The Life I Live-Pete Rock

[00:00.00]【Intro: Pete Rock】 [00:02.86]Uh, check it [00:06.12]InI in the house, y'all [00:08.63]Soul brother number one [00:12.39]The life I live [00:14.65]Rob-O, Ras, Grap Luva, and Marco Polo [00:19.17]Yeah, hit 'em off the verse, one time [00:23.15]【Verse 1: Grap Luva (Rob-O)】 [00:23.16]Yo, my display of attributes in a tight situation [00:26.00]Is like squeezing grapes for the drunken sensation [00:28.76](But these grapes got the taste of wrath) [00:30.77]On behalf of my staff I blaze a trail and set a path of forward motion [00:34.04]Cause a commotion and diminish competition [00:36.80]School the shorties cause the "I" be on a mission, steady dismissing [00:40.32]Nonsense and weak foes who kick ass sexy flows and stay afloat in the wate [00:44.59]I simply oughta seize your whole manslaughter attitude [00:47.86]Cause niggas like you ain't really rud [00:49.62]I'm never pulling punches, delivery is revelation [00:52.38]Hear the I out, find out what you're facing [00:55.15]Never displacing is the way brothers be living [00:57.65]But what's the true elements of what I'm giving? [01:00.17]Delivering the full coverage of how I'm living in the years of the nine [01:04.18]My style and my life is defined [01:06.44]【Scratched hook】 [01:09.21]Damn right I like the life I live [01:25.29]【Verse 2: Ras G】 [01:25.30]The very first African man born into a system that's torn into pieces [01:29.58]Not running through the feces but every day I feel that the love keeps decreasing [01:33.85]So I bring the love vibe to make it all coincide [01:36.61]I love His Imperial Majesty and it's a tragedy [01:39.88]I've seen your whole strategy is weaker [01:42.13]Your style's been blown like the speaker [01:43.89]While I'm an old school new school rhyme fool with no tool [01:47.15]Packing the mic and keeping my cool like the water in the pool, quite refre******ng [01:51.92]Won't settle for less in this rap game, I'm far from lame [01:55.19]While others fiend for fame I remain the same [01:57.45]Staying laced for the future that's faced my lord [01:59.96]We're InI, all together on one accord [02:02.47]Yo, the clique that manifests with much rapport [02:04.98]With much love to give within the life I live [02:07.99]【Scratched hook】 [02:10.00]Damn right I like the life I live [02:28.83]【Verse 3: Rob-O】 [02:28.84]Birth time, see my first rhyme in 2-0-7 [02:31.60]1-9-7-1, September 11th [02:34.11]To the twelfth is when he blessed my peoples with wealth [02:36.62]First born son arrived chilling in good health [02:39.39]Couldn't imagine the praise when I came out the poon-poon [02:42.15]My mama's womb was a nigga's only roo [02:44.67]Now I got the whole world to express myself [02:46.92]Stretch myself, relax and plus rest myself [02:49.68]With impossible props to pull [02:51.69]Check it, steadily avoid all the obstacles [02:53.95]And negativity, y'all niggas stressin' m [02:55.97]Take advantage to get the best of me [02:57.73]Sweating in hopes of getting next to me [02:59.99]It won't happen, see I came to rock the spots [03:02.50]Serving the facts I got, on these urban black blocks of America [03:06.01]From four nigga miles New York is scarie [03:08.27]With strength dominates the inferior [03:10.54]And I'm out [03:12.04]【Scratched hook】 [03:14.05]Damn right I like the life I live