It Ain’t Life

[Verse 1: A.L. (All Lyrics)]
He’s out
For Benjamins like David Letterman, money’s his medicine
Criminal veterans hitting more heads than Excedrin
Them cops is dead again, seducing women like a pendulum
Corporate gentlemen rushing banks like adrenaline
I came to drop it, precious objects for my optics
The most hypnotic, erotic, exotic with the logic
Now dig the topic. I knew this kid from the projects
They call him “Rocket”—who used to sell all the chronic
And it’s ironic: both of his parents were Islamic. Instead of
Books of phonics, he was hooked on the tonic
No one can stop it. Going out for all the profit
Filling his pocket. When it starts, it’s so demonic
Became psychotic, was known to make his Glock spit, selling
Narcotics, dealing more keys than a locksmith
Now who could block it? When it starts, it’s so cosmic
The dust that he smoke got him higher than a cockpit
His life was toxic, he kept it hotter than the tropics
Bodies? He chopped it. Eyes? He’d saw out of sockets
Killing imposters, the top player on the roster
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster

[Hook: A.L. (All Lyrics)]
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster
Cars, jewels, ladies, eating lobster
Life’s trife when you’re living on a livewire
Brothers do crime, I stick to my rhymes, yo
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster
Cars, jewels, ladies, eating lobster
Life’s trife when you’re living on a livewire
Brothers do crime, I stick to my rhymes

[Verse 2: A.L. (All Lyrics)]
Now some
Years have passed, and little Rocket got launched, got a
Two-car garage at a lodge with a starved credit card
Gold charts, back massage at the mirage
Entourage won’t barge, rocking linen plus the camouflage
I saw them lay low before they sabotaged
Boulevards are hard, there’s more bullets to dodge
Espionage got caught hooking your picture to a collage
(Can’t trust your own brothers) Can’t even trust your own stars. Now the
Plots thicken when cops start flipping, locks
Picking, clocks ticking, blocks breaking little rocks slipping
Glocks spitting, facing chase, D’s in hot pursuit
From this prostitute, the cops recouped to even knock his loot
Her brain’s insane, she even gave ‘em popsicle
Aim a Glock to shoot, fire shots, made it Absolut. Perverse
Society, I guess you have to shoot. Gangster’s life is what they
Attribute. You’re crashing through, crumbling like a parachute
What was he thinking? Thought he was pimping, started sinking
Empire shrinking, too much drinking left him dead and stinking
Many imposters play their role like Kevin Costner
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster

[Hook: A.L. (All Lyrics)]
Yo
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster
Cars, jewels, ladies, eating lobster
Life’s trife when you’re living on a livewire
Brothers do crime, I stick to my rhymes, yo
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster
Cars, jewels, ladies, eating lobster
Life’s trife when you’re living on a livewire
Brothers do crime, I stick to my rhymes

[Verse 3: A.L. (All Lyrics)]
Ayyo
Mobster, I got a question: in your profession
Do you drop lessons (Nah) to my adolescence? I
Guess not. You’re out to get props, to wet cops, to dress hot
To open sess spots on fresh blocks with dreadlocks
They’re living trife, but, to me, that ain’t life. I’d rather
Cyph’ without a knife, raising kids with a wife. But who am
I to judge? Living dirty like slugs. Think twice
Take advice, don’t hold a grudge, we can’t budge. In our
Community, we need immunity, damage impunity
I think some unity could also bring some opportunity
The world dissolving, brothers is small, but any robbing
Turn into goblins. Arrest the president, now he’s the problem
I see the government, they’re loving it, bringing us sufferment
Got these kids cutting the coke in with the Bufferin
I kept the covenant, never to ever eat the lobster
It ain’t life when you’re living like a mobster