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
Be professional C L Smooth
I sit and listen to the preachers
Talk about fair play
And that n***a 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 f**k 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 f**k 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
Be professional
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 f**k 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
It's life full of 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
All be professional
Respect the game
Respect the game
Respect the game
The Life - DJ Premier
