stakes is high (remix)

yeah. check the vibe y'all

vibe y'all. dirty

rotten tooth

select from the sound booth

collect grammer

like panhandlers

on skid row

my john doe'll

build a vision where thought can go walking

without the devil hawking

stakes is high like weed smoke

we need folk

to shed the truth

to the wide youth

enola got soul

to hell with role models

teachers and guardians

with rock-hard erections

and seven incisions

raw intercourse with mother nature

she likes to bang to the left

teach all women and children only the best

stakes is higher than the highest mountain

mos def

this is the 21st century

poor shit ain't quaint

the zulu apaches got battle cries and war paint

i do with some care cause i is who they ain't

that ain't strokin' my sack

it's just a black ink fat

boy

ain't no keeping me back. yes

mos def is the handle

try to test and get supressed like a government scandle

exhibit is exquisit and a level degrees

flying high in the sky with the supa emcees

yo! i write rhymes like i come from new york city

rollin' with commitees

making your whole life shitty

shutting down your rap group

and you best to believe

brothers become permanent niggas when they soul is a track

and ain't no niggas like the one i know

cause what i know is them niggas gotta go

make me feel i need to by a fo-fo

sending them express to hell though

classic material like run dmc. at least

four out of five

every jeep owner agrees

that it's them damn high stakes

that make you pump yo' brakes

pump yo' brakes

pump yo' brakes

haha. get with the viggy-vibe ya'll. stakes is high. you know them stakes is high

when we dealing with the

stakes is high. man them stakes is high. doctor

i'mma make those house calls and exercise those

some people getting burned

playing their toes close

fumble-eye sky tumble-ing down

stay humble-eye

sidle up and ride. beware

who you idolize

religious hypocrits who give away elbow in the face

i'm enola

system solar

plug one

solely mine

we went from picking noses to pockets

directly to jail

now we think we better ourselves trying to be calm

when you're puffing that in the middle of the barn

stopping thoughts

so you can stretch a mind into yarn

funeral lawns are drunk from kids pouring out liquor

respecting life

by met up with a little quicker

and we let the body rock the party

until the party rocks the body

cause a scuffle broke loose due to too much juice and gin

run in the minds of opposing men

aiyo

my mens is going to have to learn when to say when

and when to ask why

you accept the

cause you dwelling in a sty

can't face it man to man

son

i see it in your eye

conseal it

why try? display it

when you relay it

you're just a lie. there was a lovely lady who's intent i thought i had on rosa parks

but her ex came to town and took back her heart

and she left me standing silly in the dark with a mic

caught up in expressions

and learning lessons of depression

sometimes it seems i can't connect with female beings

to my little aya-mo when she having them dreams

and her facial gleams are sweet

but soon to switch to bitter

cause when she reaches sixteen she'll be considered a piece of meat

not a treat but a trick to sex in showers

people kick last days

we in the last hours

minutes and seconds

i reckon it won't be long

til recorded ways of striving will be dead and gone

but this loss coming through despite who try to see me

these brothers are too hard

sisters are too easy

sleazy. trying to please me with that sex appeal

when you're livin' in the ghetto man you got to deal

brothers scatter from the function when they spot the steel

weapons get concealed

when there's plots to kill

the on all up in the party cause this rock is real

niggas ain't stoppin' to think so they ain't gon' stop the violence

music too loud to hear

so doug e. fresh say silence!"