DMX - Slippin

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

I've been through mad different phases like mazes, to find my way

And now I know that happy days are not far away

If I'm strong enough I'll live long enough to see my kids

Doing something more constructive with their time than bids

I know because I been there

Now I'ma there sit back and look

At what it took for me to get there

First came the bullshit the drama with my Mama

She got on some fly shit so I split

And said that I'ma be that seed

That doesn't need much to succeed

Strapped with mad greed

And a heart that doesn't bleed

I'm ready for the world or at least I thought I was

Bagging niggas when I caught a buzz

For thinking about how short I was

Going too fast, it wouldn't last but yo I couldn't tell

Group homes and institutions, prepared my ass for jail

They put me in a situation forcing me to be a man

When I was just learning to stand without a helping hand

Damn, was it my fault, something I did

To make a father leave his first kid at seven doin my first bid

Back on the scene at fourteen with a scheme

To get more cream than I'd ever seen in a dream

And by all means I will be living high off the hog

And I never gave a fuck about much but my dog

That's my only muthafucka I had offered my last

Just another little nigga headed nowhere fast

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

That ain't the half shit get's worse as I get older

Actions become bolder, heart got colder

Chip on my shoulder that I dared a nigga to touch

Didn't need a clique 'cause I scared a nigga that much

One deep with the pit starting shit for kicks

Catching Vicks throwing bricks gettin by being slick

Used to get high to get by used to have to puff my L

In the morning before I get fly

Ate something a couple of forties made me hate something

I did some coke now I'm ready to take something

Three years later showing signs of stress

Didn't keep my hair cut or give a fuck how I dressed

I'm possessed by the darker side living the cruddy life

Shit like this kept a nigga with a bloody knife

Wanna make records but I'm fucking it up

I'm slippin', I'm falling, I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

Wasn't long before I hit rock bottom

Niggas talking shit was like damn look how that rock got him

Open like a window

No more endo

Look at a video

Sayin' to myself that could've been yo

Ass on the TV

Believe me, it could be done

Something's got to give

Gots to change 'cause I've got a son

I gots to do the right thing for shorty

And that means no more gettin' high, drinkin' 40s

So I get back looking type slick again

Fake niggas jump back on my dick again

Nothing but love for those that know how it feel

And much respect to all my niggas that kept it real

Kept a nigga strong, kept a nigga from doing wrong

Niggas know who they is and this is yo fucking song

And to my boo who stuck with a nigga through

All the bullshit you'll get yours because it's due

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up

Ay yo I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I gots to get up

Get me back on my feet so I can tear shit up