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