[Intro]
Uh, yeah
This is a J. Sands expedition
Take you on a little journey
From Pittsburgh, D.C., all the way to Paris
You know how we do baby pa
Yeah, yeah, yeah
If you know the life, then you livin' the life
You know what I'm saying
'cause all my niggas out there getting money
Doing what they gotta do to get it
That's how we gonna get with it
Check it
[Verse 1]
In my area code, so many stories will occur
Cats will run up in a blur, snatch your jewels and fur
Then haul ass down the curb, past the cats selling herb
Holding fort in the hotel, with the do not disturb
Sign posted, I seen this loot and how we grossed it
And how we roasted, those two kids by Saint Joseph's
Everybody's paranoid, strapped to heavy [?]
Even the beats, be focused when they're posted
'cause every since they beat down, [?] up on Locust
Without motive, there's been death threats explosive
Between blacks, Asians, and Caucasians
'cause they all praising the mighty dollar
White collar to blue
These life stories are true
Especially when you, are living in the four one two
That's why I shot the [?] one through, to set the record straight
How you get first class dreams, but only paying second rate?
[Chorus]
So if you livin' life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife, baby
[Verse 2]
Ayy yo front window shatters, screams. It don't matter
'cause no one cares, unless it's theirs because who'd rather
Get their self caught up, the mama business I was brought up
And master the environment, or else become a product of it
'cause times are slum, budget. Who want to lug it?
When it's easier to push it, stash it in the bushes
When the beats is lurking, and plan A's no longer working
You better have plan B, or else it might be curtains
'cause these days ain't for certain, Armageddon got us doin' it
But I wonder at our pace, and our course can we avoid it?
Collision from livin', the dead are risen in hell's prison
A vision deep as religion, I give decisions wisdom
When you make 'em limits, go as far as we can take 'em
But for now let's just keep it, at assalamualaikum
'cause that's all I can afford, green backs be gettin' taxed
But now I'm on the paper chase, there's not time to relax
[Chorus]
So if you livin' life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife, baby
[Verse 3]
Ayy yo cash, money, loot, skrilla, and greenbacks
For all of the above, many men get taxed
Plus the leather in the slacks, if Pittsburgh is where ya at
Man them shorties got gats, to blow your body off the map
See my fam from way back, sippin' cheap wine on the haystack
From Mississippi to Alabama, with country grammar
So my New Orleans queens, one thing now my fall
When your mind says no, but your body doesn't halt
Mister cold powers, critical for the hours
Of chaos have me wide, open just like the day was
Nineteen seventy two, precise
September 16th
When I started life now
I walk on the humble, with all these [?]
And [?], looking for a piece of the extravagant
But they ain't havin' it, what you makin'? they grabin' it
Don't matter if they shootin' it, or stabbin' it
Uh
[Chorus]
So if you livin' life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife
Yo if you livin life, then you know the life
'cause if you livin' life, you know this shit is trife, baby
[Outro]
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, so fresh
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