Mobb Deep - Survival of the fittest

[Intro: Prodigy]
Yeah, sendin' this one out to my man Killa B!
No doubt, indeed. Where that weed, knamsayin'?
That old real shit.

[Verse 1: Prodigy]
There's a war goin' on outside, no man is safe from,
You could run but you can't hide forever
From these streets that we done took,
You walkin' with your head down, scared to look,
You shook ‘cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks,
They never around when the beef cooks in my part of town,
It's similar to Vietnam.
Now we all grown up and old, and beyond the cops' control,
They better have the riot gear ready,
Tryna bag me and get rocked steady,
By the MAC one-double, I touch you
And leave you with not much to go home with,
My skin is thick, ‘cause I be up in the mix of action
If I'm not at home, puffin' lye relaxin',
New York got a nigga depressed,
So I wear a slug-proof underneath my Guess.
God bless my soul before I put my foot down and begin to stroll,
And to the drama I built, and all unfinished beef,
You will soon be killed, put us together
It's like mixin' vodka and milk.
I'm goin' out blastin', takin' my enemies with me
And if not, they scared, so they will never forget me.
Lord, forgive me, the Hennessey got me not knowin' how to act,
I'm fallin' and I can't turn back,
Or maybe it's the words from my man Killa Black
That I can't say, so it's left a untold fact, until my death
My goal's to stay alive,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.

[Chorus:]
Yo, yo!
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.
We still livin' it,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.
Thug life, we still livin' it,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.
We still livin' it,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive,
Survival of the fit, only the strong...

[Verse 2: Havoc]
I'm trapped in between two worlds tryna to get doughm y'know,
When the dough get low, the jewels go, but never that,
As long as fiends smoke crack,
I'll be on the block hustlin', countin' my stacks.
No doubt, watchin' my back and proceed with caution,
Five-oh lurkin', no time to get lost in the system,
Niggas usin' fake names to get out quick,
My brother did it and got bagged with two ounces,
Illegal world where squads hit the block hard,
Ask my man Twin when he got bagged, that fucked me up, God.
But shit happens for a reason,
You find out who's your true peoples when you're upstate bleedin',
You can't find a shorty to troop your bid with you,
Hit with a 2 to 4, it's difficult,
Wild on the streets, I try to maintain,
Tight with my loot, ‘cause hoes like to run game,
Some niggas like to trick, but I ain't with that trickin' shit,
I'm like a Jew savin' dough so I can big whip,
Pushin' a Lex, now I'm set, ready to jet,
No matter how much loot I get, I'm stayin' in the projects.
Forever Jakes on the blocks we outclever,
If beef, we never separate and pull together,
When worse comes to worst, my peoples come first,
Try to react and get them mothafuckin' feelings hurt.
My crew's all about loot,
Fuck lookin' cute, I'm strictly Timb boots and army certified suits,
Puffin' L's, laid back, enjoyin' the smell,
In the Bridge gettin' down it, ain't hard to tell,
You better realize.

[Chorus:]
Yo, yo!
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.
We still livin' it,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.
Thug life, we still livin' it,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive.
We still livin' it,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
We livin' this till the day that we die,
Survival of the fit, only the strong survive,
Survival of the fit, only the strong...

[Outro: Prodigy]
Open your eyes and get wise,
Look alive in ‘95, word up!
Hypnotic thug life get that ass paralyzed,
Knamsayin'? Mobb Deep and all that.