Released: February 27, 2001

Featuring: Namond Lumpkin Edgar Fletcher

Songwriter: Juicy J DJ Paul Project Pat

Producer: DJ Paul Juicy J

[Verse 1]
I was broke pocket full of lint now I'm on the bricks
Getting paid like no other dog now I'm stackin' chips
On the road like a trucker man had to take some trips
Doing shows for my brothers but strapped with extra clips
Just in case any sucker would wanna run his lips
A female I don't trust her cause women like to trip
I stay all by my getty green hell with some time
There some crime that was petty seem still getting mine
All this hate trip I'm hearing though you I ain't fearing
Better try to be growing old man with your children
Escalate what a nigga staring his last days nearing
Trying to get it right with god only one who I'm fearing
Hopin' I'mma make it keep it real
Never knew I get the chances for a nigga to get paid
So I take it living like a player should
Wishin' that you could knowin' it's all to the good
Still down with the hood

(Chorus: repeat)
This Life We Live (Life as we see it)
See it's oh so beautiful (Oh it's so) beautiful
Oh so beautiful (Oh it's so beautiful)

[Verse 2]
Last year my cousin took a fall, a sad song
Seem like we were just on the phone now he gone
People use to try to judge him sayin' he was wrong
But you can't try to judge a man you do you wrong
Smokin' out on a daily base I'm in the clouds
Drinkin' liqour fallin' on my face
Wondering how I survive all this foolishness
Up in the street ridin' dirty I ain't new to this
I'm packin' heat but the streets very hazardous
To a niggas health watch your step you ain't Lazarus
You'll meet your death
I'm the man from the North, North side of the town
With the will to support me and keep em found
Stayin' down got your gold grills dro in the air
Barbecue on the grill sum cool for a player
When I ride through the streets hoes are plentiful
Cause the life that we live so beau-ti-ful

(Chorus) 2x

[Verse 3]
Gotta take the good with the bad
Smile with the sad, love what you got
And remember what you had messin' with the ones
Who help me in the times
When I was flat broke didn't even have a dime
My family they was there, my niggas they was there
The rest of ya'll left me for dead didn't care
I use to have dreams livin' large in this thang
And by the grace of god I'm still alive in this thang
I strive in this game to get all that I can
Never said I'm the man, respect me as a man
To you ones think I owe you somethin'
Now that's a joke think you bad come and get you somethin'
How low to dope
Either treal either fake
You can love you can hate
Either go and get your own or you can't sit and wait
On the next man to come up you can peep this
You can do what I do handle your business

(Chorus) 2x

Project Pat

Patrick Houston (born February 8, 1973), better known by his stage name Project Pat, is an American rapper and actor from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the older brother of rapper Juicy J, and frequently collaborates with Three Six Mafia. His rap name references the fact that he is from the Projects— more formally know as Public Housing—followed by his real name, Pat.

Project released his first studio album, Ghetty Green in 1999 after being released from prison, on his brother’s Hypnotize Minds record label. In the year 2000, as Three 6 Mafia released their fourth studio album – When the Smoke Sixty 6, Sixty 1 – Project first gained mainstream attention by providing the hook for the song Sippin' on Some Syrup. Ghetty Green was then followed by 7 more albums, the last of which (Mista Don’t Play 2) was released in 2015.

One of his most notable albums was his fifth, Walkin' Bank Roll, which was released in 2007 and peaked at #45 on the Billboard 200.