De La's Stakes is High track might be the most timeless damn near prophetic song ever.

Kyle C. Barker

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Summer 96 is the goat hip hop year.


Getting ready for freshman year...


Rap City kept me eating good that season.



Best year of my life... All because of the music.



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I still can't believe I bought stakes is high and it was written on in the same day. Honestly 2 of my best purchases.
 

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I still can't believe I bought stakes is high and it was written on in the same day. Honestly 2 of my best purchases.
I bought those two and Reasonable Doubt, Nocturnal and AIDS (America is Dying Slowly Compilation :Peasy: ) all on the same day
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Spotify has been lacking with a lot of that type of content lately. I had to get that youtube music trial to find stuff. For some reason or whatever, my brother was trying to find Potholes in my lawn, they don't even have that.
In De La case it's some bullshyt with Tommy Boy...apparently those songs weren't cleared for digital streaming distribution, and they don't wanna clear those samples.
 

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The Instamatic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs
Be some brothers from the east with some beats that be thorough
Got the solar gravitation so I'm bound to pull it
I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets
Gun control means using both hands in my land
Where it's all about the cautious livin'
Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments
Of strugglin', that shouldn't be notable,
Man every word I say should be a hip hop quotable.
I'm sick of bytches shakin' asses
I'm sick of talkin' about blunts,
Sick of Versace glasses,
Sick of slang,
Sick of half-ass awards shows,
Sick of name brand clothes.
Sick of R&B bytches over bullshyt tracks,
Cocaine and crack
Which brings sickness to blacks,
Sick of swoll' head rappers
With their sicker-than raps
Clappers and gats
Makin' the whole sick world collapse
The facts are gettin' sick
Even sicker perhaps
Stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse
Man life can get all up in your ass baby you betta work it out
Let me tell you what it's all about
A skin not considered equal
A meteor has more right than my people
Who be wastin' time screaming who they've hated
That's why the Native Tongues have officially been re-instated
Stakes is high
(Higher than high)
You know them stakes is high
(Higher than high)
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high, you know them stakes is high
When we dealin' with the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high
(Hey yo, what about that love?)
Yo, it's about love for cars, love for funds
Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid
We living in them days of the man-made ways
Where every aspect is vivid,
these brothers no longer talk shyt
Hey yo, these nikkas live it
'Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone
Plug One translating the zone
No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play
And if you take offense, fukk it, got to be that way
J.D. Dove, show your love, what you got to say?
I say G's are making figures at a high regard
And nikkas dying for it nowadays ain't odd
Investing in fantasies and not God
Welcome to reality, see times is hard
People try to snatch the credit, but can't claim the card
Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars
See, shyt like that will make your mama cry
Better watch the way you spend it
'Cause the stakes is high
Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high
I think that smiling in public is against the law
'Cause love don't get you through life no more
It's who you know and "How you, son?"
And how you gettin' in, and who the man holding
Hey yo, and how was the scams and how high
Yo what up, huh? I heard you caught a body
Seem like every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti
But they ain't organized!
Mixing crimes with life enzymes
Taking the big scout route
And nikkas know doubt better
Than they know their daughters
And their sons
(Oh boy)
Yo, people go through pain and still don't gain
Positive contact just like my main man
Who got others cleaning up his physical influence
His mind got congested
He got the nine and blew it
Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors
Just animals surviving with that animal behavior
Under I who be rhyming from dark to light sky
Experiments when needles and skin connect
No wonder where we live is called the projects
When them stakes is high you damn sure try to do
Anything to get the piece of the pie
Electrify
Even die for the cash
But at last I be out even though you wantin' more
This issue is closed like an elevator door
But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor where the
Stakes is high
Y'all know them stakes is high
When we talkin' 'bout the
(Vibes, vibrations)
Stakes is high
Stakes is high, come on

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Dope track. shyt "Itsoweezee" was prophetic in a sense too. Or you can say rap hasn't changed much

See them Cubans don't care what y'all nikkas do
Colombians ain't never ran with your crew
Why you acting all spicy and sheisty
The only Italians you knew was icees, nikkas price me

The album had the substance for the "real hip hop heads" and the bounce (ex. 4 More) that made it fun to listen to. Definitely one of my favorite albums. I listen to a few tracks from it regularly
 

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I feel you 100%. Was a few years older but I got my first job that summer/fall, first really started getting knowledge of self, just felt more independent overall. And hip-hop was monumental in my personal development.

This song always reminds me of school about to end for the summer, just like now. "Stakes Is High" and O.C.s "Far From Yours" always give me that last 2 weeks of the school year vibe.

Trugoy got The Source Hip-Hop Quotable of the month for his first verse off this track when it dropped. Which is funny cuz the last line before his verse starts is Pos says "every word I say should be a hip-hop quotable".
They actually both got the hip hop quotable. Only time I can remember seeing that.
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Holy shyt.

:faketears:

Is there a studio version of this on an album or something?

A Robert Glasper rap cover album would be 10/10 just off concept alone.
Nah but he usually does a tribute to Dilla on his album . He needs to stop fukkin around and just do an entire album of his joints reinterpreted

 
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