain't blowing hot air either, fuck a muffler

Gave out free MP3s and made customers

Went from being broke to covering the mag

Middle fingers to all those who said I wouldn't last

Cause I'm...

[Hook - Big K.R.I.T.]

Doing it, hustling, running it, getting it

Weighing it, breaking it, pushing it, living it

Pitching it, catching it, laying it, down

Mothafuckas be on their job when I'm round

You can either get out my way or get down

We the importers, order another pound

Order another round, eyes on the prize

I'd rather get it in for the win than get by

So let's ride

[Verse 2 - Mickey Factz]

Oh, I did a commercial and I'm a sellout?

"Mickey went and worked with Honda," now I'm shut out?

This around the time when me and my pops fell out

Rappers with Bentleys, Maybachs, tried for it

But because I'm on it, haters were not for it

Called me a salesman for doing my thing

I was true to myself, I was true to my lane

Still new to the game

Put my 50 cents in, that was truly a change

Cause I knew that my name

Would see the bright lights

Now I can say, what your life like?

You get in my way, its a fight night

Rocking with the raps

Emergency, surgery, heart is on the track

My arteries attached, my eyes on the prize

I see what I want, now its time to get mine

So I'm...

[Hook]

[Verse 3 - Mickey Factz]

Ghost riding the shotgun, I'm still hot son

I'm carpooling forever, until the job's done

I drive through in that weather and see a dark sun

I start from the end for the beginning

And I ain't far from the ledge with my vision

You scared to leap from this building to that building

But Morpheus said "believe it" so I'm with it

And that's a catch twenty-two

Cause when I fall, I won't get caught, I fall through

I'm at the door, trying to force it, walk through

The oracle is gone so who do I talk to?

That's a good ass question

I'm wanna know the answer to this good ass lesson

Whatever the outcome is

It won't stop a damn thing for how I live

Cause I'm...

[Hook]