Jean Wyclef / Tryin' To Stay Alive

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(Wy-Clef Jean)
[00:06]We got the Rufgees All-Stars rubba dubbin' in the club
[00:09]Wyclef Jean, John Forte, Prizewell.
[00:19]Nah mean the streets are gettin' a little crazy...
[00:21]Looka looka looka looka

[00:23]Looka here looka shorty got back
[00:25]should I ask her for a dance, hold on theres too many in a wolf pack
[00:28]and besides Dirtycash talkin' ta her
[00:31]buyin' her fake furs and takin' her to the fever
[00:33]quite as his kept that ain't even his Benz
[00:36]she spends his franklins at the malls with her friends
[00:38]material girl, livin' in a material world
[00:41]but it's alright cuz it's Saturday night
[00:43]so mista funkmasta pump the Bee-Gees
[00:45]and all you college students bring your ouija's
[00:48]check the spellin' R E-F U G E-E get the cd from Sam Goody tee he he
[00:53]You ain't even close wit the rhymes that you wrote
[00:56]don't be mad cause you broke
[00:57]let me clear my throat, ah huh ah huh
[01:00]John Forte, grab the mic roots and sway it this way

(John Forte)
[01:03]I more than just a rhymer, you still a small timer
[01:06]hopin' that the game treat that ass a 'lil kinda
[01:08]everystep tango'd
[01:09]your beat don't concern me
[01:11]I'm eatin mangos, in Trinada wit attorneys (oh yea)
[01:13]my crews slang flow worldwide like a current
[01:15]wit da every spot where nobody get insurance
[01:18]brotha do the math you ain't half near exotic
[01:20]my mans claim true, you forget about it
[01:23]pope hoe just a new stance, like my influence
[01:26]well recognize you a lie tryin' do it
[01:28]got juice told your lady, oops, we nuts baby
[01:31]smooth and charizmatic automatic, you gonna save me
[01:33]godbless the day that my sons survive
[01:35]we strive to teach the youth baby, and stay alive

(Wy-Clef)
[01:39]Refugee camp nuts baby
[01:41]John Forte
[01:42]Yo watch your lady

(Prizewell, Dirtycash)
[01:44]yo watch your lady, eh ahhh
[01:46]special ill rhyme dirtycash

(Wy-Clef)
[01:48]yo if you got more than a dollar in your pocket right now
[01:51]put your hands up  (yo, yo)

(Prizewell, Dirtycash)
[01:53]you can tell by the way i roll shorty
[01:56]that I'm a ladies man, a business man
[01:59]condos down the shore, multi million pension plans
[02:01]but it ain't in my plan to make a move without the fam
[02:03]I keep it intact, yo, Clef do the track
[02:06]John play da mack while I pay the tax
[02:08]business as usuall, watchin' suspects
[02:11]steal my assetts, get cut with g-lets
[02:13]we built this concept, connect like nin x l la
[02:16]drinks at the bar, my american express

(Wy-Clef)
[02:19]yo I cook up cook up
[02:20]and the cop a pull up pull up
[02:21]then I cuff up cuff up
[02:22]you who's callin' bluff
[02:24]now you shook up shook up
[02:25]cause you lock up lock up
[02:26]when I love up love up
[02:27]you who's callin' bluff
[02:28]hey you John is chillin', Dirtycash chillin'
[02:31]what more can i say we livin'
[02:33]that what we got we got it good
[02:35]and you understood
[02:38]we be...

(Prizewell, Dirtycash)
[02:44]yeah
[02:46]live at the carnival...
[02:48]97 till infinite
[02:51]ha.....
[02:52]Refugee All-Stars
[02:54]can't stop the shining, cant stop the shining
[02:59]can't stop the shining, cant stop the shining
[03:04]you wanna stop the shining, you wanna stop the shining?
[03:09]you wanna stop the shining, you wanna stop the shining?
[03:14]cant stop the shining, can't stop the shining