The Life (Album Version Edit|Explicit|Explicit)-Styles/Pharoahe Monch

[ti:The Life] [ar:Styles] [al:A Gangster And A Gentleman] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.99]My life Pharoahe Monch Ayatollah [00:08.56]Holiday Styles Double R Rawkus Records [00:15.48]Pharoahe talk to 'em let 'em try to understand [00:19.60]Let 'em try let 'em try now [00:23.28]My life is all I have [00:25.91]My rhymes my pen my pad [00:28.34]And I done made it through the struggle don't judge me [00:31.02]What you say now won't budge me [00:33.96]'Cause where I come from so often [00:36.45]People you grew up with layin in a coffin [00:39.50]But I done made it through the pain in spite [00:42.12]It's my time now my world my life [00:44.49]My life [00:45.93]Is based on lightin blunts loadin guns [00:48.63]Tellin my lawyers to get the case gone （uh-huh） [00:51.55]I need the bills that the presidents got they face on [00:53.67]So I can switch my residence - get a truck and a Lex [00:56.79]F**k a check I no longer have to wait for 'em [00:59.41]I made a couple ends lost a couple friends [01:01.34]I light a blunt 'cause never will the struggle end [01:04.72]So you can judge a ni**a but you ain't got it you ain't in the role [01:08.52]So you really can't budge a ni**a - you oughta love a ni**a [01:11.71]For the fact that it's my world and my life but still I'm a rugged ni**a [01:15.76]They say you buggin ni**a f**k it I'm a thuggin ni**a [01:18.63]You talkin b******t then kick it with another ni**a [01:20.70]I got a bigger bed and I need a cover ni**a [01:24.00]And I ain't got friends - I got enemies [01:26.65]So if they with me then that means they my brother niggaz [01:29.33]My life is all I have [01:32.63]My rhymes my pen my pad [01:35.19]And I done made it through the struggle don't judge me [01:38.37]What you say now won't budge me [01:40.56]'Cause where I come from so often [01:43.05]People you grew up with layin in a coffin [01:46.23]But I done made it through the pain in spite [01:48.92]It's my time now my world my life [01:51.53]My life [01:52.54]Is a blunt to the head a prayer for the dead [01:54.85]Run around hustlin scared of the feds [01:56.91]They said death is eternal sleep [01:58.58]But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed [02:02.71]So often we get merked in the head instead of big money [02:05.51]They got big momma hurtin instead [02:07.58]My life is makin the verse - but the handcuffs [02:11.76]The bullpens the jail cells is makin it worse [02:13.82]Tell mom I don't go to the church - tell Haq I don't' go to Mosque [02:17.81]I blow blunts hold guns and I'ma be right there when the soldiers'll march [02:21.68]I play the part and my heart seem colder than March [02:24.55]But on the flipside of things it's still warmer than June [02:27.54]I have talks with the Lord and he'll be callin me soon what [02:30.82]And my life is all I have - my family my niggaz my flow my grabs what [02:36.56]My life is all I have [02:39.12]My rhymes my pen my pad [02:41.68]And I done made it through the struggle don't judge me [02:44.92]What you say now won't budge me [02:47.67]'Cause where I come from so often [02:50.04]People you grew up with layin in a coffin [02:53.28]But I done made it through the pain in spite [02:55.90]It's my time now my world my life [02:58.52]My life [03:01.71]My life