Nas, DMX - Life Is What You Make It lyrics

Yo, Ill Will, Ruff Ryders
What what, straight like that

You a killer or a hustler, dealer or customer
Gangsta or buster, youngster or old nigga
A weed head, a coke sniffer
You rich or a broke nigga
Know you all relate to this
Shit that I wrote niggas
Lots of my mans trapped up in a max
Penitentiary, sending me letters
I answer back
That eventually, we all be Bentley'ed out
Throwing campaigns
Fuck it I'm running for White House
My niggas control Senate, pipe seats
Jeeps tinted
Mad Lewinsky chicks, some kinky shit
Did dirt now I knew it
Would come back one day
So I'm on point, strapped
Prepare for gunplay stared at one face
Thought it was beef he looked familiar
Ready to blast
Nigga gave me daps said I feel ya
Can't believe how my life changed
From the hood, the first time in my life
I can say I did the right thing

Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh huh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh huh)

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh everyday shit
Around the way shit got me stressed (what)
So I keep on the vest in
Case a nigga wanna test (uh)
I got no time for games
'cause I'm all grown up
You wanna joke nigga? Laugh when
You get blown up (come on)
See how funny it is when your
Kids ain't got no father
Cause you played it sweet now
You floating in the harbor (for real)
Shit is hectic so respect it for your health
(what) didn't think it was right
You should've checked it yourself (come on)
Life is too short to get caught
Up in some dumb shit wake up one day
40 years old on some bum shit time flew by
You was too fly to see the light
Everyday it's getting darker then
Comes the night now what?
(what) Realize that you ain't got shit (uh)
Not long ago you was the man on some hot shit
So just peep the flow yo
'cause you already in this
Make sure your shit is right
Kid and handle your business (uh huh)

Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh huh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh huh)

Make history before you go fuck the misery
You living po' we gettin dough
Except the dollars other reasons
Why I'm living yo (why?)
Time is valuable
Low and behold the young, black, and powerful
Got to eat yo, everyday my daughter feet grow
You wack and cheap with the doe
My heat could blow
Paying doctors when I'm born
A preacher if I'm buried
That's why cash is needed for
My kids to inherit
Gotta pay just for living
Tax life is a bid'ness
If you catch a bad deal
Watch your life diminish
Deals made by God and the Devil, and we in it
Pawns in the game, can't complain or say shit
Just strap up and hold on, hope for the best
Prepare for the worst
No fears no nothing on earth
No tears if I'm dumped in a hearse
I won't be the first
Nor the last, nigga, let's get this cash
Nigga

Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh huh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh)
Life is what you make it nigga, I'ma make it
No matter what it takes my nigga
We gon' take it (uh huh)