Stakes Is High-De La Soul

[ti:Stakes Is High] [ar:De La Soul] [al:Stakes Is High] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stakes Is High - De La Soul [00:47.29]The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs [00:49.35]Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough [00:52.05]Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it [00:54.72]I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets [00:57.96]Gun control means using both hands in my land [01:00.68]Where it's all about the cautious livin' [01:02.49]Migrating to a higher form of consequence compliments [01:05.58] [01:06.10]Of strugglin' that shouldn't be notable [01:07.66]Man every word I say should be a hip hop quotable [01:10.23]I'm sick of b**ches shakin' asses [01:11.62]I'm sick of talkin' about blunts [01:13.06]Sick of Versace glasses sick of slang [01:15.27]Sick of half-a** awards shows [01:16.84]Sick of name brand clothes [01:18.27]Sick of R 'n' B b**ches over b******t tracks [01:20.87]Coc*ine and crack which brings sickness to blacks [01:23.46]Sick of swoll' head rappers with their sicker-than raps [01:25.96]Clappers and gats makin' the whole sick world collapse [01:28.62]The facts are gettin' sick even sicker perhaps [01:31.06]Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse [01:33.84]Man life can get all up in your a** baby you betta work it out [01:38.09]Let me tell you what it's all about a skin not considered equal [01:41.45]A meteor has more right than my people [01:44.39]Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated [01:46.36]That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated [01:49.18] [01:49.73]Vibes vibrations [01:52.85] [01:53.78]Stakes is high [01:54.57]Higher than high [01:55.30]You know them stakes is high [01:56.57]Higher than high [01:57.20]When we talkin' 'bout the [01:58.17]Vibes vibrations [02:00.47] [02:01.37]Stakes is high you know them stakes is high [02:04.27]When we dealin' with the [02:05.63]Vibes vibrations [02:08.43] [02:09.25]Stakes is high [02:09.91] [02:10.93]Hey yo what about that love [02:12.80]Yo it's about love for cars love for funds [02:15.45]Loving to love mad sex loving to love guns [02:18.33]Love for opposite love for fame and wealth [02:20.70]Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself kid [02:23.58]We living in them days of the man-made ways [02:25.98]Where every aspect is vivid these brothers no longer talk sh*t [02:29.53]Hey yo these niggas live it [02:31.31]'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone [02:34.48]Plug One translating the zone [02:36.36]No offense to a player but yo I don't play [02:38.89]And if you take offense f**k it got to be that way [02:41.60]J D Dove show your love what you got to say [02:44.13]I say G's are making figures at a high regard [02:46.77]And niggas dying for it nowadays ain't odd [02:49.56]Investing in fantasies and not God [02:52.12]Welcome to reality see times is hard [02:54.55]People try to snatch the credit but can't claim the card [02:57.22]Showing out in videos saying they cold stars [02:59.76]See sh*t like that will make your mama cry [03:02.32]Better watch the way you spend it [03:03.86]'Cuz the stakes is high [03:05.48]Y'all know them stakes is high [03:07.10]When we talkin' 'bout the [03:08.23]Vibes vibrations [03:10.76] [03:11.72]Stakes is high [03:12.70] [03:13.38]Man stakes is high [03:14.34] [03:15.31]I think that smiling in public is against the law [03:17.87]'Cuz love don't get you through life no more [03:20.49]It's who you know and "How you son " [03:22.23]And how you gettin' in and who the man holding [03:24.40]Hey yo and how was the scams and how high [03:26.53]Yo what up huh I heard you caught a body [03:28.36]Seem like every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti [03:30.93]But they ain't organized [03:32.20]Mixing crimes with life enzymes [03:33.82]Taking the big scout route [03:34.93]And niggas know doubt better [03:36.39]Than they know their daughters [03:37.59]And their sons [03:38.37]Oh boy [03:38.99]Yo people go through pain and still don't gain [03:41.56]Positive contact just like my main man [03:44.27]Who got others cleaning up his physical influence [03:46.80]His mind got congested he got the nine and blew it [03:49.47]Neighborhoods are now hoods 'cuz nobody's neighbors [03:52.03]Just animals surviving with that animal behavior [03:54.40]Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky [03:57.14]Experiments when needles and skin connect [03:59.77]No wonder where we live is called the projects [04:02.38]When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do [04:05.43]Anything to get the piece of the pie [04:07.60]Electrify even die for the cash [04:10.13]But at last I be out even though you wantin' more [04:12.77]This issue is closed like an elevator door [04:15.22]But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the [04:18.20]Vibes vibrations [04:21.39] [04:22.14]Stakes is high [04:22.86] [04:23.83]Y'all know them stakes is high [04:25.17]When we talkin' 'bout the [04:26.96]Vibes vibrations [04:29.01] [04:29.95]Stakes is high [04:30.67] [04:32.12]Stakes is high come on [04:33.90]Vibes vibrations