[Verse 1]
We just trying to get by but yo I swear
I hear the streets calling
Knowing you could lose it all
Within each moment
Pops taught when I was young
Know your opponent
Never leave yourself open
Or u end up broken
d***
U know that left a brother thinking
So now I can spot the fake from a distance
Learn to read everybody in the first instance
It became an inclination
Instinct
Something that's important if you wanna remain on top
Exercise it everyday what not
They take shots
And unfortunately that something that'll stay the same
Unless u go and change the game
cuz
[Chorus]
I always had the mind set
That I want success
Decided I should take the steps
to Get rich or die trying
I don't know what the future holds
but I'm sure that I'll get it before I end up dying
cuz we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out
I never been the dude that'll stand on the block allday
or roam around the hood in the project hallwayz
that ain't who I run wit homey no way
and great minds think alike so we all say
we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out
[Verse 2]
Listen I want it all
Money a big mansion
money from my passion
a few years back I decided to take action
guess my progression was measured in small fractions
got drake blasting
trying to be successful
waiting for the day that fate says
iam a let u
alright ILLZ its that time that I connect u
to everything u ever envisioned inside your mental
this is what I'm meant to
do I can't expect for u
to understand not trying to be disrespectful
but we are not the same
i came to the road and paved my own lane
this is not a game
and my hunger to do it ain't something u could refute
its bigger than the lifestyle
bigger than all the loot
cuz what you represent is everything I rebuke
this is The Pursuit...
[Chorus]
We just trying to get by but yo I swear
I hear the streets calling
Knowing you could lose it all
Within each moment
Pops taught when I was young
Know your opponent
Never leave yourself open
Or u end up broken
d***
U know that left a brother thinking
So now I can spot the fake from a distance
Learn to read everybody in the first instance
It became an inclination
Instinct
Something that's important if you wanna remain on top
Exercise it everyday what not
They take shots
And unfortunately that something that'll stay the same
Unless u go and change the game
cuz
[Chorus]
I always had the mind set
That I want success
Decided I should take the steps
to Get rich or die trying
I don't know what the future holds
but I'm sure that I'll get it before I end up dying
cuz we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out
I never been the dude that'll stand on the block allday
or roam around the hood in the project hallwayz
that ain't who I run wit homey no way
and great minds think alike so we all say
we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out to get papa
we out
[Verse 2]
Listen I want it all
Money a big mansion
money from my passion
a few years back I decided to take action
guess my progression was measured in small fractions
got drake blasting
trying to be successful
waiting for the day that fate says
iam a let u
alright ILLZ its that time that I connect u
to everything u ever envisioned inside your mental
this is what I'm meant to
do I can't expect for u
to understand not trying to be disrespectful
but we are not the same
i came to the road and paved my own lane
this is not a game
and my hunger to do it ain't something u could refute
its bigger than the lifestyle
bigger than all the loot
cuz what you represent is everything I rebuke
this is The Pursuit...
[Chorus]