Get By (Remix) Lyrics - Kanye West

1 [Mos Def]

2 History

3 It's happening every day y'all (right now)

4 Everyday (right now)

5 Right now (good mornin', Vietnam!)

6 Listen

7 Brooklyn wins again

8 It's the Stuy, it's the Bush, dem niggaz again

9 Ta' Kweli, Mighty Def, and S Dot on the guest slot

10 Kanye, you're the dope man in hip hop, now let's rock

11 Now roll out niggaz, my hometown niggaz

12 I get it good in your hood so slow down niggaz

13 Watch the speed though, mind the pedal and ease off

14 A street talk into a collision course with these walls - bam!

15 They don't move, don't brake, don't lose, don't sleep

16 Light passin', light fashion, life happens that fast, party done

17 Black hands up and prayer

18 Black guns up in fear

19 Dyin' wish is to touch the air

20 Seekin' heaven that wasn't here

21 Eyes will not see another year

22 It's another day

23 It's the same fight

24 Different round, sound the bell

25 Mix it up as if you're where you live it up the beat

26 And get risen up you're knocked down get back and get it up

27 Get off of queer street and get with us

28 And get clear where we did it

29 From the heart, from the people

30 From the top, from the jeep

31 From the gutter, from the street

32 From my soul to the mic to the essence

33 So in my absence you feel the presence, exactly

34 I make contact for sure the emcee

35 Me and mine we don't just get by

36 We get free and that's ready [Mos -- nigga]

37 [Jay-Z]

38 Just to get by

39 Nigga I sold coke, nigga I pushed lah

40 Carried a fo'five

41 Claimed I was ready to die

42 Promised never to cry

43 Held it all inside

44 Reality was too much to take so I

45 Kept my mind fried

46 Slept for most of mine

47 Soon as I closed my eyes

48 Then I woke up behind

49 Thinking either I load up these nines

50 Or blow up with rhymes

51 cause this flow of mine is like blow up but lines of coca

52 And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme

53 Nah, I'm a poster for what happened seein your moms

54 Doin five dollars worth to work just to get a dime

55 So pardon my disposition

56 Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?

57 Picture me working McDonald's

58 I'd rather pull a mac on you

59 Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin

60 [Kanye West]

61 It's on I'm packin weight like nina simone

62 Piano flow

63 It's like a Michaelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou

64 And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote

65 If music gets you choked up this is the tree and the rope

66 This is shy nigga I mista all of that

67 F**k a map, let's put this bitch on the almanac

68 Dice what they hittin' for, 'lax what you sittin' on

69 Tracks who you spittin on, rap till we get it on

70 And don't let nobody with the power to sign

71 Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme

72 They used to tell me toughen up

73 Put some bass in your voice

74 They used to tell me lighten up

75 Put some mase in your voice

76 Lord willin' I ain't killt nobody

77 But I have a feelin' this album

78 That I'm gonna make a killin'

79 Or not a shillin'

80 This is love it or hate it music

81 But, at least we made it music

82 And we didn't make it industry

83 This is gon' be interesting

84 This'll be the end of me or I'm finna be an entity

85 Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli

86 We are not makin' songs no more

87 We're makin' history

88 [background singers]

89 This morning I woke up

90 Feelin brand new, I jumped up

91 Feelin my highs and my lows

92 In my soul, and my goals

93 Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin

94 But I been thinkin I got my reasons

95 Just to get (by), just to get (by)

96 Just to get (by), just to get (by)

97 [background singers repeat in the background]

98 bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah

99 bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah

100 [Talib Kweli]

101 Just to get by, just to get by

102 Just to get by, just to get by

103 [background singers]

104 bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah

105 Bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah

106 [Talib Kweli]

107 Just to get by, just to get by

108 Just to get by

109 We keep it gangsta, saying 'fo shizzle', 'fo sheezy'

110 Desensitized to the violence on TV during the war

111 Killin each other is easy as whore and liquor for fallen niggaz Believe

112 me, it's ghetto libations seen it all befo'

113 Just to get by, my people we get fly

114 My people we get high, fillin cigars with the lah

115 Nigga come on, even Jesus was stoned before receivin' the throne

116 I send a rest in peace to Nina Simone

117 [Busta Rhymes]

118 Back in the days we was used to doin the shit

119 I can't call it all in the streets

120 We would hustle and fiends would ask for it

121 I guess I was used to just standin on corners

122 Waitin for paper bags with bundles of crack

123 Hopin the week was good so I could get money back

124 To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by

125 When I was stressed I possessed a side of my strength

126 That made me angry and bleed

127 With the frustration havin me smokin Newports and weed

128 To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by

129 Those be the times when I try to rely

130 On my niggaz and street motherf**kers

131 And reach out to wifey and then I place a call on my mother

132 To get by, just to get by, just to get by, just to get by

133 (Hey yo mom pick up the phone, I g- I gotta to talk to you ma)

134 If you was five percent instead of actin stupid and guessin

135 You had to go and study your lessons

136 And know your math in the building recession to get by

137 [Hook: Talib Kweli + background singers]

138 This morning I woke up

139 Feelin brand new, I jumped up

140 Feelin my highs and my lows

141 In my soul, and my goals

142 Just to stop smoking and stop drinkin

143 But I been thinkin I got my reasons

144 Just to get (by), just to get (by)

145 Just to get (by), just to get (get buh buh buh bye bye)

146 [background singers repeat in the background]

147 bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah dah

148 bah dah bah dah, bah dah bah daaah

149 [Talib Kweli]

150 Some people cry

151 Some people try just to get by

152 For a piece of the pie

153 You love to eat and be high

154 We deceive and we lie

155 And we keepin' it fly - yo yo yo yo yo

156 When people decide

157 Keep a disguise

158 Can't see your eyes

159 See the evil inside

160 The best people you find

161 Strong or feeble in mind

162 I stay readin' the signs

163 yo-yo-yo-yo yo

164 [repeat]