[Intro]
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Its always about money
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Its always about money because thats the way life goes
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Everybody want to appear to be rich
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Aint nobody trying to appear to be broke
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You know
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‘Cause the appearance of money, you know, is the deception
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That everybody wants to put out there
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Thats the way they live their life
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[Verse 1]
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Its the life that we live, its not by the rules
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The lessons that we learn is not by school
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Any boy that wants to be a man before his time
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Is out of his goddamn mind, fiending for the life
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Full of pain, full of strife, full of gun, full of knife
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Full of good when youre a niggas girl, full of shit when youre his wife
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Full of dope fiends doping, full of crack fiends smoking
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Full of people that think the cops aint watching
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Joking full of Jesse Jacksons hoping we can be free
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Full of niggas in the jailhouse that look like me
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Full of pimps, full of players, full of thugs, full of macs
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Full of hardcore rappers with a car full of gats
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Full of fake ass niggas that rap
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That will be exposed when they run into a real life scrap
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Full of little green people with dead people on them
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Got a graveyard full of flowers with dead people on them
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Full of men who dont like me cause I figured how to stack around tax
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Full of loved ones that aint coming back
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Full of snitches, full of rats, check the stats
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Were losing real bad in this game that we call The Life
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[Hook]
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“Living on the line”
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The Life
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“Everything your hands could touch”
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The Life
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“Lets all be professional”
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The Life
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“You got to respect the game”
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[Verse 2]
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I sit and listen to the preacher talk about fair play
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And that nigga know the game dont play that way
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This life is full of niggas that cant buy a tank full of gas
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And sneak behind the building of a bank full of cash
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Temptation, they got sunshine
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While niggas feel Bill Withered, aint no sunshine
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The life, full of niggas that got the funniest jokes
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And the biggest diamond rings and the longest mink coats
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And the best looking houses and they put them on Cribs
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And show the goddamn feds where the fuck they live
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Full of niggas with too many kids they cant feed
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Full of niggas who went to college and still cant read
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Full of fake friends smiling in your face
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Plotting on a safe full of money while theyre keeping full of grace
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Full of poorly run government that stole this land from the red man
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Now we celebrate Thanksgiving
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Thanks-taking, fuck 40 acres and a mule
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Give me 40 million and Im cool, then its back to the motherland
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Not to live but to buy diamonds, flawless
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Shining, not this fake shit that niggas where rhyming
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Its a life full of niggas climbing from the bottom to the top
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Full of niggas falling back to the bottom
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Urbanized culture got them, check the stats
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Were losing real bad in this game that we call The Life
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[Hook]
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[Verse 3]
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The Life
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Struggle for survival, watch the game
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Thats why Im glad Pops left me this Glock to aim
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Watch yourself now, you can be reckless
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And feel your whole body gets snatched like mulberry necklace
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I know were on the government checklist
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And soon theyll be dropping all the bombs and all our lives will be fleshless
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This life is full of fake saints that wont start praying
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‘Til they see this big room full of weak minds paying
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Whats the message of the land, its all in your head
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He says “giving it to God”, we say “giving it to Rev”
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This life is full of people who wouldnt give a fuck if I was dead
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‘Cause that means that they can come out from under their bed
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Why theyre scared? ‘Cause life is full of dudes like me
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Niggas rude like me, taking food like me
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Full of jazz, full of soul, full of new, full of old
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ASCAP for the publishing that people done stole
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Its a life full of love, but people wont share it
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Its responsibility, but people wont bear it
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Its the hardcore truth, but people cant wear it
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Thats why we all lose in this game that we call the life
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[Hook]
