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[00:00.000]You Played Yourself (2014 Remaster) - Ice-T
[00:19.594]This is it d**e from the fly kid
[00:22.414]The Ice mic is back with the high bid
[00:24.494]Suckers you've lost 'cause players you're not gangstas you ain't
[00:26.904]You're faintin' punk if you ever heard a gunshot
[00:29.673]Yo the pusher the player the pimp gangsta the hustler
[00:32.433]High Roller dead pres folder
[00:34.283]Is cold lampin' like a black king on a throne
[00:36.773]Evil E turn up the microphone
[00:39.212]So I can ill and break on the rollin' tape
[00:41.612]Another album to make Great
[00:44.022]Islam turn the bass kick up a bit
[00:46.392]Hype the snare now I got a place to sit
[00:49.012]And ride the track like a black mack in his 'lac
[00:51.432]Hit the corner slow where the girls are at
[00:54.002]And kick game the way it should be done
[00:56.302]How you gonna drop science You're dumb
[00:58.722]Stupid ignorant don't even talk to me
[01:01.042]At school you dropped Math Science and History
[01:03.552]And then you get on the mic and try to act smart
[01:06.122]Well let me tell you one thing you got heart
[01:08.382]To perpetrate you're bait so just wait
[01:10.872]Till the press shove a mic in your face
[01:13.262]Or you meet Boogie Down or Chuck D
[01:15.922]Stetsasonic or the Big Daddy
[01:18.241]And they ask you about the game you claim you got
[01:20.751]Drop science now why not
[01:22.990]You start to sweat and fret it gets hot
[01:25.400]How'd you get into this spot
[01:27.780]You played yourself
[01:31.919]Yo yo you played yourself
[01:37.959]I'm no authority but I know the D E A L
[01:40.839]When it comes to dealin' with the females
[01:42.669]What you got they want cash is what they need
[01:45.209]Slip sucker and they'll break you with speed
[01:47.549]But you meet a freak you try to turn her out
[01:49.869]Spendin' money's what I'm talkin' about
[01:52.189]But you fool out your pockets got blew out
[01:54.619]And after the date no boots you got threw out
[01:57.269]Mad and shook 'cause your duckets got took
[01:59.509]Call her up phone's off the hook
[02:02.199]But who told you to front and flaunt your grip
[02:04.549]You can't buy no relationship
[02:06.548]You played yourself
[02:10.538]Yo homeboy you played yourself
[02:16.917]I'm in the MC game a lot of MC's front
[02:19.137]And for the money they're sell out stunts
[02:21.337]But they claim that they're rich and that they keep cash
[02:24.077]Yo let me straighten this out fast
[02:26.446]Two hundred thousand records sold
[02:28.856]And these brothers start yellin' 'bout gold
[02:31.366]You better double that then double that again
[02:33.766]And still don't get sooped my friend
[02:36.346]You think you've made it you're just a lucky man
[02:38.596]Guess who controls your destiny fans
[02:41.135]But you diss 'em 'cause you think you're a star
[02:43.615]That attitude is rude you won't get far
[02:46.024]'Cause they'll turn on you quick you'll drop like a brick
[02:48.504]Unemployment's where you'll sit
[02:50.813]No friends 'cause you dissed 'em too
[02:53.143]No money no crew you're through
[02:55.593]You played yourself
[02:59.683]That's right you played yourself
[03:05.123]You played yourself
[03:09.493]Yo yo you played yourself
[03:15.403]You got problems you claim you need a break
[03:17.663]But every dollar you get you take
[03:19.822]Straight to the d**e man try to get a beam up
[03:22.402]Your idle time is spent tryna scheme up
[03:25.051]Another way to get money for a jumbo
[03:27.440]When you go to sleep you count five O's
[03:29.680]Lyin' and cheatin' everybody you're beatin'
[03:32.060]Dirty clothes and you're skinny cos you haven't been eatin'
[03:34.580]You ripped off all your family and your friends
[03:37.430]Nowhere does your larceny end
[03:39.589]And then you get an idea for a big move
[03:42.109]An armed robbery smooth
[03:44.738]But everything went wrong somebody got shot
[03:46.878]You couldn't get away the cops roll you're popped
[03:49.458]And now you're locked yo lampin' on Death Row
[03:51.738]Society's fault No
[03:54.358]Nobody put the crack into the pipe
[03:56.438]Nobody made you smoke off your life
[03:59.128]You thought that you could do d**e
[04:00.848]And still stay cool Fool
[04:03.818]You played yourself you played yourself
[04:11.317]Ain't nobody else's fault you played yourself