Stakes Is High Lyrics - Stakes Is High - De La Soul

POS: 

The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs 

Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough 

Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it 

I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets 

Gun control means using both hands in my land 

Where it's all about the cautious livin' 

Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments 

Of strugglin', that shouldn't be notable, 

Man every word I say should be a hip hop quotable. 

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DOVE: 

I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses 

I'm sick of talkin' about blunts, 

Sick of Versace glasses, 

Sick of slang, 

Sick of half-ass awards shows, 

Sick of name brand clothes. 

Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks, 

Cocaine and crack 

Which brings sickness to blacks, 

Sick of swoll' head rappers 

With their sicker-than raps 

Clappers and gats 

Makin' the whole sick world collapse 

The facts are gettin' sick 

Even sicker perhaps 

Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse 

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POS: 

Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out 

Let me tell you what it's all about 

A skin not considered equal 

A meteor has more right than my people 

Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated 

That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated 

(Vibes... vibrations) 

Stakes is high 

(Higher than high) 

You know them stakes is high 

(Higher than high) 

When we talkin' 'bout the 

(Vibes... vibrations) 

Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high 

When we dealin' with the 

(Vibes... vibrations) 

Stakes is high 

(Hey yo, what about that love?) 

POS: 

Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds 

Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns 

Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth 

Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid 

We living in them days of the man-made ways 

Where every aspect is vivid, 

these brothers no longer talk shit 

Hey yo, these niggas live it 

'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone 

Plug One translating the zone 

No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play 

And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way 

J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say? 

DOVE: 

I say G's are making figures at a high regard 

And niggas dying for it nowadays ain't odd 

Investing in fantasies and not God 

Welcome to reality, see times is hard 

People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card 

Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars 

See, shit like that will make your mama cry 

Better watch the way you spend it 

'Cause the stakes is high 

Y'all know them stakes is high 

When we talkin' 'bout the 

(Vibes... vibrations) 

Stakes is high 

I think that smiling in public is against the law 

'Cause love don't get you through life no more 

It's who you know and "How you, son?" 

And how you gettin' in, and who the man holding 

Hey yo, and how was the scams and how high 

Yo what up, huh? I heard you caught a body 

Seem like every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti 

POS: 

But they ain't organized! 

DOVE: 

Mixing crimes with life enzymes 

Taking the big scout route 

And niggas know doubt better 

Than they know their daughters 

And their sons 

(Oh boy) 

POS: 

Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain 

Positive contact just like my main man 

Who got others cleaning up his physical influence 

His mind got congested 

He got the nine and blew it 

Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors 

Just animals surviving with that animal behavior 

Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky 

Experiments when needles and skin connect 

No wonder where we live is called the projects 

When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do 

Anything to get the piece of the pie 

Electrify 

Even die for the cash 

But at last I be out even though you wantin' more 

This issue is closed like an elevator door 

But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the 

(Vibes... vibrations) 

Stakes is high 

Y'all know them stakes is high 

When we talkin' 'bout the 

(Vibes... vibrations) 

Stakes is high 

Stakes is high, come on