The Life I Live

Song The Life I Live
Artist Pete Rock
Album Center of Attention

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Intro: Pete Rock
[00:02.60] Uh, check it
[00:06.11] InI in the house, y'all
[00:08.62] Soul brother number one
[00:12.38] The life I live
[00:14.64] Rob-O, Ras, Grap Luva, and Marco Polo
[00:18.91] Yeah, hit 'em off the verse, one time
[00:22.67] Verse 1: Grap Luva (Rob-O)
[00:22.92] Yo, my display of attributes in a tight situation
[00:26.20] Is like squeezing grapes for the drunken sensation
[00:28.95] (But these grapes got the taste of wrath)
[00:30.71] On behalf of my staff I blaze a trail and set a path of forward motion
[00:34.22] Cause a commotion and diminish competition
[00:36.98] School the shorties cause the "I" be on a mission, steady dismissing
[00:40.24] Nonsense and weak foes who kick fuckery flows and stay afloat in the water
[00:44.50] I simply oughta seize your whole manslaughter attitude
[00:47.52] Cause niggas like you ain't really rude
[00:49.43] I'm never pulling punches, delivery is revelation
[00:52.43] Hear the I out, find out what you're facing
[00:55.20] Never displacing is the way brothers be living
[00:57.45] But what's the true elements of what I'm giving?
[01:00.22] Delivering the full coverage of how I'm living in the years of the nine
[01:03.97] My style and my life is defined
[01:05.78] Scratched hook
[01:09.30] Damn right I like the life I live
[01:25.18] Verse 2: Ras G
[01:25.42] The very first African man born into a system that's torn into pieces
[01:29.68] Not running through the feces but every day I feel that the love keeps decreasing
[01:33.70] So I bring the love vibe to make it all coincide
[01:36.71] I love His Imperial Majesty and it's a tragedy
[01:39.97] I've seen your whole strategy is weaker
[01:41.98] Your style's been blown like the speaker
[01:43.99] While I'm an old school new school rhyme fool with no tool
[01:47.26] Packing the mic and keeping my cool like the water in the pool, quite refreshing
[01:51.78] Won't settle for less in this rap game, I'm far from lame
[01:55.04] While others fiend for fame I remain the same
[01:57.56] Staying laced for the future that's faced my lord
[01:59.84] We're InI, all together on one accord
[02:02.59] Yo, the clique that manifests with much rapport
[02:05.10] With much love to give within the life I live
[02:07.38] Scratched hook
[02:09.89] Damn right I like the life I live
[02:27.94] Verse 3: Rob-O
[02:28.69] Birth time, see my first rhyme in 2-0-7
[02:31.46] 1-9-7-1, September 11th
[02:34.23] To the twelfth is when he blessed my peoples with wealth
[02:36.48] First born son arrived chilling in good health
[02:38.99] Couldn't imagine the praise when I came out the poon-poon
[02:42.25] My mama's womb was a nigga's only room
[02:44.50] Now I got the whole world to express myself
[02:46.84] Stretch myself, relax and plus rest myself
[02:49.34] With impossible props to pull
[02:51.63] Check it, steadily avoid all the obstacles
[02:53.89] And negativity, y'all faggots stressin' me
[02:56.15] Take advantage to get the best of me
[02:57.66] Sweating in hopes of getting next to me
[02:59.67] It won't happen, see I came to rock the spots
[03:02.43] Serving the facts I got, on these urban black blocks of America
[03:06.21] From four square miles New York is scarier
[03:08.21] With strength dominates the inferior
[03:10.47] And I'm out
[03:12.03] Hook(Until fade out)
[03:14.29] Damn right I like the life I live