Keepin' it real

(verb) the involuntary act of living a day to day struggle to survive. Living life with an eye toward survival with no pretention. Promoting or adopting a realist view toward day to day interactions with others.

See also Keepin it Gangsta, Bein real, real.

...Keepin it real packing steel, getting high, cuz life's a bitch and then you die.
--Nas "Life's a Bitch"

by El Nacote December 6, 2004

Keeping it realer

Someone who can really "keep it real" See: Keeping it realSome people can just keep it realer than others.

(While getting the shit beatin outa her) What Tynesia didn't know was that all of these women were in serving consecutive life sentences...Obviously they were "Keeping it Realer."

by Big PBARLOW March 15, 2004

Keepin it real close to the concrete

Keepin it gully/street

Some wankster got lit up becuz he thought he was big, but he was messin with heads that were keepin it real close to the concrete.

by The White Bastard January 7, 2006

When keepin it real goes wrong

when keepin it real goes wrong is a hardcore song by the band emmure. you should listen to it.

i was moshing at the emmure concert yesterday when they played "when keepin it real goes wrong"

by wagz0216 February 13, 2008