Why

[Hook]

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

[Verse 1: Pharoahe Monch]

You're sneaking around like a sneaker baby, what's the beeper for?

Used to do my chores, now you're acting like a whore

Phones at my crib with you off to the store

For now, you don't love me no more?

Hey, by the way who's Kirk?

Left a message on my machine said you didn't come to work

You're AWOL from the job, plus who's Rob?

The way you're acting, I think you've been slobbing 'em

Sometimes I swear I think I feel like robbing 'em

But my papa told me never to snuff no girls

You give 'em diamonds, jewels, furs, pearls

Rings and shoes and cars and things

From time to time I wanna diss her

You couldn't blame me if I treat her like Amy Fisher

And dismiss her from the courtroom in a Yugo

You know, something like Joe Buttafuoco

But deep inside my heart, the pain still stings

When I think back and remember I was gonna swing her a ring

For her ring finger, yes I used to bang her

Like "inga binga bunga" but I'm out like Felix Unger so uh...

[Hook]

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

[Verse 2: Prince Po]

I reminisce back when I was swinging with Miss Pretty Young Thing

She got a kick outta my jeep and a meal at Burger King

I shot her ego down with my maturity

Getting papers from Port Authority doing security, uh

She just used to climb up in my whipper whip

Just to stress a nigga quick, young chick on a ego trip

Whip ping ha ha I had to stop the pigeon

Step, find a dove who comprehends exactly how I'm living

So I met a girl around the way from the Uptown set

We used to drown in sweat, uh

She was my darling til I lost my 9 to 5

She started dissing listen pretending then shitting on my pride

She tried to crush my pride so cut off so to the next

Uh, not for the sex, this one used to run through the projects

Gossiping with the next about the next

Loved to cover her neck, for stress gave her a cat as a pet

Itchbay didn't know which way she wanted to flow

Flowing with this nosey hoochie when I was out doing my shows

Doing a dem bow, dem bow, dem bow, dem bow

You can't front, you used to bust all over Prince Po

And fall fast asleep into the morn

Girlfriend started flipping, so yo Prince had to be gone

I'm just another brother trying to get around the fakes

And keep my mental state, no matter what it takes and yo...

[Hook]

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker

So why you trying to play me though?

Out like a sucker