| Uh, yeah
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| This is a J. Sands expedition
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| Take you on a little journey
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| From Pittsburgh, D.C., all the way to Paris
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| You know how we do baby pa
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah
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| If you know the life, then you livin' the life
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| You know what I’m saying
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| 'cause all my niggas out there getting money
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| Doing what they gotta do to get it
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| That’s how we gonna get with it
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| Check it
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| In my area code, so many stories will occur
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| Cats will run up in a blur, snatch your jewels and fur
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| Then haul ass down the curb, past the cats selling herb
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| Holding fort in the hotel, with the do not disturb
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| Sign posted, I seen this loot and how we grossed it
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| And how we roasted, those two kids by Saint Joseph’s
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| Everybody’s paranoid, strapped to heavy
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| Even the beats, be focused when they’re posted
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| 'cause every since they beat down, up on Locust
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| Without motive, there’s been death threats explosive
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| Between blacks, Asians, and Caucasians
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| 'cause they all praising the mighty dollar
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| White collar to blue
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| These life stories are true
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| Especially when you, are living in the four one two
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| That’s why I shot the one through, to set the record straight
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| How you get first class dreams, but only paying second rate?
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| So if you livin' life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife, baby
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| Ayy yo front window shatters, screams. |
| It don’t matter
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| 'cause no one cares, unless it’s theirs because who’d rather
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| Get their self caught up, the mama business I was brought up
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| And master the environment, or else become a product of it
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| 'cause times are slum, budget. |
| Who want to lug it?
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| When it’s easier to push it, stash it in the bushes
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| When the beats is lurking, and plan A’s no longer working
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| You better have plan B, or else it might be curtains
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| 'cause these days ain’t for certain, Armageddon got us doin' it
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| But I wonder at our pace, and our course can we avoid it?
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| Collision from livin', the dead are risen in hell’s prison
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| A vision deep as religion, I give decisions wisdom
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| When you make 'em limits, go as far as we can take 'em
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| But for now let’s just keep it, at assalamualaikum
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| 'cause that’s all I can afford, green backs be gettin' taxed
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| But now I’m on the paper chase, there’s not time to relax
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| So if you livin' life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife, baby
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| Ayy yo cash, money, loot, skrilla, and greenbacks
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| For all of the above, many men get taxed
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| Plus the leather in the slacks, if Pittsburgh is where ya at
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| Man them shorties got gats, to blow your body off the map
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| See my fam from way back, sippin' cheap wine on the haystack
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| From Mississippi to Alabama, with country grammar
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| So my New Orleans queens, one thing now my fall
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| When your mind says no, but your body doesn’t halt
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| Mister cold powers, critical for the hours
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| Of chaos have me wide, open just like the day was
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| Nineteen seventy two, precise
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| September 16th
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| When I started life now
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| I walk on the humble, with all these
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| And, looking for a piece of the extravagant
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| But they ain’t havin' it, what you makin'? |
| they grabin' it
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| Don’t matter if they shootin' it, or stabbin' it
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| Uh
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| So if you livin' life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
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| Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
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| 'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife, baby
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| Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, so fresh
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| Come on |