Verse One: AZ
visualizing the realism of life and actuality
fuck who's the badest a person's status depends on salary
and my mentality is money oriented
I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
cuz yeah we were beginners in the hood as five percenters
but something must of got in us
cuz all of turned into sinners
now some rest in the peace
and some are sitting in San Quentin
over such as myself for trying to carry on tradition
keeping this wealth of essence street ghetto wessons inside us
cuz it provides us with the proper insight to guide us
even though we know some how we all gotta go
but as long as we leaving thieving
we'll be leaving with some kinda doe so
and through that day we expire and turn to vapors
me and my capers or be some where stacking plenty papers
keeping it real packing steel getting high
cuz life's a bitch and then you die
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we get high
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we puff lye
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we get high
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we puff lye
Verse Two: Nas
I woke up early on my born day
I'm twenty years of blessing the essence of adolescent
leaves my body now I'm freshing
my phyisical frame is celebrated cuz I made it
recorded through life some godly like thing created
got rhymes 365 days annual plus some
load up the mic and bust one
cuss while I puffs from
my skull cuz it's pain in my brainvein money maintain
don't go against the grain simple and plain
when I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
dropping foreigners take their wallets their jewels
and rip their greencards
dip to the projects flashing my quick cash
and got my first piece of ass smoking blunts with hash
now it's all about cash in abundance
niggas I used to run with is
rich or doing years in the hundreds
I switched my motto instead of saying fuck tommorrow
that buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto
once I stood on the block lose cracks produce stacks
I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back
time is illmatic keep static like wool fabric
pack a four matic that crack your whole cavity
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we get high
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we puff lye
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we get high
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
Life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we puff lye
cuz you never know when you're gonna go
Life's a bitch and then you die
