Art Imitates Life-Talib Kweli

[ti:Art Imitates Life] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Art Imitates Life – Single] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.14]Ugh pardon me ugh [00:08.95]Ugh know what it is ugh [00:11.51]Yeah yeah ugh [00:12.32] [00:20.70]Lets toast to paid mortgages last to marriages [00:23.83]Tina Ferris’s pay King to Paris [00:26.39]Living long my ni**a my kids heirs and heiresses [00:29.26]The family crest the legacy the heritage [00:31.26]I’m out of Philly with an actress seeing s [00:34.38]We dont need theraflu we need therapists [00:36.51]Them never endin pursuit of them dead presidents [00:39.20]Is the reason I got the band back together b**ch [00:41.82]Yeah its me spawn and his gene tron [00:44.57]North south bomb squad eric Vietnam [00:47.07]If you dont see it like I see it then you see it wrong [00:50.26]We October 3rd *s like me and Kwe [00:52.20]Life got me in a state on the interstate [00:54.76]And all I’m thinkin bout is whats up on my dinner plate [00:58.70]Meanwhile I make your girl hyperventilate [01:00.14]Prolly cause I live the kind of life art imitate [01:02.45]Thats my art in your eyes [01:03.76]Thats my life in your hands [01:05.20]We living next door to the aquilus again [01:07.20]Pardon me fam [01:08.54] [01:09.86]But I’ma show you how it is [01:12.30]I’ma show you how we get in [01:15.49] [01:23.37]Welcome to God fourth mass like anonymous [01:25.49]Passport pimpin like im going outta town to flip [01:28.05]The a** for symbol with the cops hopping out of whips [01:30.74]Bats all *s with zombies the apocalypse [01:33.24]I’m blessed because my afterlife is the studio [01:36.05]This rappers life is gangster paradise like I’m Coolio [01:38.74]Thats what a few believe like a doobie roll [01:41.37]Off of that patron we sippin the Don Julio [01:43.43] [01:44.49]You talkin sh*t we dont need the chatter [01:46.68]Opinions are like assholes not everybody finkle matter [01:49.07]Still they straining to push it out [01:51.26]Put they foot in their mouth [01:52.82]That’s when I’m lettin the Brooklyn out when they pulled it out [01:53.32]Better let it off cause you set it off [01:56.63]The music thats creating a movement like its December 4th [01:59.57]Threw away the dark meat but they ate the right [02:01.95]Animated likes its can of darklit its my wicked life [02:04.57]End up take my life [02:06.67] [02:24.55]Yeah ya’ll keeping it three hunnid [02:26.55]We keepin it 360 [02:27.36]Coming full circle up solong dom the emcees wit me [02:29.99]Tired of saying I’m the best I wont waste another breathe [02:32.30]Heard lyrics coming back I say it never left [02:35.49]Ya’ll just catching up so strong the come around [02:38.11]Ice-T gave ya cliff notes [02:39.42]I aint gotta dumb it down [02:40.67]Cause I read the book made the movie and I edit this [02:43.36]Aura I be living in and set the precedence [02:45.30]And get the presidents f**k all the chit chat [02:48.12]Might hear the click clack [02:49.49]And Im gon diss back [02:50.86]Married to the game get the rights out Riff Raff [02:53.43]Nice being self employed aint gotta kiss a** [02:56.12]I aint gotta swim fast smack a hoe with a love am [02:59.17]Dare yout to say you aint a fan boo [03:01.42]F**k bamboo life imitate art [03:03.30]Imitating life show you how the fam do