[00:00.00]Art Imitates Life (Explicit) - Rah Digga/Talib Kweli/Albe Back/Black Thought
[00:02.09]Ugh pardon me ugh
[00:09.40]Ugh know what it is ugh
[00:10.72]Yeah yeah ugh
[00:20.81]Lets toast to paid mortgages last to marriages
[00:23.80]Tina Ferris's pay King to Paris
[00:26.25]Living long my ni**a my kids heirs and heiresses
[00:28.90]The family crest the legacy the heritage
[00:31.34]I'm out of Philly with an actress seeing s
[00:34.03]We dont need theraflu we need therapists
[00:36.56]Them never endin pursuit of them dead presidents
[00:39.11]Is the reason I got the band back together b**ch
[00:41.84]Yeah its me spawn and his gene tron
[00:44.47]North south bomb squad eric Vietnam
[00:46.89]If you dont see it like I see it then you see it wrong
[00:49.83]We October 3rd niggas like me and Kwe
[00:52.05]Life got me in a state on the interstate
[00:54.59]And all I'm thinkin bout is whats up on my dinner plate
[00:57.39]Meanwhile I make your girl hyperventilate
[00:59.64]Prolly cause I live the kind of life art imitate
[01:02.32]Thats my art in your eyes
[01:03.43]Thats my life in your hands
[01:04.81]We living next door to the aquilus again
[01:07.40]Pardon me fam
[01:09.59]But I'ma show you how it is
[01:13.06]That's my art in your eyes my life in your hands
[01:15.11]We living next door to the Aquilius again
[01:17.83]Pardon me fam
[01:19.92]But I'mma show you how it is
[01:21.67]I'mma show you how we get in
[01:23.23]Welcome to God fourth mass like anonymous
[01:25.52]Passport pimpin like im going outta town to flip
[01:28.12]The a** for symbol with the cops hopping out of whips
[01:30.57]Bats all niggas with zombies the apocalypse
[01:33.25]I'm blessed because my afterlife is the studio
[01:35.86]This rappers life is gangster paradise like I'm Coolio
[01:38.73]Thats what a few believe like a doobie roll
[01:41.03]Off of that patron we sippin the Don Julio
[01:44.44]You talkin sh*t we dont need the chatter
[01:46.36]Opinions are like assholes not everybody finkle matter
[01:49.20]Still they straining to push it out
[01:51.13]Put they foot in their mouth
[01:52.26]That's when I'm lettin the Brooklyn out when they pulled it out
[01:55.00]Better let it off cause you set it off
[01:56.70]The music thats creating a movement like its December 4th
[01:59.52]Threw away the dark meat but they ate the right
[02:01.76]Animated likes its can of darklit its my wicked life
[02:04.16]End up take my life
[02:14.28]That's my art in your eyes my life in your hands
[02:17.05]We living next door to the Aquilius again
[02:19.70]Pardon me fam
[02:21.95]But I'mma show you how it is
[02:23.54]I'mma show you how we get in
[02:24.91]Yeah ya'll keeping it three hunnid
[02:26.20]We keepin it 360
[02:26.89]
[02:27.48]Coming full circle up solong dom the emcees wit me
[02:29.91]Tired of saying I'm the best I wont waste another breathe
[02:32.58]Heard lyrics coming back I say it never left
[02:35.36]Ya'll just catching up so strong the come around
[02:37.68]Ice-T gave ya cliff notes
[02:38.95]I aint gotta dumb it down
[02:40.36]Cause I read the book made the movie and I edit this
[02:42.86]Aura I be living in and set the precedence
[02:45.61]And get the presidents f**k all the chit chat
[02:48.07]Might hear the click clack
[02:49.43]And Im gon diss back
[02:50.75]Married to the game get the rights out Riff Raff
[02:53.23]Nice being self employed aint gotta kiss a**
[02:55.92]I aint gotta swim fast smack a hoe with a love am
[02:58.67]Dare yout to say you aint a fan boo
[03:01.14]F**k bamboo life imitate art
[03:03.32]
[03:03.97]Imitating show life you how the fam do
[03:06.03]That's my art in your eyes my life in your hands
[03:08.71]We living next door to the Aquilius again
[03:11.21]Pardon me fam
[03:11.83]
[03:13.55]But I'mma show you how it is
[03:15.53]I'mma show you how we get in
[03:17.03]That's my art in your eyes my life in your hands
[03:18.84]We living next door to the Aquilius again
[03:21.40]Pardon me fam
[03:23.82]But I'mma show you how it is
[03:25.46]I'mma show you how we get in