Talib Kweli Art Imitates Life
[Verse 1: Black Thought]
Let's toast to paid mortgages, last to marriages
Tina Ferris's pay King to Paris
Living long, making my kids heirs and heiresses
The family crest, the legacy, the heritage
I'm out of Philly with an actress seeing [?]
And we don't need Theraflu, we need therapists
Them never ending pursuit of them dead presidents
Is the reason I got the band back together bitch
Yeah, it's me and [?], and his [?]
North side, bomb squad, Eric Vietnam
If you don't see it like I see it then you see it wrong
We October 3rd niggas like me and Kwe'
Life got me in a state on the interstate
And all I'm thinking bout is what's up on my dinner plate
Meanwhile I make your girls hyperventilate
Prolly cause I live the kind of life art imitate
[Hook: Talib Kweli]
That's my art in your eyes, my life in your hands
We living next door 'til the [?] again
Pardon me fam
But I'mma show you how it is
I'mma show you how we get in
[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]
Welcome to God fourth mass like anonymous
Passport pimping like I'm going outta town to flip
The ass for a symbol with the cops hopping out of whips
Bath salt niggas with the zombies apocalypse
I'm blessed cause my afterlife is the studio
This rappers life is gangster's paradise like I'm Coolio
That's what a few believe like a doobie roll
We off of that Patrón, we sipping the Don Julio
You talking shit? we don't need the chatter
Opinions are like assholes, not everybody fecal matter
So they straining to push it out, put they foot in their mouth
That's when I'm letting the Brooklyn out when they pull it out
Better let it off cause you set it off
The music that's creating a movement like it's December 4th
Threw away the dark meat but they ate the white
Animated like it's kind of darklit it's my wicked life
It imitate my life
[Hook]
[Verse 3: Rah Digga]
Yeah, y'all keeping it 3hunnid, we keeping it 360
Coming full circle up [?] emcees with me
Tired of saying I'm the best, I won't waste another breath
Heard lyrics coming back, I say it never left
Y'all just catching up, so strong the come around
Ice-T gave ya cliff notes, I ain't gotta dumb it down
Cause I read the book, made the movie and I edit this
Aura I be living in, and set the precedence
And get the presidents, f..ck all the chit chat
Might hear the click clack, and I'mma diss back
Married to the game get the rights out Riff Raff
Nice being self employed, ain't gotta kiss ass
I ain't gotta swim fast, smack a ho with a love handle
Dare you to say you ain't a fan boo, roll a bamboo
Life imitating art imitating life, show you how the fam do
[Hook]
