A Tribe Called Quest - Ego lyrics

Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego trippin', trippin'
Trippin', trippin', trippin'
Ego, ego
I got one, you got one, and now we equal
Sometimes it makes you trip
Out on your people
Sometimes it has connotations of evil
Sometimes niggas call on it when they need to
It's called the ego

Ay, it's hard to really make
The subject positively stated
Some may hate it and some may overrate it
It's a top story and you rarely see a trend
So all you psychoanalysts
Pull out your pad and pen
It's called the ego come up with an idea
And no one seems to get it
Then every time you mention it
They stare like you're two headed
But one day, in your cubicle
Your idea really comes to view
Your boss is walking by
He sees it too and he takes it from you
She put you on the aces
Of all the stripper places
And has the kinda clientele where
Niggas trick off very well
You beg her and you plead her
And you tuck away your ego
She knows you need the chicken
And you know that she's your people
They call you fat and lazy
Your commentary crazy
They photoshop your face on a
Box of McCormick gravy
And now that inner voice, that ego
Making you get wavy
Change your diet, hit the gym
And say, "What were you saying to me?"
The ego makes you do it
It makes you face the music
Or run away from life so fast
That you'll outsprint Carl Lewis
It has you think your deceptive ways
Of being are the truest
Had the prettiest brown eyes but you
Change them shit's to the bluest
It's the ego

Ooo, Jack White ooo, Jack White

A celebrated genius
My dick game is the meanest
I'll take the girl that's augmented
New me is invented
I'll take the biggest house in Calabassas
Anyone for Michael Phelps swimming classes?
You need it when you're balling
Equally when you're falling
Or when those kids in school on your locker
They get to scrawling
Epithets that's racist is stupid
And mean in nature
Something that can make you feel
Stronger when people hate ya
Ego make you violent or govern like a tyrant
Or switch a dictionary's word
From vibrant to vivrant
Fool the thirsty people
Selling tap water in bottles
Fooled a girl with NYU scholarship
And now she models
Ego has no ending, has people pretending
Religious zealots get jealous 'cause
Guys want their defending
This is the last Tribe and our
Ego hopes that you felt us
And closing for our ego
We know only God can help us

Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego trippin', trippin'
Trippin', trippin', trippin'
Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego trippin', trippin'
Trippin', trippin', trippin'
Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind
Ego, ego skippin', trippin' in my mind