Chords for Joey Bada$$ "Survival Tactics" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

If you met him and you got to have a conversation with him, nine times out of ten he left you
with something to think about.
You know what I mean?
That you've probably never heard or you never looked at it that way.
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[N] I heard Monkey Suit once, the actual song, but I just fell in love with that madly beat.
I pulled up the instrumental and I wrote this survival tactics verse to that.
And the next day I came to school, I seen Steez in the lunchroom and I was like, yo,
you gotta hear this first beat.
You know what I'm saying?
You gotta hear this shit.
So I spit it for him or whatever.
He's like, yo, that shit is hard, but you should put it on this beat and let's do it together.
And then he had the survival tactics, that was a beyond beat.
And I was like, all right, bet.
After school, let's go into my crib.
Niggas don't want war.
I'm a Martian where the army is sparring, sparring with a knife in a missile fight.
I'm trying to accomplish, one, the illest beginning of all time.
I'm also trying to declare war on the rap game.
Like, yo, I'm out here in the middle of this shit and I got a knife.
You know what I'm saying?
And that was just a metaphor to us being here independent, not really having anything.
Get your intel right, your intelligence is [F] irrelevant, but it's definite.
I spit more than speech [Gb] impediments.
Brooklyn's the residence, the best in this evident.
[Fm] Got them niggas P.E. nuts like they elephants.
So we got them going, you know, P.E. is the gang.
Throw them in the trunk if they hate though.
We don't give a fuck what's going on.
We collect our pesos.
Y'all collect pesos.
Y'all money ain't right here.
Got them girls next to the wood like they light year.
I'm right here.
Toy Story reference.
Got them girls next to wood, woody, like they light year.
Trying to get a buzz, trying to pollinate, trying to get a buzz like Buzz Lightyear,
trying to get a buzz like in the world, get a buzz in my career, trying to [F] pollinate,
like trying to blossom, trying to, you know what I'm saying?
Trying to grow.
D's got that presidential shit, time to inaugurate.
He had the presidential pack, you know what I'm saying?
The trees, you know what I'm saying?
So it's time to inaugurate, time to bring it in to our cypher and everything.
My P.E. conglomerates by the P.E.E. [Ab] on any wannabe.
We can see, it run out and leave them empty.
Congratulate the semi-auto, fire flames spitter like Komodo.
No time for fake people, they be simming like Kimora.
I'm the [Gb] emperor in search of Theodora.
My heart go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
So no time for fake people is a reference to Sim.
Like the Sims?
They be simming and then Simmons like Kimora Lee Simmons.
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There's another man who defeated by survival.
That's your biggest rival in your whole life.
These bars you can't handle.
You better hold tight.
Saying I'm the best.
I'm like, it's so right.
Still ain't got enough shine to last the whole night.
Nigga.
There's six million ways to die.
My nigga choose one.
Doomsday come and start investing in a few guns.
New [Bb] Gats, booby traps and bazooka straps.
Better play your cards right, no booster packs.
I ain't going to lie, when he first said that, I didn't even know what a booster pack was.
I actually remember looking it up and I'm like, oh, it's like a fake card deck or something.
You know what I mean?
I was like, word.
He used to always say shit that I just never heard before and I had to ask him about it
or look it up.
Everybody claim they used to rap, but this ain't even punchlines no more.
I'm abusing tracks, leaving instrumentals blue and black.
I'm in Marty McFly mode, so tell him that the future's back.
Riding on hoverboards, wiping out motherboards.
Start spitting fire, cause my motherfucking lungs are scorched.
King Arthur when he swung a sword.
The King Arthur, I ain't even use a pen in like a month or four.
That's a hard ass bar.
That was one of the bars I was like, damn.
_ I was like, damn, give me one more month.
I would've came up with that shit.
You know what I'm saying? _
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_ _ _ It's funny cause Steve loved the bass guy.
It was almost like a playful, sparring bar.
You know what I mean?
He's like a controversial thinker, so I already knew he knew how people would react to that.
But he really loved the bass guy though.
He put me on to the bass guy, I think, if I'm not mistaken. _
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Wow, I just caught that too.
I just caught that too.
President election is P.E. _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ He wasn't one to [F] start fights or start bullshit for no reason, but when it came to that time,
he was not going to be absent.
Steve was a very loving person.
Loving and lovable.
You know what I mean?
He had love for everybody around him.
He was the type of dude that would try to uplift everyone around him.
He always try to leave you with something.
I even remember being 16 when he appointed me as the leader of Pro-R.
And I was like, what?
I'm like, bro, you the leader.
I'm like, I'm the leader and I follow you.
He was like, nah, I want to be more like the teacher.
And right away I understood.
As soon as he said that, I was like, bet.
I got you.
I see your vision.
And he knew that I was capable of taking it to where he wanted it to go.
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