Raekwon - Rap Life lyrics

[Tash] Uh, expensive things, diamond rings and things You know, rap life, rap life, say what, ah, uh Rap n***as, we dippin individuals Some of us be frontin, some of us is really criminals Swimmin in the women and money we never had, it's sad Rap could turn a good n***a bad But not CaTash though I gaffle respect with no ha**le I'm still the same n***a, light skinded, curly afro Whats up though, I'm still the same n***a, a superfreak I blow a G a week, catch me burnin rubber up the street Rap n***as, always smokin indo So everytime we puff, it's twenty dollars out the window But what is friends fo', we gonna blow that dough regardless My n***as live the life and they ain't even rap artists Rap money, we get that sh** and blow it We trick thirty G's and ain't got sh** to show for it Let me get that case of Moet, let me get that CLK Let me get that ounce of bomb from my man from East L.A Let me get that Chorus: Raekwon the Chef Rap n***as get money, press up and get hundreds Be like all them n***as on it Which side rock the most, it don't matter cause it get notes Meet you on the left side of the boat Coast, drivin it most, we like where them n***as go We like everywhere, party where the fans go It's all rap hype, young black n***as that's mad hype Got ya station in a smash right [Tash] My Likwit n***as made a k**in We dropped three albums and got the whole world dancin on the ceilin So I'm feelin like the villian that cracked that safe's combo My n***a had some hoes, I told him shoot em through my condo He shot em through, they peeped my CD through They startin askin questions, but f** the interview What y'all really wanna do? They said, "Pop the Cris" I said you like rap? Well wrap ya mouth around this! Rap n***as, young n***as ballin We on the motorcyles doin ninety down my hall and With the gold chain swingin fallin to the street This rap life got us buyin sh** we don't need We don't need the jet skis but let's buy em, just to try em We splashin out the Lex and got all the ladies eyein Us now, and we don't f** around with no wife Cause all my n***as is livin the rap life Chorus [Raekwon the Chef] First of all before we move on sh** is like a Yukon son, slide sh** on like Grey Poupon Mergin in the suburbs, gettin raw with greenery herb Real ill n***as smack birds Fat words showin proof how my gat work, go shoot, k** Smack a blackbird, jettin in an Ac-hurse Big Jim stay grinnin in a six spinnin it kid n***a who flex, lex threw ten in him Stand posin blowin sh**, coast from east and west We rockin our vest, cannon might roast you High powered hydrolic Eddie Bauer Rockwilder Who wilder, slang bit n***as on the collar Amp might blow, I might land, set up shop and glow Shinin like a lamp post, my camp post Cream leather green leaves forever Goin to do whatever, corns and crab n***as, they roll together What up Tash, black hash, we invented the spaz High like sixteen n***as over ten bags Real n***as gon ride, fake n***as gon slidide Check the next issue f*ggot in the vidibe [Tash] Rap drama, the drama never calms I be on the celly phone trippin off my baby moms Tryna make her understand I get paid to rhyme I don't show up at your job, so don't show up at mine! Cause there's no biz like shobiz if y'all n***as ask me Show money, that's like pimpin, cause we get it tax free Catch a check for 33, cut straight from SRC Take it straight to any counter, cash my sh** with no I.D Rap women, they always be around us Cause we from out of town and they be lovin out of towners Wash up in motherf**as like a T.V. evangelist Cause they from where they from and we straight from Los Angeles Rap money (Rae) Yo, what up (Tash) Whats up n***a (Rae) What's goin on? (Tash) Hey, whats up Rae, lets go half on a football team n***a, hehe (Rae) Yo, I was thinkin about buyin two basketball teams Whats up? What we gonna do? (Tash) Hey, hehe (Rae) Matter fact, we can do that. Lets do that Chorus