Life Is Real

[00:02.33] Boogie Man, Boogie Man, Boogie Man
[00:04.71] Boogie Man (Hello children)
[00:06.21] The Mos Def!
[00:07.69] My whole life is real
[00:08.60] My life, my life, my life, my life
[00:11.36] (Big shoutout to Minnesota)
[00:12.35] A-ha, Brooklyn know
[00:13.75] My life, my life, my life, my life
[00:16.16] Is a real thing
[00:17.99] (Brooklyn and Bronx in the building)
[00:19.62] Listen
[00:20.93] My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
[00:24.03] What I spit and I write is real, cause my life is real
[00:27.29] My whole life is ill
[00:28.54] Filled with magic, strife and skill
[00:30.60] Sun bright, no time to chill
[00:32.23] Got all type of bills
[00:33.84] I got seeds I gotta feed with this
[00:35.99] They be needin' shit, I got ex-wife beef and shit
[00:39.17] That's how deep it get
[00:40.56] My whole life is real, my whole life is ill
[00:42.99] A fantastic, a beautiful mess
[00:45.03] A live nigga in America: the usual stress
[00:47.97] I do it to the up, low, the east and the west
[00:50.37] I, do it to most, I do it to death
[00:53.26] I do so it good they don't know what to do with they-selves
[00:56.43] Well do this: MOVE
[00:59.36] Back, forward, more
[01:01.45] Life is real, let's move on
[01:03.81] My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
[01:07.26] What I spit and I write is real, cuz my life is ILL
[01:10.67] Filled with magic, strife and skill
[01:12.72] Sun bright, no time to chill
[01:14.59] Got all type of bills
[01:15.96] I got seeds I gotta feed with this
[01:18.02] I got streets I gotta reach with this
[01:19.83] And that's how deep it get
[01:22.41] My whole life is ill, my whole life is real
[01:24.88] Mornings, noons, nights
[01:27.49] Birthdays, workdays, holidays, funerals
[01:30.49] The usual
[01:31.80] Life is real
[01:32.83] Sunday to Monday
[01:33.83] Schoolyard, gunplay
[01:35.28] Politics, BULLSHIT
[01:37.36] Life is real
[01:38.14] Shootings, stabbing
[01:39.20] [?], arrest
[01:40.69] Crush, kill, destroy, sex
[01:44.12] Death, rebirth
[01:46.18] Reach the world but touch the street first
[01:48.66] Life go in every direction but rewind
[01:51.13] Niggas is waiting for the life to die down
[01:53.72] [?] park and hustle a place to hide out
[01:56.63] Somebody's gotta notice it's a matter of time before the world find out
[02:00.60] The earth dry out and push the hitting to high ground
[02:03.67] Life-style, hostile, real life, real real
[02:07.45] So real, too real, news real--EDITED
[02:10.44] The close up block out the rest of it
[02:12.71] True evident, false measurement
[02:15.35] Crunk superstar, thug president
[02:17.70] Street-telligence, M-def penmanship
[02:20.48] Scribe lively, so timely, that is timeless
[02:24.56] And it's lovely, and it's ugly, as it must be
[02:28.28] My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real
[02:31.65] What I spit and I write is real, cuz my life is ILL
[02:35.18] Filled with magic, strife and skill
[02:37.02] Sun bright, no time to chill
[02:38.86] Got all type of bills
[02:40.16] I got seeds I gotta feed with this
[02:42.21] I got streets I gotta reach with this
[02:44.16] And that's how deep it get
[02:46.85] My whole life is real (haha)
[02:50.53] Brooklyn know
[02:51.69] My life, my life, my life, my life
[02:55.75] B.X. know
[02:56.90] My life, my life, my life, my life
[03:00.53] Real niggas all over the world
[03:02.14] My life, my life, my life, my life
[03:04.68] Is a real thing
[03:06.76] WHOOOOOO
[03:08.33] BOOGIE MAN
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