Released: October 29, 2013
Featuring: Luke James Lupe Fiasco Snoop Dogg
Songwriter: Snoop Dogg Lupe Fiasco Luke James Anu-Sun Robert Glasper
Producer: Robert Glasper
[Chorus: Luke James]
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
[Verse 1: Snoop Dogg]
Past interference, perseverance
Now let me say this clearly 'cause I needs no clearance
Do you have insurance
For you and your children?
I say that I don't just to make an appearance
I'm standing tall, on the ball leanin' back
Black power, loc, I'm tryna bring the meaning back
Seems like a wish away
Chillin' like a villain on the corner
With a burner in the pickle plane
Freeze tag? Nah nigga, ease back
Sackin' up the peeznack of the creeznack in the beezack
Or maybe it's the freezer
We gettin' money on the spot where we G's, huh?
And we never gon' slip up
Until we get the whole zipper, tipper, Crip or, die
Until the sun rise up to the stars
County jail bars, beats and breaks
And you know when the night fall...
[Chorus: Luke James]
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Faith, uh
Violent shindig, bloody dance floor
Violet Prince wig, what he stand for?
Kimi Räikkönen's Lotus position sit with the quickness
Like a twisted double shore, Isthmus
What is Christmas in the Cathouse?
Copious Santa-hatted hoes blowin' they backs out
Fitting, meanwhile at the aftermath of the dance floor
Hitting, sitting like Kimi when he's pitting
With blood gently dripping, it's something from Rudyard Kipling
Or Trevanian, Blowanotherainian
Characteristics caricatured into a ridiculous
Or some mad fit imagining the status of the bones that his fist hit
He'll die a little later
Or maybe later more wearing something from Aitor Throup
Nigga rich and waiter poor
Firefighter igniting the paper wall inside of the Players Ball
And gone
[Chorus: Luke James]
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
[Outro: Luke James]
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
[Verse 1: Snoop Dogg]
Past interference, perseverance
Now let me say this clearly 'cause I needs no clearance
Do you have insurance
For you and your children?
I say that I don't just to make an appearance
I'm standing tall, on the ball leanin' back
Black power, loc, I'm tryna bring the meaning back
Seems like a wish away
Chillin' like a villain on the corner
With a burner in the pickle plane
Freeze tag? Nah nigga, ease back
Sackin' up the peeznack of the creeznack in the beezack
Or maybe it's the freezer
We gettin' money on the spot where we G's, huh?
And we never gon' slip up
Until we get the whole zipper, tipper, Crip or, die
Until the sun rise up to the stars
County jail bars, beats and breaks
And you know when the night fall...
[Chorus: Luke James]
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Faith, uh
Violent shindig, bloody dance floor
Violet Prince wig, what he stand for?
Kimi Räikkönen's Lotus position sit with the quickness
Like a twisted double shore, Isthmus
What is Christmas in the Cathouse?
Copious Santa-hatted hoes blowin' they backs out
Fitting, meanwhile at the aftermath of the dance floor
Hitting, sitting like Kimi when he's pitting
With blood gently dripping, it's something from Rudyard Kipling
Or Trevanian, Blowanotherainian
Characteristics caricatured into a ridiculous
Or some mad fit imagining the status of the bones that his fist hit
He'll die a little later
Or maybe later more wearing something from Aitor Throup
Nigga rich and waiter poor
Firefighter igniting the paper wall inside of the Players Ball
And gone
[Chorus: Luke James]
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
The world is so insane
I gotta maintain
Nothing is easy here
Stand tall through the rain
My heart will never change
I gotta persevere
[Outro: Luke James]
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere
I gotta persevere