this can't be life

Singer:jay-z

geah. whassup?

where's all my street niggaz

project niggaz

real niggaz

worldwide

let's reflect. e'rybody got a story

we all ghetto b - here's mine

geah

see i was -- born in sewage

born to make bomb music

flow tight like i was born jewish

used the streets as a conduit - i kept arms

38 longs inside my mom's buick

at any given moment shawn could lose it

be on the news

iron cuffs - arms through it; or stuffed with embalmin fluid

shit

i'm goin through it - mom dukes too

tears streamin down her pretty face

she got her palms to it

my life is gettin too wild

i need to bring some sort kinda calm to it

bout to lose it; voices screamin don't do it!"

Lyric Context: this can't be life - jay-z