Stakes Is High - De La Soul.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : J. Yancey/D. Jolicoeur/V. Mason/K. Mercer
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Ahmad Jamal/James Brown/Charles Bobbit/David Jolicoeur/Vincent Mason/Kelvin Mercer/James Dewitt Yancey/Fred Wesley Jr
[00:00.00] The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs
[00:49.23]Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough
[00:51.84]Got the solar gravitation so
[00:53.31]I'm bound to pull it
[00:54.51]I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets
[00:57.63]Gun control means using both hands in my land
[01:00.48]Where it's all about the cautious livin'
[01:02.22]Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments
[01:05.79]Of strugglin', that shouldn't be notable
[01:07.53]Man, every word
[01:08.31]I say should be a hip hop quotable
[01:09.93]I'm sick of ****ing shakin' asses
[01:11.55]I'm sick of talkin' about blunts
[01:14.97]Sick of Versace glasses, sick of slang
[01:16.08]Sick of half-ass awards shows
[01:16.68]Sick of name brand clothes
[01:18.06]Sick of R 'n'
[01:18.66]B ****in' over ****in' tracks
[01:20.52]****in' and crack which brings sickness to blacks
[01:23.19]Sick of swoll' head rappers with their sicker-than raps
[01:25.68]Clappers and gats makin' the whole sick world collapse
[01:28.32]The facts are gettin' sick, even sicker perhaps
[01:30.66]Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse
[01:33.48]Man, life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out
[01:37.95]Let me tell you what it's all about, a skin not considered equal
[01:41.61]A meteor has more right than my people
[01:43.95]Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated
[01:46.11]That's why the
[01:46.53]Native Tongues have officially been re-instated(Vibes, vibrations)
[01:53.13]Stakes is high(Higher than high)
[01:54.96]You know them stakes is high(Higher than high)
[01:56.52]When we talkin' 'bout the(Vibes, vibrations)
[02:00.96]Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high
[02:04.11]When we dealin' with the(Vibes, vibrations)
[02:08.91]Stakes is high(Hey yo, what about that love?)
[02:12.27]Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds
[02:15.15]Loving to love mad shit, loving to love guns
[02:18.00]Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
[02:20.43]Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid
[02:23.19]We living in them days of the man-made ways
[02:25.59]Where every aspect is vivid, these brothers no longer talk shit
[02:29.10]Hey yo, these ****ers live it'
[02:30.84]Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone
[02:34.08]Plug One translating the zone
[02:36.03]No offense to a player, but yo,
[02:37.71]I don't play
[02:38.61]And if you take offense, **** it, got to be that way
[02:41.19]J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say?
[02:43.71]I say G's are making figures at a high regard
[02:46.50]And ****ers dying for it nowadays ain't odd
[02:49.26]Investing in fantasies and not
[02:51.27]GodWelcome to reality, see times is hard
[02:54.18]People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card
[02:56.82]Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars
[02:59.61]See, shit like that will make your mama cry
[03:02.01]Better watch the way you spend it'
[03:03.36]Cuz the stakes is high
[03:05.10]Y'all know them stakes is high
[03:06.66]When we talkin' 'bout the(Vibes, vibrations)
[03:13.38]Stakes is high
[03:14.91]I think that smiling in public is against the law'
[03:17.85]Cuz love don't get you through life no more
[03:20.19]It's who you know and "How you, son?"
[03:21.90]And how you gettin' in, and who the man holding
[03:23.91]Hey yo, and how was the scams and how high
[03:26.22]Yo, what up, huh?
[03:27.06]I heard you caught a body
[03:28.08]Seem like every man and woman shared a life with
[03:30.12]John Gotti
[03:30.84]But they ain't organized
[03:31.92]Mixing crimes with life enzymes
[03:33.57]Taking the big scout route
[03:34.83]And ****ing know doubt better
[03:36.27]Than they know their daughters
[03:37.26]And their sons(Oh boy)
[03:38.55]Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain
[03:41.16]Positive contact just like my main man
[03:43.98]Who got others cleaning up his physical influence
[03:46.62]His mind got congested, he got the nine and blew it
[03:49.02]Neighborhoods are now hoods 'cuz nobody's neighbors
[03:51.72]Just animals surviving with that animal behavior
[03:54.21]Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky
[03:57.12]Experiments when needles and skin connect
[03:59.55]No wonder where we live is called the projects
[04:02.04]When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do
[04:05.28]Anything to get the piece of the pie
[04:07.20]Electrify, even die for the cash
[04:09.84]But at last
[04:10.47]I be out even though you wantin' more
[04:12.57]This issue is closed like an elevator door
[04:15.00]But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the(Vibes, vibrations)
[04:21.75]Stakes is high
[04:23.34]Y'all know them stakes is high
[04:24.81]When we talkin' 'bout the(Vibes, vibrations)
[04:29.55]Stakes is high
[04:31.62]Stakes is high, come on