[00:02.41]Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son
[00:04.45]Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin?
[00:06.17]Yea yea
[00:07.18]Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin?
[00:11.45]Yea yea
[00:11.76]Cause we spendin these Jackson's
[00:12.26]The Washington's go to wifey, you know how that go
[00:14.07]I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right?
[00:16.79]Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin?
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[00:22.05]Visualizin the realism of life and actuality
[00:24.30]**** who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary
[00:27.06]And my mentality is, money orientated I'm destined to live
[00:30.36]the dream for all my peeps who never made it cause yeah,
[00:32.68]we were beginners in the hood as five percenters But somethin
[00:35.21]must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners Now some,
[00:37.92]restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin Others such
[00:40.67]as myself are tryin to carry on tradition Keepin the schwepervesence
[00:43.69]street ghetto essence inside us Cause it provides us with the
[00:46.81]proper insight to guide us Even though, we know somehow we
[00:49.50]all gotta go but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin
[00:52.81]with some kind of dough so, and to that day we expire and
[00:54.53]turn to vapors me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty
[00:58.99]papers Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high
[01:01.73]Cause life's a bitch and then you die
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[01:04.96]Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:06.32]that's why we get high Cause you never know
[01:08.42]when you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:11.61]that's why we puff lye Cause you never know when
[01:13.88]you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:16.98]that's why we get high Cause you never know when
[01:19.26]you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:22.24]that's why we puff lye
[01:25.02]--> chorus #1 echoes at the end
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[01:25.78]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
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[01:26.59]I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years
[01:28.13]of blessing The essence of adolescent leaves my
[01:29.94]body now I'm fresh in My physical frame is celebrated
[01:32.22]cause I made it One quarter through life some God-ly
[01:35.13]like thing created Got rhymes 365 days annual plus
[01:38.12]some Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs
[01:41.40]from my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money
[01:44.05]maintain Don't go against the grain simple and plain
[01:46.46]When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
[01:49.26]Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip
[01:50.98]they green cards Dipped to the projects flashin my quick
[01:54.51]cash and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with
[01:57.14]hash Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I
[01:59.89]used to run with is rich or doin years in the hundreds
[02:02.93]I switched my motto -- instead of sayin **** tomorrow
[02:05.17]That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the
[02:07.53]lotto Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce
[02:10.31]stacks I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot
[02:13.40]back Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric
[02:16.39]Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage