Life's A B**ch-Nas

[ti:Life's A B**ch] [ar:Nas] [al:10 Year Anniversary Illmatic P] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.59]Aiyyo wassup wassup let's keep it real son [00:04.15]Count this money yaknowhatI'msayin [00:06.15]Yea yea [00:07.03]Aiyyo put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin [00:10.22]Yea yea [00:10.53]Cause we spendin these Jackson's [00:11.91]The Washington's go to wifey you know how that go [00:14.03]I'm sayin that's what this is all about right [00:15.91] [00:17.22]Clothes bankrolls and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin [00:19.84]Yo then what man what [00:21.09] [00:21.71]Visualizin the realism of life and actuality [00:23.09] [00:23.72]F**k who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary [00:26.85]And my mentality is money orientated I'm destined to live [00:30.22]The dream for all my peeps who never made it cause yeah [00:33.04]We were beginners in the hood as five percenters But somethin [00:35.16]Must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners Now some [00:39.10]Restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin Others such [00:41.60]As myself are tryin to carry on tradition Keepin the schwepervesence [00:43.85]Street ghetto essence inside us Cause it provides us with the [00:46.91]Proper insight to guide us Even though we know somehow we [00:50.10]All gotta go but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin [00:52.73]With some kind of dough so and to that day we expire and [00:55.41]Turn to vapors me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty [00:58.47]Papers Keepin it real packin steel gettin high [01:01.41]Cause life's a b**ch and then you die [01:03.35]Life's a b**ch and then you die; [01:06.22]That's why we get high Cause you never know [01:08.60]When you're gonna go Life's a b**ch and then you die; [01:11.79]That's why we puff lye Cause you never know when [01:14.29] [01:14.85]You're gonna go Life's a b**ch and then you die; [01:16.97]That's why we get high Cause you never know when [01:19.10]You're gonna go Life's a b**ch and then you die; [01:21.22]That's why we puff ly [01:23.23] [01:25.33]I woke up early on my born day I'm twenty years [01:27.90]Of blessing The essence of adolescent leaves my [01:29.77]Body now I'm fresh in My physical frame is celebrated [01:32.48]Cause I made it One quarter through life some God-ly [01:35.11]Like thing created Got rhymes 365 days annual plus [01:38.80]Some Load up the mic and bust one cuss while I puffs [01:43.45]From my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money [01:44.96]Maintain Don't go against the grain simple and plain [01:46.64]When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard [01:48.96]Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip [01:51.84]They green cards Dipped to the projects flashin my quick [01:55.64]Cash and got my first piece of a** smokin blunts with [01:58.52]Hash Now it's all about cash in abundance niggaz I [02:00.84]Used to run with is rich or doin years in the hundreds [02:02.71]I switched my motto -- instead of sayin f**k tomorrow [02:05.14]That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the [02:07.84]Lotto Once I stood on the block loose cracks produce [02:10.39]Stacks I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot [02:13.20]Back Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric [02:15.91]Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage