Play For Keeps

[Intro: ad-lib]

“If Rome ain’t on it, what is it?”

[Intro: 38 Spesh]

I tell a nigga straight up thinking you better wake up and go to sleep thinking ‘bout the same shit, nigga

You better wake up to get it and go to sleep with it, nigga

We don’t play no games, we play for keeps

Young, rich niggas that’s happy to be alive, nigga

Trust Come First, straight like that, nigga

We’re out here taking risks, nigga

Everyday, we take risks, nigga

Young risk takers, nigga

We don’t play no games, we play for keeps

Bow your head, say your grace and eat, young man

The world is yours

Trust

Hit me out though

Ayo

Ayo

[Verse 1: 38 Spesh]

Let’s take it back, 14, I was on probation

Focused on the corner pacing, so impatient

Before I served the smokers, make sure I know their faces

They call me nephew, I call them unc, but we’re no relation

Motivated, going places

You ever drove the motherload on the road and had open cases?

I thank God I ain’t incarcerated

Now I don’t see the moves when they get made, I just orchestrate it

Told the bitch I like your coordination

The way your body move, we can probably get rich from fornication

Move my family to four locations

All down south, it’s Georgia and Florida plates on my spaceships

You switch sides when it’s altercations

I ran with the same team my whole career, I’m Walter Payton

Talk to strangers, wasn’t often able

You got to understand a boss’ language to sit across the table

Trust

[Hook: Benny the Butcher]

These niggas playing, but we play for keeps

Money on the floor, look like I’m raking leaves

Real nigga, so you know your secret safe with me

Uh huh, we bow our heads, we say grace and eat

Got to watch these niggas, got to watch your paper

Got to watch these bitches, try to spot these haters

I need a couple hundred bands in my safe at least

Yeah, we bow our heads, we say grace and eat

[Verse 2: 38 Spesh]

A stash box in the Honda Civic

A lot of spending, I should be the mascot for the diamond district

Knowledge given from time in prison

They fed us lies as children and expect us to live an honest living

Now I’m sitting in my favorite foreign

Can’t recall a day that’s boring, staying in places you pay to tour in

But that money ain’t important

What’s important is my man did ten and his bitch waited for him

You’re ‘round niggas that was never for you

If you was with me when I ain’t have nothing, then I’m forever loyal

I’m still suffering from paranoia

It will never stop, just changed my locks and got a better lawyer

I bow my head, say my grace and eat

Count my bread then I play my plug then I shake the streets

I need a couple mills sitting in my safe at least

I play with keys and keep drums like I’m making beats

Trust

[Hook: Benny the Butcher]

These niggas playing, but we play for keeps

Money on the floor, look like I’m raking leaves

Real nigga, so you know your secret safe with me

Uh huh, we bow our heads, we say grace and eat

Got to watch these niggas, got to watch your paper

Got to watch these bitches, try to spot these haters

I need a couple hundred bands in my safe at least

Yeah, we bow our heads, we say grace and eat