[Intro: Phonte (Cesar Comanche)]

Yeah, yeah (Word)

Tigga

Son of Squirrel (Uh), collaboration (Shit, check it out)

My nigga D-Brock in here (What, check me out)

Wanna talk to y'all a lil bit about that road life, rap life, whatever you wanna call it (Yeah)

It's goin' down (Come on)

[Verse 1: Cesar Comanche]

[Chorus: Darien Brockington]

Been around the world and sacrifice

Losing endless days and sleepless nights

Every day, I choose to pay the price

That's the way I gotta live the life

Been around the world and seen the sight

Drugs are offering my dreams tonight

Crowded rooms and fourteen-hour flights

That's the way I gotta live the life

[Verse 2: Phonte]

I came from the bottom of the barrel

No name brands, logos on my apparel

Played out like a Blue Note, just ask Harold

Hard times and then some

A broken home, with a fixed income

Until I started puttin' words together

Adjectives and verbs together, and put them to beats

Record label hear my sounds, say my shit sounds sweet

And so they throw me on the road for a couple of weeks

So the world can hear my devilish raps

California, New York, New Orleans, Philly, Texas and back

The delicate fact, is that they show me all these chicks and doe

And I ain't never had shit before

So I'm wildin', snortin' blow, smokin' cancer sticks

And fuckin' these groupie hoes every chance I get

Supermodels, gettin' next to them

And catchin' easy head from white broads cause that's safe sex to them

Now I, travel the world and my records been played

And people tellin' me that hip hop's been saved

And on the, finest of linens, my head's been laid

But I get home and find none of my bills been paid?!

And that's part of the game, you gotta respect it

Niggas don't see the lights, till it's disconnected

And that can have a sobering effect

It's the rap life

But man, that shit can all be over in a sec

Better live it

[Chorus: Darien Brockington]

Been around the world and sacrifice

Losing endless days and sleepless nights

Every day, I choose to pay the price

That's the way I gotta live the life

Been around the world and seen the sight

Drugs are offering my dreams tonight (Around the world)

Crowded rooms and fourteen-hour flights

That's the way I gotta live the life

[Outro: Cesar Comanche (Darien Brockington)]

(The life) And that's the life we live

(The li-ife)

Yeah (Sounds so beautiful), sing it

(The life)

Word up, just giving you a glimpse

(The life, the life)

9th Wonder, Phonte, D-Brock, Son of Squirrel

Yeah, the life

Peace (Yeah)

One, two

One, two

One, two