De La Soul - Stakes Is High Lyrics

Where has this been all my life?! Damn, the visuals, lyrics, vibe is all perfect...its what I always visualized and felt the deepest creative rap was gonna feel like. Shit like this and Illmatic are hand in hand from different mothers.

De la Soul the epitome of real hip hop!Dope lyrics,dope sampled beats,100% raw real hip hop in its purest form!

This was the warning of today's hip hop

On the real future telling 2020 we living it.Deep!

Who bumpin this in 2020??

Damn Maury was old even back then.

365 days . so equal 365 days karma ;) . long live and prosper bro

Whose here in 2020

No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play
And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way 2020

What was J Dilla on when he was coming up with these beats man!!!

It's 2020 and i will keep listening to real Hip Hop until the day I die. IDGAF what these brainwashed kids doing!! De La forever!!!!

And Tupac dissed them because of this shows exactly how ignorant and young minded pac really was

J Dilla

Anybody notice Common on the left of the basketball goal???
The Stakes Is, Are and Always will be High in this society! #BelieveDat ✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

RELEASE DE LA SOUL!

Yoooooo you know them stakes is high!

no one listened to you De la soul..its sad damn i was 19 in 1996 .good times,,but good times don't last RIP to the heads i lost in the 90's n beyond!!!!

I like not them

Jewels knowledge n reality was on this song .super classic it brings tears to my eyes some of those bars investing in fantasies n not god. Real bars

A fucking classic my favorite de la soul song this shit still going on 2020

If you ask me Pos is one of the most underrated. Easily top 10 imo

Happy Birthday J Dilla. RIP

Jesus christ thats the most moving rap song ive ever heard, its a shame that truly good and well meaning music like this thats designed to uplift people (mainly african americans) and encouraging them to break the stereotypes instead of bitching about them

Hit James Brown

Soundtrack to my teen years...

#ForeverDeLaSoul

Fuck you Tommy Boy records

2020 ??

LYRICS
[POS:]
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.

[DOVE:]
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

[POS:]
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

(Vibes....vibrations)
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?)

[POS:]
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?

[DOVE:]
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

[POS:]
But they ain't organized!

[DOVE:]
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)

[POS:]
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

(Vibes....vibrations)
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

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I remember the night literally stumbling upon De La just hanging out nearby Spring Street and I believe Lafayette Street, at that time, a store called 555 soul.

RIP Phife

Whose listening this song in 2020

Relevant in 2020

Experiments when needles and skin connect


Fucking hits close to home...fauck

Rest in peace j. Dilla

Man De La Soul was so ahead of their time. Timeless album and my favourite from De La Soul.

DILLA period!! 💯💯

2020 and the message still hits hard!!!

2020 still witcha De La

JD blessed us with this beat and through his talent I discovered so many great artists. RIP LEGEND

I love this song so much it physically hurts

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
Neighbourhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbours
Just animals surviving with that animal behaviour
Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky
Experiments when needles to 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 we 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

This generation is poisoned with the media waves and it's all our (30+ people) fault. We have been warned.

Positive contact!!!

Stakes is High in the 2020s

Thanks again dilla! Always fire w u!

We still bumping to this in 2020 right

this song says so much about hip hop. in the 1990s we had gangsta and underground and commercial and R&B

2020 and still very relevant.

How can anyone expect... someone like me that listened to actual HipHop like this growing up to have a single ounce of respect for the utterly disrespectful garbage they are making millions off of these days? We have been completely fuxking ROBBED of true, real HipHop culture. Don't ask me why i never have and never will listen to that bullshit. You know why.

Love this! From waaaay back when! This track always came hard! We're sick of this shit!

A banga STILL in 2020 😎

Still here in 2020?
The stakes is high
#vote

Hip-Hop looking in a crystal ball, throughout this entire predicted song! Song was way ahead of its time.

Dilla <3

REAL Hip Hop!!!!!!

Still bumpin De La in 2020!!!

Fuck you Tommy Boy

Makes me sick to my stomach to see what this generation and money did to real Hip Hop smh.. and they don't even care.
De La Soul saw the writing on the wall In 96'. It was all over after mid to late 90's , I don't listen to hip hop after that very rarely anyway.

Fuck Tommy Boy!

The video makes the lyrics sound louder!

Mad song, much love from AUS.

“Gun control means using both hands in my land”........does it get any more real than that?

This is REAL THE REALEST

on youtube look for "Harriett - Alkaligned"

Respect to Dilla! Rip! Beat will make you rock out to it!

is tommy boy still our boy orrrrrrrrr...

2020 the lyrics still prevalent today! STAKES IS HIGH

thats tip right?

2020 til infinity

They are real and on point bringing that truth !!

Pure Hip-Hop Perfection

I miss this kind of Hip Hop!!

I miss real hip hop take me back walk man . Starter jackets 5 and 10 cents store candy chains Ring pops hoodie and blowfish

I love that Biggie Can't you See thumbnail at the end 😆 Awesome music and times!

Tommyboy pay DeLa!

Cyhi the prince got this sample for his song John 3:16

beat is so smooth, i almost fell asleep

SouthFlorida’96 j dilla produced this track a hip hop production legend

Did these dudes ever release a dud?
Nope.

If you listen closely to the lyrics De LA Soul was warning us about this B.S. today SMH 😡 damn

I never knew this track existed , Qtip and trybe called quest brought me here

Aaliyah got me into this group.

But you keep them from getting paid what they’re worth while you flaunt them...

Had Maury in this pre-DNA center propaganda lol.

My man said Tired of Bitches shakin they asses? Everything De La Soul said CAME TO PASS 💪🏿👊🏿🙌🏾

Whew Pos is always tight but he was on another level even for him on this one.

Classic. It's like a medical checkup, with society being the patient. All the ills they talk about are now worse than ever. That's why this song is timeless. You better work it out, people.

Classic. Heavy philosophy

Tommy ain't my muthafuckin boy

Iconic legends love this song

Wow, so this is how long maury punk ass, culture vulture taking advantage ass have been around

This is Rap
Lil's trap is garbage

Jerry Stackhouse with the cameo. Classic.

How come this video doesn’t have 20+ million views?! This should tell you how far satan has infiltrated the culture.

why is this not on spotify

Still a CLASSIC!!!

Viiiiibes vibration

How long this song came out?23 years ago?
And this song is relevant to this day.