Mazon - Maintaining [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Mazon...
Nosebleeds...
Burg City...

[Verse 1]
I'm on the road less traveled nigga
Before you think bout judging me, better bring your gavel with ya
Study my bars like an exam, my man
I cut the people out who couldn't understand my plan
Came to Philly, no hesitation, plotting my detonation
While enemies sent a nation to weaken my dedication
But, I'm one of the strongest, get greater every performance
Plus I could never stop, I got my city on my conscience
They be begging us to go hard, OG ? and Omar
And everybody else, just know that support helps
I'm from the Keystone State, my city live by them shelfs
So every time I pound the pavement, I'm thinking I gotta help
What would you do for your hood?
You don't give back, you no good
I'm talking numbers like Shady
Gotta look out for the babies
I give a damn play me, but I remember you well
Cause heaven know I'm capable of bringing my enemies hell
And I know...

[Hook]
Life make me, never break me
I been grinding, let's see how long it gon' take me
I'm living it like a marathon, never race G
When people ask me why ?
I say I been
Maintaining (Maintaining) (x4)
Yea I been
Maintaining (Maintaining) (x2)
I leave my heart out on the stage
Tell the fam we on our way, hey

[Verse 2]
Stomach humongous, no one know my hunger
If you ain't following your dreams, then you can only wonder
This for my mother, my brothers, all the years that we struggled
And all my niggas that think their only option is hustle
We hustle harder than alley's from Vince Carter
On fast breaks at the Garden, the last chase of a martyr
I know I flow like the Delaware River, no damn
Gotta go get it broham, don't step out here with no plan
I used to think I'd get signed, soon as someone heard my rhymes
But that was like '99, 2001 became blind
So So Def wanted a demo, we didn't send it in time
Oddly enough, my rap partner became my partner in crime
Using the mask and a vector knife
Two weeks later he got bagged, what a hectic life
Pick up my pen and write my cousin, cause he doing ten
Now will I ever see him again, well it all depends
Long as he comprehend

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
Grandma know that I got skill, she know that I'm real
But only thing she worried bout, how I'm paying these bills
Had to get my paws a little dirty, that's keeping it trill
If I didn't, would I be living?
People judge with the quickness
Then disappear like a witness
From the scene of the crime
Murder you for your shine
But I just kill em with kindness
Steady like an assignment
Waking, baking trying to avoid ? like an Islamic
Somehow they always find us, lock us up in our conscious
Like a mo'fucking secret, ? who believe this
Earth my Lord, they done took me from the motherland
I was probly destined to be king, there ain't no other plan
That would have suited me
So soon as I get this money, I'm gonna ? on it beautifully
I'm passionate, you will see
And I represent for my city, the Nosebleeds is my committee
If you ever in the Burg, don't be scared, nigga come and get me
Who fucking with me?

[Hook]