Understand the Game

[Intro: A+ & Sample of Erykah Badu's Otherwise of the Game]

I understand the game, sometimes

Kedar, my nigga [?], Erykah Badu, Group Home, Parkside

Full Pound, my man Godfather, hold your head

What'd I tell you?

Cats never understand the game

[Verse 1]

Droptop down, huh? It's under the grill

Try to escape, but the flight running the grill

Got in the game, it's point blank, I wanted a bill

Like Aaliyah, as you could say I'm "one in a mil'"

Congrats, cuz A+ status: never be the baddest

Forget this, ain't nothing wrong with trying to be the richest

And with this I maintain

Ten hours from now, I'll still rock the same name

With different friends, probably Cartier

I see em riding with them cars, they're probably hardly there

[?] but yo, nobody cares

You do your thing, I do mine

Cuz see I'm just tryna rhyme till you hate it

Now the plaques nickel-plated

Understand the game

[Chorus: A+ & Erykah Badu Sample]

I understand the game, sometimes

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Word up

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game, uh

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Come on

[Verse 2]

A lot of cats got a hard time, accept the change

It's like getting shot and still trying to step the same

You wanna blow even though you don't respect the game

But when you get stripped, the only thing that's left is your name

I seen 'em come and go, cop hot Ranges and flooded Rolls

Platinum plaques accomplishing goals and closing shows

But when the lights go out, you ain't far behind

The bank say "the car's mine," and you need the bottom line

At first you was the man, now they catch you out of line

Now you fresh out of rhymes and you fresh out of shine

And you steady trying to put your life in reverse

At the breaking point, about to snatch a purse

Understand the game

[Chorus: A+ & Erykah Badu Sample]

I understand the game, sometimes

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Word up

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game, uh

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Come on

[Verse 3]

I'm a player and a coach, baby, not the ref

Everything A spit be hot to death

You need to fix your face, tough guy, what, are you mad?

Cuz all of a sudden somebody must have colored you bad

You need to start relaxing and stop acting

Because when the scenes gets real, you'll see how I feel

It ain't no game, the shells hit your frame and it burn

Now you're going six feet deep, surrounded by logs

Stiff like a statue, your friends are throwing roaches at you

You're praying that God catch you

When your foes are laughing at you

But it's too late, the only thing you got was an A

Because you didn't understand the game

But I did

[Chorus: A+ & Erykah Badu Sample]

I understand the game, sometimes

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Word up

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game, uh

Understand it

Understand the game, you've got to understand the game

Come on