The Life I Live-Pete Rock/INI

[00:00.00]Intro: Pete Rock [00:02.60]Uh, check it [00:06.11]InI in the house, y'all [00:08.62]Soul brother number one [00:12.38]The life I live [00:14.64]Rob-O, Ras, Grap Luva, and Marco Polo [00:18.91]Yeah, hit 'em off the verse, one time [00:22.67]Verse 1: Grap Luva (Rob-O) [00:22.92]Yo, my display of attributes in a tight situation [00:26.20]Is like squeezing grapes for the drunken sensation [00:28.95](But these grapes got the taste of wrath) [00:30.71]On behalf of my staff I blaze a trail and set a path of forward motion [00:34.22]Cause a commotion and diminish competition [00:36.98]School the shorties cause the "I" be on a mission, steady dismissing [00:40.24]Nonsense and weak foes who kick ass sexy flows and stay afloat in the water [00:44.50]I simply oughta seize your whole manslaughter attitude [00:47.52]Cause niggas like you ain't really rude [00:49.43]I'm never pulling punches, delivery is revelation [00:52.43]Hear the I out, find out what you're facing [00:55.20]Never displacing is the way brothers be living [00:57.45]But what's the true elements of what I'm giving? [01:00.22]Delivering the full coverage of how I'm living in the years of the nine [01:03.97]My style and my life is defined [01:05.78]Scratched hook [01:09.30]Damn right I like the life I live [01:25.18]Verse 2: Ras G [01:25.42]The very first African man born into a system that's torn into pieces [01:29.68]Not running through the feces but every day I feel that the love keeps decreasing [01:33.70]So I bring the love vibe to make it all coincide [01:36.71]I love His Imperial Majesty and it's a tragedy [01:39.97]I've seen your whole strategy is weaker [01:41.98]Your style's been blown like the speaker [01:43.99]While I'm an old school new school rhyme fool with no tool [01:47.26]Packing the mic and keeping my cool like the water in the pool, quite refre******ng [01:51.78]Won't settle for less in this rap game, I'm far from lame [01:55.04]While others fiend for fame I remain the same [01:57.56]Staying laced for the future that's faced my lord [01:59.84]We're InI, all together on one accord [02:02.59]Yo, the clique that manifests with much rapport [02:05.10]With much love to give within the life I live [02:07.38]Scratched hook [02:09.89]Damn right I like the life I live [02:27.94]Verse 3: Rob-O [02:28.69]Birth time, see my first rhyme in 2-0-7 [02:31.46]1-9-7-1, September 11th [02:34.23]To the twelfth is when he blessed my peoples with wealth [02:36.48]First born son arrived chilling in good health [02:38.99]Couldn't imagine the praise when I came out the poon-poon [02:42.25]My mama's womb was a nigga's only room [02:44.50]Now I got the whole world to express myself [02:46.84]Stretch myself, relax and plus rest myself [02:49.34]With impossible props to pull [02:51.63]Check it, steadily avoid all the obstacles [02:53.89]And negativity, y'all niggas stressin' me [02:56.15]Take advantage to get the best of me [02:57.66]Sweating in hopes of getting next to me [02:59.67]It won't happen, see I came to rock the spots [03:02.43]Serving the facts I got, on these urban black blocks of America [03:06.21]From four niggas miles New York is scarier [03:08.21]With strength dominates the inferior [03:10.47]And I'm out [03:12.03]Hook(Until fade out) [03:14.29]Damn right I like the life I live