Life Is Real (Album Version|Edited) - Mos Def

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BOOGIE MAN (Hello children )

My whole life is real

My life My life My life My life

A-ha Brooklyn you know

My life My life My life My life

It's a real thang

Listen

My whole life is real morning

News and nights is real

What I spit and I write is real

Cuz my life is real

My own life is ILL

Filled with magic's strife to scale

Sun bright no time to chill

Got all type of bills

I got seeds I gotta feed with this

They be needin sh*t

I got ex-wife beef and sh*t

That's how deep it get

My whole life is real

My whole life is ill

A fantastic a beautiful mess

And life ni**a in America:

The usual stress

I do it to the up low

The east and the west I

Do it to most I do it to death

I do so it good they don't know

What to do with theyselves

Well do this: MOVE

Back forward mo'

Life is real let's move on

My whole life is real morning

News and nights is real

What I spit and I write is real

Cuz my life is ILL

Filled with magic's strife to scale

Sun bright no time to chill

Got all type of bills

I got seeds I gotta feed with this

I got streets I gotta reach with this

That's how deep it get

My whole life is ill my whole life is real

Mornings noon's nights

Birthdays workdays holidays

Funerals the usual

Life is real

Sunday to Monday school

Your gunplay politics bullshit

Life is real

Shootings stabbing free tray arrest

Crush kill destroy cheques

Death rebirth

Reach the world but touch the street first

Life goin in every direction but rewind

Niggaz is waiting for the light to dive down

On a park a hustler plays the hide out

Somebody's gotta notice it's a matter

Of time before the world fine out

The earth dry out and push the hintin

To high ground life style--Hostile

Real life real real

So real too real news real--edited

The close up block out the rest of it

True evident false measurement

Crunk superstar thug president

Tricks allegiance M-def payment ship

Scribe lively so timely that is timeless

And is lovely and is ugly as it must be

My whole life is real

Morning news and nights is real

What I spit and I write is real

Cuz my life is ILL

Filled with magic's strife to scale

Sun bright no time to chill

Got all type of bills

I got seeds I gotta feed with this

I got streets I gotta reach with this

That's how deep it get

My whole life is real ha-haa

Brooklyn know

My life My life My life My life

B X know

My life My life My life My life

Real niggaz all over the world

My life My life My life My life

It's a real thang

Whoooo

Boogie man