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