Maintain (Feat. Z-Ro) - Big Hawk
I'm a maintain
All about fortune
Not the fame
Feddy cold cash and a diamond ring
It's all about feddy when I rap sing
I'm sick of this struggling all damn day
Never see the sun 'cause skies stay gray
This for the little kids that can't go play
'Cause everybody outside playing with an AK
Come around my niggas you
Bust you f**k around get lost
Better not set trip
F**k around get tossed
I be a fool with that break them off
Lay it down little daddy straight take them off
Yeah I'm living a sin when against the grain
You don't know Z-Ro you don't know my pain
Tears be coming on down like rain
It's a full time job
Trying to maintain
Want to stay right but right be broke
A ni**a can't eat with dreams and hopes
Steady be thinking of sell some d**e
Or trying to get paid from songs I wrote
In it to win it don't plan to lose
Got to be a real ni**a fill my shoes
Got to pay the rent
Got to pay the light bill
Got to pay the depend
Deposit and pay dues
Me and that H-A-W-K
Got to deal with stress when it come my way
But one of these days gone be out there
It's a b**ch took a ball
Ball and parlay
Until we make it we mash together
Ooint seven by the nine we blast together
South sive for live
S.U.C. for life
Ni**a we get cash forever
Maintaining hustling struggling but
I got to survive
Keep maintaining
It's a burden up on my conscience
Just staying alive
Maintaining hustling struggling but
I got to survive
Keep maintaining
It's a burden up on my conscience
Just staying alive
I'm a real hustler stacking funds
Riding around with a loaded gun
Some of my niggas that's on the run
With all that w**d up in your lungs
Get your paper
Get your dough
Buy it off the show room floor
Go about this process slow
And feel the pain of my ni**a Z-Ro
Over money I lose sleep sell work f**k sheep
Spit heat on beats
To make my ends meet
Press hard on tablet sheets
Everything else is obsolete
Victim of these ghetto streets
You don't work you don't eat
I strive to gain fame
Struggle to maintain
Stay away from no names
And flip bricks of coc*ine
This rap thang's been good to me
Feeds my family
Forever keep my sanity
And do this sh*t for P-A-T
Must keep a leather head
For all my partners let's make 'em spread
Me and my niggas we break bread
Until the whole family's fed
You heard what
I said in this over bull
All that I say I speak the truth
Maintaining hustling struggling but
I got to survive
Keep maintaining
It's a burden up on my conscience
Just staying alive
Maintaining hustling struggling but
I got to survive
Keep maintaining
It's a burden up on my conscience
Just staying alive
Looking at this little light of mine
Never did glimmer never did shine
'Cause I resort to a life of crime
And I know I'm wrong
But I got to get mine
Got to feed my mouth and five more
I grind every day but I stay broke
Responsibility baby
Taking a load off my little day
Steady be working her fingers to the bone
Aching and tired when she come home
'Bout to pull a stunt
Last of the month
Ain't no more work
Just riding on chrome
No rocks in my pocket the on my neck
One slip and I'm tripping one growing up thick
Give me a couple of zeros on a check
I might sweat
But never gone let up
Maintaining hustling struggling but
I got to survive
Keep maintaining
It's a burden up on my conscience
Just staying alive
Maintaining hustling struggling but
I got to survive
Keep maintaining
It's a burden up on my conscience
Just staying alive