[Chorus]   [T.I.]   I keep telling myself   Man I'm living the good life   [Pharrell]   I'm living the good life   [2X]   I'm on top of the world   I'm on top of the world   [2X]      [T.I.]   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      [Chorus]      [Common]   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      [Chorus]      [T.I.]   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      [Chorus]