[ti:Trife Life] [ar:Mobb Deep] [al:The Infamous] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Trife Life - Mobb Deep [00:01.52]Lyrics by:Albert Johnson/Kejuan Muchita/Michael Henderson [00:03.04]Composed by:Albert Johnson/Kejuan Muchita/Michael Henderson [00:04.57]Havoc/Prodigy: [00:04.86]Check it out now [00:07.91]Word up son s**t is ill kid [00:09.68]Nahmsayin' [00:11.75]Bein' that we livin' the motherf**kin' trife life [00:14.24]Still have another day right [00:16.00]It's only right [00:18.25]Let me put you on to what happened son [00:20.18]You ain't gonna believe this s**t [00:21.37]Kick that s**t [00:21.80]Prodigy: [00:21.93]It's just another day drowning my troubles wit' a forty [00:24.54]That's when I got a call from this brown skin shorty [00:27.23]She asked me where's my crew at said we could do whatever [00:29.95]She got a crew too and said that we should get together [00:32.70]I said"Aight just call me back in a hour [00:35.40]So I can take a shower and gather up the manpower" [00:39.21]Then I hung up the horn [00:40.58]And I thought to myself that it might be on [00:43.30]'Cause this trick ain't pick up the phone to call me in years [00:45.91]Why [00:46.44]Ever since I left the ho lonely in tears [00:48.76]Ain't no telling what her friends putting up in her ears [00:51.31]Ideas of setting me up I'm not trying to hear [00:54.18]Check it out son [00:55.03]So we take the gats for precautions [00:57.05]Plus this trick live in Brooklyn home of the coffin [00:59.68]She might got a whole battalion of Bucktowners [01:02.27]Waiting for us to get up off the train and surround us [01:05.04]Or maybe I'm blowing this s**t out of proportion [01:07.79]But this s**t do happen to n***as very often [01:10.49]So f**k it a n***a gotta do what he meant to [01:13.16]My crew got my back 'f**k the world' is my mental [01:16.13]We put together five soldiers [01:17.90]The b***h called my blood curdled [01:19.47]Told me to meet her on Myrtle [01:21.34]Got to the plaza we're waiting for the G train [01:23.86]We put a plan together just in case the beef came [01:27.90]Now we Bed-Stuy bound [01:29.48]Far from home and on unknown ground [01:31.67]But together we six deep with five heats nothing sweet [01:34.83]First n***a fronting getting lifted off his f**king feet [01:37.71]It took eternity to reached our destination [01:40.12]My heartbeat is racing like a cardiac patient [01:42.72]We finally got to Myrtle outside the train station [01:45.48]I saw not a soul told my peoples to be patient [01:48.08]But hold up that's when a black caravan rolled up [01:50.77]My legs didn't froze up I grabbed my pound [01:53.30]Told my man"Eyes open 'cause it might go down" [01:55.82]Said he don't like the way the s**t is starting to sound [01:58.64]Every angle of the car was smoked out and tinted [02:01.65]So we couldn't tell if the enemy was in it [02:04.21]It might have been TNT I wasn't trying to wait and see [02:06.97]We jetted through Marcy 'cause D's ain't bagging me [02:09.65]Word son they got us on the run duns see yo [02:12.73]Check it out check it out check it out yo [02:15.46]Trife life got me thinking like an animal [02:18.19]No doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt yo [02:20.78]What can kill you is what you don't know [02:23.69]Havoc: [02:25.66]OK check it you're on your way to your girl's crib [02:29.32]But the b***h live in the Bridge [02:31.34]You ain't really sweating it [02:33.15]'Cause little do you know the n***as in the Bridge be setting it [02:36.62]You thought you was safe [02:37.49]And tried to walk the back streets without heat [02:39.96]On the 41st Side of 12th Street [02:41.87]The side where n***as don't give a f**k [02:44.04]The side where if you come through fronting [02:46.12]Kid you getting bucked [02:47.48]On your way to apartment 3A [02:49.88]With a phat herringbone let him slide no days [02:53.00]Son get the heat 'cause I'm about to stick him [02:55.86]F**k that s**t yo if that n***a front yo hit him [02:58.41]Aight bet so just hold it down [03:00.99]While I cock back the long three pound [03:03.51]You're upstairs boning not knowing that I'm scheming [03:06.30]Just the right time kid it's twelve in the evening [03:08.75]You're leaving out the building as you kiss your girl goodbye [03:11.61]Thought you was safe and got caught by surprised [03:14.32]"What's going on" as I reply [03:16.49]"Shut the f**k up and don't make this to another homicide" [03:19.66]He tried to play tough so I put one in his brain [03:22.54]Even though I took his life all I wanted was his chain [03:25.60]Come through truck without heat how you figure [03:28.28]When you in the projects keep your fingers on the trigger [03:30.79]But f**k that we juxing [03:31.94]If you got what we like it gets tooken [03:34.35]Put you on your back send you on your way yo good looking [03:37.24]Now we catching a cab to Halsey & Lewis in Brooklyn [03:40.01]Getting tore up from the floor up hit the dress store up [03:42.61]Got the 80 auto in case a n***a wanna roll up [03:45.31]Get your motherf**king s**t swoll up [03:47.38]Now it's back to Queens to serve fiends [03:49.07]Making G's by any means my eyes on my enemies [03:52.14]Sipping Hennessy with my mind on some crime s**t [03:54.84]One-time searching me but never ever find s**t [03:57.52]It's the everyday get the loot then breeze [03:59.85]Though my goal is to leave outta state push ki's [04:02.41]But all this bulls**t holding me down I can't leave [04:05.64]F**k a 9-to-5 I get the loot with ease [04:08.19]Don't even need a degree to earn a six-digit figure [04:11.11]I get mines slinging on the corner with my n***as [04:13.80]Pulling the trigger when the drama appears [04:16.01]'Cause a n***a worse enemy is fear [04:18.45]So yo [04:19.34]Check it out check it out check it out yo [04:22.04]Trife life got me thinking like an animal [04:24.72]No doubt no doubt no doubt no doubt yo [04:27.39]What can kill you is what you don't know