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De La Soul – Stakes Is High (prod. by J Dilla)

Artist: J Dilla, De La Soul
Release: Stakes is High LP
Year: 1996
Label: Tommy Boy
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Mind power. Gotta have it when dealing with starvation. Howl yes. Glad ya'll make and share.
STREET GEM
That outro tho'
that old man was spittin' some truth.
who killed MLK, Malcolm X, JFK
Roberty Kennedy, Tupac, Biggie………….
I’m french and in 1996 the film « ma 6-t va cracker » has take this sample check the « generique ma 6t va cracker » this is a french DJ his name is White & Spirit
Check this https://youtu.be/Ghr-PHwDOrM
Indeed Classic!
1:10 – 1:25…a perfect summarization of how I feel about hip hop today. So eerily relevant.
always come back to this one
This classic joint still quakes in 2019. Ijs.
RIP J DILLA!
Who else checking for this in 2019???? ??????
I dare a wack biter to check Mr.B!!!!!! GTOWN!!!
wGTOWN ISME!!!.
Best Rec My Dillly!!F! rnb
God! everything Dilla is a part of is absolutely phenomenal, almost unbelievable
Yo
One of my favourite hip hop albums ?
I'm bumping this just cuzzz , ya feel me? From the 90's rolling into 2020 fam! ??
Classic
(Hugs)
Baaaaaaaaad
lol that was they hottest shit they eva made lol but niggas couldnt eat when BIG was poppin wasnt his fault
Da master Dilla here dis beat sicker than a whole ward brother humanzin the mpc wid dat beata dellicacy only he know so well dis belong in da beat hall of fame my 12inch sub makin luv to dis one got my neighbours cussin
2019 stakes still high
This song epitomizes how I feel right now! Man have this one on repeat!
serious ill
Classic…….
The Instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs
Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough
Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it
I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets
Gun control means using both hands in my land
Where it's all about the cautious livin'
Migrating 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' about blunts,
Sick of Versace glasses,
Sick of slang,
Sick of half-ass awards shows,
Sick of name brand clothes.
Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks,
Cocaine and crack
Which brings sickness to blacks,
Sick of swoll' head rappers
With their sicker-than raps
Clappers and gats
Makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sick
Even sicker perhaps
Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse
Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out
Let me tell you what it's all about
A skin not considered equal
A meteor has more right than my people
Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated
That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated
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 high
When we dealin' with the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high
(Hey yo, what about that love?)
Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds
Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid
We living in them days of the man-made ways
Where every aspect is vivid,
these brothers no longer talk shit
Hey yo, these niggas live it
'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone
Plug One translating the zone
No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play
And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way
J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say?
I say G's are making figures at a high regard
And niggas dying for it nowadays ain't odd
Investing in fantasies and not God
Welcome to reality, see times is hard
People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card
Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars
See, shit like that will make your mama cry
Better watch the way you spend it
'Cause the stakes is high
Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high
I think that smiling in public is against the law
'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 holding
Hey yo, and how was the scams 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!
Mixing crimes with life enzymes
Taking the big scout route
And niggas know doubt better
Than they know their daughters
And their sons
(Oh boy)
Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain
Positive contact just like my main man
Who got others cleaning up his physical influence
His mind got congested
He got the nine and blew it
Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors
Just animals surviving with that animal behavior
Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky
Experiments when needles and skin connect
No wonder where we live is called the projects
When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do
Anything to get the piece of the pie
Electrify
Even die for the cash
But at last I be out even though you wantin' more
This issue is closed like an elevator door
But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the
Stakes is high
Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high
Stakes is high, come on
Jdilla is God’s instrument
THIS IS HEAVEN!!!!
Beats n rhymes str8 like 9:15…longlivetrueschool
Tulse Hill Estate and Walworth Road (East Street Market)
So ahead of it's time
whose still listening to this joint?":