Nas - Life We Chose lyrics

[Nas] To my n***az.. huh.. We all we got.. Let's hold it down though, y'know? However it's gon' go down This what we gotta deal with, y'know? Yo.. [Chorus: Nas] It's the life we chose, where friends become foes and the dough'll get you k**ed quicker than you know This is the life we chose, bring fake snakes and hoes and the only way out, is d**h or goin broke This the life we chose, ain't too many happy endings That's why there ain't too many happy n***az in it And I'll admit it, this life is f**ed up but yo.. (but yo..) this life is the only life I know [echoes] [Nas] Uhh, uhh, uhh Gold bathtubs, makin love to my Queen Get my back rubbed, Chardonnay, rollin up green Statues, marble floors, rare paintings on my wall My lifestyle's like the Forbes Magazine Closets, full of rockets and submachines Take this n***a out the projects, and his thug team Yo we cruise past street lights, ill rides Mr. Child both coasts with the most loud toast Calicos roast y'all folks, keep y'all dyin Cause it's hard to f** around when we dealin with science My enemies got money, so y'all should watch how I play it They never know we enemies until they hear me say it Til they kid's on the phone sayin, "Please daddy pay it" Til they brain's on the floor, mixed on the pavement High-cla** elegance, you respect or you hiss You go against you'd rather piss on an electrical fence It's strategic, how these n***az want you to think You'd be surprised, who'd be the one to put you to sleep Why you stink? Yo these streets don't allow you to blink You get showered by lead, comin out with your mink Bow ties and tuxedos, bust Eagles Dump d** and acid, then they rush with the Rico It's hard f**in with n***az you hope you can trust You a fool if your main b**h is easy to f** And you've got money - is these hoes greedy or what? sh** is devious, ex-friends wantin you stuck [Chorus] [Nas] Uhh, what's love when you don't give your man enough dough? He wanna stick you What's love, you got beef? Nobody rollin wit you What's love, you locked up, and your family don't care Is love a four-letter word, that deceives the air? What's real, when you know your man's girl is a hoe And you don't even let him know, cause you f**ed her befo' What's real, when you talk behind a man's back then you see him and give him dap, now explain that? What's trust, when they seperate your case When you at your court date, your co-de', can't look in your face What's trust, when you keep your wife away from your man? And he never crossed you, but you claimin he's fam'? What's trust, when you get bust, your n***az don't retaliate? They blaze purple haze with em the next day? God forbid one of my n***az get hit, I'ma go haywire Won't hesitate, I'ma spray fire But everybody's different, you won't know how you react til you in that position, and that's an actual fact The hearts of men change as time goes on, who's wrong? You was hungry when you stuck Duke, he came back to buck you Who's wrong? Foul all your life, now you 90 On your d**hbed you regret bein grimy What's lust, a bust nut? What's a thug? A ghetto child raised around d**, til he's old enough to bust slugs? Then what's jail, to rehabilitate, or to make a n***a worse when he come home to catch another case? Life's about decisions, you choose it, you gotta live it You did it, heaven or hell or prison Who knows when your clock'll stop tickin, get your weight up Save up before it's over neighbor, I told ya You gettin older player, look at those who gave up [Chorus]