Common - Play Your Cards Right Lyrics
Yeah... ohhh... [x3]
[Chorus: Bilal]
Ohhh...
Everything's gone be alright
Everything's gone be alright...
[Verse 1: Common]
It's do or die, your looking through the eye of a revolver
I revolve around the world, a problem solver
Alter your ego, and the way your walkin'
Talk to people, still I stay regal
Read through the bullshit
Sometime to make peace, you need a full clip
Roll dice with niggas who got bricks at a good price
It's the good life, like T.I. said
Gettin' it, how could I not be fed
Get bread, get dough, get fed, get mo'
In the old school Lincoln, thinking I sit low
Let problems burn slow away
I yearn for the day that it won't go gray
Remember we were kings, back in the day
Still can be, depending on the cards you play
[Chorus 1 x2: Bilal]
If you play (if you play), your cards right (cards right)
Everything... gone be alright (well... alright [x3])
[Verse 2: Common]
I ain't playin' with a full deck
The government won't let me get a full check
I'm taxin' marks, I got more heart than clubs
The black spade, givin' 'em darker love
Make 'em strip, like poker poker mag in his face
You tried to smoke my ace, you know the stakes
It's high like the ace is
Get your squad face down like cards, before they get a facelift
You get robbed, better yet jacked for diamonds
Leave you victimless, like Jack in "Shining"
Blocked your bluff, now your respect is stolen
Took your chips, led my guys in Texas Hold 'Em
Rolled the strips of Vegas, with money boss players
Stacey Adams of different flavors, we major
Gangstas and hustles, living moviestar life
Dealt a bad hand, but I played my cards right
[Chorus 1 x2: Bilal]
If you play (if you play), your cards right (cards right)
Everything... gone be alright (well... alright [x3])
[Chorus 2 x2: Bilal]
Ohh...
If you play (if you play), your cards right (cards right)
Everything's... gone be alright (well... alright [x3])
[Bilal: Accapella]
Yeah... Ohhh...
Everything's gone be alright, if you play your cards right
Everything's gone be alright...
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Common Play Your Cards Right Comments
Smokin aces bought me here
Hey If you play? ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Don't miss the live on scene. thank's thatsdrove
More like, if you make your mind and then heart right.....
Pray thru da bull ish....then act accordingly
Song so dope to me and underrAted
Classic
Bilal sounds like Smokey Robinson on this track
Common with his finest
There's actually some really witty lines in this
Remember we kings back in the day can still be depended on the cards you play
Mos def shoulda been on this song, he woulda secured his verse like always 💯💯💯
8 suckas didn't play their cards right...
chicagocold312 10
Yup he sampled Under the Street Lamp by the great Joe Bataan✌👌
Common one of my favorite MCs
@Jarrel Ely better is relative n also subjective.I prefer common n generally I have all his album.n only listen to singles of craig mack.who's better to you.but kool g rap is my favorite lyricist n to me Black thought is the best lyricist.
Sherman Letang I choose both. Did you hear Craig Mack debut? Also what about Jaz-o and Madd Skillz?
@Jarrel Ely yes i heard craig mack debut.but it's a while i haven't listen to it.n one two song I've listen to jaz o n mad skilld
Sherman Letang I recommend you hear common and guru state of clarity. Classic
@Jarrel Ely kool i'll check it out.I'm a big fan of gangstarr.Guru inspired me to become an avid reader.I love common and sadax x 1999
Common. So underrated.
I like seeing Common acting in more films these days. I was always skeptical of musicians becoming actors but I think Common nailed it
SMOKIN' ACES
this tht soul music....all black everything......u dig
The exits-under the street lamp.. for the hook
...and still I stay regal...
Smokin' Aces! miss that movie...
This beat is mad disgusting son....i need it like crazy bad.
Conscious (Mattzedreh) I need this beat too
Me too, crucial bass line
Joe Bataan - Under The Street Lamp is the sample :)
Very good this song...
im glad he and cube squashed their beef
+Greg Cummings yeah. I can't wait til the next Barbershop film.
SHESSHH CLASSIC
TREMENDOUS SONG
the greatest rapper to ever come str8 out the chi his shit is always real positive and uplifting
common and bilal killed it.
Simply beautiful
This song was so perfect for Smokin' Aces! One of my favorite movies!
+Lamesa Bush killed it him and alcia keys
Lamesa Bush They need to do a reboot!
and Common plays Ivy in smoking aces too
Lamesa Bush its finally on amazon prime video! Never get tired of that movie
Lamesa Bush on life on my soul you’re absolutely correct game show host voice 😂 spades ♠️
So pretty much he's saying if you're "lucky"...Im *fuck'd*
Nah, he's saying make the best out of what you got.
The original one, try under the street lamp by joe bataan
I need to find the original song he sampled.. This shit is funky dope fresh ! 💁🏽
alicia myers- if you play your cards right
Joe Bataan song called "under the streetlamp."
Digged his old music. Wish he did more
Joe Bataan "Under The Street Lamp". I knew them horns sounded familiar...LMAO
Great artist. He dropped a few gems when he was hungry, and now he drops them from time to time, but he could have been so much more. He had a sound back in the day that he just can't seem to find now.
He's still one of the best in my opinion, but this new commercial Hip Hop has taken over everything, the only way the classic artist to make it big is to change to something that is not traditional Hip Hop