Life is Like a Dice Game - Nas, YBN Cordae, Freddie Gibbs

Yo, yeah

It’s that— (Hit-Boy)

It’s that—

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

It’s the N-A-S, yes

I wake up every morning, thinkin' what we gonna do today?

(What we gonna do today?)

There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)

To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game

To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game

To maintain in the… check me out, listen

Uh, life’s a gamble, although the stakes are heightened, I can handle

Any darkness that tries to penetrate, my light is ample

Set the right example

My dark dreams are divine

I live life on this earth to complete what’s assigned

My mission given

I was birthed the same year as It Was Written

I been fast to intermittent to strengthen my intuition

But fuck, and sometimes, shit, you run out of luck

But how my dice roll from Domino’s to Mastro’s

To completing life goals, my price rolls

As soon as I decided to never ever be misguided

I know niggas that’s indicted from the shit they confided

With they best friends until they seen the paper we’re writin'

Life’s a bitch, disconnection is the price of bliss

Though elation often leaves the paths of righteousness

I confess, a nigga woke up feeling blessed

No stress, with the freedom to express, but you was dead

I wake up every morning, thinkin' what I’m bout to do today?

(What I’m bout to do today?)

There’s gotta be a better way

To maintain the price of fame, life is like a dice game

Hey hey hey, life is like a dice game (Yeah, yeah)

Hey hey, hey hey hey hey (You know what I’m sayin'?)

Life is like you know what I’m sayin a dice game

I don’t gamble, you dig what I’m sayin'?

I’d rather spend my money on stuff you know

That pleasures me my pleasure you know?

Started out in mama’s house

Makin five hundred a week, thinkin' bout dropping out

Sold dope in front of my brother but he a doctor now

Fuck this weed shit, show me what that rock about

Whip gang, I got a thing for cooking crack mane

Fuckin' I make it back mane

Feds with the IRS on me, they sent the text mane

Streets code, ain’t nothing cut though like the rap game

Do you wanna be in it wanna be sinnin'

Fuck niggas wanna be winnin'

I said fuck being famous from the beginning

Big rabbit Instagram on the for posting pictures

I wake up every morning, thinkin' what I’m gonna do today?

(Do today?)

There’s gotta be a better way

To keep changing the price of cane, life is like a dice game

I wake up, hit the collar, think of getting something new today (Something new

today?)

Aston Martin blue today, these niggas trippin' so I ride with that thing

I wake up every morning, thinkin' what we gonna do today?

(What we gonna do today?)

There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)

To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game

To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game

I never knock a brother, I’m anti-jail for real

Smooth criminal skill, locked in a human flesh shield

Watchin' niggas get rich beside me

Pushin' a 5 B-Y, me up in the passenger seat

But I see me as Hallie Selassie in my kingdom

Sippin' Asti Spumante, driftin', reality kicks in

I need the papes to start clickin'

Got a connect out in Richmond

And e’ry nigga in the fam will pitch in

It’s on, word is bond

That’s my name, big Nas, all-wise to civilize

From the Northern Hemisphere of the earth

Peace to my son and thanks to the birth

Of Destiny, that’s her name

It’s goin' on, you know my name

Big Nas in the house, y’all, on the freestyle tip

When I finish this shit, it’s sure to be a hit

This original recording hit the street 'round '93

Was just the leak, the verse was incomplete

Reconstructed the beat so we can fuck up the street

Back to the future, patch up the bloopers

Match up the cadence with the back in the day shit

A blast when Nasty Nas was savvier

Don’t act surprised

This ain’t for advertise or showing off I blast for mine

Life is a dice roll, there’s money on the ground

What’s gon' happen is gon' happen is a gamble all around

I wake up every morning, thinkin' what we gonna do today?

(What we gonna do today?)

There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)

To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game (Yeah)

To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game

Life is like a dice game