get it how you live

To use the means which are available to you based on your personal life situation.

1.
Liberal White Man: Jamal, what made you decide to sell crack as opposed to other less illicit methods of earning money?

Jamal: Yo mane, I ain't got no education, I ain't got opportunities, out here you gotta get it how you live
Liberal White Man: Ah, I understand. Could I cop a brick?

2.
Angry Black Man: Why do rich people always have to exploit poor people?

Rich Man: Often we find that, that is the most lucrative avenue available to us by virtue of our circumstances.

Angry Black Man: Ah, so I guess you say you gotta get it how you live

by Blackashell September 22, 2011

I know where you live!

If an individual wants to do bodily harm to another, he knows where to find the subject of the threat.
This phrase is commonly used in the African-American community.

Subject testifies in Court against a drug dealer. At the end of the testimony dealer sais: I know where you live! It means that his people know where to find the subject and exact their justice upon him.

by Steve Horvath June 15, 2006

you live in a movie

someone who has no connection to reality, possible reaction of staying too long at the orient (drug abuse)

hand back your novie to blockbuster - you live in a movie u fucking pothead hippi!

by noyonatanoa December 20, 2003

you live and you learn

What your parents say when something shitty happens to you.

Me: dammit I couldn't get in line on time because you guys took too long to get ready.

Parents: sorry honey : '(
Me: now I won't get the brand new Britney Spears MILF edition sex doll!

Parents: you live and you learn !

by Omega_College_Dog December 27, 2016

Don't throw rocks when you live in a stone house

It means you're being a douche who brags.

Yes Steve, but don't throw rocks when you live in a stone house.

by B Talented April 28, 2011

You live with racoons

when sad white nerds try and rap by using the worst rhymes ever linked such as "gay, say, gay"

if you ever rap like this simply accept the enevitability and kill yourself

your like a firt in a cartoon and you live with racoons.

by ubbey road May 30, 2006

get it how you live.

living your life how you want to get what you want get if you can and don't care just be a boss. dont care what no one but you says.

person!: I want a new car but i don't know if i want the kind i want or what anyone else wants.

person2: man don't care about them jus get it how you live.

by hurricanecronic. February 22, 2009