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[00:01.69]Artist: Nas f/ DMX
[00:01.92]Album: I Am...
[00:02.11]Song: Life is What You Make It
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[00:06.95]Yo ill will, ruff ryders
[00:13.28]what what, sraight like that
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[00:16.12]You a killer or a hustler, dealer or customer
[00:18.85]Gangsta or buster, youngster or old nigga
[00:21.42]A weed head, a coke sniffer
[00:22.85]You rich or a broke nigga
[00:24.50]Know you all relate to this shit that i wrote niggas
[00:26.87]Lots of my mans trapped up in a max
[00:28.77]Penatentary, sending me letters i answer back
[00:31.34]That eventually, we all be bentley'ed out
[00:33.93]Throwing campaigns, fuck it I'm running for White House
[00:36.52]My niggas control Senate, pipe seats jeeps tinted
[00:39.47]Mad Lewinsky chicks, some kinky shit
[00:41.92]Did dirt now I knew it would come back one day
[00:44.53]So I'm on point, scrap, prepare for gunplay
[00:47.47]Stared at one face, thought it was beef he looked familiar
[00:49.66]Ready to blast ,nigga gave me daps said I feel ya
[00:52.58]Can't believe how my life changed
[00:54.03]From the hood, the first time in my life I can say i did the right thing
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[00:57.60]Chorus: 4x
[00:58.06]Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
[01:00.37]No matter what it takes my nigga, we gonna take it(uh)
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[01:02.97]uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
[01:18.63]Everyday shit, around the way shit got me stressed (what)
[01:21.18]So i keep on the vest in case a nigga wanna test (uh)
[01:23.63]I got no time for games cause I'm all grown up
[01:26.13]You wanna joke nigga? laugh when you get blown up (come on)
[01:28.76]See how funny it is when your kids aint got no father
[01:31.45]Cause you played it sweet now you floating in the harbor (for real)
[01:34.04]Shit is hectic so respect it for your health (what)
[01:36.57]Didn't think it was right, you should've checked it yourself (come on)
[01:39.19]Life is too short to get caught up in some dumb shit
[01:41.98]Wake up one day, 40 years old on some bumb shit
[01:44.55]Time flew by, you was too fly to see the light
[01:47.34]Everyday it's getting darker then comes the night
[01:49.68]Now what? (what) realize that you ain't got shit (uh)
[01:52.01]Not long ago you was the man on some hot shit
[01:54.61]So just peep the flow yo, cause you already in this
[01:57.47]Make sure your shit is right kid and handle your business (uh huh)
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[02:00.43]Chorus
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[02:21.32]Make history before you go
[02:23.06]Fuck the misery, you po we gettin doe
[02:25.37]Except the ?dollars? other reasons why I'm living yo (why?)
[02:28.19]Time is viable
[02:29.38]Low and behold the young, black, and powerful
[02:31.45]Got to eat yo, everyday my daughters feet grow
[02:34.18]You wack and cheap with the doe, my heat could blow
[02:36.46]Payin doctors when I'm born, a preacher when I'm buried
[02:39.11]That's why cash is needed for my kids to inherit
[02:41.60]Gotta pay just for living, tax life is a b'ness (business)
[02:44.36]If you catch a bad deal, watch your life deminish
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[02:50.09]Pawns in the game, can't complain or say shit
[02:52.36]Just strap up and hold on, hope for the best
[02:54.91]prepare for the worse, no fears no nothing on earth
[02:57.26]No tears if I'm dumped in a hearse, I won't be the first
[03:00.50]Nor the last nigga, let's get this cash nigga
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[03:02.86]Chorus
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