Life's a ***** ft. AZ - Nas,Cookin Soul

[00:00.79][A]Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son
[00:03.12]Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin?
[00:04.95][N]Yea yea
[00:05.81][A]Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin?
[00:08.83][N]Yea yea
[00:09.91][A]Cause we spendin these Jackson's
[00:11.04]The Wa***ngton's go to wifey, you know how that go
[00:12.65][N]I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right?
[00:15.23]Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin?Yo then what man, what??
[00:20.20]Visualizin the realism of life and actuality
[00:22.87]**** who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary
[00:25.62]And my mentality is, money orientated
[00:28.35]I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
[00:30.83]
[00:33.44]But somethin must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners
[00:36.20]Now some, restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin
[00:38.88]Others such as myself are tryin to carry on tradition
[00:41.43]Keepin the schwepervesence street ghetto essence inside us
[00:44.17]Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us
[00:46.88]Even though, we know somehow we all gotta go
[00:49.50]but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin with some kind of dough
[00:52.19]so, and to that day we expire and turn to vapors
[00:54.75]me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty papers
[00:57.75]Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high
[01:00.10]Cause life's a ***** and then you die
[01:03.04]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we get high
[01:05.87]Cause you never know when you're gonna go
[01:08.23]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we puff lye
[01:11.39]Cause you never know when you're gonna go
[01:13.62]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we get high
[01:16.64]Cause you never know when you're gonna go
[01:19.07]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we puff lye
[01:24.82]I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years of blessing
[01:26.89]The essence of adolescent leaves my body now I'm fresh in
[01:29.48]My physical frame is celebrated cause I made it
[01:32.33]One quarter through life some God-ly like thing created
[01:34.89]Got rhymes 365 days annual plus some
[01:37.80]Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs from
[01:40.21]my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money maintain
[01:42.85]Don't go against the grain simple and plain
[01:45.52]When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
[01:47.76]Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip they green cards
[01:51.13]Dipped to the projects fla***n my quick cash
[01:53.68]and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with hash
[01:56.01]Now it's all about cash in abundance, *****z I used to run with
[01:59.52]is rich or doin years in the hundreds
[02:01.61]I switched my motto -- instead of sayin **** tomorrow
[02:04.21]That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto
[02:06.76]Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce stacks
[02:09.43]I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back
[02:12.34]Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric
[02:14.89]Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage
[02:17.84]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we get high
[02:20.75]Cause you never know when you're gonna go
[02:22.93]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we puff lye
[02:26.10]Cause you never know when you're gonna go
[02:28.27]Life's a ***** and then you die; that's why we get high
[02:31.57]Cause you never know when you're gonna go
[02:33.52]Life's a ***** and then you die