Maintaining

Mazon... Nosebleeds... Burg City... [Verse 1] I'm on the road less traveled nigga Before you think bout judging me, better bring your gavel with ya Study my bars like an exam, my man I cut the people out who couldn't understand my plan Came to Philly, no hesitation, plotting my detonation While enemies sent a nation to weaken my dedication But, I'm one of the strongest, get greater every performance Plus I could never stop, I got my city on my conscience They be begging us to go hard, OG ? and Omar And everybody else, just know that support helps I'm from the Keystone State, my city live by them shelfs So every time I pound the pavement, I'm thinking I gotta help What would you do for your hood? You don't give back, you no good I'm talking numbers like Shady Gotta look out for the babies I give a damn play me, but I remember you well Cause heaven know I'm capable of bringing my enemies hell And I know... [Hook] Life make me, never break me I been grinding, let's see how long it gon' take me I'm living it like a marathon, never race G When people ask me why ? I say I been Maintaining (Maintaining) (x4) Yea I been Maintaining (Maintaining) (x2) I leave my heart out on the stage Tell the fam we on our way, hey [Verse 2] Stomach humongous, no one know my hunger If you ain't following your dreams, then you can only wonder This for my mother, my brothers, all the years that we struggled And all my niggas that think their only option is hustle We hustle harder than alley's from Vince Carter On fast breaks at the Garden, the last chase of a martyr I know I flow like the Delaware River, no damn Gotta go get it broham, don't step out here with no plan I used to think I'd get signed, soon as someone heard my rhymes But that was like '99, 2001 became blind So So Def wanted a demo, we didn't send it in time Oddly enough, my rap partner became my partner in crime Using the mask and a vector knife Two weeks later he got bagged, what a hectic life Pick up my pen and write my cousin, cause he doing ten Now will I ever see him again, well it all depends Long as he comprehend [Hook] [Verse 3] Grandma know that I got skill, she know that I'm real But only thing she worried bout, how I'm paying these bills Had to get my paws a little dirty, that's keeping it trill If I didn't, would I be living? People judge with the quickness Then disappear like a witness From the scene of the crime Murder you for your shine But I just kill em with kindness Steady like an assignment Waking, baking trying to avoid ? like an Islamic Somehow they always find us, lock us up in our conscious Like a mo'fucking secret, ? who believe this Earth my Lord, they done took me from the motherland I was probly destined to be king, there ain't no other plan That would have suited me So soon as I get this money, I'm gonna ? on it beautifully I'm passionate, you will see And I represent for my city, the Nosebleeds is my committee If you ever in the Burg, don't be scared, nigga come and get me Who fucking with me? [Hook]