My Life Is Real Lyrics – Nas, DJ Premier

Read the full My Life Is Real lyrics by Nas and DJ Premier along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Nas’s music, you can also explore It’s Time and Sons (Young Kings), two other songs by Nas.

[Intro: Nas & Benny the Butcher]
What a life
It’s true that they underestimate you
My life is real
So I’m fronting on ’em every chance I get, to be honest

[Verse 1: Nas]
Wavy hair, mystique, up in this b!tch, deep
Chain with some sick feet, corner of 10th Street
Scoop me in a MPV, I’m holding big heat
Soloist vocalist, maestro, this fish grease
Rest in peace Polo, he see us, our wishes with G
Just like (??), me and Preem, this history

Young ones, abuelas, Jesus candles, bodegas
Hallways playing some Gang Starr, who is that? They gon’ say, “Nas”
Look at us now, De La, Mobb, Rae, Ghost and Rick
Big up Big L, Prodigy, Trugoy, they live
Martyrs, if you will, a Legend Has It cartel
I’m on jets with giants, I’m Bill Parcells
PTSD, project trauma still dwells
Happiness gotta be in you, money can’t help
So, salute to the men that, never hit the pen black
We go to the bread and still live to spend that

[Chorus: Nas]
What a life, I’m a man, I’ma die about it
Feel a pain, but I’m not gon’ cry about it
Tell the truth, ’cause there’s no reason to lie about it
Invisible fingers playing chords on my haunted piano
I’m a man, I’ma die about it
Feel a pain, but I’m not gon’ cry about it
Tell the truth, ’cause there’s no reason to lie about it
Invisible fingers playing chords–

[Verse 2: Nas]
Already classic before you heard it, the spoiler was all my feature verses
I lined it up kinda perfect and then I hurled it
Rhymes in my mind like pearls and oysters

Boss of bosses, Morpheus on my bulls*it
The illest style right here, ’til I got white hair
Getting fouled, (??), we ahead, light years
We come out, the ship starts, so let the fifth spark
Turn the light switch off, drive a block, switch cars
Toss our facemask and glove, damn, I just caught a buzz
Pulled another hit on a beat, guess who the victim was?
Guess who just got reconfigured? The whole industry does
Premier, you my n!gga because we became the men our mothers prayed for
Maybe even exceeded they expectations, or
Maybe they always knew, while tying up our baby shoes
What was waiting, that brew in the souls of a chosen few
This ain’t just talk, it’s true

[Chorus: Nas]
What a life, I’m a man, I’ma die about it
Feel a pain, but I’m not gon’ cry about it
Tell the truth, ’cause there’s no reason to lie about it
Invisible fingers playing chords on my haunted piano
I’m a man, I’ma die about it
Feel a pain, but I’m not gon’ cry about it
Tell the truth, ’cause there’s no reason to lie about it
Invisible fingers playing chords–