The instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughsBe some brothers from the east with some beats that be thoroughGot the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull itI gets down like brothers are found ducking from bulletsGun control means using both hands in my landWhere it's all about the cautious livin'Migrating to a higher form of consequence, complimentsOf strugglin', that shouldn't be notableMan, every word I say should be a hip hop quotableI'm sick of bitches shakin' assesI'm sick of talkin' about bluntsSick of Versace glasses, sick of slangSick of half-ass awards showsSick of name brand clothesSick of R 'n' B bitches over bullshit tracksCocaine and crack which brings sickness to blacksSick of swoll' head rappers with their sicker-than rapsClappers and gats makin' the whole sick world collapseThe facts are gettin' sick, even sicker perhapsStickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapseMan, life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it outLet me tell you what it's all about, a skin not considered equalA meteor has more right than my peopleWho be wastin' time screaming who they've hatedThat'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 highWhen we dealin' with the(Vibes, vibrations)Stakes is high(Hey yo, what about that love?)Yo, it's about love for cars, love for fundsLoving to love mad sex, loving to love gunsLove for opposite, love for fame and wealthLove for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kidWe living in them days of the man-made waysWhere every aspect is vivid, these brothers no longer talk shitHey yo, these niggas live it'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphonePlug One translating the zoneNo offense to a player, but yo, I don't playAnd if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that wayJ.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say?I say G's are making figures at a high regardAnd niggas dying for it nowadays ain't oddInvesting in fantasies and not GodWelcome to reality, see times is hardPeople try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the cardShowing out in videos, saying they cold starsSee, shit like that will make your mama cryBetter watch the way you spend it'Cuz the stakes is highY'all know them stakes is highWhen we talkin' 'bout the(Vibes, vibrations)Stakes is highI think that smiling in public is against the law'Cuz love don't get you through life no moreIt's who you know and How you, son?And how you gettin' in, and who the man holdingHey yo, and how was the scams and how highYo, what up, huh? I heard you caught a bodySeem like every man and woman shared a life with John GottiBut they ain't organizedMixing crimes with life enzymesTaking the big scout routeAnd niggas know doubt betterThan they know their daughtersAnd their sons(Oh boy)Yo, people go through pain and still don't gainPositive contact just like my main manWho got others cleaning up his physical influenceHis mind got congested, he got the nine and blew itNeighborhoods are now hoods 'cuz nobody's neighborsJust animals surviving with that animal behaviorUnder I who be rhyming from dark to light skyExperiments when needles and skin connectNo wonder where we live is called the projectsWhen them stakes is high you damn sure try to doAnything to get the piece of the pieElectrify, even die for the cashBut at last I be out even though you wantin' moreThis issue is closed like an elevator doorBut soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the(Vibes, vibrations)Stakes is highY'all know them stakes is highWhen we talkin' 'bout the(Vibes, vibrations)Stakes is highStakes is high, come on
Lyrics by De La Soul
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