Ice-T - You Played Yourself Lyrics
[Verse 1]
This is it, dope from the fly kid
The Ice mic is back with the high bid
Suckers you've lost cos players you're not, gangstas you ain't
Yo, the pusher, the player, the pimp gangsta, the hustler
High Roller, dead pres folder
Is cold lampin' like a black king on a throne
Evil E...turn up the microphone
So I can ill and break on the rollin' tape
Another album to make? Great
Islam turn the bass kick up a bit
Hype the snare, now I got a place to sit
And ride the track like a black mack in his 'lac
Hit the corner slow where the girls are at
How you gonna drop science? You're dumb
Stupid ignorant, don't even talk to me
At school you dropped Math, Science and History
And then you get on the mic and try to act smart
Well let me tell you one thing, you got heart
To perpetrate, you're bait, so just wait
Till the press shove a mic in your face
Or you meet Boogie Down or Chuck D
Stetsasonic or the Big Daddy
And they ask you about the game you claim you got
Drop science now, why not?
You start to sweat and fret, it gets hot
How'd you get into this spot?
You played yourself...
Yo, yo, you played yourself...
[Verse 2]
I'm no authority but I know the D-E-A-L
When it comes to dealin' with the females
What you got they want, cash is what they need
Slip sucker and they'll break you with speed
But you meet a freak, you try to turn her out
Spendin' money's what I'm talkin' about
But you fool out, your pockets got blew out
And after the date, no boots, you got threw out
Mad and shook cos your duckets got took
Call her up, phone's off the hook
But who told you to front and flaunt your grip?
You can't buy no relationship
You played yourself...
Yo, homeboy, you played yourself...
[Verse 3]
I'm in the MC game, a lot of MC's front
And for the money they're sell out stunts
But they claim that they're rich and that they keep cash
Yo, let me straighten this out fast
Two hundred thousand records sold
And these brothers start yellin' 'bout gold?
You better double that, then double that again
And still don't get sooped, my friend
You think you've made it, you're just a lucky man
Guess who controls your destiny, fans
But you diss 'em cos you think you're a star
That attitude is rude, you won't get far
Cos they'll turn on you quick, you'll drop like a brick
Unemployment's where you'll sit
No friends cos you dissed 'em too
No money, no crew, you're through
You played yourself...
That's right, you played yourself...
You played yourself...
Yo, yo, you played yourself...
[Verse 4]
You got problems, you claim you need a break
But every dollar you get you take
Straight to the Dopeman, try to get a beam up
Your idle time is spent tryna scheme up
Another way to get money for a jumbo
When you go to sleep you count Five-O's
Lyin' and cheatin', everybody you're beatin'
Dirty clothes and you're skinny cos you haven't been eatin'
You ripped off all your family and your friends
Nowhere does your larceny end
And then you get an idea for a big move
An armed robbery...smooth
But everything went wrong, somebody got shot
You couldn't get away, the cops roll, you're popped
And now you're locked, yo, lampin' on Death Row
Society's fault? No
Nobody put the crack into the pipe
Nobody made you smoke off your life
You thought that you could do dope and still stay cool? Fool.
You played yourself...
You played yourself...
Ain't nobody else's fault, you played yourself.
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Ice-T You Played Yourself Comments
2020 ear
saw this guy , power tour astoria leeds and then again in sheff, berg tour, supported by hijack...good memories...
late 80s/early 90s rap is the best
T got off on this one legendary iceT
Dam i forgot bout this song... This shit is hard
Ice T, one of the very greatest Rappers in history! Legendary!
Lil Fizz from B2K Theme Song....Ice T predicted his future unknowingly....
Uma das melhores da história
This Verse Dedicated For Current Artists 2:15-2:50
Nas - Get Down
this song played in my head, everytime i was homeless, walking the street during the day.
Drop science now can mean exactly one of two things. :-)
Why do I think the last verse was for Cool C glamorous life
Kids in 2019 running around using there words as a Meme.. Get your own materiel DJ Khaledius
i had this album when it came out and im still like, wow my man was droppin that str8 street for real no pump fakin knowledge st8 outta the gut...listen man i aint EVER heard LL spit this kinda knowledge. and i was listening to this as a young bull. man hip hop done changed!!!! talk to em ICE...while i talk to darlene lol
Ass end of 99 still rocking with the Ice
This song makes me feel like I’m strolling down watts in 1989 😂
The youth of this generation need to listen to this song and apply it to their life
The Shit
https://youtu.be/h9O99xI6e6k
dude i would love to see ice t perform this live in hawaii with some ukuleles or something. that would be sick
Dope lyrics ... But the problem with t is he never wrote his own rhymes. Thats why hes not reapected as a top mc because everyone knows that.. I just wish that record labels we re nt so controlling i dont doubt that t could write some dope shit .. But the early hiphop labels wouldn't allow their artists to explore creativity unless it was someone within payroll
je neuk je zelf
drop science now, why not?
2019 who still jamming?
Word😎
👑ICE👑
This Is It!
