We Trying To Stay Alive lyrics - Wyclef Jean (feat. Refugee Allstars)

 (from "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" soundtrack)

[Wyclef Jean:]

We got the Refugee Allstars rub-a-dubbing in the club

Wyclef Jean, John Forte, Praswell

Nah mean, the streets are getting a little crazy..

Looka looka looka looka looka

Looka looka looka here looka shorty got back

Should I ask her for a dance? Hold on, there's too many in the wolf pack

And besides, Dirty Cash talking to her

Buying her fake furs and taking her to The Fever

Quiet as it's kept, that ain't even his Benz

She spends his Franklins at the malls with her friends

Material girl, living in a material world

But it's all right cause it's Saturday night

So mister funkmaster, pump the Bee Gees

And all you college students, play your Ouijas

Check the spelling: r-e-f-u-g-e-e, get the CD from Sam Goody, hee hee!

You ain't even close with the rhymes that you wrote

Don't be mad cause you broke

Let me clear my throat...

John Forte, grab the mic, let's sway this way

[John Forte:]

I'm more than just a rhymer, you still a small timer

Hoping that the game treat that ass a little kinder

Every step tango'd

Your beef don't concern me

I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys

My crew's slang flow worldwide like a current

With the every spot where nobody got insurance

Brother, do the math, you ain't half near exotic

My man's claim true, you, forget about it

Po-po just a nuisance, like my influence

Well, recognize you a lie trying do it

Got juice, told your lady

Oops! We Nutz Baby

Smooth and charismatic, automatic

You gonna save me

God bless the day that my sons survive

We strive to teach the youth, baby, and stay alive

[Pras:]

Well, you can tell by the way I roll, shorty, that I'm a ladies man

A business man

Condos down the shore

Multi-million pension plan

But it ain't in my plan to make moves without the fam

I keep it intact

Yo 'Clef, do the track

John, play the mack while I pay the tax

Business as usual

Watching suspects steal my assets

Get cut with Gillettes

We built this concept, connect like NYNEX

Drinks at the bar, my American Express

[Wyclef Jean:]

Yo I cook up cook up

The copper pull up pull up

Then I cuff up cuff up

You who's calling bluff

Now you shook up shook up

Cause you lock up lock up

When I love up love up

You who's calling bluff

Hey yo, John is chilling

Dirty Cash dealing

What more can I say, we living

That's what we got, we got it good

And since you understood

We be...

[Pras:]

Yeah

Live at the Carnival

97 till infinity

Ha

Refugee all-stars

Can't stop the shining, can't stop the shining

You wanna stop the shining? You wanna stop the shining?

Can't stop the shining, can't stop the shining