[00:13.34]Slippin'
[00:13.43]DMX
[00:13.76]Ha ha ha ha ha ha uhh
[00:14.36]See to live is to suffer but to survive
[00:20.67]Well that's to find meaning in the suffering
[00:24.60]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[00:26.42]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[00:29.07]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[00:31.92]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[00:34.50]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[00:37.25]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[00:39.89]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[00:42.71]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[00:45.29]I been through mad different phases like Masons
[00:47.72]To find my way &now I know that happy days are not far away
[00:51.24]If I'm strong enough I'll live long enough to see my kids
[00:53.96]Doing something more constructive with they time than bids
[00:56.78]I know because I been there
[00:58.28]Now I'm in there sit back &look at what it took for me to get there
[01:01.82]First came the Howll the drama with my mama
[01:04.37]She got on some fly ****What 'til I split
[01:06.32]And said that I'ma be that seed
[01:07.92]That doesn't need much to succeed
[01:09.87]Strapped with mad greed and a heart that doesn't bleed
[01:12.75]I'm ready for the world or at least I thought I was
[01:15.62]Baggin' Uhh when I caught a buzz for thinking about how short I was
[01:18.29]Going too fast it wouldn't last but yo I couldn't tell
[01:21.00]Group homes &institutions prepare my a*s for jail
[01:23.72]They put me in a situation forcin' me to be a man
[01:26.57]When I was just learnin' to stand without a helpin' hand
[01:29.54]D**n was it my fault somethin' I did
[01:31.22]To make a father leave his first kid at 7 doin' my first bid
[01:34.46]Back on the scene at 14 with a scheme
[01:36.56]To get more cream than I'd ever seen in a dream
[01:39.27]And by all means I will be living high off the hog
[01:42.20]And I never gave a What about much but my dog
[01:44.79]That's my only Howll I had offered my last
[01:47.52]Just another little Come on headed nowhere fast
[01:50.88]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[01:52.70]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[01:55.40]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[01:58.22]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[02:00.81]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[02:03.51]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[02:06.20]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[02:08.96]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[02:11.55]That ain't the half Arf get's worse as I get older
[02:14.63]Actions become bolder heart got colder
[02:17.25]Chip on my shoulder that I dared a Uhh to touch
[02:19.83]Didn't need a click cause I scared a Uh huh that much
[02:22.50]One deep went to for kicks
[02:25.59]Catchin' vicks throwin' bricks gettin by bein' slick
[02:28.25]Used to get high to get by used to have to Howl
[02:31.70]In the morning before I get fly
[02:33.56]I ate something a couple of forties made me hate somethin'
[02:36.47]I did some Arf now I'm ready to take some
[02:39.18]3 years later showing signs of stress
[02:41.40]Didn't keep my hair cut or give a Come on how I dressed
[02:44.18]I'm possessed by the darker side livin' the cruddy life
[02:47.58]What like this kept a *****with a bloody knife
[02:49.83]Wanna make records but I'm howl up
[02:52.34]I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[02:53.43]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[02:54.78]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[02:56.09]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[02:57.44]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[02:58.59]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[03:00.12]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[03:01.28]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[03:02.90]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[03:04.97]Wasn't long before I hit rock bottom
[03:06.15]howl was like d**n look how that how that got him
[03:08.43]Open like a window no more Indo look at a video
[03:10.91]Sayin' to myself that could've been yo on the TV
[03:12.99]Believe me it could be done somethin's got to give
[03:14.06]It's got to change cause I've got a son
[03:15.12]I've got to do the right thing for shorty
[03:15.93]And that means no more getting high drinking forties
[03:17.40]So I get back lookin' type slick again
[03:18.56]Fake What jump back on my Uhh uh huh again
[03:20.40]Nothin' but love for those that know how it feel
[03:21.30]Then much respect to all my Come on that kept it real
[03:22.83]Be strong kept a from doin' wrong
[03:23.87]Uhh who they is and this is yo What uhh song
[03:24.68]And to my boo who stuck with a Arf through
[03:25.46]All the ********you'll get yours because it's due
[03:26.63]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[03:27.38]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[03:28.34]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[03:31.83]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[03:33.00]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[03:34.56]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I can't get up
[03:35.21]Ay yo I'm slippin' I'm fallin' I gots to get up
[03:36.56]Get me back on my feet so I can tear ****
[03:37.59]Can't get up I gots to get up
[03:38.18]This is from the heart baby don't get it twisted
[03:40.05]Ahh X RATED