De La Soul - Stakes is High lyrics

Vibe, vibrations
Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the vibe, vibrations
Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high
We talkin' 'bout vibe, vibrations
Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high

The instamatic focal point bringin'
Damage to your borough (Uh, huh)
Be some brothers from the East with
Them beats that be thorough
Got the solar gravitation
So I'm bound to pull it
I gets down like brothers are
Found duckin' from bullets (Word)
Gun control means usin' both hands in my land
(yeah)
Where it's all about the cautious livin'
(Uh, huh)
Migratin' 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

I'm sick of bitches shakin' asses
I'm sick of talkin' 'bout blunts
Sick of Versace glasses
Sick of slang, sick of half-ass awards shows
Sick of name-brand clothes (Word)
Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks
(Heard) cocaine and crack
Which brings sickness to blacks
Sick of swoll' head rappers
With their sickenin' raps clappers of gats
Makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sicker even sicker
Perhaps (Sicker, perhaps)
I Stickabush to make a bundle
To escape this synapse

Man, life can get all up in your ass
Baby, you better work it out (Haha, haha)
Let me tell you what it's all about (Uh, huh)
A skin not considered equal
A meteor has more right than my people
Who be wastin' time screamin'
Who they've hated (Word)
That's why the Native Tongues
Has officially been reinstated

(Vibes, vibrations) yeah
Stakes is high (Higher than high)
You know them stakes is high
(Higher than high) when we talkin' 'bout
(Vibes vibrations) stakes is high
Man, them stakes is high
(A yo, what about that love?)

Yo, it's about love of cars, love of funds
Lovin' to love mad sex, lovin' to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of
No longer lovin' yourself, kid
(Uh, huh)
We livin' in them days of the man made craze
Where every aspect is vivid (Word)
These brothers no longer talk shit ayo
These niggas live it
'Bout to give it to you 24
7 on the microphone
Plug One translatin' the zone
(Plug One, Plug One, y'all)
No offense to a player, but, yo, I don't play
Nigga, take offense? Fuck it!
Gotta be that way
(What's up, what's up, what's up)
JD Dove, show your love, what you got to say?

I say G's are makin' figures at a high regard
And niggas dyin' for it nowadays ain't odd
(It ain't odd)
Investin' in fantasies and not God (What?)
Welcome to reality, see, times is hard
People try to snatch the credit
But can't claim the card
Showin' out in videos, sayin' they co-starred
(Ayo)
See, shit like that'll make yo' mama cry
(yeah) better watch the way you spend it
'cause the stakes is high (Word up)

Y'all know them stakes is high (Uh, huh)
When you're dealin' with the
(Vibes vibrations) stakes is high
(Come on) man, them stakes is high
(Check it)

I think that smilin' in public
Is against the law (What?)
'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 holdin' heat, yo!
And how was the skins, 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
But they ain't organized!
Mixin' crimes with life enzymes
Takin' the big scalp route
And niggas know doubt better than they
Know they daughters and they sons (Oh, boy)

Yo, people go through pain
And still don't gain
Positive contact, just like my main man
Who got others cleanin' up
His physical and fluids
His mind got congested
He got the nine and blew it
Neighborhoods are now hoods
'cause nobody's neighbors
Just animals survivin' with
That animal behavior (Damn)
Under I who be rhymin' from dark to light sky
(Sky)
Experiments where needles and skin connect
(yeah) no wonder where we live
Is called the projects!
When them stakes is high, you damn sure try
Yo do anythin' to get the piece of the pie
Electrify! Even die for the cash
But at last, you be out
Even though you wantin' more
This issue is closed, like an elevator door
But soon reopened once we get
To the next floor, where the

What's that? Uh, the (Vibes vibrations)
Stakes is high you know them stakes is high
When you dealin' with the (Vibes vibrations)
Stakes is high stakes is high, come on
(Vibes vibrations)