Play W Your Pride

[Verse 1] Good Lord, Eddie Murphy The bank teller gigglin', my emotional inertia Slave to the gravity, held it down, system I'm a ridah like "Ambitionz" Fish scale amphibian, they ribbit out the kitchen Hopped straight to it, I'm a Detroit nigga Cali my influence flow, look at E-40 Since an adolescence, I weaponized my voice West-born reppers and I went to class on Joy Got the molly off the east, took twenty-five percent Sold seventy-five for lint, profit off three hundred hands Ain't seen 'em sincе John Wilkes Booth or Abe Lincoln I'll take a rеd, send a bottle for your Act' Way I worked the plants, kinda like my granddad Currencies are global, smiles lead to good and bad Tell me, what's in common with these passport stamps? [Chorus] They say a smile universal, laughter's worldwide Money different colors, we on different times Everybody eats hella fish in the pond We can get paid, but don't play with your pride Don't play with your pride We can get paid, but don't play with your pride Yeah, I wanna see you win, but don't pay with your pride [Verse 2] Since an adolescence, had dreams like you I know pops lookin' down from a bird's-eye view My memory faded from the drugs I abuse, uh And my dreams still happenin' These for the days there wasn't nothin' in the cabinet Feelings wasn't workin', I had to go ahead and detach it Somethin' wasn't workin', gotta get more elaborate, uh The path I took got me movin' like a labyrinth, uh Pay took, call man, tell 'em count it up I treat the pape' like bedhead, matted it up I know a nigga like me gotta be mad as fuck Huh, but I can see you through the high-rise Moves like Olajuwon, moves like a alibi Moves like he got hella sides like a polygon Way I tell the truth, no, I know you really tired of lyin' [Chorus] They say a smile universal, laughter's worldwide Money different colors, we on different times Everybody eats hella fish in the pond We can get paid, but don't play with your pride Don't play with your pride We can get paid, but don't play with your pride Yeah, I wanna see you win, but don't pay with your pride