James Brown- Ice T- Nas
Still 2035 👊
Listening to this jam 10 yrs old. Ice-t og for life. Never forget those years. Track is still super dope. From Australia💪
Common sense delivered with a solid trumpet and guitar riff
Love you ice t. From Berlin
Best song on the ICEBERG LP🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎧
These lessons are still relevant to this day! Classic
😎🔥🔥👌🏻
This should be put in the American archives in DC..masterpiece. 🇺🇸 🔥 💯
Congratulations, you played this track.
Hottest sample of James Brown's "the boss" and I can't front on Ice T "the Darlene" years Ice T that is.
Lord Finesse Bad Mutha
Nas Get Down
Iike all three versions
I prefer this one though.
Still funky fresh
I remember when I worked in Manhattan and saw ice on 9th Ave and said what up
He was mad cool
Check out my stuff
It's EDGE OF HIP HOP"
76 played themselves
What year this dropped? I remember hearing this around '87-'89.
90's Rap!!
to my parners who still single without a good women but laugh at me when i got marry you played yourself
he is a real one...
True story
Back in the day before Law & Order & The Hunted Child was a Copkiller!
People are getting the wrong misunderstanding!!! Ice T didn't do a remake of this classic, he just sampled it to make this song!!!!!
Ice is one of the most slept-on artists around and has one of the strongest first five albums in hip hop...
Rhyme Pays
Power
Iceberg
OG
Home Invasion
Agreed. Ice T’s discography is sorely underrated.
If these mumble rappers think they are good and we listen to it, turns out they played themselves
This way the jam ..l I probably was about 8 years old tho
and u turned up fine like wine baby
The album was so dope that I remember the first time I heard it. Can’t say that about too many albums.
I grew up on this classic. ...✊✊
What’s in his mouth?
A shotgun.
🔖cool twitter account
Always an excellent choice for when you're by yourself cos it can come off as a discs if you play it with someone else there
2019 still relevant. .....
Yeah dope !
Awesome Funk sample " The Boss" by the king , the god of Funk Mister James Brown on "Black Caesar" soundtrack ,
Good Vibes !
THX ( Midnight Ravers /BZH/Fr)
Old people think this is good lol 😂
fuck off little boy before you get a spanking and run home crying to your mommy
This is where dj Khalid got you played your self
"society's fault?.......no...."
Rappers Now....Ice Cube and Ice T predicted the state of hip hop. 1st and 2nd verses are for lotta today's rappers. T said it well who controls yo DESTINY? Fans!.. ice broke it down y'all on the last verse. Him talking to the dopefiend the smoker part was true in 89 crack era... and true now 30 years later only with some Blacks doin Crystal Meth now.
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!!!!!Tha Iceberg XD!!!!
Not gonna lie, been a fan of Ice-T and Body Count for at least two decades, but didn't hear this song til last year. I went and copped this album afterwards.
Long before Detective Finn was on your TV
Classic
you played
Remember on my lowrider back when I was 27 on my hood I was blasting that riding pass people 1997
Dis bitch is hard as steel nigga! Straight up CalTex raised!!! 😠👍
Literally ripped off James Brown: The Boss but is quality music so can’t complain
*Word!!*
omg love this song alot one of the truest rap songs i ever heard since new jack hustler preach on ice t classic
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Nobody put the crack in the pipe, nobody made you smoke away your life.
The u go to big daddy, CHUCK & boogie down
The TRUTH
Nas used this sample too
Sure did.
Ice-T is my #1 rapper of all time. Met him in person in Japan
Me too! Met him in person here in Brazil in 1995! He gave me your own OG eyeglass. 💥👊😎
Lock stock and two smokin’ barrels
Loved this era of great hip-hop. Nothing comes close to it since and probably never will.
Great track. Late 80s is the best hip hop era. Ice T, Rakim, Kool Moe dee, NWA, James Brown samples, tight rhymes, fat gold chains, kangoll hats, and a message.
ya got dat right .. da 80'z
How do forget the Big Daddy Kane
Agree. Rap was political and better for it 😎
I think 80s,90s and early 2000s is king
BIG TUNE
This beat so west coast!
White dude almost 48. If I could meet anyone in the entire world , it would SO easily Ice -T!! He changed the way that I wrote rhymes, he was the first one to make LGBTQ acceptable in a rap song. I grew up in Federal Way WA. and there was this club called the Spectrum that he was gonna play at. My no longer best friend told me it was a lookalike that was doing it. Pisssssssssssssssd!!!
I remember wjenbthis camebout in the 80s ..i drew a picture of this cover photo and gave it to my friend Coran before he moved to NY. Makes me wonder does he still have it?
check out the girl on the cover homeboy yo gimme that.power album is og.
Ice-T was one of the coldest rhymers back in the day with both a message, and a smooth delivery. He never tried to hit you with crazy punchlines, he just told it like it was. THAT'S a true emcee.
That's why his name is ICE-t
Looks like 38 people played themselves.
Hoy shit those lyrics
Ice t was always was the shit
I'm 12 and listen to this music
Man this one my favorite song he did to this day I still jam to this
See the video again.. every man need a Darlene in they life!
Phuck Ice T. Jimmy nolen the greatest scratch guitar player of all time.
Dig that JB groove...
i was fortunate to be able to hear iceberg in his hayday i was young as hell but i never forgot. thats why im back. ppl dont teach no more