Maintain

Yeah (What's goin' on?)

Check it out

Organized for the nine-three, flava, you know what I'm sayin'?

Makin' it so we all gotta maintain

Mad bills, mad ups and downs, you know how it go

This is real, this is comin' from the heart

So we gon' do it like this, check it out

I'm sittin' at the edge of my bed and I'm fed

Up with negative thoughts runnin' straight through my head

Lights red and I can't make moves

I work hard and I thought it would have

Been nice to buy Papa Dukes some shoes

Niggas try to get over, pressure on my shoulder

Dropped the Fat LP in nine-and-one of October

Now that I'm older and my man Pops is gone

My focus is stronger, moms, pick up your head, we gotta move on

Do you remember Mr. J used to say

The beats was fat, but when it comes to business, nigga don't play

I look beyond all this stress to seek fate

Mad homicides, unemployment rate sky-high

Shorty bustin' caps, cops caught him out there

Daytime drama and his mama didn't care

That's why I shouldn't be rappin' and packin' pistols on the bully

But niggas be stressin' me and I ain't paid in fully

So I'm droppin' somethin' fatter, not for props

But respect in the matter, hops

I'm fat, check my stats, print stops

Data for me and my man Pops

Rolls-Royce and myself are always gettin' mad harassed by the cops

So now I'm in the chop shop, creating masterpieces

So it don't matter, money, what my funny label releases

This is thanks to the streets and my peeps that made me

And the la-la-li, la-la-li

We gotta maintain (Oh)

We gotta maintain (Hey)

We gotta maintain (Ha)

We gotta maintain (Ha)

We gotta maintain (Oh, yeah, keep your head up)

We gotta maintain (Keep your head up, ha)

We gotta maintain (Maintain)

We gotta maintain (Ha, oh)

Now it's been said (You heard)

A grown man ain't supposed to cry

So why are there tears inside my eyes?

I wake up in the mornin', it's a new problem

I just can't solve 'em

Yo, Extreme, Kid, I'm tellin' you, man

I'm on the brink of robbin'

Who's that man in the mirror? Ha

The picture's getting clearer and clearer, ha

The end is coming nearer and nearer, ha

Take a good look at what you fear, ha

Time marches on and it's a new song

It's a new morning, it's a new dawn

Feet don't fail me now

I gotta make it to the studio some way, somehow

But I need a little bit of nourishment first

I stop at the store to quench my thirst

Why are they watching me buy my juice?

Why must they clock me buy my juice?

Just give me my change and please put my change into my hand, man

Would you listen to me if I didn't have a tan?

All you have to do is show some decency

But you wanna bring out the beast in me

Papa always told me

Be all you can be

And maintain

Gotta maintain (Oh)

Gotta maintain, oh

Gotta maintain, uh

Gotta maintain, uh

Keep your head up

Gotta move on, ha

Gotta maintain, ha