I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I was born into poverty
raised I the sewerage
Streets always
would be a part of me
it made me the truest
And even when my days
were the bluest
I never ran from adversity
instead I ran to it
Fear ain't in the heart of me
I learned just do it
You get courage in your fears
right after you go through it
Now I come through
in a Coupe on 22s
That ain't bad for a nigga
who ain't even finish school
Don't get me wrong
I never been a fool
I just put off graduating
for a pair of tennis shoes
I used to use the beat to
paint my pain
But nowadays man
I can't complain
I got several automobiles
and they all on thangs
Several size of tangent
and they all in one chain
Used to see me in the mall
I'm the same
And get a couple broads giving
brain on the plane
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I come from Chi Town
lost and found in the struggle
Where dudes say stay safe
and stay out of trouble
Speak is muffed the law
and B gon try to cuff you
Those with duffles move weight
and have muscles
I came through the dirt
with a verse for the people
Open up for Daddy Kane
and Easy up at the Regal
The radio rarely put their
needle on my record
They ain't see how the hood
and heaven were connected
Sounds projected
ain't show how effective
Lessons learned
sessions turned to life reflected
And everything I found real
in life know I kept it
They say life's a teacher
you're gonna get tested
When a nigga changed
they keep saying that nigga strange
Couldn't see how my mind
won't be the lame
Ahead of my time
I caught up with the game
Making good music making
paper making change
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I put on gasoline drawers
I stood in the fire
With enough heat to set the
hood on fire
Man you niggaz think Suge
was off the wire
You should've seen the squad
before I had Messiah
We assumed the title as the
number one supplier
Felt like I was selling
blow since I was in diapers
And wish a nigga
would come try us
We was cool with the killers
best friends with the lifers
Quick to up and scrap
with niggaz who want to deny
For what we considered
then as a lucrative empire
But like that pimping time
flash by you
Now I wonder what the judge
think as he reading my priors
Prison ain't full
and the reefer ain't bias
You ain't got to tell
and distant the liars
Gave the jail hell
and shot birds at the hearse
Lived through worse
and reversed the curse
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I keep telling myself
Man I'm living the good life
I'm living the good life
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world
I'm on top of the world