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Nas Lyrics for Song: Life's A Bitch
 Lyrics for Album: Illmatic
 
 
 
 38851>[AZ] Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son
 Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin?
 [Nas] Yea yea
 [AZ] Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin?
 [Nas] Yea yea
 [AZ] Cause we spendin these Jackson's
 The Washington's go to wifey, you know how that go
 [Nas] I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right?
 Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin?
 Yo then what man, what?? *echoes*
 
 Verse One: AZ the Visualiza
 
 Visualizin the realism of life and actuality
 Fuck who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary
 And my mentality is, money orientated
 I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
 cause yeah, we were beginners in the hood as five percenters
 But somethin must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners
 Now some, restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin
 Others such as myself are tryin to carry on tradition
 Keepin the schwepervesence street ghetto essence inside us
 Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us
 Even though, we know somehow we all gotta go
 but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin with some kind of dough
 so, and to that day we expire and turn to vapors
 me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty papers
 Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high
 Cause life's a bitch and then you die
 
 Chorus: AZ the Visualiza
 
 Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
 Cause you never know when you're gonna go
 Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye
 Cause you never know when you're gonna go
 Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
 Cause you never know when you're gonna go
 Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye
 --] chorus #1 echoes at the end
 
 Cause you never know when you're gonna go
 Life's a bitch and then you die
 --] chorus #2 includes these lines, echoes at the end
 
 Verse Two: Nas
 
 I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years of blessing
 The essence of adolescent leaves my body now I'm fresh in
 My physical frame is celebrated cause I made it
 One quarter through life some God-ly like thing created
 Got rhymes 365 days annual plus some
 Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs from
 my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money maintain
 Don't go against the grain simple and plain
 When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
 Droppin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip they green cards
 Dipped to the projects flashin my quick cash
 and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with hash
 Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I used to run with
 is rich or doin years in the hundreds
 I switched my motto -- instead of sayin fuck tommorrow
 That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto
 Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce stacks
 I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back
 Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric
 Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cavity
 
 Chorus
 
 *Olu Dara plays trumpet until fade*
 
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