Life Is Real Lyrics - New Danger - Mos Def

Boogie man, boogie man, boogie man 

Boogie man! (hello children!) 

My whole life is real 

My life [Repeat: x4] 

A-ha, Brooklyn you know 

My life [Repeat: x4] 

It's a real thing 

Listen 

My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real 

What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is real 

My own life is ill!! 

Filled with magic's strife to scale 

Sun bright, no time to chill, got all type of bills 

I got seeds I gotta feed with this 

They be needing shit, I got ex-wife beef and shit 

That's how deep it get 

My whole life is real, my whole life is ill 

A fantastic, a beautiful mess 

And life nigga in America, the usual stress 

I do it to the up, low, the east and the west, I 

Do it to most, I do it to death 

I do so it good they don't know what to do with they selves 

Well do this, move! 

Back, forward, mo' 

Life is real, let's move on 

[Chorus] 

My whole life is real, morning news and nights is real 

What I spit and I write is real, 'cause my life is ill 

Filled with magic's strife to scale 

Sun bright, no time to chill 

Got all type of bills 

I got seeds I gotta feed with this 

I got streets I gotta reach with this 

That's how deep it get 

My whole life is ill, my whole life is real 

Mornings, noon's, nights 

Birthdays, workdays, holidays, funerals. the usual 

Life is real! 

Sunday to Monday, schoolyard gunplay, politics, bullshit 

Life is real! 

Shootings, stabbing, free tray, arrest 

Crush, kill, destroy, checks 

Death. rebirth 

Reach the world but touch the street first 

Life going in every direction but rewind 

Niggas is waiting for the light to dive down 

On a park a hustler plays the hide out 

Somebody's gotta notice it's a matter of time before the world fine out 

The earth dry out and push the hinting to high ground,life style--hostile 

Real, life real real 

So real, too real, news real--edited 

The close up block out the rest of it 

True evident, false measurement 

Crunk superstar, thug president 

Tricks allegiance, m-def payment ship 

Scribe lively, so timely,that is timeless 

And is lovely, and is ugly, as it must be 

[Chorus] 

My whole life is real, ha-haa! 

Brooklyn know 

My life my [Repeat: x4] 

B.x. know 

My life my [Repeat: x4] 

Real niggas all over the world 

My life my [Repeat: x4] 

It's a real thing 

Boogie man!