Life Is What You Make It (feat. DMX)

Yo, Ill Will, Ruff Ryders

What, what? Straight like that

You a killer or hustler, dealer, or customer

Gangsta or buster, youngster or old ****

A weed head, a coke sniffer

You rich or a broke ****

Know you all relate to this shit that I wrote ****

Lots of my mans trapped up in a max

Penitentiary, sending me letters I answer back

That eventually we be all Bentley'd out

Throwing campaigns, fuck it, I'm running for White House

My **** control senate, pipe seats jeeps tented

Mad Lewinsky chicks, some kinky shit

Did dirt now I knew it would come back one day

So I'm on point, scrap, prepare for gunplay

Stared at one face, thought it was beef, he looked familiar

Ready to blast, ****, game me daps said I feel ya

Can't believe how my life changed

From the hood, the first time in my life, I can say I did the right thing

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Everyday shit, around the way shit got me stressed

So I keep on the vest in case a **** wanna test

I got no time for games 'cause I'm all grown up

You wanna joke, ****? Laugh, when you get blown up

See how funny it is when your kids ain't got no father

'Cause you played it sweet now you floating in the harbor

Shit is hectic, so respect it for your health

Didn't think it was right, you should've checked it yourself

Life is too short to get caught up in some dumb shit

Wake up one day, 40 years old on some bum shit

Time flew by, you was too fly to see the light

Every day it's getting darker then comes the night

Now what? Realize that you ain't got shit

Not long ago you was the man on some hot shit

So just peep the flow yo, 'cause you already in this

Make sure your shit is right, kid, and handle your business

Life is what you make it, **** I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Make history before you go

Fuck the misery, you livin' po', we getting dough

Except the dollars other reasons why I'm living yo

Time is valuable

Low and behold, the young, black, and powerful

Gotta eat yo, every day my daughter feet grow

You actin' cheap with the dough, my heat could blow

Payin' doctors when I'm born, a preacher if I'm buried

That's why cash is needed for my kids to inherit

Gotta pay just for livin', tax life is a business

If you catch a bad deal, watch your life diminish

Deals made by God and the devil and we in it

Pawns in the game, can't complain or say shit

Just strap up and hold on, hope for the best

Prepare for the worse, no fears no nothing on earth

No tears if I'm dumped in a hearst, I won't be the first

Nor the last ****, let's get this cash, ****

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it

Life is what you make it, ****, I'ma make it

No matter what it takes, my ****, we gonna take it