The Life

It's always about money It's always about money because That's just the way life goes everybody wants to appear to be rich Ain't nobody tryin to appear to be broke you know 'Cause at the apperance of money you know it's the deception That everybody wants to put out there That's the way they live their life It's the life that we live it's not by the rules The lessons that we learn is not by school Any boy that wants to be man before his time Is out his god damn mind fiendin for the life Full of pain full of strife full of guns full of knife Full of good when your a nigga's girl full of shit when you his wife Full of dope fiend's dopin full of crack fiend's smokin Full of niggas who think the cops ain't watchin Jokin full of Jesse Jackson hopin we can be free Full of niggas in the jailhouse that look like me Full of pimps full of players full of thugs full of macks Full of hardcore rappers with a car full of gats Full of fake ass niggas that rap That will get exposed when they run into a real live scrap Full of little green paper with dead people on 'em Got the graveyard full of flowers with dead people on 'em Full of them that don't like me 'til I figure how to stack around taxes Full of loved ones that ain't comin back Full of snitches full of rats check the stats We losin real bad in this game that we call the life L L L Livin on the line Inspectah Deck The Life E Everything your hands could touch The Life Let L L L Let's all be professional CL Smooth The Life You You You gotta respect the game I sit and listen to the preachers talk about fair play And that nigga knows the game don't play that way This life is full of niggas that can't buy a tank full of glass And sleep behind the buildin that's a bank full of cash Temptation they got sunshine While niggas feel Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine The life for the niggas that got the funniest jokes And the biggest diamond rings and the longest mink coats And the best lookin houses and they put 'em on cribs And show the god damn feds where the fuck they live Full of niggas with too many kids they can't feed Full of niggas who went to college and still can't read Full of fake friends smilin in your face Plottin on a safe full of money while they keep it full of grace Full of poorly runned government that stole this land from the red man Now we celebrate thanksgiving Friends taken fuck 40 acres and a mule Gimme 40 million and I'm cool then it's back to the motherland Not to live but to buy diamonds flawless Shinin not this fake shit that niggas wear rhymin It's life full of niggas climbin from the bottom to the top Full of niggas fallin back to the bottom Urbanized culture got 'em check the stats We losin real bad in this game that we call the life Live Live Live Live Livin on the line Inspectah Deck The Life E Everything your hands could touch The Life Let's Let's Let's Let's all be professional CL Smooth The Life You You You gotta respect the game The life Struggle for survival watch the game That's why I'm glad pop left me this glock to aim Watch yourself now you can be reckless And feel your whole body get snatched like Marbury's necklace I know we on the government check list And soon they be droppin all the bombs and all our lives will be Flex less This life is full of fake saints that won't start prayin 'Til they see this big room full weak nuns payin What's the message I'm relayin It's all in your head He say givin it to God we say givin it to rev This life is full of people who wouldn't give a fuck if I was dead 'Cause it means that they could come out from under they bed Why they scared Life is full of dudes like me Niggas rude like me takin food like me Full of jazz full of soul full of new full of old ASCAP full of publishin that people that done stole Full of life love but people won't share it It's responsibility and people won't bare it It's the hardcore truth but people can't wear it That's why they all lose in this game that we call the life L L L Livin on the line Inspectah Deck The Life E Everything your hands could touch The Life Let's Let's Let's Let's Let's all be professional CL Smooth The Life You gotta respec respec respect the game